Re: imcc and pdd03

2003-03-13 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski wrote: [ lotta explanation skipped ] Objects first, though--PDD 15 beckons. *Then* you and I can work out the fuzzy bits so it both makes sense and IMCC can work with it well. Thanks for the details. And as objects probably will shed some more light on calling conventions, I'm fin

Re: imcc and pdd03

2003-03-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:33 PM +0100 3/12/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: At 6:03 PM +0100 3/12/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: So my proposal is, to reduce the amount of parameters passed in registers Okay, done! Checkin to follow soon. Wow, really fast, thanks. Still remaing - probably /me not unders

Re: imcc and pdd03

2003-03-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:33 PM +0100 3/12/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: At 6:03 PM +0100 3/12/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: So my proposal is, to reduce the amount of parameters passed in registers Okay, done! Checkin to follow soon. Wow, really fast, thanks. Still remaing - probably /me not unders

Re: imcc and pdd03

2003-03-12 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski wrote: At 6:03 PM +0100 3/12/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: So my proposal is, to reduce the amount of parameters passed in registers Okay, done! Checkin to follow soon. Wow, really fast, thanks. Still remaing - probably /me not understanding the following: The following reg

Re: imcc and pdd03

2003-03-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:03 PM +0100 3/12/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: So my proposal is, to reduce the amount of parameters passed in registers to some lower value, to take some pressure off the register allocator. x5 through x15 would be still a lot of params. Okay, done! Checkin to follow soon. --

imcc and pdd03

2003-03-12 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Thinking a little bit more about parrot calling conventions and register assignment, I fear that the described calling conventions can't be done. The pod states: I5 through I31 The first 26 integer parameters. S5 through S31 The first 27 string parameters.