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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Data segment vs BSS
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:06:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <63b4280d39d09df613ecc84900deaf7b@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a1747e8e1b545a6b23612bdb1f8d776@vitanuova.com>

> more important, the compiler had to ensure that no data was marked for program
> memory until it had checked that it was never accessed indirectly (because
> then the called function would use the wrong instruction).  again, const

sorry, i meant `indirectly by something that might access both forms of data'.
for instance, it allowed a table's address to be taken by
	p = &table  (or plain p = table for an array)
and tracked that nothing was assigned through p, and that p
was not assigned elsewhere to point to writable data.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-31 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-31  4:36 Noah Evans
2006-01-31  5:09 ` jmk
2006-01-31  5:35   ` Noah Evans
2006-01-31  5:48     ` jmk
2006-01-31  5:54       ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-31  8:48         ` Noah Evans
2006-01-31 15:03           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-31 15:12             ` Noah Evans
2006-01-31 16:05               ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-31 16:11                 ` Noah Evans
2006-01-31 16:24                 ` Russ Cox
2006-01-31 16:30                   ` Paul Lalonde
2006-01-31 16:52                   ` C H Forsyth
2006-01-31 17:33                   ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-31 11:44         ` C H Forsyth
2006-01-31 12:06           ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2006-01-31 12:39           ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-31 13:06             ` Noah Evans
2006-01-31 13:44               ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-31 12:39         ` Charles Forsyth
2006-01-31 15:05           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-01-31  9:03       ` Noah Evans

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