At 12:43 PM 10/4/2001 -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > Parrot guarantees you can embed 32-bit signed integer constants in the
> > instruction stream, and that's it. These constants are used to load up
> > integer registers, sure, but they're also used for jump offsets. Integer
> > *variable* constants should go in the constant table. We don't have any of
> > those yet, though. They come in with the PMC stuff.
>
>If I understand correctly (always a shaky assumption) are the integer
>registers also only guaranteed to be 32-bits wide?
Sort of. They're guaranteed to be as big as the native integer you've
chosen to build Parrot with, and at least 32 bits.
Dan
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