GRANGERG@VTVM1.BITNET (Greg Granger) (06/01/90)
Has anyone else noticed the function (oops -- I mean whoops procedure) SYSTEM.Eval littered thru the JPI Modula 2 (version 2.0) examples? I just bothered to unwind the thing tonight, I expected this to be some complex evaluation procedure, but no, it's a inline binary thingy and it's defined in the DEF file. What it does is insert a NOP (8086 code 090H) in the code. This is used instead of dummyVar:= procXxx(); which I supposes save memory (one less var) and is probably faster. Does anyone know if there is a better reason for this set-up (it would be nasty to port, well maybe not nasty, but certainly strange)? Greg