[M3devel] another longint variant

[Tony Hosking]

Jay, what are the implications of just having assignability rather than mixed arithmetic?  Can you work through that change?   My preference right now is to allow assignability (range-checked, of course) but not mixed arithmetic.  The simple little patch I sent you for Type.IsAssignable on ordinals should allow you to test things. As far as I can tell, that will simply work...

On 9 Jan 2010, at 05:22, Jay K wrote:

> [attached]
> In this variant, the compiler has been made
>  "maximally lenient" and the rd/wr changes are minimized.
>  
> 
> Specifically:
>   compiler allows assignment either way and various math
>   operations, including NEW array and array subscript.
>   mixing in FOR loops is missing (FOR i := INTEGER TO LONGINT or LONGINT TO INTEGER)
>  
> 
>   rd/wr changes outside libm3 are only changing
>    the signatures of Seek and Length
>    pretty minimal, and hard to imagine they could be smaller,
>     though actually they could..well..the need to fix existing
>     rd/wr could be eliminated/delayed
>     rd/wr could introduce SeekL, LengthL which by default
>     call Seek/Length, and then rd/wr could gradually convert,
>     and not gain 4GB capability until then
>  
> 
>   no VAL or ORD needed
> 
>  
>   some rd/wr implementations might be artificially limited
>   to 4G simply because they don't chane some INTEGER to LONGINT;
>   "anything compiles"
>  
> 
>   some of the compiler changes are probably slightly off or incomplete
>    including a need to insert the checks for LONGINT => INTEGER
> 
> <dif3.txt>

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