[Sbcl-devel] Garbage Collector Work

[Craig Lanning]

While trying to understand the GC mechanism, I found a note in
"package-data-list.lisp" just before the definition for SB!KERNEL that
talked about splitting SB!KERNEL up. One of the mentioned splits was to
move the GC symbols into SB!GC. I have started this.

Attached is the patch that I came up with.

I added the feature :SB-GC to the initial set of *FEATURES*.

I created the SB!GC package in "package-data-list.lisp" and exported the
GC related symbols that were originally in SB!KERNEL. I added "SB!GC"
to the package definitions that needed it.

I did not change SYS:SRC;CODE;GC.LISP to have (IN-PACKAGE "SB!GC") since
that caused a bit of trouble. Later when I have more time I'll try to
figure out what that is all about.

Eventually, I'd like to move all GC related symbols into the SB-GC
package.

Craig

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