Re: [RFC] Parrot runtime include files and .constant macros

2004-01-09 Thread Melvin Smith
At 08:58 AM 1/9/2004 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This also means .pasm files won't be able to .include these anymore, > you'd have to use IMC. Why not just make .const work in both modes? Because pure PASM doesn't currently use type names. .const expects

Re: [RFC] Parrot runtime include files and .constant macros

2004-01-09 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This also means .pasm files won't be able to .include these anymore, > you'd have to use IMC. Why not just make .const work in both modes? > -Melvin leo

[RFC] Parrot runtime include files and .constant macros

2004-01-08 Thread Melvin Smith
Since all of the Parrot includes are .pasm and are using the old .constant directive, which was a macro expansion in the IMCC lexer, and I've removed macros from IMCC, I have a pending patch to parrot_include.pl and all of the parrot header files to change it to generate .imc include files rather t