On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think we'd be better served getting the freeze/thaw stuff in and
>
> We were just discussing this in the f'up.
I read those, but I wanted to make sure the discussion went this way. :)
> > If we make the initial dump scheme something mildly human readable (XML,
> > YAML, whatever) then the debugger doesn't have to worry about formatting
> > it for a while. (And we're going to want a pluggable dump scheme anyway,
> > to make experimentation eaiser)
>
> Pluggable implies a dump() vtable method, doesn't it?
Nope. Pluggable implies freezethaw.c provides all the functionality to
freeze or thaw a PMC, with code in there to handle the right final
encoding or decoding of the data.
I thought we had a freeze and thaw entry in the vtables, but I see not.
The signatures (since I don't have source handy to check them in) should
be:
STRING *freeze()
PMC* thaw(STRING*)
With thaw ignoring its initial PMC parameter. (It's a class method,
essentially)
Dan
