On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 03:13:08AM +0900, Sam Sungshik Kong wrote:
> Now I understand how the FixNum is stored in the memory.
> What about other value types - true, false, nil?

They are defined as the following VALUEs:

/* special contants - i.e. non-zero and non-fixnum constants */
#define Qfalse 0
#define Qtrue  2
#define Qnil   4

and still use 32 bits.


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