The User's Guide

Contents

Contents

Copyright and Trademarks

1 - Introduction

1.1 - About Common Lisp

1.1.1 - The language

1.1.2 - The environment

1.2 - Notational conventions and syntax

1.2.1 - Functions and generic functions

1.2.2 - Macros and special forms

1.2.3 - Global variables and constants

1.2.4 - Examples and code

2 - Starting Up

2.1 - Starting up Lisp

2.1.1 - Entering Lisp

2.1.2 - Entering and exiting the Debugger

2.1.3 - Exiting Lisp

2.1.4 - Customizing the Lisp environment

2.1.5 - Saving Lisp images

2.1.6 - Using operating system commands

2.2 - Sample Lisp program

2.2.1 - The program file

2.2.2 - Terminal session

2.3 - Reference pages

3 - Debugging Lisp Programs

3.1 - About the Debugger

3.1.1 - The Debugger evaluation environment

3.1.2 - The Lisp stack

3.1.3 - Using the debugging tools

3.2 - Entering and exiting the Debugger

3.2.1 - Entering the Debugger

3.2.2 - Reading the Debugger display

3.2.3 - Recursive Debugger levels

3.2.4 - Exiting the Debugger

3.3 - Using Debugger commands

3.3.1 - Displaying Debugger commands

3.3.2 - Using restart options

3.3.3 - Examining and moving through the stack

3.3.3.1 - Moving through the stack

3.3.3.2 - Displaying stack frames

3.3.4 - Examining dynamic context markers

3.3.5 - Examining and modifying local variables

3.3.6 - Returning values from the current frame

3.3.7 - Control transfer

3.3.8 - Miscellaneous commands

3.4 - Reference Pages

4 - Debugging Tools

4.1 - About debugging tools

4.2 - The Tracer

4.2.1 - Using the Tracer

4.2.2 - Reading trace output

4.3 - The Stepper

4.3.1 - Using the Stepper

4.3.2 - Stepper commands

4.3.3 - Reading Stepper output

4.4 - The Inspector

4.4.1 - Using the Inspector

4.4.2 - Sample terminal session

4.4.3 - Inspecting foreign pointers

4.5 - Miscellaneous tools

4.6 - Reference Pages

4.6.1 - The Tracer

4.6.2 - The Stepper

4.6.3 - The Inspector

4.6.4 - Miscellaneous

5 - Storage Management in Common Lisp

5.1 - About storage in Lisp

5.2 - Storage allocation

5.2.1 - Creating objects in Lisp

5.2.2 - Storage areas

5.2.3 - Displaying storage allocation reports

5.3 - Garbage collection

5.3.1 - The Dynamic Garbage Collector

5.3.1.1 - Disabling dynamic garbage collection

5.3.2 - The Ephemeral Garbage Collector

5.3.2.1 - Disabling ephemeral garbage collection

5.3.2.2 - Modifying ephemeral storage allocation

5.4 - Controlling memory expansion

5.4.1 - Changing memory expansion parameters

5.4.2 - Explicitly expanding memory

5.5 - Reference pages

6 - Compiling Lisp Programs

6.1 - About the Compiler

6.1.1 - Compiling functions and files

6.1.2 - Setting Compiler options

6.1.3 - Compiler messages and warnings

6.1.4 - Maintaining package compatibility in compiled files

6.2 - Reference pages

A - The Application Environment

A.1 - About the Application Environment

A.2 - Starting the Application Environment

A.3 - Writing application programs

A.4 - Using CLOS in the Application Environment

A.5 - Signals in the Application Environment

Glossary

Index

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