Andy Wingo <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat 24 Mar 2012 21:09, Ian Price <[email protected]> writes: > >> ;;; ERROR: In procedure bytevector-u8-set!: Value out of range: 390 >> vector constant containing 100000 values >> >> This limitation is documented, and somewhat reasonable, but on IRC mark >> weaver asked me to file a bug anyway, since he thinks the assembler >> should have a fall back plan. > > I agree with Mark. > > For what it's worth, if the vector is really constant (e.g. just > composed of immediates), the RTL VM will emit the whole thing > statically. Otherwise it will emit code to allocate a vector > of the right size at init time, initializing its elements with > individual instructions. This latter strategy is probably the right > thing to do with the Guile 2.0 VM. In my case, it was completely static. I had generated the vector from another file, of existing data. It's good to hear this will work in the future rtl based guile.
Thanks -- Ian Price "Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"
