#1025: PASM Registers limited to 2 digits.
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Reporter: coke | Owner:
Type: RFC | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
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See the [http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41788 Original RT].
Currently PASM registers are limited to 2 digits. That is, P99 is a valid
register, but P999 is not.
PIR maps the large numbers to "physical" parrot registers; I claim in the
original RT that this same mapping should apply to PASM registers, but: I
cannot find the reference to support this, and parrot -t1 output shows
that P99 uses register # 99.
So, this needs an architectural decision; Should PASM do a similar
arbitrary mapping of register numbers? If so, code needs fixing.
If not, the test in t/compilers/syn/regressions.t for PASM needs to be
removed, the docs need to be updated to indicate there is a hard limit for
PASM registers, (and we might want to decide if we want that hard limit
increased, as it's currently 100)
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1025>
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