Gregor N. Purdy writes:
> Leo --
>
> The Jako compiler spits stuff out from Perl.
>
> I'm writing some new experimental stuff in PIR directly.
>
> I'm curious about other stuff, too. I don't see any
> of the languages/imcc/t/**/*.t files doing anything with
> the ord op, and when I try to use it as
>
> .local int c
> .local str s
>
> and then
>
> c = ord(s)
>
> or
>
> ord(c, s)
>
> in my .imc file, neither works. Do I need to do magic to
> use any old op I want?
Uhh... I may be misunderstanding the question, but you should be able to
use assembler syntax, eg.
ord c, s
That works for me.
Luke
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Gregor
>
> On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 11:42, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> > Gregor N. Purdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is there any good reason why prototyped PCC subs
> > > shouldn't be callable with IMC syntax that looks like
> > > a macro call, without having to make a macro wrapper
> > > manually?
> >
> > Could be done, but for sure unlikely. PASM/PIR are still assembler
> > languages. You can stuff features and more into it, but this is not the
> > goal. The assembler syntax should be simple and easy to generate from
> > HLL compilers. It should of course have support for all the features of
> > the underlying CPU (parrot), but not much more.
> > You are AFAIK generating PIR files by perl, so just spit out
> > the function call, that's it.
> >
> > leo
> --
> Gregor Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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