Re: New assembly language instructions to support OO languages?

Brad <bowes.brad@gmail.com>
Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:05:00 -0800 (PST)

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From: Brad <bowes.brad@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.arch
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:05:00 -0800 (PST)
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 08-12-014
Keywords: architecture
Posted-Date: 08 Dec 2008 18:16:26 EST

On Dec 4, 11:09 am, "Tony" <t...@my.net> wrote:
> To me, it seems like "reducing everything to a function" may be a bit
> dated given that OO languages are the thing nowadays. Can anyone
> imagine any new potential assembly language instructions that would
> make implemention of OO languages easier? (Not just necessarily the
> function thing, but anything).


Some sort of type flag to distinguish addresses (pointers) from data
words (values) might be helpful for garbage collection.
[Type bits were popular a long, long time ago, but fell out of fashion. -John]



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