Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 17:41 schrieb Klaas-Jan Stol:
> hi,
>
> I was planning to do some updates for the "book' (docs/dev/book), and it's
> still saying that one can use 0-31 registers in PASM.

It doesn't make sense to start updating such minor things. You'll end up 
rewriting almost all of the book. Or IOW I'd consider the book as history, 
which doesn't preclude to use it as base for a knew document describing 
current affairs.

> 2 questions:
>
> 1. This should be "unlimited",right? IIUC, Parrot has a variable register
> frame setup, so as many regs. as needed can be allocated. Is this right?

Sure.

> 2. If so then the current IMCC lexer has a bug: only [S|N|I|P]0-99 are
> recognized as PASM registers; i.e. P100 is recognized as a symbolic
> variable.
> If not so, then is the limit actually 99?

This is a well-known documented bug and easily fixable.

leo

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