Phil, There are no intrinsics for boxing word-size bignums yet, so 8 byte alien accessors compile as calls to primitives. Also, 4 byte alien accessors on 32-bit systems are the same.
Slava On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Phil Dawes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Slava, > > I noticed that there's no compiler intrinsic for 8 byte alien calls > (e.g. alien-unsigned-8, set-alien-signed-8 etc..) > > Is this just a short term omission or is there a design point I'm missing? > > Thanks, > > Phil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
