PR# 13833 Things to check for the dynamic types
Problem Report Summary
			
									Submitter:	manus_eiffel 
								
								
									Category:	Runtime 
								
								
									Priority:	Medium 
								
							
									Date:	2007/12/31 
								
								
									Class:	Bug 
								
								
									Severity: Serious 
								
							
									Number:	13833 
								
								
									Release:	6.2.7.1625 
								
								
								
									
										Confidential: No 
									
								
							
									Status: Open 
								
								
									Responsible: manus_eiffel 
								
							
									Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 
								
							
									Synopsis: Things to check for the dynamic types 
								
							Description
										As part of my rewrite of the object HEADER so that the dynamic type for objects can be configurable in size, I've found a few places in the runtime where it would not work. To see them, simply define EIF_TYPE_INDEX to be the same as a EIF_NATURAL_64 and recompile the runtime. 1 - in C/ipc/shared/stack.c line 282, there is a comment that says that we fit 2 types into an integer 32-bit. This needs to be redone so that it uses EIF_TYPE_INDEX for those dynamic type. 2 - EIF_TYPED_VALUE possibly needs to be changed so that it distinguish the SK_ part from the actual dynamic type. It is also possible that the SK things, needs to be rewritten to be only a char and then followed by a dynamic type id when needed (SK_EXP and sometime SK_REF). This will make things more compact in the general case. 3 - In many places, we extract the dynamic type of the object and assign it to an integer 32-bit, this needs to be analyzed on a case by case basis.
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