Difference between revisions of "Runtime Type Encoding"

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*Words in uppercase refer to constant defined in $EIFFEL_SRC/C/run-time/include/rt_gen_types.h
 
*Words in uppercase refer to constant defined in $EIFFEL_SRC/C/run-time/include/rt_gen_types.h
*Words in red refer to another abstraction describe in the above diagram
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*Words in red refer to another abstraction described in the above diagram
 
*All other words should be self explanatory
 
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Revision as of 10:59, 1 August 2008

At runtime, when we need to describe an Eiffel type (TYPE_A instance in the compiler), we use the following encoding to describe:


TYPE A encodings.png


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  • Words in uppercase refer to constant defined in $EIFFEL_SRC/C/run-time/include/rt_gen_types.h
  • Words in red refer to another abstraction described in the above diagram
  • All other words should be self explanatory