SBCL 0.9.8.6 User Manual

Table of Contents

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1 Introduction
- 1.1 ANSI Conformance
- 1.2 Extensions
- 1.3 Idiosyncrasies
- 1.4 Development Tools
  - 1.4.1 Editor Integration
  - 1.4.2 Language Reference
- 1.5 More SBCL Information
- 1.6 More Common Lisp Information
- 1.7 History and Implementation of SBCL
2 Starting and Stopping
- 2.1 Starting SBCL
- 2.2 Stopping SBCL
- 2.3 Command Line Options
  - 2.3.1 Runtime Options
  - 2.3.2 Toplevel Options
- 2.4 Initialization Files
3 Compiler
- 3.1 Diagnostic Messages
- 3.2 Handling of Types
- 3.3 Compiler Policy
- 3.4 Compiler Errors
- 3.5 Open Coding and Inline Expansion
4 Debugger
- 4.1 Debugger Entry
  - 4.1.1 Debugger Banner
  - 4.1.2 Debugger Invokation
- 4.2 Debugger Command Loop
- 4.3 Stack Frames
- 4.4 Variable Access
  - 4.4.1 Variable Value Availability
  - 4.4.2 Note On Lexical Variable Access
- 4.5 Source Location Printing
  - 4.5.1 How the Source is Found
  - 4.5.2 Source Location Availability
- 4.6 Debugger Policy Control
- 4.7 Exiting Commands
- 4.8 Information Commands
- 4.9 Function Tracing
- 4.10 Single Stepping
5 Efficiency
- 5.1 Dynamic-extent allocation
- 5.2 Modular arithmetic
6 Beyond the ANSI Standard
- 6.1 Garbage Collection
- 6.2 Metaobject Protocol
- 6.3 Support For Unix
- 6.4 Customization Hooks for Users
- 6.5 Tools To Help Developers
- 6.6 Resolution of Name Conflicts
- 6.7 Stale Extensions
- 6.8 Efficiency Hacks
7 Foreign Function Interface
- 7.1 Introduction to the Foreign Function Interface
- 7.2 Foreign Types
- 7.3 Operations On Foreign Values
- 7.4 Foreign Variables
  - 7.4.1 Local Foreign Variables
  - 7.4.2 External Foreign Variables
- 7.5 Foreign Data Structure Examples
- 7.6 Loading Shared Object Files
- 7.7 Foreign Function Calls
- 7.8 Step-By-Step Example of the Foreign Function Interface
8 Pathnames
- 8.1 Lisp Pathnames
  - 8.1.1 The SYS Logical Pathname Host
- 8.2 Native Filenames
9 Extensible Streams
- 9.1 Gray Streams
- 9.2 Simple Streams
10 Package Locks
- 10.1 Package Lock Concepts
- 10.2 Package Lock Dictionary
11 Threading
- 11.1 Threading basics
- 11.2 Special Variables
- 11.3 Mutex Support
- 11.4 Waitqueue/condition variables
- 11.5 Sessions/Debugging
- 11.6 Implementation (Linux x86/x86-64)
12 Timers
13 Networking
- 13.1 Sockets Overview
- 13.2 General Sockets
- 13.3 Socket Options
- 13.4 INET Domain Sockets
- 13.5 Local (Unix) Domain Sockets
- 13.6 Name Service
14 Profiling
- 14.1 Accurate Profiler
- 14.2 Statistical Profiler
15 Contributed Modules
- 15.1 sb-aclrepl
- 15.2 sb-grovel
- 15.3 sb-md5
  - 15.3.1 Credits
- 15.4 sb-rotate-byte
- 15.5 sb-heapdump
Appendix A Concept Index
Appendix B Function Index
Appendix C Variable Index
Appendix D Type Index
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This manual is largely derived from the manual for the CMUCL system, which was produced at Carnegie Mellon University and later released into the public domain. This manual is in the public domain and is provided with absolutely no warranty. See the COPYING and CREDITS files for more information.