Use 0 for Qnil

Fixes Bug#15880.
If USE_LSB_TAG, arrange for the representation of Qnil to be zero so
that NILP (x) is equivalent to testing whether x is 0 at the
machine level.  The overall effects of this and the previous patch
shrink the size of the text segment by 2.3% and speeds up
compilation of all the .elc files by about 0.5% on my platform,
which is Fedora 20 x86-64.
* lib-src/make-docfile.c (compare_globals):
* src/lisp.h (lisp_h_XPNTR, lisp_h_XSYMBOL, lisp_h_XUNTAG)
(make_lisp_symbol) [USE_LSB_TAG]:
Symbols now tag the difference from lispsym, not the pointer.
(lisp_h_XUNTAGBASE, TAG_SYMPTR): New macros.
(Lisp_Int0, Lisp_Int1, Lisp_Symbol, Lisp_Misc, Lisp_String, Lisp_Cons):
Renumber so that Lisp_Symbol is 0, so that Qnil is zero.
(XSYMBOL): New forward decl.
(XUNTAGBASE): New function.
(XUNTAG): Use it.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 62737994747..b068056667b 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
 2015-01-05  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
+        Use 0 for Qnil
+        Fixes Bug#15880.
+        If USE_LSB_TAG, arrange for the representation of Qnil to be zero so
+        that NILP (x) is equivalent to testing whether x is 0 at the
+        machine level.  The overall effects of this and the previous patch
+        shrink the size of the text segment by 2.3% and speeds up
+        compilation of all the .elc files by about 0.5% on my platform,
+        which is Fedora 20 x86-64.
+        * lisp.h (lisp_h_XPNTR, lisp_h_XSYMBOL, lisp_h_XUNTAG)
+        (make_lisp_symbol) [USE_LSB_TAG]:
+        Symbols now tag the difference from lispsym, not the pointer.
+        (lisp_h_XUNTAGBASE, TAG_SYMPTR): New macros.
+        (Lisp_Int0, Lisp_Int1, Lisp_Symbol, Lisp_Misc, Lisp_String, Lisp_Cons):
+        Renumber so that Lisp_Symbol is 0, so that Qnil is zero.
+        (XSYMBOL): New forward decl.
+        (XUNTAGBASE): New function.
+        (XUNTAG): Use it.
+
         Compute C decls for DEFSYMs automatically
         Fixes Bug#15880.
         This patch also makes Q constants (e.g., Qnil) constant addresses