On Friday 09 November 2007 23:28:52 Joshua Isom wrote: > It in no way refers to architecture actually. It refers to the calling > convention on an architecture(dependent upon implementation). The x86 > method is by pushing arguments onto the stack, and the ppc method is in > registers. On amd64, parrot reports ppc, which is essentially correct. > Calling it x86 and ppc is probably just because those are the two > dominant architectures. They could be labeled differently.
How about "stack" and "register", or are there better labels? If it's confusing now, it will probably be confusing in the future, especially for everyone who doesn't know it's the platform ABI. -- c
