Re: Perl6 the platform-dependent bits...

2000-10-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:22 AM 10/24/00 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:11:21AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > I like the idea of returning multiple results in multiple registers. Pity > > nothing on the planet could link to us if we did that... :( > >not quite. On the ARM compiler [targeted

Re: Perl6 the platform-dependent bits...

2000-10-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:11:21AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I like the idea of returning multiple results in multiple registers. Pity > nothing on the planet could link to us if we did that... :( not quite. On the ARM compiler [targeted at arm chips :-)] if you declare a function __value_in_

Re: Perl6 the platform-dependent bits...

2000-10-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:28 PM 10/23/00 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote: >From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > (Though if someone comes up with a way to make the > > platform-dependent bits really small and isolated I'm all for it) > >Hmm... I'm 99.9% ignorant on this subject, but

Perl6 the platform-dependent bits...

2000-10-23 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > (Though if someone comes up with a way to make the > platform-dependent bits really small and isolated I'm all for it) Hmm... I'm 99.9% ignorant on this subject, but doesn't this relate back to past discussions of C--, the portable assembly language