At 12:58 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.
>
>Ok, but does "long long" count as a "native integer"?
Yup, if that's what you configured perl with.
Dan
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