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Re: Draft sketch of bytecode generation

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chromatic
Date:
October 27, 2002 13:40
Subject:
Re: Draft sketch of bytecode generation
Message ID:
20021027211330.71710.qmail@onion.perl.org
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 08:54:08 -0800, Dan Sugalski wrote:

These two seem highly similar:
 
> =item Add source code to segment
> 
> This adds a line or more of source code to the bytecode segment.
 
> =item Add line number information
> 
> This adds line number info to the bytecode segment, allowing the interpreter
> to find out what line of source a particular piece of bytecode corresponds to.

They might be related to this one, though I'm not completely sure:

> =item Add binary data chunk to segment
> 
> Add in some raw binary data to the bytecode segment

Is there an underlying function used to add arbitrary (Unicode text) metadata
to the bytecode?

-- c

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