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authordgp <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>2008-04-08 16:12:02 (GMT)
committerdgp <dgp@users.sourceforge.net>2008-04-08 16:12:02 (GMT)
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diff --git a/generic/tclExecute.c b/generic/tclExecute.c
index 1677a78..0003fb2 100644
--- a/generic/tclExecute.c
+++ b/generic/tclExecute.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
* See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution of
* this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
*
- * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclExecute.c,v 1.369 2008/03/18 18:52:07 msofer Exp $
+ * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclExecute.c,v 1.369.2.1 2008/04/08 16:12:02 dgp Exp $
*/
#include "tclInt.h"
@@ -851,23 +851,36 @@ TclFinalizeExecution(void)
/*
* Auxiliary code to insure that GrowEvaluationStack always returns correctly
- * aligned memory. This assumes that TCL_ALLOCALIGN is a multiple of the
- * wordsize 'sizeof(Tcl_Obj *)'.
+ * aligned memory.
+ *
+ * WALLOCALIGN represents the alignment reqs in words, just as TCL_ALLOCALIGN
+ * represents the reqs in bytes. This assumes that TCL_ALLOCALIGN is a
+ * multiple of the wordsize 'sizeof(Tcl_Obj *)'.
*/
#define WALLOCALIGN \
(TCL_ALLOCALIGN/sizeof(Tcl_Obj *))
+/*
+ * OFFSET computes how many words have to be skipped until the next aligned
+ * word. Note that we are only interested in the low order bits of ptr, so
+ * that any possible information loss in PTR2INT is of no consequence.
+ */
+
static inline int
OFFSET(
void *ptr)
{
int mask = TCL_ALLOCALIGN-1;
int base = PTR2INT(ptr) & mask;
- return (TCL_ALLOCALIGN - base)/sizeof(Tcl_Obj**);
+ return (TCL_ALLOCALIGN - base)/sizeof(Tcl_Obj *);
}
-#define MEMSTART(markerPtr) \
+/*
+ * Given a marker, compute where the following aligned memory starts.
+ */
+
+#define MEMSTART(markerPtr) \
((markerPtr) + OFFSET(markerPtr))