Arash Rouhani authored Feb 13, 2014 and Simon Marlow committed Apr 29, 2014

A long debate is in issue #8742, but the main motivation is that this
allows for applying a patch to reuse the function scavenge_small_bitmap
without changing the .o-file output.

Similarly, I changed the types in rts/sm/Compact.c, so I can create
a STATIC_INLINE function for the redundant code block:

        while (size > 0) {
            if ((bitmap & 1) == 0) {
                thread((StgClosure **)p);
            }
            p++;
            bitmap = bitmap >> 1;
            size--;
        }