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| From: | Brad <bowes.brad@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers,comp.arch |
| Date: | Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:05:00 -0800 (PST) |
| Organization: | Compilers Central |
| References: | 08-12-014 |
| Keywords: | architecture |
| Posted-Date: | 08 Dec 2008 18:16:26 EST |
On Dec 4, 11:09 am, "Tony" <t...@my.net> wrote:
> To me, it seems like "reducing everything to a function" may be a bit
> dated given that OO languages are the thing nowadays. Can anyone
> imagine any new potential assembly language instructions that would
> make implemention of OO languages easier? (Not just necessarily the
> function thing, but anything).
Some sort of type flag to distinguish addresses (pointers) from data
words (values) might be helpful for garbage collection.
[Type bits were popular a long, long time ago, but fell out of fashion. -John]
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