Ticket #181 (closed todo: fixed)
Update VTABLE_morph to use a class PMC
| Reported by: | whiteknight | Owned by: | Whiteknight |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 0.9.1 |
| Component: | core | Version: | |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | vtable morph |
| Cc: | Language: | ||
| Patch status: | Platform: | all |
Description
This is a semi-continuation of RT#41825: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41825
VTABLE_morph currently uses INTVAL PMC type numbers. I've set up the 'morph' vtable override from PIR to take a string of a class name instead (and am actually going to update that to take a Class PMC instead). This creates a disconnect between what's present in PIR and what's used internally in C.
Been talking to pmichaud, and he says that VTABLE_morph should use a class PMC also. Ideally, the morph opcode should take the same kinds of parameters as the get_class opcode, although that is currently in limbo. See #8 for details about that work.
I was doing some work on this in the morph_pmc_type branch, but I'm going to temporarily abandon that to focus my energy on the get_class issue first.
