> sig writes:
>  > VMMaker-sig.70
>  > Exupery-sig.262
>  >
>  > To see, how globals table generated look at
>  > CCodeGenerator>>emitGlobalTablesOn:methodList:
>
> Unfortunately as it stands it will only work on Windows.
>
> The major problem is the "foo" structure on other platforms that's
> used to hold most of the interpreter's variables.
>
> That's why the accessor methods used to call addressOf: rather than
> just being "self cCode: '&foo->activeContext'" which is what I
> originally did until Andreas tried to do a quick Windows port. He
> created addressOf: to provide a platform neutral way of getting the
> address of an interpreter structure.
>
> #returnPrefixFromVariable: will return the right form for a variable
> on any platform. Unfortunately, you can't dereference foo in another
> structure's initialiser.
>
> Andreas created #generateAddressOf:on:indent: to translate
> the sender #addressOf: into the appropriate C expression.
>
>
> I'm not sure about your change to Win32VMMaker>>sourceDirectory.
> If I add that to Exupery's VMMaker what will it do to people with
> existing Windows build environments?

>
>
> I like the changes to Exupery itself, it makes the names much more
> consistant between the image and the VM but until it will run on
> all plaforms I can not accept it.
>
> Bryce
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