[Emc-users] Number of available variables

2013-12-17 Thread Bertho Stultiens
Hi, Is there a reason, other than the RS274 standard, why there are only 5000 numbered variables available? I am trying to create a compiling backend to gcmc and the maximum complexity of the program will depend on the available storage. The gcode interpreter has enough Turing completeness to

Re: [Emc-users] Number of available variables

2013-12-17 Thread andy pugh
On 17 December 2013 14:09, Bertho Stultiens ber...@vagrearg.org wrote: I am trying to create a compiling backend to gcmc and the maximum complexity of the program will depend on the available storage. You could use named variables instead. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it.

Re: [Emc-users] Number of available variables

2013-12-17 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 12/17/2013 03:33 PM, andy pugh wrote: I am trying to create a compiling backend to gcmc and the maximum complexity of the program will depend on the available storage. You could use named variables instead. Not for indirect addressing. A lot of the memory needs to be addressed using #[var]