On Monday 01 October 2001 07:16 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >Well, we recently went to all the trouble to decouple opcodes from IVs - > > I assume for a reason. Do we want to undo that, or move them into the > > constant table? > > Nope.
To one, the other, or both? > > >If you re-couple the sizes, then you're pretty much committing to 64-bit > >opcodes, since you'll invariably want 64-bit IVs on platforms that > > support it. > > We guarantee integer constants that are no bigger than 32 bits can be > embedded in the opcode stream. Since opcode_t is at least 32 bits this is > OK. Inlined as what type? (And I assume, then, that you'll allow mix and match, where integers are either inlined or in the constant table, depending on their size - your explanation of "nope" pending, of course.) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
