Table of Contents

35.1. Introduction

35.2. Lisp objects in CLISP

35.3. Object Pointer Representations

35.4. Memory Models

35.5. The burden of garbage-collection upon the rest of CLISP

35.5.1. Lisp object invalidation

35.5.2. Managing Lisp objects in C

35.5.3. Run-time GC-safety checks

35.5.4. Memory protection

35.6. Foreign Pointers

35.7. Garbage Collection and Multithreading

Abstract

These are internals, which are of interest only to the CLISP developers. If you do not read clisp-devel, this chapter is probably not for you.