Pointers (Was: virtual Pascal machines)

pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
20 Jul 88 03:22:55 GMT

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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 20 Jul 88 03:22:55 GMT
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Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle

> From: djones@megatest.uucp (Dave Jones)
> I am tempted to boot the whole idea, and just say there is one
> kind of pointer: a thirty-two bit word. And we will burn all
> the the computers that don't behave that way.


Well.... The Caltech Object Machine (still building, last I heard)
is a tagged architecture with 16-bit tags. At least a few tags are
taken for hardware-defined types. The machine probably WONT RUN if
you don't generate at least a few unique pointer types.


;-D on ( Play a game of tag, anyone? ) Pardo
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