On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >Also, if someone wants an IV constant bigger than 32 bits
> >and their IVs are bigger than 32 bits, then we will find ourselves in
> >need of two set_i_ic variants: immediate and indirect. The IV constants
> >needing no more than 32 bits use the immediate mode, and the others
> >use the indirect (to const_table) mode.
>
> Yup. I'm not sure I'm going to worry about that all that much, though. I
> don't know that it'll be a big problem in practice.
Actually, I fear it might be. There's already considerable demand in
perl5 to have 64-bit IVs, even if implemented as 'long long', particularly
for various largefile issues.
Perl6 users are likely to want the same ability, so expect users to want
to have 64-bit IVs.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
