On Saturday 22 September 2001 07:33 pm, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 04:41:28PM -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote:
> > at load time. Yes, it's slow and hackish, but strings are
> > the only *portable* format for floating-point numbers
>
> I thought (although I might have conveniently forgotten the other
> side of the argument:) that we weren't that concerned about bytecode
> portability. The only portability I'm concerned about now is porting
> bytecode from the assembler to the interpreter. :)
It doesn't matter how portable something that doesn't work is. :-)
Best bet may be to throw a constant TOC up front, to indicate where N, I,
and S constant sections start. You may then pad each section as necessary
to get your initial alignment.
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Bryan C. Warnock
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