Five new instructions are added to lock out unavailable modes
The present
Binary Pascal-P machine decks can be generated in any mode, 16, 32 or 64 bits and little or big endian. These decks can be read into pmach/cmach which are constructed in any mode. The result would be a crash.
The proposal
Five new instructions would be added:
Bit16 - 16 bit machine.
Bit32 - 32 bit machine.
Bit64 - 64 bit machine.
BIge - Big endian format.
lite - Little endian format.
If the target pmach or cmach machine sees a mode that it is not compiled for, it halts with a hard error.
Five new instructions are added to lock out unavailable modes
The present
Binary Pascal-P machine decks can be generated in any mode, 16, 32 or 64 bits and little or big endian. These decks can be read into pmach/cmach which are constructed in any mode. The result would be a crash.
The proposal
Five new instructions would be added:
If the target pmach or cmach machine sees a mode that it is not compiled for, it halts with a hard error.