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Re: string-stack.4th

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: string-stack.4th
Date 2017-04-24 01:14 -0700
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Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes, that's what I mean.  The danger is that you can't (reliably) rely
> on pointer layout in a cross-platform manner.   So it's a dangerous
> technique, IMO.

Well, about a gazillion and eleventeen language implementations work
that way, so I wouldn't worry.  You do some ugly stuff with pointer
casting and might conceivably need some conditional compilation
depending on the target architecture.  I've even heard of Lisp
implementations using unboxed floats, by stealing exponent bits for the
type tag.

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Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-15 16:54 -0700
  Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-15 19:55 -0700
    Re: string-stack.4th Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-15 20:08 -0700
    Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-16 13:50 +0000
      Re: string-stack.4th anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-04-16 15:51 +0000
        Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-16 22:16 +0000
          Re: string-stack.4th anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-04-17 12:04 +0000
            Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-17 13:11 -0700
              Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-17 23:18 +0000
                Re: string-stack.4th albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-18 01:49 +0200
                Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-19 23:03 +0000
                Re: string-stack.4th "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-19 13:19 -1000
                Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-20 00:15 +0000
                Re: string-stack.4th "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-19 14:34 -1000
                Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-20 17:16 +0000
                Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-20 15:08 -0700
                Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-20 00:16 +0000
                Re: string-stack.4th albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-20 21:10 +0200
                Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-21 09:59 +0000
                Re: string-stack.4th albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-20 20:50 +0200
                Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-17 19:47 -0700
                Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-19 23:08 +0000
              Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-18 00:10 -0700
                Re: string-stack.4th Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-18 13:48 +0100
                Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-18 09:15 -0700
                Re: string-stack.4th Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-18 18:23 +0100
            Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-17 23:07 +0000
            Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-18 09:09 -0700
              Re: string-stack.4th lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 10:27 -0700
      Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-16 19:26 -0700
        Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-17 23:13 +0000
          Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-23 12:39 -0700
            Re: string-stack.4th Michael Barry <barrym95838@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-23 22:25 -0700
              Re: string-stack.4th foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 14:06 -0700
                Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-29 03:19 +0000
            Re: string-stack.4th Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 08:35 +0300
              Re: string-stack.4th Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-23 23:51 -0700
                Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 00:10 -0700
                Re: string-stack.4th Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 10:11 +0300
                Re: string-stack.4th Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2017-04-24 09:27 +0200
                Re: string-stack.4th Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-24 01:14 -0700
            Re: string-stack.4th Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-24 14:38 +0100
            Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-29 03:18 +0000
            Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-29 03:27 +0000
              Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-28 22:13 -0700
                Re: string-stack.4th Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-29 09:41 +0100
                Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-29 07:05 -0700
                Re: string-stack.4th "Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> - 2017-04-29 11:43 +0000
  Re: string-stack.4th hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-15 21:15 -0700

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