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Will Coleda  
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 More options May 27 2003, 4:48 am
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From: w...@coleda.com (Will Coleda)
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 23:57:42 -0400
Local: Mon, May 26 2003 11:57 pm
Subject: Re: IMCC, PASM and constants/macros
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Perhaps "macros only work in assembler mode" is the issue?

http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-intern...@perl.org/msg14107.html

Regards.

On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 06:55  PM, Clinton A. Pierce wrote:
> I'm having a really awful bootstrapping problem here.  I've got the
> core of BASIC producing *documented* valid IMCC, but I can't test it
> because I'm stumped as to how to roll the portions that need to be in
> PASM.

> The runtime has some bits in it that are more easily hand-rolled in
> IMCC-ish PASM.  For example, I'm going to redo all of BASIC's standard
> library of builtins and whatnot to use the Current Calling
> Conventions.  There are some parts of a BASIC runtime that need to
> exist as long-lived globals (DATA's data, DIM values, screen
> positioning information, etc..) that I've got stashed in a few PMC's.

> I'd *like* to salvage my sanity and refer to these things with
> meaningful names (DATAINDEX instead of P16) and at the same time use
> the IMCC goodness to put the library together.  But I can't mix IMCC
> and PASM in any meaningful way if there are constant directives.

> Is there a reason that .constant (which seems implemented in .macro)
> can be used in .pasm files, but not .imc files?   Can it be?


 
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