Quick question regarding indirection cells...
Philip Wadler
wadler@research.bell-labs.com
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:25:50 -0500
> Pehaps they do, but note that the Clean implementation avoids
> generating indirection nodes alltogether. Nodes get overwritten
> by their result, not by indirections to it.
What happens when the overwiting structure is bigger than
the cell to be overwritten? (Assumptions: an application cell
is a fixed size, and a constructor cell has at least one pointer
for each field of the constructor.) -- P