Re: [MI400] Space pointers

["John Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> There are heap instructions in MI.  ALCHSS, FREHSS are the main ones used.
> Excellent performers and rock solid in practice.  MATHSAT is used to
> materialize the attributes of the heap and each individual allocation.
This
> would give the size of each allocation.  ALCHSS and FREHSS are easy enough
> to use. using MATHSAT would  only take 3+ weeks of work.  All in the MI
> Functional Reference. Recently online.

Ouch! Three weeks for a single instruction....

Leif, is there anything in your e-Book that I could cut/paste to get me
going quickly?

> Another stategy is to over allocate each allocation.  Place the allocation
> size and maybe some debug info in the 16 bytes immed before the actual
data
> of the allocation.

I'd love to, except I can't guarentee that the programmer is going to use my
allocation function.


John Taylor