changeset 69871:8a7ecbca8672

(PSEUDOVECTOR_SIZE_MASK): Expand docstring.
author Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:34:31 +0000
parents bc9116711ea3
children f60a24914ee2
files src/lisp.h
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/src/lisp.h	Sat Apr 08 14:20:10 2006 +0000
+++ b/src/lisp.h	Sat Apr 08 14:34:31 2006 +0000
@@ -297,7 +297,11 @@
 #endif
 };
 
-/* For convenience, we also store the number of elements in these bits.  */
+/* For convenience, we also store the number of elements in these bits.
+   Note that this size is not necessarily the memory-footprint size, but
+   only the number of Lisp_Object fields (that need to be traced by the GC).
+   The distinction is used e.g. by Lisp_Process which places extra
+   non-Lisp_Object fields at the end of the structure.  */
 #define PSEUDOVECTOR_SIZE_MASK 0x1ff
 
 /* Number of bits to put in each character in the internal representation