[Mono-list] Re: Is Objective-C support possible?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-Feb-2002, Carl R. Witty <cwitty@newtonlabs.com> wrote:
> Pinku Surana <surana@rover.cs.nwu.edu> writes:
> 
> >      * box/unbox should use tagged pointers in some cases,
> >        particularly integers. With tailcalls, this improves
> >        performance of continuations.
> 
> This has the problem (as pointed out in the referenced article) that
> you get integers which are less than 32 bits long.  I'm sure this
> isn't allowed by the .NET specification.

The CLR specification requires that the `int32' type hold 32 bits.
But there's nothing to stop an implementation from extending the CLR
by adding e.g. an `int28' type.

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