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Rob Withers

self error: 'A block compiles more than 1K bytes of code'

In ParseNode>>#emitLong:code:on:, this error is being signalled for me and my new transform code. I think this is emitting a long jump. Is 1024 the limit a long jump can make and so this represents a hard error? Would it be possible to code a bytecode (say 127) to use 2 extra bytes for an extraLongJump instruction to get around this?

Randal L. Schwartz

Re: self error: 'A block compiles more than 1K bytes of code'

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Withers <[hidden email]> writes:

Rob> In ParseNode>>#emitLong:code:on:, this error is being signalled for me
Rob> and my new transform code. I think this is emitting a long jump. Is
Rob> 1024 the limit a long jump can make and so this represents a hard error?
Rob> Would it be possible to code a bytecode (say 127) to use 2 extra bytes
Rob> for an extraLongJump instruction to get around this?

Is it possible that the warning is there for a good reason, as in perhaps you
should be refactoring the method so that it doesn't have so much source code?

The more I edit long methods, the more I realize how cool short methods
are. :)

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