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From: frankgerlach@gmail.com
Subject: Various Language Architecture Questions
Date: 24 Sep 2005 19:37:12 -0700
Date: 2005-09-24T19:37:12-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127615832.540718.246970@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hello,
I am contemplating to create a new language, which is supposed to be as
fast as C++, but as safe as Java.
Maybe Ada is already fulfilling these requirements, so I have a few
questions:
Is is possible to safely allocate objects on the stack and then pass a
pointer to these objects to a procedure ?
(The stack is very fast, but I cannot tolerate invalid references from
the heap or from "older" stack regions)
Are the common Ada runtimes performing range checks on Arrays,
including "casted" pointers ?
(Typecasting is necessary for high-performance access, but I want to be
safely in bounds of the array all the time)
Also, it should be forbidden (by compiler or runtime) to cast a type
that contains a pointer to a different type. Does Ada support this ? (I
must secure pointers in order to have only valid pointers in the
system. Invalid pointers introduce random errors or security problems
for a sandbox execution model)




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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-25  2:37 frankgerlach [this message]
2005-09-25  5:07 ` Various Language Architecture Questions jimmaureenrogers
2005-09-25  7:24   ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-25  8:17 ` Martin Krischik
2005-09-25  8:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-09-25 12:56   ` frankgerlach
2005-09-25 13:24     ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-09-25 14:04     ` Pascal Obry
2005-09-25 14:24     ` Martin Krischik
2005-09-25 15:25     ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-25 15:32       ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-25 16:02         ` Pascal Obry
2005-09-25 16:02       ` Pascal Obry
2005-09-26  7:44     ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-09-26 21:07       ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-27  4:31         ` Simon Wright
2005-09-27  7:18           ` Tapio Kelloniemi
2005-09-27 23:43           ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-28 20:43             ` Simon Wright
2005-09-29 23:24             ` Randy Brukardt
2005-09-26 21:05     ` Florian Weimer
2005-09-25 11:57 ` Marin David Condic
2005-09-25 15:21 ` Björn Persson
2005-09-25 22:25 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-09-26 18:09   ` David Emery
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