usr/othersrc/public/ghostscript-2.4.1/dstack.h

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/* dstack.h */
/* Direct access to the Ghostscript dictionary stack */

/********************************
 * NOTE: on MS-DOS systems, the dict stack is stored in the data segment.
 * This leads to large performance gains, at the expense of having to swap
 * the stack explicitly when switching contexts or handling segment under-
 * or overflow (none of which are implemented yet!).
 ********************************/

/* Define the dictionary stack and the standard dictionaries. */
extern ref dstack[];
#define systemdict (dstack[0])
#define userdict (dstack[1])

/* Define the dictionary stack pointers. */
typedef ref _ds *ds_ptr;
extern ds_ptr dsp, dstop;

/* Define a special fast entry for name lookup in the interpreter. */
/* The key is known to be a name; search the entire dict stack. */
/* Return the pointer to the value slot. */
/* If the name isn't found, just return 0. */
extern ref *dict_find_name(P1(ref *pname));