Re: [CVS ci] basic support for @IMMEDIATE

[Dan Sugalski]

At 5:39 PM +0100 11/12/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>In that thread I also asked:
>
>> POSTCOMP subs are executed as soon as compilation is done, once again
>> with no parameters. Whether they do a whole lot is up in the air, but
>> that's not my problem, and it'll be useful for compile-and-go systems.
>
>Can that not be achieved by either MAIN or LOAD?
>
>--
>So what is actually the difference between POSTCOMP and LOAD?

LOAD is executed when the bytecode segment is loaded, POSTCOMP at the
end of compilation. So if you did:

parrot -o foo.pbc foo.imc

then the POSTCOMP sub would be executed and the load not executed.
When you did:

parrot foo.pbc

then the LOAD would be executed, and the POSTCOMP not. (Except for
the issue of us not executing LOAD subs for the main bytecode segment)
--
Dan

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