GC tweaks

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:35:09 -0700


> I sent mail to Matt: I don't understand this.  If all objects have size
> divisible by 4, then since the base of memory is divisible by 4, this would
> make everything aligned.  What am I missing?

All objects are.  So stackbottom is.  But frames sizes are presently not
necessarily divisible by 4, so stack slots are not aligned mod 4.  word8.sml
demonstrates this.

> So does that mean that we ARE aligned mod 4?

No.