NAME
build_tools/ops2pm.pl - Generate Perl module from operation definitions
SYNOPSIS
% perl build_tools/ops2pm.pl [--help] [--no-lines] input.ops [input2.ops ...]DESCRIPTION
Reads the ops files listed on the command line and outputs a Parrot::OpLib::core module containing information about the ops.
Options
WARNING
Generating a Parrot::OpLib::core module for a set of ops files that you do not later turn into C code (see build_tools/ops2c.pl) with the same op content and order is a recipe for disaster. But as long as you just run these tools in the standard build process via make there shouldn't be a problem.
TODO
The original design of the ops processing code was intended to be a read-only representation of what was in a particular ops file. It was not originally intended that it was a mechanism for building a bigger virtual ops file from multiple physical ops files.
This code does half of that job (the other half is getting them to compile together instead of separately in a *_ops.c file).
You can see evidence of this by the way this code reaches in to the internal OPS hash key to do its concatenation, and the way it twiddles each op's CODE hash key after that.
If the op and oplib Perl modules are going to be used for modifying information read from ops files in addition to reading it, they should be changed to make the above operations explicitly supported.
Otherwise, the Parrot build and interpreter start-up logic should be modified so that it doesn't need to concatenate separate ops files.