[cmucl-imp] Re: Static array support

[Raymond Toy]

Lynn Quam wrote:
> Many years back, Jon L White at Lucid Inc considered a new array
> declaration which would allow the inlining of non-simple arrays.  The
> declaration form was
>
>  (declare (type (non-simple-array <element-type> <bounds>) . <vars> ))
>
> The compiled code would always assume that the array was non-simple,
> and indirect thru the array header to find underlying array.  I do not
> remember all of the details and limitations, except that the underling
> simple-vector could always be found with only one indirection.
Ok.  We don't have to have any special declaration or deal with the cost
of indirection.  I've checked in some changes that will properly GC
static arrays.  Nothing fancy and it seems to work with some simple
tests, and CMUCL builds itself just fine.

Ray