+ // initialise it as a nursery block. We initialise the
+ // step, gen_no, and flags field of *every* sub-block in
+ // this large block, because this is easier than making
+ // sure that we always find the block head of a large
+ // block whenever we call Bdescr() (eg. evacuate() and
+ // isAlive() in the GC would both have to do this, at
+ // least).
+ {
+ bdescr *x;
+ for (x = bd; x < bd + blocks; x++) {
+ x->step = g0s0;
+ x->gen_no = 0;
+ x->flags = 0;
+ x->free = x->start;
+ }
+ }