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4 ;;;; This software is derived from the CMU CL system, which was
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12 (eval-when (:compile-toplevel :execute :load-toplevel)
14 (defconstant lowtag-bits 3
16 "Number of bits at the low end of a pointer used for type information.")
18 (defconstant lowtag-mask (1- (ash 1 lowtag-bits))
20 "Mask to extract the low tag bits from a pointer.")
22 (defconstant lowtag-limit (ash 1 lowtag-bits)
24 "Exclusive upper bound on the value of the low tag bits from a pointer.")
26 (defconstant type-bits 8
28 "Number of bits used in the header word of a data block to store the type.")
30 (defconstant type-mask (1- (ash 1 type-bits))
32 "Mask to extract the type from a header word.")
36 ;;; FIXME: Couldn't/shouldn't these be DEFCONSTANT instead of DEFPARAMETER?
37 (defparameter *target-most-positive-fixnum* (1- (ash 1 29))
39 "most-positive-fixnum in the target architecture.")
40 (defparameter *target-most-negative-fixnum* (ash -1 29)
42 "most-negative-fixnum in the target architecture.")