XPost: comp.arch   
   From: bowes.brad@gmail.com   
      
   On Dec 4, 11:09 am, "Tony"  wrote:   
   > To me, it seems like "reducing everything to a function" may be a bit   
   > dated given that OO languages are the thing nowadays. Can anyone   
   > imagine any new potential assembly language instructions that would   
   > make implemention of OO languages easier?  (Not just necessarily the   
   > function thing, but anything).   
      
   Some sort of type flag to distinguish addresses (pointers) from data   
   words (values) might be helpful for garbage collection.   
   [Type bits were popular a long, long time ago, but fell out of fashion. -John]   
      
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