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.../* address of prior chunk or NULL */ char contents[4]; /* objects begin here */ }; struct obstack /* control current object in current chunk */ { long chunk_size; /* preferred size to allocate chunks in */ struct _obstack_chunk *chunk; /* address of current struct obstack_chunk */ char *object_base; /* address of object we are building */ char *next_free; /* where to add next char to current object */ char *chunk_limit; /* address of char after current chunk */ PTR_INT_TYPE temp; /* Temporary for some macros. */ int alignment_mask; /* Mask of alignment for each object. */ /*...

> That said, many dynamic languages should be cleanly mappable to the LLVM > layer. What are you thinking about in particular? Not thinking of one in particular right now, but it would probably something like an object-oriented Scheme. > recommend writing some language tuned optimizations (as necessary) that > would lower the dynamic objects into the primitives the optimizers >