On Monday 04 August 2003 14:03, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Here's some stuff we need to add to the packfile format and the sub > header to get things ready for more language work. > > Packfiles need to have a symbol table. A series of name/type/location > tuples so we can have global names that map to values in the > bytecode, either variables or subroutines. When the bytecode is > loaded, we need to put those symbols in the symbol table and > construct the backing PMCs. >
Guess what you really want is a symbol table (with name/type) and a rellocation table (symbol number/location), to avoid having the name repeated, right? Daniel
