[M3devel] TextLiteral.MaxBytes -- use LONGINT or Target.Intmore?

[Dirk Muysers]

> The whole TextLiteral thing is a low-level implementation thing to allow the
> compiler to construct it statically, yet avoid having to always copy it into
> the traced heap the first thing at runtime.  I haven't looked, but I would bet
> PM3 always copies a text literal into a heap object before creating a traced
> reference value pointing to it.

For a TextExpr, ie a literal, pm3 generates


PROCEDURE Compile (p: P) =
  VAR uid := SetUID (p);
  BEGIN
    CG.Load_addr_of (global_data, literals[uid] + Target.Address.pack,
                     Target.Address.align);
  END Compile;

So it is, in fact, an UNTRACED REF, the GC will know, I guess.
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