Re: IMCC, PASM and constants/macros

2003-05-29 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 11:13, Clinton A. Pierce wrote: > > > >Is there is reason not to s/\.constant/.const/g for consistency's sake? > > And actually, on further consideration, .const isn't what I want > either. Which doesn't invalidate my question. :-) -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail

Re: IMCC, PASM and constants/macros

2003-05-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Clinton A. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And actually, on further consideration, .const isn't what I want > either. You are looking vor .sym/.local: .local PerlHash BASICARR .sub _main BASICARR = new PerlHash .arg "value" .arg "x" call _DIMENSION .ar

Re: IMCC, PASM and constants/macros

2003-05-29 Thread Clinton A. Pierce
At 11:13 AM 5/28/2003 -0400, Clinton A. Pierce wrote: # These are vastly simplified, but give you the idea And of course, by "vastly simplified" I meant "completely wrong" because the sample shown won't work because of the saveall and restoreall before and after the array creation in _DIMENSION.

Re: IMCC, PASM and constants/macros

2003-05-29 Thread Clinton A. Pierce
At 05:45 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 08:01, Clinton A. Pierce wrote: > At 11:57 PM 5/26/2003 -0400, Will Coleda wrote: > >Perhaps "macros only work in assembler mode" is the issue? > > > >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg14107.html > > > >Regards. > > It was

Re: IMCC, PASM and constants/macros

2003-05-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Bryan C. Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there is reason not to s/\.constant/.const/g for consistency's sake? The difference is, that PASM did define an untyped variant: .constant FOO 42 PIR Syntax is: .const int FOO = 42 I'm ok with tossing the PASM variant, its barely used (only

Re: IMCC, PASM and constants/macros

2003-05-27 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 08:01, Clinton A. Pierce wrote: > At 11:57 PM 5/26/2003 -0400, Will Coleda wrote: > >Perhaps "macros only work in assembler mode" is the issue? > > > >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg14107.html > > > >Regards. > > It was, but I was looking for the "why" of it