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From: moss@risc.sps.mot.com (Matthew Moss)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: How to immediately compile/load patterns
Date: 4 Mar 1996 10:46:43 -0600
Organization: Motorola, Inc. -- Austin,TX
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Message-ID: <4hf6pjINNbul@hood.sps.mot.com>
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I am experimenting with an environment where I need to compile a pattern
located in some text file and immediately be able to access that pattern
in the running program. Something like this:

	CodeToPattern:
	  (#
	     (*
	      * T: filename of text file of a BETA pattern
	      * P: pattern of compiled text in file T
	      *)
	     
	     T: ^Text; P: ##Object;
	  enter T
	  do
	     ...
	  exit P##
	  #);

which would be used like:

	filename: @Text;
	pattern: ##Object;
	...
	filename[]->CodeToPattern->pattern##;
	...

My first guess would be to read the COFF information out of the .o file
produced from the compile. But since I plan on adding the pattern to
a persistent store, maybe there is an easier way via a temporary PS.
has anyone done this before? Thanx...

(Sorry if this is something too easy or too complex... I am fairly new to
 BETA and doing a bit of experimenting while still comprehending many of its
 features.)


-- 
Matthew D Moss                                         RISC Software, Motorola
moss@risc.sps.mot.com                              http://www.mot.com/PowerPC/