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| From | Seima Rao <seimarao@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | Re: Safe Pointers at the Intermediate Language or Hardware Level |
| Date | Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:35:52 +0530 |
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> A safe pointer (cap) is more than 64 bits, and people would refuse to
> repeat the pain of the 32- to 64-bit migration. And most programs
> violate safety (and language standards, but that's another issue), and
> it's hard to make a sale when the customers keep saying "It worked on
> Intel!".
I have a proposal of my own although, I am not sure about the cons and
hence would like to discuss on this forum.
i) All pointers have the same type called pointer_t.
ii) A pointer_t contains the address of a struct whose contents
are the information relevant to what the pointer is pointing to
including the type of the element.
There are a lot of questions but the one I am worried about
currently is whether it is possible to have direct HW support.
Sincerely,
Seima Rao.
[You might want to spend a little while learning about the history of
the Burroughs stack architectures. They did (still do, I guess) all
of this stuff back in the 1960s. -John]
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Re: Safe Pointers at the Intermediate Language or Hardware Level Seima Rao <seimarao@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 14:35 +0530 Re: Safe Pointers at the Intermediate Language or Hardware Level Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-02-12 14:19 -0800
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