A headerTypeBytes ivar used in Interpreter, but initialized only once during its lifetime - in readImageFromFile: f HeapSize: desiredHeapSize StartingAt: imageOffset), and with same constants:
headerTypeBytes at: 0 put: BytesPerWord * 2. "3-word header (type 0)" headerTypeBytes at: 1 put: BytesPerWord. "2-word header (type 1)" headerTypeBytes at: 2 put: 0. "free chunk (type 2)" headerTypeBytes at: 3 put: 0. "1-word header (type 3)"
I think this initialization could be put into static var declaration, in #declareCVarsIn: aCCodeGenerator var: #headerTypeBytes declareC: 'static sqInt headerTypeBytes[4] = { blablabla}'. then we don't have to pollute already complex #readImageFromFile:... method with odd stuff like this.
It maybe not worth much attention for Squeak VM, but for Hydra, i found that this ivar placed into Interpreter struct (which means that each instance of interpreter will having separate headerTypeBytes). There are tons of ivars in ObjectMemory and Interpreter and its hard to track all, which worth keeping on a per-interpreter basis :)