veer66@lemmy.one to Lisp CommunityEnglish · edit-28 months agoWas there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?message-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up112arrow-down1message-squareWas there malloc in 1959? How did they implement the first Lisp interpreter on IBM 704?veer66@lemmy.one to Lisp CommunityEnglish · edit-28 months agomessage-square3fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresplatt9990linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 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.