> At 1:03 AM +0200 5/29/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > >Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I've been trying to run pbc2c.pl, and it's been dying. I traced the > >> problem down to Parrot::Packfile thinking that the size of the > >> bytecode segment is zero. However, it works fine when I use > >> assemble.pl to compile; the problem only arises when I compile with > >> imcc. > > > >Our current problem is, that we have two assemblers and two PBC formats. > >Keeping all in sync till now ends obviously at test level. > > > >But we have finally to give up assemble.pl: its slow and it doesn't > >conform to packfile/packout.c. As previous discussions did show, we will > >need constant/debug/fixup/... segments per bytecode file. packfile.c has > >with the directory approach all the infrastructure. assemble.pl probably > >doesn't keep up with that. > > > >I'm only waiting for tinderboxen showing imcc build and test results. > >Before ok from these, we can't change things that need assemble.pl. > > We need one more thing. The standard makefile needs to automatically > build imcc. Honestly I'd prefer just a single executable, named > parrot, that can handle assembly files, rather than the two > executables we're building now. If we can do that, we can ditch > assemble.pl.
I would totally dig that. I use imcc for everything; why not just call it "parrot" :-) Luke
