Re: Suggestions for smob usages in an extended smob space

[Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de>]

Jim Blandy writes:
 > 
 > Without having thought through the details, this sounds like a good
 > idea to me.  However, you'll have 2<<n repeated entries in the smob
 > table.  Simply enlarging the smob range, but leaving the top eight
 > bits or so for flags doesn't have this problem.
 > 
 > If people subtracted off the base smob number, and then masked off
 > their bits, it wouldn't be necessary to align the smob numbers.

Would this cause inconsistencies for applications using independently deviced
modules containing custom smob types each?

	Klaus Schilling