Re: extend.c:Parrot_call

Jeff Horwitz wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>
>
> > E.g. when you have a sub that ends with:
> >
> >  set P5, 100 # ret value
> >  set I0, 0   # non-prototyped
> >  set I3, 0   # no return value
> >  invoke P1   # return
> >
> > then P5 will not be passed to the caller.
>
>
> right.  but i'm explicitly using .pcc_begin_return/.return/.pcc_end_return
> to return values from subs run with  Parrot_call.  my C code then
> retrieves the return value from I5, which is where the return integer
> value would be copied.  your changes would save me from having to fetch
> directly from I5, but until those changes are made, is this the "right
> way" to be doing this?

Yep that's ok. If the sub indicates an return value it is and will be 
availabe, in your case as REG_INT(5) in C.

> -jeff

leo