cons cell implementation in Clisp

asp5 · #1 September 16th, 2012, 23:10

Hi all,

I was just wondering how the cons cell is implemented in Clisp and other Lisps. Upon reading briefly, I think that these were registers which can hold 2 pointers (CAR, CDR)... I wanted to know how they are implemented in software? (void *)? but list can hold multiple types, we need to maintain a type of the obj associated with this, for typecasting and stuff. Is there a header for each section (which holds type info and other bookkeeping info). Coming from C land wanted to see how this is implemented. Please share your thoughts or point me to a location where I can get the info.

Thanks.

ChalkBored · #2 September 18th, 2012, 03:52

http://www.clisp.org/impnotes/src-files.html
You're probably best off digging through the source to see how it's done.
also:
http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~nmh/t3x....mpty-space.zip is a book that shows you how to write an implementation of Scheme from scratch. It might be of interest.

asp5 · #3 September 18th, 2012, 05:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChalkBored

http://www.clisp.org/impnotes/src-files.html
You're probably best off digging through the source to see how it's done.
also:
http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~nmh/t3x....mpty-space.zip is a book that shows you how to write an implementation of Scheme from scratch. It might be of interest.

Thanks. I'm looking at the code. Thanks for the book link.

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