Re: SPARC tagged data

pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Wed, 8 May 91 19:20:09 GMT

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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Keywords: Lisp, design, optimize
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
References: <9104291542.AA11213@flora.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> <MOSS.91Apr30083234@ibis.cs.umass.edu> <KERS.91May7093547@cdollin.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 91 19:20:09 GMT

>>[SPARC tagged instructions: set low bits in pointers.]


kers@otter.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) writes:
>[Inter-language hard; pointers cannot be safely passed.]
>Isn't it nice when hardware does *almost* what you want?




Or put another way: isn't it nice when your programming environment
lacks standardized representations for inter-language calls and your
compiler and linker lack hooks for taking advantage of them even if
they did exist?


;-D on ( Tagged code ) Pardo
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