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 --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk