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Table of content
Table of content
1 Overview...................................................................................................................1
1.1 Introduction ...........................................................................................................................1
1.2 The POP Model ....................................................................................................................1
1.3 System Overview ..................................................................................................................2
1.4 Structure of this Manual ........................................................................................................2
1.5 Additional Informations ........................................................................................................3
2 The Parallel Object Model .....................................................................................5
2.1 Introduction ...........................................................................................................................5
2.2 The Parallel Object Model ....................................................................................................5
2.3 Shareable Parallel Objects ....................................................................................................6
2.4 Methods Invocation Semantics .............................................................................................6
2.5 Parallel Object Allocation .....................................................................................................8
2.6 Requirement-driven Parallel Objects ....................................................................................8
3 User Programming Manual .................................................................................11
3.1 Introduction .........................................................................................................................11
3.2 Parallel Objects ...................................................................................................................12
3.2.1 Parallel Classes ..............................................................................................................12
3.2.2 Creation and Destruction ...............................................................................................12
3.2.3 Parallel Class Method Invocations ................................................................................13
3.2.4 Passing arguments .........................................................................................................14
3.2.5 Marshalling complex arguments ...................................................................................16
3.2.6 Inheritance in POP-C++ ................................................................................................19
3.2.7 Usage of this in POP-C++ ........................................................................................19
3.2.8 Standard output in POP-C++ ........................................................................................21
3.2.9 Object Descriptions .......................................................................................................21
3.3 Object Layout .....................................................................................................................22
3.3.1 The @pack() directive ..............................................................................................22
3.3.2 Class Unique Identifier ..................................................................................................24
3.4 POP-C++ standard library ..................................................................................................25
3.4.1 The POPString class ......................................................................................................25
3.4.2 Synchronization and locks ............................................................................................25
3.4.3 Exceptions .....................................................................................................................28
3.5 Limitations ..........................................................................................................................29
4 Compiling and Running .......................................................................................31
4.1 The POP-C++ compilation process ....................................................................................31
4.2 Compiling a simple POP-C++ program ..............................................................................31
4.2.1 Compiling ......................................................................................................................32
4.2.2 Compiling the parallel classes .......................................................................................32
4.2.3 Running POP-C++ programs ........................................................................................32
4.3 Compiling a complex POP-C++ program ...........................................................................33