Free bit 7 of GC 'marked' field

Tables were using this bit to indicate their array sizes were real
('isrealasize'), but this bit can be useful for tests. Instead, they
can use bit 7 of their 'flag' field for that purpose. (There are only
six fast-access metamethods.) This 'flag' field only exists in tables,
so this use does not affect other types.
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Roberto Ierusalimschy
2020-08-07 11:21:44 -03:00
parent 68109afcdb
commit 7c3cb71fa4
6 changed files with 31 additions and 7 deletions

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ltm.h
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@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ typedef enum {
} TMS;
/*
** Mask with 1 in all fast-access methods. A 1 in any of these bits
** in the flag of a (meta)table means the metatable does not have the
** corresponding metamethod field. (Bit 7 of the flag is used for
** 'isrealasize'.)
*/
#define maskflags (~(~0u << (TM_EQ + 1)))
/*
** Test whether there is no tagmethod.
** (Because tagmethods use raw accesses, the result may be an "empty" nil.)