From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/16
Date: 1996-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.845470908@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Oct16.080524.1@corning.com
Matt said
"Time to admit my ignorance (and hopefully remove it!). What is a "fat"
pointer? From the context, sounds like it might be a data structure that not
only references memory, but also provides the size of the memory being
reference (kind of like a VMS descriptor, if memory serves)."
Well I would not call it ignorance, since this is certainly not a recognized
technical term. In fact I can't even remember if GNAT invented it or not,
I suspect we did.
We use it simply to mean, as you say, a pointer with other information.
For example, in GNAT, the default (but overridable) form of pointers to
unconstrained arrays is a structure with two pointers, one to the data
(which could be, but is not yet, a virtual origin), and one a pointer
to a record containing the array bounds.
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1996-10-13 0:00 Garbage Collection in Ada Jonas Nygren
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <19961014115513529729@dialup105-2-16.swipnet.se>
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-14 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Hannes Haug
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-10-17 0:00 ` John Howard
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Nicolay Belofastow
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-10-30 0:00 ` James Rogers
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Rick Hudson
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Tapani Rundgren
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Hans-Juergen Boehm
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1996-11-02 0:00 Jon S Anthony
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1996-10-31 0:00 ` Mitch Gart
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-11-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-22 0:00 Brian Rogoff
1996-10-11 0:00 C++ Standardization (was: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Dave Wood
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Garbage Collection in Ada Thomas Kendelbacher
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