I just received a lovely invitation to preach at the Solemn Mass and Procession at the beginning of Christ Church, New Haven’s Sesquicentennial celebration on January 4th. It’s funny; one’ ;s tempted to say, “I’ll really work hard on this one!” but, of course, I work really hard on all of them. A special occasion doesn’t call forth appreciably more (or less) intense compositional labor.
However long I work on the sermon, it’ll be a tremendous treat to preach again in the parish where I was ordained to the priesthood, where Josiah was baptized, where Margaret worshipped during my long years of seminary field work in midstate Connecticut, where we came to know and love the Rev. Jerry Miner, and where we has a wonderful neighbors my colleague at Christ Church, the Rev. Donnel O’Flynn, and wise Janet and their children Aidan and Kathleen. Margaret and I have vivid memories of Christ Church, now long-ago memories, and what a privilege it’ll be to go back for this special occasion!
Posted by AKMA at December 3, 2003 06:59 PM | TrackBackSeth Roby graduated in May of 2003 with a double major in English and Computer Science, the Macintosh part of a three-person Macintosh, Linux, and Windows graduating triumvirate.
Posted by: Cecily at January 12, 2004 11:31 PMSince the Heap has no definite rules as to where it will create space for you, there must be some way of figuring out where your new space is. And the answer is, simply enough, addressing. When you create new space in the heap to hold your data, you get back an address that tells you where your new space is, so your bits can move in. This address is called a Pointer, and it's really just a hexadecimal number that points to a location in the heap. Since it's really just a number, it can be stored quite nicely into a variable.
Posted by: Bertram at January 12, 2004 11:31 PMLet's see an example by converting our favoriteNumber variable from a stack variable to a heap variable. The first thing we'll do is find the project we've been working on and open it up in Project Builder. In the file, we'll start right at the top and work our way down. Under the line:
Posted by: Ebotte at January 12, 2004 11:31 PMThis back and forth is an important concept to understand in C programming, especially on the Mac's RISC architecture. Almost every variable you work with can be represented in 32 bits of memory: thirty-two 1s and 0s define the data that a simple variable can hold. There are exceptions, like on the new 64-bit G5s and in the 128-bit world of AltiVec
Posted by: Isaac at January 13, 2004 10:07 AMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Blaise at January 13, 2004 10:07 AMThe Stack is just what it sounds like: a tower of things that starts at the bottom and builds upward as it goes. In our case, the things in the stack are called "Stack Frames" or just "frames". We start with one stack frame at the very bottom, and we build up from there.
Posted by: Prudence at January 13, 2004 10:08 AM