Re: On PASM and PIR registers

2007-02-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 12:00 schrieb Klaas-Jan Stol: > So, my question is now, why do we still need the PASM registers PASM registers are physically allocated within the Parrot virtual machine. PIR registers are virtual registers, like .local variable w/o a name. The register allocator assi

On PASM and PIR registers

2007-01-31 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
hello, Parrot has 2 categories of registers: PASM registers, which are of the form [S|N|I|P] (which is kinda odd, if only regs 0-31 are available) and PIR registers, which are formed like: $[S|N|I|P]+ In the old days, this distinction was necessary for the register allocator to translate PIR