Data descriptor
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data-descriptor-199-5051908
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Data descriptor
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In computing, a data descriptor is a structure containing information that describes data. Data descriptors may be used in compilers, as a software structure at run time in languages like Ada or PL/I, or as a hardware structure in some computers such as Burroughs large systems. Data descriptors are typically used at run-time to pass argument information to called subroutines. OpenVMS and Multics have system-wide language-independent standards for argument descriptors. Descriptors are also used t
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2024-01-13T12:34:11Z
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