[SS] Feb162004 - In the process of writing the GC for the references package, I needed to
know what [Tcl_Obj] [Tcl_ObjType%|%types] aren't able to represent a valid reference.
Numerical types are an example, but I wanted the full list of types
defined inside the core. To reach the goal I wrote the little script
at the end of the page, that I hope is sane enough to provide the full list.
This is the list of types defined in the .c and .h files under the /generic directory.
For every type there is the [C] symbol name, and the name to pass to the '''Tcl_GetObjType'''
function to get the pointer to the type stucture.
For tcl8.6.1:
%|C Symbol|Name|%
&| `assembleCodeType` | "assemblecode" |&
&| `dictIteratorType` | "dictIterator" |&
&| `encodingType` | "encoding" |&
&| `exprCodeType` | "exprcode" |&
&| `indexType` | "index" |&
&| `lambdaType` | "lambdaExpr" |&
&| `levelReferenceType` | "levelReference" |&
&| `localVarNameType` | "localVarName" |&
&| `nsNameType` | "nsName" |&
&| `oldBooleanType` | "boolean" |&
&| `substCodeType` | "substcode" |&
&| `tclBignumType` | "bignum" |&
&| `tclBooleanType` | "booleanString" |&
&| `tclByteArrayType` | "bytearray" |&
&| `tclByteCodeType` | "bytecode" |&
&| `tclChannelType` | "channel" |&
&| `tclCmdNameType` | "cmdName" |&
&| `tclDictType` | "dict" |&
&| `tclDoubleType` | "double" |&
&| `tclEnsembleCmdType` | "ensembleCommand" |&
&| `tclFsPathType` | "path" |&
&| `tclInstNameType` | "instname" |&
&| `tclIntType` | "int" |&
&| `tclListType` | "list" |&
&| `tclNsVarNameType` | "namespaceVarName" |&
&| `tclParsedVarNameType` | "parsedVarName" |&
&| `tclProcBodyType` | "procbody" |&
&| `tclRegexpType` | "regexp" |&
&| `tclStringType` | "string" |&
&| `tclWideIntType` | "wideInt" |&
For tk8.6.1:
%|C Symbol|Name|%
&| `mmObjType` | "mm" |&
&| `optionObjType` | "option" |&
&| `pixelObjType` | "pixel" |&
&| `styleObjType` | "style" |&
&| `tkBitmapObjType` | "bitmap" |&
&| `tkBorderObjType` | "border" |&
&| `tkColorObjType` | "color" |&
&| `tkFontObjType` | "font" |&
&| `tkStateKeyObjType` | "statekey" |&
&| `tkTextIndexType` | "textindex" |&
&| `windowObjType` | "window" |&
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The following is the script used to get the list. Please report any bug of the script, or additional types defined in well known Tcl extensions!
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set files [glob {/home/antirez/SVC/tcltk/CVS/tcl/generic/*.[ch]}]
append re {Tcl_ObjType\s+([A-z]+?)\s+=\s+}
append re \{
append re {\s+"([A-z]+?)"}
foreach f $files {
set fd [open $f]
set text [read $fd]
close $fd
set types [regexp -all -inline $re $text]
foreach {- cname name} $types {
puts [format "%-20.20s \"%s\"" $cname $name]
}
}
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[DKF]: Don't forget to list the types defined by Tk as well. And you might want to check for platform-specific types too.
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'''[TWu] - 2026-07-31 08:14:25'''
What about the type "pure string": Is "pure" only a prefix to distinguish internal representation uft-8 from unicode?<<br>>
On page [Tcl_Objs] are additionally listed "array search" and "end-offset": Are these both existing as types?<<br>>
Maybe someone having the 9.0 source locally available can re-run the above-provided script to get the actual situation? Thanks!
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