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# Empty rows and #-comment rows are ignored.
+# Note that the order in this file is important.
+#
+# Add new regops to the end, and do not re-order the existing ops.
+#
+
# Exit points
END END, no End of program.
SUCCEED END, no Return from a subroutine, basically.
@@ -116,7 +121,12 @@ RENUM BRANCHJ,off 1 1 Group with independently numbered parens.
OPTIMIZED NOTHING,off Placeholder for dump.
# Trie Related (behave the same as A|LIST|OF|WORDS would)
-TRIE TRIE, trie 1 Match one or more of many EXACT strings
-TRIEF TRIE, trie 1 Match one or more of many EXACTF strings
-TRIEFL TRIE, trie 1 Match one or more of many EXACTFL strings
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+TRIE TRIE, trie 1 Match many EXACT(FL?)? at once. flags==type
+TRIEC TRIE, trie 1 Trie + charclass. (unused at present)
+
+# Special opcode with the property that no opcode in a compiled program
+# will ever be of this type. Thus it can be used as a flag value that
+# no other opcode has been seen. END is used similarly, in that an END
+# node cant be optimized. So END implies "unoptimizable" and PSEUDO mean
+# "not seen anything to optimize yet".
+PSEUDO PSEUDO,off Pseudo opcode for internal use.