+;;;
+;;; Note: the order specified here is not critical for correctness,
+;;; but (FIXME) with %TEST-HEADERS as currently defined, BIGNUM must
+;;; be first, and COMPLEX-ARRAY must be last.
+;;;
+;;; However, for efficiency, we prefer contiguous sets of widetags for
+;;; "similar" objects, so that type checking can be done with a range
+;;; check, rather than several individual checks.
+;;;
+;;; * BIGNUM + RATIO (+ FIXNUM) = RATIONAL
+;;;
+;;; * SINGLE-FLOAT + DOUBLE-FLOAT + LONG-FLOAT = FLOAT
+;;;
+;;; * RATIONAL + FLOAT = REAL
+;;;
+;;; * (FIXME: COMPLEX example, which needs fixing anyway -- see
+;;; UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE)
+;;;
+;;; * SIMPLE-ARRAY-* = (SIMPLE-ARRAY * (*))
+;;;
+;;; * SIMPLE-ARRAY-NIL + SIMPLE-BASE-STRING = SIMPLE-STRING
+;;;
+;;; * SIMPLE-ARRAY + COMPLEX-ARRAYOID = (SATISFIES ARRAY-HEADER-P)
+;;;
+;;; In addition, with
+;;; sufficient care we can cause extra combinations to appear with
+;;; differences in only one bit, permitting a more efficient type
+;;; test. As an example, if SIMPLE-BASE-STRING = 0xA6 and
+;;; COMPLEX-BASE-STRING = 0xE6, then the type test for BASE-STRING is
+;;;
+;;; AND tag, ~0x40, tag
+;;; ANDcc tag, 0xA6, tag
+;;; JNE tag, label
+;;;
+;;; rather than two separate tests and jumps