At 06:08 PM 10/9/2001 -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
>Quoting Dan Sugalski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Okay, here's a quick rundown on PMCs and how we're handling opcodes called
> > on PMC registers. (This is mildly different than what's gone in the
> past, FWIW)
> >
> > Every PMC has a set of static types, stored in the vtable. These types are
> > static, and stuck in the base vtable structure, which looks like:
> >
> > struct _vtable {
> > PACKAGE *package;
> > INTVAL base_type;
> > INTVAL int_type;
> > INTVAL float_type;
> > INTVAL num_type;
> > INTVAL string_type;
> > void *(*vtable_funcs[VTABLE_SIZE])()
> > }
> >
> > (cdecl's responsible for the function pointer table declaration, so I
> > expect it's right for what I told it, but I might've told it wrong)
>
>For sanity's sake, I don't suppose you'd consider
>
>typedef void* (*vtable_func_t)();
>
>to make it
>
>vtable_func_t vtable_funcs[VTABLE_SIZE];
I'd be thrilled. Abstract types are A Good Thing. In fact, I'll go make it
so right now. :)
Dan
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