Christopher Haster 66d751544d Modified global state format to work with new tag format ...

The main difference here is a change from encoding "hasorphans" and
"hasmove" bits in the tag itself. This worked with the old format, but
in the new format the space these bits take up must be consistent for
each tag type. The tradeoff is that the new tag format allows for up to
256 different global states which may be useful in the future (for
example, a global free list).

The new format encodes this info in the data blob, using an additional
word of storage. This word is actually formatted the same as though it
was a tag, which simplified internal handling and may allow other tag
types in the future.

Format for global state:
[----                          96 bits                         ----]
[1|- 11 -|- 10 -|- 10 -|---                 64                  ---]
 ^    ^      ^      ^                        ^- move dir pair
 |    |      |      \-------------------------- unused, must be 0s
 |    |      \--------------------------------- move id
 |    \---------------------------------------- type, 0xfff for move
 \--------------------------------------------- has orphans

This also included another iteration over globals (renamed to gstate)
with some simplifications to how globals are handled.

2019-01-13 23:56:50 -06:00

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