Basile Starynkevitch [local] wrote:
> If you want to start a functional language implementation from
> scratch, you might (as Xavier Leroy told me) consider tagging integers
> with a 0 LSB, and having GC-ed pointers with a 1 LSB. Hence, ordinary
> C pointers (outside your heap) are handled as integers and remain
> untouched by the GC. This insight is Xavier's, not mine!

    But there is no way to be sure that a pointer you got from C is 
word-aligned. Consider, for example, a smart user sending you a string 
with the first character chopped off : this pointer has an odd LSB. And 
C hackers like to do that kind of things. Xavier Leroy obviously knows 
this, so I must have missed something.

    Olivier.

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