I'm playing around with translating PHP byte code to the Parrot Virtual Machine - the new virtual machine being designed and built for Perl 6 specifically with translation between languages in mind (there's already work being done on Python VM and JVM conversions). Many of the opcodes look like they'll be similar (I'm presuming that the only opcodes are the ones that are defined in zend_compile.h) but I'm looking for more documentation on what some of the rest actually do (ZEND_(BEGIN|END)_SILENCE for example), what sort of operands they take and the how the rest of the Zend virtual machine is made up (from the code it looks like it's stack based - Parrot is going to be register based which should make things interesting). Also I'm looking for the easiest way to get hold of some intermediate code or bytecode for simple scripts so that I can gradually start adding conversion routines. What's the best way to do this? Hack together code from the rest of the source tree or can I get stuff from the cache/optimiser? Has anybody else tried doing anything like this? Am I smoking huge quantities of crack? Simon -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
