Copyright (C) 1993, Digital Equipment Corporation |All rights reserved. | See the file COPYRIGHT for a full description. | Last modified on Tue Nov 9 12:19:36 PST 1993 by mcjones | modified on Thu Oct 21 15:01:22 PDT 1993 by kalsow | modified on Sun Feb 21 14:27:08 PST 1993 by jdd | modified on Tue Sep 25 00:38:09 1990 by muller
RTTypeFP
provides runtime access to type fingerprints.
\index{fingerprint!of type}
\index{type!fingerprint of}
A type's fingerprint is a 64-bit checksum computed from its declaration.
The probability of distinct types having the same fingerprint is very
small. See the Fingerprint
interface for more details.
Typecodes may vary between executions of a program but fingerprints do not. Fingerprints are portable across multiple runs of a single program and across all programs compiled by the same compiler.
INTERFACERTTypeFP ; IMPORT Fingerprint; FROM RTType IMPORT Typecode; PROCEDURE ToFingerprint(tc: Typecode): Fingerprint.T;
Return the fingerprint corresponding totc
. It is a checked runtime error iftc
is not proper or does not name a traced reference type.
PROCEDURE FromFingerprint(READONLY fp: Fingerprint.T) : Typecode;
Return the typecode that corresponds tofp
. If no such typecode exists, returnsRTType.NoSuchType
.
END RTTypeFP.