Re: I Don't Understand The Context Allocation/Destruction Code

[Joerg Plate]

> const int slot = (reg_alloc + 7) >> 3; reg_alloc = slot << 3;
> This is where I start not to understand.  Why reg_alloc + 7? Why shift left 
> and right by 3?

That's just a rounding up (if necessary) to a multiple of 8 (2<<3).