Re: Dynamic loading progress

[Aurélien Aptel]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Stefan Monnier
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I think I got confused by the name: these objects don't represent
> modules, right (despite the name of their type)?  They are objects
> created by a particular module (stored in the module-id).

Correct. I started with Lisp_Module_Object but thought it was redundant.

We could make /module/ module objects too. Let's call them Module
Descriptors to avoid any confusions. It could be a struct containing
functions pointers for printing, moving, copying, freeing a module
object, ... Module objects could then use a pointer to this struct as
a module id.

I don't have a lot of experience implementing programming languages,
especially features like this. I don't want to rush things and end up
with a complex C++-like system so feel free to comment if you think
this is overengineering it.

> The Lisp_Misc union is for objects with up to 5 "words" (or 6 "words" if
> you count the word that holds the header).  Your objects have only
> 2 "words" (or 3 if you count the header where you added the "id"), so
> you're perfectly fine, with room to grow.

I'm not sure what "words" means here. Pointers are 64 bits wide on 64
bits systems, does this make a difference?