avail/avail.interpreter.levelOne/L1OperandType

L1OperandType

enum L1OperandType : Enum<L1OperandType>

An L1 instruction consists of an L1Operation and its operands, each implicitly described by the operation's L1OperandTypes. These operand types say how to interpret some integer that occurs as the encoding of an actual operand of an instruction.

Author

Mark van Gulik

Entries

OUTER

OUTER()

The integer in the nybblecode stream is to be treated as an index into the current function's captured outer variables.

LOCAL

LOCAL()

The integer in the nybblecode stream is to be treated as an index into the arguments and local variables of the continuation. The arguments come first, numbered from 1, then the local variables.

LITERAL

LITERAL()

The integer in the nybblecode stream is to be treated as an index into the current compiled code object's literals. This allows instructions to refer to arbitrary AvailObjects.

IMMEDIATE

IMMEDIATE()

The integer in the nybblecode stream is to be treated as itself, a simple integer.

Properties

name

val name: String

ordinal

val ordinal: Int