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Map Library

 

The map library provides a facility for maintaining a set of bindings between identifiers. The map library supports operations for adding new bindings to the set, removing bindings from the set, and mapping one identifier into another, relative to a set of bindings (lookup). Protocol implementations use these operations to translate identifiers extracted from message headers (e.g., addresses, port numbers) into capabilities for (pointers to) objects (e.g., Protl, Sessn, Enable).





Larry Peterson
Mon Feb 5 16:32:40 MST 1996