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Short communication. Improving overlay handlers
Author(s) -
Hansche Brian
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380130609
Subject(s) - subroutine , computer science , overlay , simple (philosophy) , programming language , code (set theory) , sequence (biology) , address space , distributed computing , invocation , operating system , philosophy , set (abstract data type) , epistemology , sociology , biology , anthropology , genetics
Code overlay segments are commonly used to implement large program modules on machines with limited address space. Unfortunately, these systems usually impose some limitations on the permissible sequence of subroutine invocations. This paper discusses the reasons for these limitations and introduces a simple change that allows more general invocation sequences to be used.