[M3commit] CVS Update: cm3

[Tony Hosking]

Not true.
CARDINAL is only ever used for values that should be in range on all architectures.


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On Dec 15, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Jay K wrote:

> I think that iNTEGER and CARDINAL in general, in the front end (certainly NOT in Modula-3 in general)
> should be Target.Int, Target.Cardinal. In general, though not always, target sorts of quantities are being manipulated.
> Just that they are usually small.
> What happened is I picked out some code at random in the frontend and started converting it to use Int/Cardinal.
> The code in particular was what counts up functions in objects and multiplies by size of address to get offset.
> It does matter hypothetically, but is a much bigger stretch than other place -- ie. object types with billions of functions.
> 
>  - Jay
> 
> > From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> > Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:41:44 -0500
> > To: jkrell at elego.de
> > CC: m3commit at elegosoft.com
> > Subject: Re: [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3
> > 
> > Jay, I'm not sure where you are going with all of this TCardinal stuff.
> > 
> > What is the problem you are trying to solve?
> > 
> > The front-end doesn't use CARDINAL anywhere that is problematic for targeting 64-bit from 32-bit, so I don't understand why you will need to model it in any way using this new TCardinal.
> > 
> > On Dec 15, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Jay Krell wrote:
> > 
> > > CVSROOT:	/usr/cvs
> > > Changes by:	jkrell at birch.	10/12/15 17:21:53
> > > 
> > > Modified files:
> > > cm3/m3-sys/m3middle/src/: TCardinal.m3 
> > > 
> > > Log message:
> > > use correct comparison function
> > 

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