Difference between revisions of "Runtime Type Encoding"
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At runtime, when we need to describe an Eiffel type (TYPE_A instance in the compiler), we use the following encoding: | At runtime, when we need to describe an Eiffel type (TYPE_A instance in the compiler), we use the following encoding: | ||
Revision as of 11:03, 1 August 2008
At runtime, when we need to describe an Eiffel type (TYPE_A instance in the compiler), we use the following 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 red refer to another abstraction described in the above diagram
- Eiffel type_id refers to the `type_id' in finalized mode and the `static_type_id' in workbench mode.
- All other words should be self explanatory