[movitz-cvs] CVS update: public_html/movitz.html

Tue Mar 30 08:27:57 UTC 2004

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 at acm.org>
  Created at:    Wed Nov  5 09:55:54 2003
                 
- $Id: movitz.html,v 1.3 2004/03/30 08:21:18 ffjeld Exp $
+ $Id: movitz.html,v 1.4 2004/03/30 08:27:57 ffjeld Exp $
                 
 -->
 
@@ -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>
 
 </ul>
 



