[M3commit] CVS Update: cm3

[Tony Hosking]

On 18 Jan 2010, at 15:52, Jay K wrote:

> Putting them elsewhere violates the opacity.

What's wrong with Target.Int8.max/min, etc.?

Also, why should unsigned values be in TInt instead of TWord?

> Not using this code in m3back would require duplication.

Understood.

> m3back does recieve plenty of Target.Int parameters, and already uses TInt and maybe TWord, and TFloat.
> Hard to deal with the opaque parameters unless TInt is available...

Nothing wrong with using TInt.  Just use Target.x.min/max, instead of TInt consts.

>  
>  - Jay
>  
> From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:11:02 -0500
> To: jkrell at elego.de
> CC: m3commit at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3commit] CVS Update: cm3
> 
> Jay,
> 
> m3middle is intended for m3front as the client.
> Not m3back.  If you need all these constants you should put them somewhere in m3back.
> 
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> On 18 Jan 2010, at 14:28, Jay Krell wrote:
> 
> CVSROOT: /usr/cvs
> Changes by: jkrell at birch. 10/01/18 14:28:43
> 
> Modified files:
> cm3/m3-sys/m3middle/src/: TInt.i3 
> 
> Log message:
> add more constants for m3back; restore more verbose form that makes it easier to see these are arrays of bytes
> 
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