-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:35:58AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > If you're willing to use integers, you'll have an easy time. If you > want the more elegant language semantics of multiple pointer sizes, > you'll have to take the time to read through the C++ standard and think > about all the potential impact of the extension you're proposing. Or, > you can decide to work on the middle end issues, try to get your patches > accepted, and then come back to the front end issues later.
May I jog your memory about "named address spaces". Are "near" and "far" pointers something that might be able to be shoehorned into any [future] infrastructure for supporting these named address spaces? Same for DJ's oddball pointers - could they fit? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Please fetch my new key 804177F8 from hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net/ iD8DBQFE5IYnwyMv24BBd/gRAgJ1AJ9IVFM7cmRZy4G71F+ZIvqSr9l0ogCfZn2f +6MHu9ROUo9RKj14Rew0W4U= =ChKv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
