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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
May. 15, 2002
Applicant:
Sumit Gupta, Newark, CA (US);
Inventor:
Sumit Gupta, Newark, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is provided, the method comprising defining an actual size of each variable in a programming language at a declaration time when the actual size of the respective variable can be defined and declaring at least one variable in the programming language to have a dynamic size at the declaration time when the actual size of the at least one variable is not known. The method also comprises defining the actual size of the at least one variable in the programming language when the actual size of the at least one variable becomes known after the declaration time.