veer66@lemmy.one to Lisp Community@lemmy.ml • edit-25 months agoWas there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?message-squaremessage-square2 fedilinkarrow-up16file-text
arrow-up16message-squareWas there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?veer66@lemmy.one to Lisp Community@lemmy.ml • edit-25 months agomessage-square2 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresplatt9990@lemmy.mlhexbear2·5 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. linkfedilink
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.