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Eliminate the category of miscellaneous objects, and turn all
such objects into pseudovectors.  The immediate motivation
for this change is to free up an enum Lisp_Type tag value, a
scarce resource that can be better used elsewhere.  However,
this change is worthwhile in its own right, as it improves
performance slightly on my platform, 0.3% faster for 'make
compile-always' on Fedora 28, and it simplifies the garbage
collector and interpreter (Bug#32405).
* doc/lispref/internals.texi (Garbage Collection):
* etc/NEWS:
Document change to garbage-collect return value.
* src/alloc.c (total_markers, total_free_markers):
(union aligned_Lisp_Misc, MARKER_BLOCK_SIZE)
(struct marker_block, marker_block, marker_block_index)
(misc_free_list, allocate_misc, live_misc_holding)
(live_misc_p, sweep_misc):
* src/lisp.h (lisp_h_MARKERP, lisp_h_MISCP, MARKERP, MISCP)
(Lisp_Misc, enum Lisp_Misc_Type, Lisp_Misc_Free)
(Lisp_Misc_Marker, Lisp_Misc_Overlay, Lisp_Misc_Finalizer)
(Lisp_Misc_Ptr, Lisp_Misc_User_Ptr, Lisp_Misc_Limit)
(Lisp_Misc_Bignum)
(XSETMISC, struct Lisp_Misc_Any, XMISCANY, XMISCTYPE)
(struct Lisp_Free, union Lisp_Misc, XMISC):
Remove.  All uses removed.
(cleanup_vector): Clean up objects that were formerly misc
and are now pseudovectors.
(make_misc_ptr, build_overlay, Fmake_marker, build_marker)
(make_bignum_str, make_number, make_pure_bignum)
(make_user_ptr, Fmake_finalizer):
Build as pseudovectors, not as misc objects.
(mark_finalizer_list, queue_doomed_finalizers)
(compact_undo_list, mark_overlay, mark_object)
(unchain_dead_markers):
Mark as vector-like objects, not as misc objects.
(mark_maybe_object, mark_maybe_pointer, valid_lisp_object_p)
(total_bytes_of_live_objects, survives_gc_p):
* src/fns.c (sxhash):
No need to worry about misc objects.
(garbage_collect_1): Do not generate a 'misc' component.
(syms_of_alloc): No need for 'misc' symbol.
* src/buffer.c (overlays_at, overlays_in, overlay_touches_p)
(overlay_strings, recenter_overlay_lists)
(fix_start_end_in_overlays, fix_overlays_before)
(Foverlay_lists, report_overlay_modification)
(evaporate_overlays):
* src/editfns.c (overlays_around):
* src/data.c (Ftype_of):
* src/fns.c (internal_equal):
* src/lisp.h (mint_ptrp, xmint_pointer, FINALIZERP)
(XFINALIZER, MARKERP, XMARKER, OVERLAYP, XOVERLAY, USER_PTRP)
(XUSER_PTR, BIGNUMP, XBIGNUM):
* src/print.c (print_vectorlike, print_object):
* src/undo.c (record_marker_adjustments):
* src/xdisp.c (load_overlay_strings):
Formerly misc objects are now pseudovectors.
* src/lisp.h (PVEC_MARKER, PVEC_OVERLAY, PVEC_FINALIZER)
(PVEC_BIGNUM, PVEC_MISC_PTR, PVEC_USER_PTR):
New constants, replacing their misc versions.  All uses changed.
(struct Lisp_Marker, struct Lisp_Overlay, struct Lisp_Misc_Ptr)
(struct Lisp_Bignum, struct Lisp_User_Ptr, struct Lisp_Finalizer):
Make usable as a pseudovector by using a pseudovector header,
replacing any DIY components, and putting Lisp_Object members
first.  All uses changed.