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Re: a .NET alternative (GJC et al)
- To: jsturm at one-point dot com, lord at regexps dot com
- Subject: Re: a .NET alternative (GJC et al)
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:17:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, tromey at redhat dot com
<<As mentioned on previous threads, 100% type-accurate scanning seems
impossible with compiler support only given languages that support free
unions (C/C++).
>>
more accurately: typical implementations of such languages, there is nothing
in the standard that forbids keeping runtimr track of all types (consider
a very simple approach, which is simply to make *all* data in the heap
self-describing.