Re: PMCs and how the opcode functions will work

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:36:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>   num_type: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for "same as you", native int, bigint, native
>            float, bigfloat, object
> 
>     P1->vtable_funcs[VTABLE_ADD + P2->num_type](P1, P2, P0);

I don't understand the "same as you" thing; num_type isn't a function,
but a part of the structure. How does P2->num_type then know that it's
the same or different from anything else?

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