Questions we ought to be able to answer

James E Keenan jkeen at verizon.net
Sun Jul 17 02:28:30 UTC 2011


This afternoon I accidentally hit the Send button before I was ready. 
So here are yet more questions I/we ought to be able to answer:

7. PASM is Parrot's assembly language.  In our repository there are 36 
'.pasm' files, but of these all but two -- 
./runtime/parrot/include/fp_equality.pasm and ./src/dynpmc/main.pasm -- 
are found under t/ or examples/.  Why do we have so few .pasm files in 
the source code?

8. What are the purposes of the top-level directories in the Parrot 
distribution? Would they each benefit from short READMEs explaining that?

9. In an installed Parrot, we install 93 '.dump' files underneath 
./src/parrot/.  These are Perl 5 Storable files:

   $ file src/parrot/3.5.0-devel/pmc/sockaddr.dump
   src/parrot/3.5.0-devel/pmc/sockaddr.dump: perl Storable (v0.7) data 
(major 2) (minor 8)

Why do they get installed?

Answers?  Your questions?

Thank you very much.

kid51



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