Chapter 34. Overview of CLISP's Garbage Collection

Table of Contents

34.1. Introduction
34.2. Lisp objects in CLISP
34.3. Object Pointer Representations
34.4. Memory Models
34.5. The burden of garbage-collection upon the rest of CLISP
34.5.1. object pointer invalidation
34.5.2. Memory protection
34.6. Foreign Pointers

Abstract

These are internals, which are of interest only to the CLISP developers. If you are not subscribed to (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-devel), this chapter is probably not for you.


These notes document CLISP version 2.41Last modified: 2006-10-13