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
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