On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Melvin Smith wrote:
> I'm working on getting class syntax added to PIR.
>
> It appears IMCC's way of emitting instructions as it collects compilation
> was a mistake (mine) and isn't going to work for metadata that needs to
> be initialized first.
>
> Basically all metadata has to be collected before any code can be emitted.
> I was thinking of generating an _init routine that creates the classes,
> so we have several possibilities.
Requiring the metadata be in the stream before the code that uses it
doesn't seem particularly onerous, so I'm OK with it. (I would, I think,
like to avoid a multi-pass assembler... :)
Dan
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