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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection)
Date: 17 Dec 1994 15:36:19 -0500
Date: 1994-12-17T15:36:19-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cvi43$ov4@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: D0x53v.FxE@inmet.camb.inmet.com

Bob says that most compilers return variable length objects on the stack. 
THat's a little misleading. What some compilers do is to return them on
a secondary stack. It is a little tricky to return them on the primary
stack, it requires a specialized calling sequence (similar to what alloca
has to use), and in many ABI's, you can't do this without violating the
standard calling sequence.




  reply	other threads:[~1994-12-17 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <RFB.94Nov27213114@cfdevx1.lehman.com>
     [not found]     ` <3be0mh$1p7@gamma.ois.com>
     [not found]       ` <3bfprn$okr@scipio.cyberstore.ca>
1994-11-29 21:27         ` Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection) R. William Beckwith
1994-11-30  2:27           ` Henry G. Baker
     [not found]           ` <DAG.94Nov30090717@bellman.control.lth.se>
1994-11-30 16:39             ` David Weller
1994-11-30 17:58               ` Erik Naggum
1994-11-30 23:14                 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-09 14:19                 ` Ada 95 is the name Tucker Taft
1994-12-09 22:33                   ` Pat Rogers
1994-12-11 18:59                     ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1994-12-11 20:05                       ` Pat Rogers
1994-12-16  1:01                         ` Bob Duff
1994-12-12 14:50                       ` Garlington KE
1994-12-13 21:48                         ` Tucker Taft
1994-12-14 12:44                         ` Gentle
1994-12-14 17:34                         ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1994-12-10 10:10                   ` Marc Wachowitz
1994-12-11 21:37                     ` Bob Duff
1994-12-02 23:41             ` Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection) Bob Duff
1994-12-03  8:16               ` Bill Birch
1994-11-30 18:59           ` Hans Boehm
1994-12-01  3:20             ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-01  3:51               ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-01 13:59               ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-02  4:26                 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-02 21:37               ` Hans Boehm
1994-12-03 15:17                 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-09 22:07                   ` Bob Duff
1994-12-11 23:59                     ` Gary McKee
1994-12-12  5:04                       ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-12 12:46                         ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-16 19:35                         ` Bob Duff
1994-12-17 20:36                           ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1994-12-20  5:24                           ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-12  9:36                     ` Robb Nebbe
1994-12-13 16:12                     ` Henry G. Baker
     [not found]     ` <3be0mh$1p7@ga <3bii2g$kn2@news.parc.xerox.com>
1994-12-01  4:58       ` Kevin Warne
1994-12-02 21:58         ` Hans Boehm
     [not found] <D06r8x.JBy@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
1994-12-02 17:32 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-05 20:59   ` Robert Firth
1994-12-06 14:15     ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-04  1:06 ` Rick Busdiecker
1994-12-04 18:57   ` R. William Beckwith
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