Effective null pointer check elimination utilizing hardware trap

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 139-149

  Kawahito, Motohiro ^a   Komatsu, Hideaki ^a   Nakatani, Toshio ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 17544376156     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/356989.357002     Document Type: Article

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