oo hardware
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Mon Mar 24 22:49:45 UTC 2003
Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
If I remember right though, Dis/Inferno/whatever is suposed to be aimed
at the embedded area and memory is definitely still a concern. And it
simply annoys me when a professionally published paper by people as
experienced and well known as Rob Pike get something so basic wrong.
Makes me wonder what else is wrong.
I looked at Inferno when it became available. In the VM description,
they implemented assignment like this:
x = y
decrement x's ref count
increment y's ref count
move y to x
which of course means that x = x can give you a dangling pointer.
I don't know if the text reflected the actual state of affairs, though.
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