Re: A task for the interested

2001-09-18 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 03:55 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote: > One of the things that the configure script needs to do is generate the > opcode dispatch macro to either be a giant switch statement (with a > fallthrough default to handle cases we don't know about) or the function > table dispatch we

RE: A task for the interested

2001-09-18 Thread Brent Dax
Simon Cozens: # On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:51:35PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote: # > So, something more like this? # # Urh, how can I put this? No. # # I *really* want to avoid macro hackery - undef'ing this and # then testing if it's defined and then redefining it, and # urgh, urgh, urgh. No. # # I was

Re: A task for the interested

2001-09-18 Thread Simon Cozens
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:51:35PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote: > So, something more like this? Urh, how can I put this? No. I *really* want to avoid macro hackery - undef'ing this and then testing if it's defined and then redefining it, and urgh, urgh, urgh. No. I was thinking more like: > +++ bu

RE: A task for the interested

2001-09-18 Thread Brent Dax
Simon Cozens: # On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:32:32PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote: # > If somebody codes up the alternate dispatch, I can easily modify # > Configure.pl, config_h.in and the hints files to handle it. # Something # > like this, perhaps: # # Something like that, but the Right Way would be t

Re: A task for the interested

2001-09-18 Thread Simon Cozens
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:32:32PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote: > If somebody codes up the alternate dispatch, I can easily modify > Configure.pl, config_h.in and the hints files to handle it. Something > like this, perhaps: Something like that, but the Right Way would be to rewrite DO_OP in interp_g