From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism
Date: 1999/06/08
Date: 1999-06-08T22:24:53+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <t7iu8yz5u5.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1999Jun8.175959.1@eisner
kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> At a more basic level, storing a variable length structure on the stack
> requires that the machine code alter the amount of stack consumed on
> one call from the next. Many other languages do not have programmer-
> visible constructs that do such a run-time determination, so perhaps
> that is what makes the concept seem strange.
They also don't have functions which return variable-length objects.
Where does the function return value live between the time the
function returns and the time that space is allocated for the variable
on the stack, using the size information in the return value?
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1999-05-20 0:00 Ada OO Mechanism Shawn M. Root
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-20 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-20 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-24 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-24 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-24 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Chris
1999-05-25 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Jim
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1999-06-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
[not found] ` <t7zp2sr6yf.fsf@calumny.jyacc.c <t7r9nmz8ou.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com>
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
[not found] ` <t7zp2sr6yf.fsf@calumny.jyacc.c <t7emjmmx8w.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com>
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` < <375E92CB.27850620@averstar.com>
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
[not found] ` <t7zp2sr6yf.fsf@calumny.jyacc.c <375d9a3d.e1cccc63@averstar.com>
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-29 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-05-30 0:00 ` chris
1999-05-30 0:00 ` Harry George
1999-05-30 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-31 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-02 0:00 ` mike
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-06 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Mike
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-25 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1999-06-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-05-26 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-03 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-20 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
1999-05-24 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Steve
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Shawn M. Root
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Shawn M. Root
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Don Overheu
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