[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-09-09 14:14:58 +0000, John Reagan said:

> As Steve said, there are abstractions above the calls to LIB$GET_VM and 
> LIB$MALLOC.  You wouldn't expect to do a NEW in Pascal, pass the 
> pointer to a C routine and do a free(), would you?

I work in another development environment where passing around objects 
in that fashion is the norm.   Allocated by a system or library call or 
a user routine, and passed around or copied or retained as needed, and 
eventually released by user code.   This is a central part of the 
difference between non-OO and non-GC and OO and GC environments, and 
it's certainly good fodder for the VSI advanced development team.


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