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From: susan@lucid.com (Susan Rosenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Lisp
Keywords: garbage collection storage management
Message-ID: <1929@edsel>
Date: 21 Mar 89 23:13:25 GMT
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With regards to the question on why free storage space changes during
consecutive toplevel gc's, it is due to the fact that the evaluator
variables are being changed.  [see CLtL, p. 325] The '+' variables are
getting set to be a list of one element (the symbol 'GC); the '*'
variables are being set to the 1st value returned by gc (a fixnum);
the '/' variables are being set to the list of multiple values
returned by gc (a 3-element list).

			Susan Rosenbaum
			susan@lucid.com