# New Ticket Created by Klaas-Jan Stol # Please include the string: [perl #47846] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=47846 >
>From the beginning IMCC has had the ".emit"/".eom" pair of directives. The idea is that they can be used to emit pure pasm instructions, without the need for any .sub. An example is this: .sub main print "hi!" .end .emit print "there" set I0, 42 print I0 .eom However, this feature is never used. If you ack for ".emit" or ".eom", the only files that contain these words are the PIR compilers (compilers/imcc, compilers/pirc) and the test files for these compilers. Moreover, it seems it's a rather useless as well. If you compile the above example to PASM (using parrot -o - test.pir), the result will be: main: print "hi!" set_returns returncc # <<== leaving here print "there" set I0, 42 print I0 So, in other words, these instructions are never executed. The only case in which it would be useful would if this instruction block would get a label, but in that case it would be better to use a pir .sub. Summarizing, IMHO this "feature" can be removed. Comments welcome, kjs
