Safe Pointers at the Intermediate Language or Hardware Level

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Hi,

    Its been a long time since Java & .Net introduced safe address
    types to the computing world.

    My question is have we settled on what could be a proper representation
    for safe pointers ?

    Some Mainframes like the 390 have historically supported safe pointers,
    I remember.

Sincerely,
Seima Rao.
[I looked at my S/390 Principles of Operation, and I see a bunch of stuff
for tracing, but nothing that looks like safe pointers.  I'd think it was
hardware dependent, e.g., if a machine has a fairly clean and efficient
trap for an unmapped zero address, you'd use that, but if it doesn't, you'd
do something else. -John]

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Safe Pointers at the Intermediate Language or Hardware Level seimarao@gmail.com - 2014-02-10 09:11 -0800
  Re: Safe Pointers at the Intermediate Language or Hardware Level flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) - 2014-02-11 00:58 +0000
  Re: Safe Pointers at the Intermediate Language or Hardware Level glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-02-11 01:03 +0000
  Re: Safe Pointers at the Intermediate Language or Hardware Level Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-02-10 20:45 -0800
  Re: Safe Pointers at the Intermediate Language or Hardware Level wclodius@earthlink.net (William Clodius) - 2014-02-10 23:03 -0700

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