value bytes of error codes

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@trantor.zytor.com)
Fri, 29 Mar 1996 22:54:30 PST


Followup to:  <96Mar29.104537pdt.19565@silk.parc.xerox.com>
By author:    Pavel Curtis <pavel@parc.xerox.com>
In newsgroup: local.moo
>=20
> Perhaps I will change the definition of value_bytes() to be more intuit=
ive in
> 1.8.0p3, by adding 8 to all values it returns.  Of course, I will
> also make the=20
> corresponding change in object_bytes() to make sure no byte of memory i=
s
> double-charged.
>=20

If you do, you should probably also add the overhead added by the
memory manager (arena pointer + reference count =3D 8 bytes?) for
strings, floats and lists as well as list heads...

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