From: "Rafał Pietrak" <embedded@ztk-rp.eu>
To: David Brown <david@westcontrol.com>,
Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: waffl3x <waffl3x@protonmail.com>, "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: wishlist: support for shorter pointers
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 16:20:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff5522e5-c6a2-2353-8851-c743cd0dfe15@ztk-rp.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b427fb74-b1a5-2ca2-db0a-20a38c9557ea@ztk-rp.eu>
W dniu 3.07.2023 o 18:29, Rafał Pietrak pisze:
> Hi David,
>
[--------------]
>> 4. It is worth taking a step back, and thinking about how you would
>> like to use these pointers. It is likely that you would be better
>> thinking in terms of an array, rather than pointers - after all, you
>> don't want to be using dynamically allocated memory here if you can
>> avoid it, and certainly not generic malloc(). If you can use an
>> array, then your index type can be as small as you like - maybe
>> uint8_t is enough.
>
> I did that trip ... some time ago. May be I discarded the idea
> prematurely, but I dropped it because I was afraid of cost of
I remember now what was my main problem with indexes implementation:
inability to express/write chain "references" with them. Table/index
semantic of:
t[a][b][c][d].
is a "multidimentional table" which is completely different from
"pointer semantic" of:
*t->a->b->c->d
It is quite legit to do a full circle around a circular list this way,
while table semantics doesn't allow that.
Indexes are off the table.
-R
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-04 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-27 12:26 Rafał Pietrak
2023-06-28 1:54 ` waffl3x
2023-06-28 7:13 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-06-28 7:31 ` Jonathan Wakely
2023-06-28 8:35 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-06-28 9:56 ` waffl3x
2023-06-28 10:43 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-06-28 12:12 ` waffl3x
2023-06-28 12:23 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-03 14:52 ` David Brown
2023-07-03 16:29 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-04 14:20 ` Rafał Pietrak [this message]
2023-07-04 15:13 ` David Brown
2023-07-04 16:15 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-06-28 7:34 ` waffl3x
2023-06-28 8:41 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-06-28 13:00 ` Martin Uecker
2023-06-28 14:51 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-06-28 15:44 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2023-06-28 16:07 ` Martin Uecker
2023-06-28 16:49 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2023-06-28 17:00 ` Martin Uecker
2023-06-28 16:48 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-06-29 6:19 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-03 15:07 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2023-07-03 16:42 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-03 16:57 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2023-07-03 17:34 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-04 12:38 ` David Brown
2023-07-04 12:57 ` Oleg Endo
2023-07-04 14:46 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-04 15:55 ` David Brown
2023-07-04 16:20 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-04 22:57 ` Martin Uecker
2023-07-05 5:26 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-05 7:29 ` Martin Uecker
2023-07-05 8:05 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-05 9:11 ` David Brown
2023-07-05 9:25 ` Martin Uecker
2023-07-05 11:34 ` David Brown
2023-07-05 12:01 ` Martin Uecker
2023-07-05 9:42 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-05 11:55 ` David Brown
2023-07-05 12:25 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-05 12:57 ` David Brown
2023-07-05 13:29 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-05 14:45 ` David Brown
2023-07-05 16:13 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-05 17:39 ` David Brown
2023-07-06 7:00 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-06 12:53 ` David Brown
2023-07-05 9:29 ` Martin Uecker
2023-07-05 10:17 ` Rafał Pietrak
2023-07-05 10:48 ` Martin Uecker
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