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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1987
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1984
Walter A Wallach, Jr, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael S Richmond, Pittsboro, NC (US);
John K Ahlstrom, Mountain View, CA (US);
David H Bernstein, Ashland, MA (US);
Richard G Bratt, Wayland, MA (US);
Data General Corporation, Westboro, MA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus in a digital computer system for obtaining descriptors of data from names representing the data. The digital computer system executes sequences of instructions. Names representing data processed during execution of an instruction sequence are associated with the instruction sequence. Each name associated with the instruction sequence corresponds to a name table entry associated with the instruction sequence. The operation of resolving a name, i.e., obtaining the descriptor for the data represented by the name, is performed by name processing apparatus in processors of the data processing system. In response to a name, the name processing apparatus locates the name table entry corresponding to the name obtains the descriptor for the item represented by the name using the information in the name table entry corresponding to the name. In a present embodiment, the descriptor specifies the address and length of a data item. The information in the name table entry specifies the address of the represented item by specifying a base address and a displacement and further specifies the length and type of the represented item.