pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) (07/20/88)
> From: djones@megatest.uucp (Dave Jones) > I am tempted to boot the whole idea, and just say there is one > kind of pointer: a thirty-two bit word. And we will burn all > the the computers that don't behave that way. Well.... The Caltech Object Machine (still building, last I heard) is a tagged architecture with 16-bit tags. At least a few tags are taken for hardware-defined types. The machine probably WONT RUN if you don't generate at least a few unique pointer types. ;-D on ( Play a game of tag, anyone? ) Pardo [From pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)] -- Send compilers articles to ima!compilers or, in a pinch, to Levine@YALE.EDU Plausible paths are { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale | bbn}!ima Please send responses to the originator of the message -- I cannot forward mail accidentally sent back to compilers. Meta-mail to ima!compilers-request