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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Fortran's Equivalence
Date: 1997/03/29
Date: 1997-03-29T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.859697406@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023680002903971539370001@news.ni.net


iMatthew Heaney said

<<Using Unchecked_Conversion will very likely generate NO code, and it's
infinately safer than an address overlay.>>

Actually unchecked conversion can cause copies, which are more easily
avoided with address overlays. 

I can imagine no technical justification for your claim that UC is
safer, let alone infinitely safer, than address overlays. I suspect
this is just a hold over from Ada 83 thinking, with no good technical
justification.





  reply	other threads:[~1997-03-29  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-03-25  0:00 Fortran's Equivalence Viqar Abbasi
1997-03-26  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-26  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-29  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1997-03-29  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02  0:00       ` JP Thornley
1997-03-26  0:00 ` FORTRAN's Equivalence Nick Roberts
1997-03-26  0:00 ` Fortran's Equivalence Michael F Brenner
1997-03-26  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-28  0:00   ` Oliver Kellogg
1997-03-29  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1997-03-29  0:00     ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-04-01  0:00       ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-01  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-01  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04  0:00           ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-04  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07  0:00               ` Viqar Abbasi
1997-04-08  0:00                 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` Matthew Heaney
1997-04-09  0:00                     ` Stephen Leake
1997-04-09  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-10  0:00                         ` Simon Wright
1997-04-10  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]                     ` <1997Apr15.163103.27481@nosc.mil>
1997-04-16  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07  0:00               ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-07  0:00               ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-04  0:00             ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-04  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08  0:00                 ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-07  0:00             ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-03-29  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-26  0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-03-28  0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-03-29  0:00   ` Matthew Heaney
1997-04-01  0:00     ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-03-29  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-03-29  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
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