[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Clean up some code

[Peter Bex]

Hi all,

Here are two cleanup patches which take care of things that were in my
notes.  The first is a couple of procedures which are simply unused.
Two of those are marked "for binary compatibility", but have been marked
as such for a long time (since 2010).  I think we don't need to bump the
binary version since that has already happened a few times in between
and nothing in the new version generates code that uses these procedures.

The second patch removes the last remnants of the unboxing code.  The
compiler doesn't generate calls to them anymore, and they're all inlined
procedures or C macros, so I think they can be safely taken out.

There are still quite a few occurrances of the word "box" in the
compiler, though.  Can those all be removed?  It looks like some type
of boxing still exists, even if not the full boxing/unboxing that was
taken out.  Could someone explain the purpose of this?

Cheers,
Peter
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