Diego Novillo wrote: > Richard Henderson wrote on 06/08/06 16:36: > > > As folks have pointed out down-thread wrt multi-dimensional arrays, > > I think this is a rather poor idea. Both for components and arrays. > > > Yeah, multi-dimensional arrays are a problem. I'm not sure I see the > flattening of components as a problem. Because we would need to take > the address of inner fields? > > > There are other options for this besides stack machine. > > > Cool. What would those be?
A list of subscripts. So you'd have ARRAY_REF : ID (VAL^+) You store the dimension of the array in its type, and then you know that you have to read that number of values or identifiers from the bytecode. Sebastian
