# translation.taggedpointers

- name: taggedpointers
- description: When true, enable the use of tagged pointers. If false, use normal boxing
- command-line: –translation-taggedpointers
- command-line for negation: –no-translation-taggedpointers
- option type: boolean option
- default: False

Enable tagged pointers. This option is mostly useful for the Smalltalk and Prolog interpreters. For the Python interpreter the option –objspace-std-withsmalllong should be used.