Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only time this offset will be incorrect is if the object
> structure changes between the time the offset is fetched and the time
> that the offset is used, which is something that needs guarding
> against.
Well, that's the point. You don't know in whi
At 2:30 PM +0100 3/14/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Oli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But, even if we stop everything until all objects got their attribute
list updated, any offsets previously obtained via C may
still be bogus afterwards. And there is no way for the code that holds
the offset to kno
Oli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But, even if we stop everything until all objects got their attribute
> list updated, any offsets previously obtained via C may
> still be bogus afterwards. And there is no way for the code that holds
> the offset to know that either.
Good point. It seems that aft
Dan Sugalski wrote:
As well as involving much finding of instances, and moving of their
attribute
values, this isn't thread safe (please excuse my lack of PASM syntax
knowledge):
Yeah, adding an attribute requires a stop-the-world action, as every
object that has the modified class needs to be
Hi,
On Saturday 13 March 2004 21:44, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 9:06 PM +0100 3/13/04, Oli wrote:
> >Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >>>As well as involving much finding of instances, and moving of
> >>>their attribute
> >>>values, this isn't thread safe (please excuse my lack of PASM syntax
> >>>knowledge):
At 9:06 PM +0100 3/13/04, Oli wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
As well as involving much finding of instances, and moving of
their attribute
values, this isn't thread safe (please excuse my lack of PASM syntax
knowledge):
Yeah, adding an attribute requires a stop-the-world action, as
every object th
At 6:14 PM + 3/12/04, Peter Haworth wrote:
I have some issues with the way attributes are referenced. According to the
PDD:
classoffset Ix, Py, Sz
Returns the offset of the first attribute for class Sz in object Py.
getattribute Px, Py, Iz
Returns attribute Iz of object Py and puts i
I have some issues with the way attributes are referenced. According to the
PDD:
> classoffset Ix, Py, Sz
>
> Returns the offset of the first attribute for class Sz in object Py.
>
> getattribute Px, Py, Iz
>
> Returns attribute Iz of object Py and puts it in Px. Note that the
> attribute
