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/************************************************************************
			   C Stack Marking
 ************************************************************************/

#if GC_MARK_STACK || defined GC_MALLOC_CHECK

/* Initialize this part of alloc.c.  */

static void
mem_init ()

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/************************************************************************
			   C Stack Marking
 ************************************************************************/

#if GC_MARK_STACK || defined GC_MALLOC_CHECK

/* Conservative C stack marking requires a method to identify possibly
   live Lisp objects given a pointer value.  We do this by keeping
   track of blocks of Lisp data that are allocated in a red-black tree
   (see also the comment of mem_node which is the type of nodes in
   that tree).  Function lisp_malloc adds information for an allocated
   block to the red-black tree with calls to mem_insert, and function
   lisp_free removes it with mem_delete.  Functions live_string_p etc
   call mem_find to lookup information about a given pointer in the
   tree, and use that to determine if the pointer points to a Lisp
   object or not.  */

/* Initialize this part of alloc.c.  */

static void
mem_init ()