;;; Assembler routines are named by full Lisp symbols: they
;;; have packages and that sort of native Lisp stuff associated
;;; with them. We can compare them with EQ.
-;;; Foreign symbols are named by Lisp STRINGs: the Lisp package
-;;; system doesn't extend out to symbols in languages like C.
-;;; We want to use EQUAL to compare them.
-;;; *STATIC-FOREIGN-SYMBOLS* are static as opposed to "dynamic" (not
-;;; as opposed to C's "extern"). The table contains symbols known at
-;;; the time that the program was built, but not symbols defined
-;;; in object files which have been loaded dynamically since then.
-(declaim (type hash-table *assembler-routines* *static-foreign-symbols*))
+(declaim (type hash-table *assembler-routines*))
(defvar *assembler-routines* (make-hash-table :test 'eq))
-(defvar *static-foreign-symbols* (make-hash-table :test 'equal))
+
\f
;;;; the FOP database