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Will this work on 32 bit systems as well? What about systems with weird
alignment (like 36 bit or something...)?
Naturally, 64 bit constants will not work unless the hardware supports it.
For example, on Tru64, $pack_type{i} = 'l!' which is 64 bits.
Tanton
-----Original Message-----
From: chromatic
To: Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs
Sent: 9/27/2001 7:36 PM
Subject: assemble.pl and 64-bit binary implementation
Hi,
Here's an idea to clean up from_binary. It is a little more clean.
Looking in Parrot::Types at %pack_type, it doesn't look like anything
wider
than 32 bits will go into bytecode, though. ("l" is 32 bits, signed.)
I added a patch to bitwise.t to see if bigger binaries work.
-- c
<<assemble.patch>> <<bitwise.patch>>
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