;;; index leaving the loop range)
(def!type index-or-minus-1 () `(integer -1 (,sb!xc:array-dimension-limit)))
+;;; A couple of VM-related types that are currently used only on the
+;;; alpha platform. -- CSR, 2002-06-24
+(def!type unsigned-byte-with-a-bite-out (s bite)
+ (cond ((eq s '*) 'integer)
+ ((and (integerp s) (> s 1))
+ (let ((bound (ash 1 s)))
+ `(integer 0 ,(- bound bite 1))))
+ (t
+ (error "Bad size specified for SIGNED-BYTE type specifier: ~S." s))))
+
+(def!type load/store-index (scale lowtag min-offset
+ &optional (max-offset min-offset))
+ `(integer ,(- (truncate (+ (ash 1 16)
+ (* min-offset sb!vm:n-word-bytes)
+ (- lowtag))
+ scale))
+ ,(truncate (- (+ (1- (ash 1 16)) lowtag)
+ (* max-offset sb!vm:n-word-bytes))
+ scale)))
+
;;; the default value used for initializing character data. The ANSI
;;; spec says this is arbitrary, so we use the value that falls
;;; through when we just let the low-level consing code initialize