Safe and flexible dynamic linking of native code

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2071, Issue , 2001, Pages 147-176

  Hicks, Michael ^a   Weirich, Stephanie ^b   Crary, Karl ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DYNAMIC LINKING; FLEXIBLE DYNAMIC LINKING; LINKING STRATEGY; SAFE DIALECTS; TRUSTED COMPUTING BASE; TYPECHECKING; TYPED ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84959053695     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45332-6_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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