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Re: Safe Pointers at the Intermediate Language or Hardware Level

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<seimarao@gmail.com> wrote:

>     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]

To me it sounds like they are interested either in capabaility
architectures

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security>

or something similar to dope vectors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dope_vector

for something like Algol 60/68, APL, Matlab, or Fortran 90+. Dope
vectors can in principle be used for scalars as well as arrays, as a
software substitute for a capability architecture, but most users
would dislike the overhead.

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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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