- ;; KLUDGE: As of sbcl-0.6.7.14, we're dumping two
- ;; different kinds of values here, (1) small codes
- ;; and (2) machine addresses. The small codes can be
- ;; dumped as bare integer values. The large machine
- ;; addresses might cause problems if they're large
- ;; and represented as (signed) C integers, so we
- ;; want to force them to be unsigned. We do that by
- ;; wrapping them in the LISPOBJ macro. (We could do
- ;; it with a bare "(unsigned)" cast, except that
- ;; this header file is used not only in C files, but
- ;; also in assembly files, which don't understand
- ;; the cast syntax. The LISPOBJ macro goes away in
- ;; assembly files, but that shouldn't matter because
- ;; we don't do arithmetic on address constants in
- ;; assembly files. See? It really is a kludge..) --
- ;; WHN 2000-10-18
+ ;; KLUDGE: We're dumping two different kinds of
+ ;; values here, (1) small codes and (2) machine
+ ;; addresses. The small codes can be dumped as bare
+ ;; integer values. The large machine addresses might
+ ;; cause problems if they're large and represented
+ ;; as (signed) C integers, so we want to force them
+ ;; to be unsigned by appending an U to the
+ ;; literal. We can't dump all the values using the
+ ;; literal-U syntax, since the assembler doesn't
+ ;; support that syntax and some of the small
+ ;; constants can be used in assembler files.