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| feature wanted: detect missing 'const' john_reiser@rainbow.mentorg.com (1994-03-16) |
| Re: feature wanted: detect missing 'const' bill@amber.csd.harris.com (1994-03-23) |
| Re: feature wanted: detect missing 'const' Mark.Lomas@cl.cam.ac.uk (1994-03-25) |
| Re: feature wanted: detect missing 'const' leichter@thorium.rutgers.edu (1994-03-29) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| From: | leichter@thorium.rutgers.edu |
| Keywords: | design |
| Organization: | Compilers Central |
| References: | 94-03-064 94-03-140 |
| Date: | Tue, 29 Mar 1994 17:35:21 GMT |
The issue of how to mark the actual intent of the programmer when
parameters are passed by reference has been around for years. One place
it's really significant is in implementing remote procedure call:
Providing a true "by reference" parameter in a remote call is messy and
expensive, and much of the time you end up doing the work for no reason at
all.
For a nice discussion of these issues - and a generally excellent and
under- read piece of work - see Bruce Nelson's 1981 CMU thesis, Remote
Procedure Call. I've never seen the thesis form, but it appeared as a
Xerox tech report, CSL-81-9. That version says the CMU version is
CMU-CS-81-119.
-- Jerry
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