Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!iecc!compilers-sender From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: SPARC tagged data Keywords: Lisp, design, optimize Message-ID: <1991May09.002929.23128@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> Date: 8 May 91 19:20:09 GMT References: <9104291542.AA11213@flora.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us Reply-To: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle Lines: 16 Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us >>[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 -- Send compilers articles to compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us or {ima | spdcc | world}!iecc!compilers. Meta-mail to compilers-request.