Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!pacbell!att!alberta!myrias!cg From: cg@myrias.UUCP (Chris Gray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: IEEE libraries, lists v.s. tables Summary: NO FIXED SIZE TABLES!!!! Keywords: IEEE library opencount Message-ID: <631@myrias.UUCP> Date: 15 Sep 88 16:51:01 GMT References: <1356@percival.UUCP> <4724@cbmvax.UUCP> <2627@sugar.uu.net> Distribution: na Organization: Myrias Research Corporation Lines: 15 In article <2627@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >What would it cost to use a bunch of static tables for things like file >handles and libraries. Things that could be tracked. All these pointers >flying around are pretty dangerous... It costs flexibility and capability. Programmers should strive hard to not build any fixed limits into their programs. This is most important in the case of the operating system, which can't so easily be upgraded. There have been days when I felt like murdering someone for putting a fixed table of file descriptors into UNIX. Even CP/M didn't have that limit!! -- Chris Gray Myrias Research, Edmonton +1 403 428 1616 {uunet!mnetor,ubc-vision,watmath,vax135}!alberta!myrias!cg