Re: parrot compilation failure in Tru64

[Simon Cozens]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 06:32:57PM +0100, Philip Kendall wrote:
> I posted a couple of bodge fixes from this, but I haven't done much in
> the past couple of days... do we want to use a 32 bit type for reading
> in bytecode or convert the 32 bit on-disc format into a 64 bit format in
> memory before reading it on a platform with 64 bit IVs?

We also need to think about endianness. Urgh.

This is something I ought to seek consensus on. (And possibly a ruling from
Dan.)

Do we *expect* Parrot bytecode to be portable? My gut reaction would be to
say no, but I can see the arguments either way.

Simon