;;; out the full names. Or even define them in DEF EVEN-FIXNUM-LOWTAG
;;; style so searches like 'def.*even-fixnum-lowtag' can find them.
-;;; Tags for the main low-level types are stored in the low three
+;;; Tags for the main low-level types are stored in the low n (usually three)
;;; bits to identify the type of a machine word. Certain constraints
;;; apply:
;;; * EVEN-FIXNUM-LOWTAG and ODD-FIXNUM-LOWTAG must be 0 and 4: code
;;; which shifts left two places to convert raw integers to tagged
;;; fixnums is ubiquitous.
-;;; * LIST-POINTER-LOWTAG + 4 = OTHER-POINTER-LOWTAG: NIL is both a
-;;; cons and a symbol (at the same address) and depends on this.
+;;; * LIST-POINTER-LOWTAG + N-WORD-BYTES = OTHER-POINTER-LOWTAG: NIL
+;;; is both a cons and a symbol (at the same address) and depends on this.
;;; See the definition of SYMBOL in objdef.lisp
;;; * OTHER-POINTER-LOWTAG > 4: Some code in the SPARC backend,
;;; which uses bit 2 of the ALLOC register to indicate that
;;; PSEUDO-ATOMIC is on, doesn't strip the low bits of reg_ALLOC
;;; before ORing in OTHER-POINTER-LOWTAG within a PSEUDO-ATOMIC
;;; section.
+;;; * OTHER-IMMEDIATE-0-LOWTAG are spaced 4 apart: various code wants to
+;;; iterate through these
;;; (These are just the ones we know about as of sbcl-0.7.1.22. There
;;; might easily be more, since these values have stayed highly
;;; constrained for more than a decade, an inviting target for
;; The EVAL-WHEN is necessary (at least for Lispworks), because the
;; second DEFENUM uses the value of OTHER-IMMEDIATE-0-LOWTAG, which is
;; defined in the first DEFENUM. -- AL 20000216
+ #!+x86-64
+ (defenum (:suffix -lowtag)
+ even-fixnum
+ instance-pointer
+ other-immediate-0
+ pad0 pad1 pad2
+ other-immediate-1
+ list-pointer
+ odd-fixnum
+ fun-pointer
+ other-immediate-2
+ pad3 pad4 pad5
+ other-immediate-3
+ other-pointer)
+ #!-x86-64
(defenum (:suffix -lowtag)
even-fixnum
- ;; Note: CMU CL, and SBCL < 0.pre7.39, had FUN-POINTER-LOWTAG
- ;; here. We swapped FUN-POINTER-LOWTAG and
- ;; INSTANCE-POINTER-LOWTAG in sbcl-0.pre7.39 in order to help with a
- ;; low-level pun in the function call sequence on the PPC port.
- ;; For more information, see the PPC port code. -- WHN 2001-10-03
instance-pointer
other-immediate-0
list-pointer
other-immediate-1
other-pointer))
+(def!constant nil-value
+ (+ static-space-start n-word-bytes other-pointer-lowtag))
+
;;; the heap types, stored in 8 bits of the header of an object on the
;;; heap, to identify the type of the heap object (which'll be at
;;; least two machine words, often more)
;;; rather than two separate tests and jumps
(defenum (:suffix -widetag
:start (+ (ash 1 n-lowtag-bits) other-immediate-0-lowtag)
- :step (ash 1 (1- n-lowtag-bits)))
+ :step 4)
bignum
ratio
single-float
double-float
- #!+long-float long-float
complex
complex-single-float
complex-double-float
- #!+long-float complex-long-float
code-header
simple-fun-header
unused05
unused06
unused07
- #!-long-float unused08
- #!-long-float unused09
+ unused08
+ unused09
- #!+long-float simple-array-long-float
- #!+long-float simple-array-complex-long-float
- #!-long-float unused10
- #!-long-float unused11
+ unused10
+ unused11
simple-array-unsigned-byte-2
simple-array-unsigned-byte-4