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diff --git a/linux/vocabulary.md b/linux/vocabulary.md index 1356d1d0..6348ed10 100644 --- a/linux/vocabulary.md +++ b/linux/vocabulary.md @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ ### Data Structures +For memory safety, the following data structures are opaque and only modified +using functions described further down. I still find it useful to understand +how they work under the hood. + - Handles: addresses to objects allocated on the heap. They're augmented with book-keeping to guarantee memory-safety, and so cannot be stored in registers. See [mu.md](mu.md) for details, but in brief: diff --git a/vocabulary.md b/vocabulary.md index 9471d132..1ecbdf8d 100644 --- a/vocabulary.md +++ b/vocabulary.md @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ ### Data Structures +For memory safety, the following data structures are opaque and only modified +using functions described further down. I still find it useful to understand +how they work under the hood. + - Handles: addresses to objects allocated on the heap. They're augmented with book-keeping to guarantee memory-safety, and so cannot be stored in registers. See [mu.md](mu.md) for details, but in brief: |