@veer66 to Lisp Community@lemmy.mlEnglish • edit-25 months agoWas there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?message-square3arrow-up112file-text
arrow-up112message-squareWas there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?@veer66 to Lisp Community@lemmy.mlEnglish • edit-25 months agomessage-square3file-text
minus-square@splatt9990@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish3•5 months agoMalloc is a C function and wouldn’t come around for another 15 years or so. They likely wrote memory allocation code directly in machine code/assembly which could and would just access raw memory directly.
Malloc is a C function and wouldn’t come around for another 15 years or so. They likely wrote memory allocation code directly in machine code/assembly which could and would just access raw memory directly.