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C++, the steampunk language

C++, the steampunk language

Posted Sep 14, 2009 17:43 UTC (Mon) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: C++, the steampunk language by nye
Parent article: Writing kernel modules in Haskell

Thanks for the link. There is some other useful information on that page; see the post by Andrew Grant.

IIUC the size of an object could be stored in the symbol table, but that would only work with objects within lexical scope-- a dynamically allocated object returned from a library function would still be a problem, since there is no portable way to attach size information to an object in C.


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