Arc Forum | Hmmm, good point. The stack, GLOBALS and QUOTE

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1 point by sacado 6073 days ago | link | parent

Hmmm, good point. The stack, GLOBALS and QUOTE_CONSTANTS are all explored when GC is triggered. Maybe the solution would be to add a temporary storage (that should be taken into consideration by GC too) before putting things in the constants, or something like that ?

1 point by almkglor 6072 days ago | link

> Maybe the solution would be to add a temporary storage (that should be taken into consideration by GC too) before putting things in the constants, or something like that ?

Called the "Arc stack", maybe? ^^

Currently this is what is done:

  QUOTE_CONSTANTS[0] = cons_fun(FIX2OBJ(1),cons_fun(FIX2OBJ(2),NILOBJ))

It should probably be:

  PUSH(FIX2OBJ(1));
  PUSH(FIX2OBJ(2));
  PUSH(NILOBJ);
  CONS();
  CONS();
  QUOTE_CONSTANTS[0] = POP();

Of course, the thing about having _fun functions is, they are safe for non-allocating functions. So we could safely directly translate:

  (car (cdr foo))

to:

  PUSH(car_fun(cdr_fun(LOCAL(3)/*foo@42*/)));

Edit: of course, even though it's named "_fun" doesn't mean that it is a function:

  #define car_fun(o) (((pair *)(o))->car)

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2 points by almkglor 6072 days ago | link

Okay, converted init_constants() to use the Arc stack instead of the C stack. Fear the pointer arithmetic foo-ness when using a processor with special PUSH and POP instructions (which are arguably dying out, because RISC processors handle stacks using explicit pointer ariths).

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