Re: Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-13 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 07:07, Nicholas Clark wrote: Is this like the PNG file header? Of course. I'm not that particularly clever. 0xCC is 128, designed to detect if the file has been stripped to 7 bit Also, having the 8 bit set is often sufficient to trigger binary mode for primitive

Re: Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 01:52, Melvin Smith wrote: Reposted to the list so people can comment. As per the IRC discussion with Dan. I've made some progress, not all there, but getting there. I have the loader handling arbitrary byteordering, now I'm working on wordsize transforms.

Re: Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-11 Thread Melvin Smith
At 06:18 PM 5/11/2002 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 01:52, Melvin Smith wrote: Reposted to the list so people can comment. As per the IRC discussion with Dan. I've made some progress, not all there, but getting there. I have the loader handling arbitrary

Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-03 Thread Melvin Smith
Reposted to the list so people can comment. As per the IRC discussion with Dan. I've made some progress, not all there, but getting there. I have the loader handling arbitrary byteordering, now I'm working on wordsize transforms. The good thing here is I'm documenting the code as I go, so