On a general property of memory mapping tables

Authors:
Karl Reed
Affiliations:
Department of Computing, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, G.P.O. Box 2476V, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia
Venue:
ASPLOS I Proceedings of the first international symposium on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Year:
1982

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Abstract

The paper shows that memory mapping tables can be used to implement the display registers used in providing architectural support for block-structured languages such as Algol 60. This allows full lexical level addressing to be implemented on so-called von-Neuman machines. The problems of fragmentation of the paged address space are explored, and machines with memory mapping schemes capable of supporting the proposals identified. Attention is drawn to the similarity between segmented and paged schemes, and it is suggested that the latter may be used to support the former.