Re: Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-13 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 07:07, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Is this like the PNG file header? Of course. I'm not that particularly clever. > 0xCC is >128, designed to detect if the file has been stripped to 7 bit Also, having the 8 bit set is often sufficient to trigger binary mode for primitive

Re: Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-11 Thread Melvin Smith
At 06:18 PM 5/11/2002 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 01:52, Melvin Smith wrote: > > Reposted to the list so people can comment. > > > > As per the IRC discussion with Dan. > > > > I've made some progress, not all there, but getting there. > > I have the loader handling a

Re: Bytecode format redesign

2002-05-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 01:52, Melvin Smith wrote: > Reposted to the list so people can comment. > > As per the IRC discussion with Dan. > > I've made some progress, not all there, but getting there. > I have the loader handling arbitrary byteordering, now I'm > working on wordsize transforms.