64-bit portable bytecode done

[Andrew Whitworth]

I'll be happy to test this out, although I probably can't get to it
till the weekend. Do you have a branch somewhere with all these
changes made?

--Andrew Whitworth

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray.at> wrote:
> Good news, not for 1.0, it's rather huge, but for later:
>
> I found the last bugs on 32-bit reading 64-bit pbc, and would
> appreciate countertests on 64-bit machines.
> It's a rather big patch, because I also const'ed pmc_freeze, added
> ptr_alignment checks, more #ifdef'd tracings
> and added random documentation.
>
> But the two essential problems where wrong ALIGN_16 which I replaced
> with a simplier and more general approach,
> by calculating the padding in bytes and setting the cursor absolute,
> not relative.
> All pbc cursor padding uses now the same macros and approach, in
> pf_items.c and in packfile.c.
>
> And: fetch_iv was not set for thaw_pmc, it was forgotten in a new
> switch/if codepath of mine.
>
> I think I understand that code now pretty well.
>
> An unrelated bugfix: Parrot_compile_string missed to set interp->initial_pf = pf
>
> What is missing: Finish some floatval transformers and a test matrix for these.
> cvt_num16_num8 is ok now.
> I've marked the tested status in the code, since our smoke tests don't
> catch these cross-platform regressions.
>
> --
> Reini Urban
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