Update of /project/movitz/cvsroot/public_html In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv19780
Modified Files: movitz.html Log Message: Added a bit more about map-stack-words.
Date: Tue Mar 30 03:27:57 2004 Author: ffjeld
Index: public_html/movitz.html diff -u public_html/movitz.html:1.3 public_html/movitz.html:1.4 --- public_html/movitz.html:1.3 Tue Mar 30 03:21:18 2004 +++ public_html/movitz.html Tue Mar 30 03:27:57 2004 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Author: Frode Vatvedt Fjeld frodef@acm.org Created at: Wed Nov 5 09:55:54 2003
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@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ </head> <body> <h1>Movitz: A Common Lisp OS development platform</h1> -<tt>$Id: movitz.html,v 1.3 2004/03/30 08:21:18 ffjeld Exp $</tt> +<tt>$Id: movitz.html,v 1.4 2004/03/30 08:27:57 ffjeld Exp $</tt>
<h2><a href="files/">Files</a></h2> <p> The latest <a href="files/los0.img"> los0 kernel image</a> and its @@ -160,7 +160,9 @@ 32)</tt> in memory, so it will not recognized as pointers by e.g. <tt>map-heap-words</tt>. Hence, this function must be used explicitly over each live control stack in order to capture all -pointers in the system.</li> +pointers in the system. Another reason why stacks are special, is that +they contain untagged pointers to code-vectors, and this requires +special treatment. </li>
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