Re: number constant segment

2002-12-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:04 PM +0100 12/17/02, Marco Baringer wrote: speaking of compiling directly to pbc, parrotbyte.pod says that number constants should be encoded as FLOATVALs, which is a system dependant careteristic, shouldn't there be a specified format for floats? ie either ieee single/double float or, prefe

Re: number constant segment

2002-12-18 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Marco Baringer wrote: speaking of compiling directly to pbc, parrotbyte.pod says that number constants should be encoded as FLOATVALs, which is a system dependant careteristic, shouldn't there be a specified format for floats? ie either ieee single/double float or, preferably, the number segment