Re: Porting CLISP to architectures with few tag bits

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Hi Bruno,

> * Bruno Haible <oe...@py...t> [2016-11-11 01:20:33 +0100]:
>
>> Florian Weimer asked in https://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/mailman/message/35478071/:
>> > What's the easiest way to port CLISP to a 64-bit architecture which
>> > does not have any reserved bits in pointers?  That is, you could use
>> > only the bits you get from aligning objects (e.g., 3 bits for 8-byte
>> > alignment).
>
> I have now implemented such a memory model. It should help to reduce the
> portability effort to new 64-bit platforms.

Please mention this in
src/NEWS
unix/PLATFORMS (porting hints)

it would be nice if you also reviewed and updated doc/impbytes.xml.

thanks.

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