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From: Nick Roberts <nick.roberts@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Objects and the Stack?
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:02:15 +0000
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Freejack wrote:

> I think the florist bindings have an Interface to the brk() and sbrk()
> system calls, which is how it's usually done in C/Asm.
> Perhaps by declaring the Objects to be Controlled, and then putting in
> calls to brk() one might achieve the same effect.

Possibly, but you'd have to have intimate knowledge of the compiler to be 
sure that you weren't going to work at cross purposes with it. Obviously, 
it wouldn't be portable, especially not to any target which didn't support 
sbrk(). I think, in essence, compiler support would be required.

-- 
Nick Roberts