Re: Probing for Configurations

2004-09-08 Thread Thomas Seiler
d the remaining test programms Target Phase: - Copy that directory to the target - Run the configuration phase and get the Config file The challange would be to get the miniparrot running on the target. All the rest should be covered by the "normal" Parrot Configuration Probing. This is abo

Re: Probing for Configurations

2004-09-09 Thread Thomas Seiler
Gregory Keeney wrote: Thomas Seiler wrote: Couldn't we split the probing into two phases ? The problem is that getting stuff on and off your target host is not always trivial. [...] It is especially not true in the embedded world. Until I have parrot IO libraries, I am not going to be ge

Re: Namespaces again

2004-09-30 Thread Thomas Seiler
a string in the language is was originally written, to access it from other languages, we should use an interface that allows us to index it via just that string. All the other logic needed to import stuff should be left to a module for that given language. It knows better wich types have to be converted which functions need wrappers, etc ... just had to give my 2 cents on namespaces :) Thomas Seiler

Re: [CVS ci] opcode cleanup 1 - minus 177 opcodes

2004-11-27 Thread Thomas Seiler
Dan Sugalski wrote: At 10:34 AM +0100 11/27/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: See also subject "Too many opcodes". >> [...] >> Could you undo this please? Now is not the time to be trimming ops out. OTOH, it won't hurt anyone and it is already in. So why bother, unless of course there is a technical reaso

Re: [CVS ci] opcode cleanup 1 - minus 177 opcodes

2004-11-28 Thread Thomas Seiler
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Thomas Seiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: At 10:34 AM +0100 11/27/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: See also subject "Too many opcodes". [...] Then there are changes that need more thought: * replacing *_i_n with *_n_n uses a N-register and mig

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CVS ci] opcode cleanup 1 - minus 177 opcodes]

2004-11-28 Thread Thomas Seiler
Leopold Toetsch wrote: [...] Just if you had 32 N regs used before. It's using only one additional register. [...] I did not touch any PMC ops. You are of course right, maybe I hadn't had enough coffee this morning. Sorry for the bother, and keep up the good work. tom (who is going back into shy-

Re: Lexicals, continuations, and register allocation

2004-11-30 Thread Thomas Seiler
At Tue 30 Nov 6:22pm, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Architecture changes aren't an option we're entertaining until after we're > functionally complete. Just would like to ask a related question: Is a change that invalidates an existing precompiled bytecode but not the source code of it considered as an ar

What is an opcode ?

2004-11-30 Thread Thomas Seiler
I have the impression that there has been some confusion about the term "opcode" There are IHMO two things that qualify for beeing an "opcode": * Mnemonics: These are Strings that help humans to write in assembly, i.e. ' ADD' in PASM. * Instructions: These are words of bits that are executed by