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The point of having a validifiable magic number at the start
of a bytecode file is to avoid this sort of thing:
% ../../parrot -j mops.pasm
PackFile_unpack: Unimplemented wordsize transform.
File has wordsize: 35 (native is 4)
Parrot VM: Can't unpack packfile mops.pasm.
If you're going to check the magic after the wordsize and bytecode, you
might as well get rid of it altogether.
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