LispWorks User Guide
Contents
Contents
Copyright and Trademarks
1
- Introduction
1.1
- About this manual
1.2
- The LispWorks manuals
1.3
- Other documentation
1.4
- Notation
2
- The Debugger
2.1
- Entering the TTY debugger
2.2
- Simple use of the TTY debugger
2.3
- The stack in the debugger
2.4
- TTY debugger commands
2.4.1
- Backtracing
2.4.2
- Moving around the stack
2.4.3
- Miscellaneous commands
2.4.4
- Leaving the debugger
2.4.5
- Example TTY session
2.5
- Debugger control variables
3
- The TTY Inspector
3.1
- Describe
3.2
- Inspect
3.3
- Inspection modes
3.3.1
- Hash table inspection modes
4
- The Trace Facility
4.1
- Simple tracing
4.2
- Tracing options
4.2.1
- Evaluating forms on entry to and exit from a traced function
4.2.2
- Evaluating forms without printing results
4.2.3
- Using the debugger when tracing
4.2.4
- Entering stepping mode
4.2.5
- Configuring function entry and exit information
4.2.6
- Directing trace output
4.2.7
- Restricting tracing
4.2.8
- Storing the memory allocation made during a function call
4.2.9
- Tracing functions from inside other functions
4.3
- Example
4.4
- Tracing methods
4.5
- Trace variables
5
- The Advice Facility
5.1
- Combining the advice
5.2
- Removing advice
5.3
- Advice for macros and methods
5.4
- Example
5.5
- Advice functions and macros
6
- Action Lists
6.1
- Defining and undefining action lists
6.2
- Exception handling variables
6.3
- Other variables
6.4
- Diagnostic utilities
6.5
- Examples
7
- The Compiler
7.1
- Compiling a function
7.2
- Compiling a source file
7.3
- How the compiler works
7.4
- Compiler control
7.5
- Declare, proclaim, and declaim
7.5.1
- Naming conventions
7.6
- Compiler parameters affecting LispWorks
8
- Storage Management
8.1
- Introduction
8.2
- Generations and segments
8.3
- Allocation of objects to generations
8.4
- Allocation of static objects
8.5
- Allocation in different generations
8.6
- Mark and sweep
8.7
- Promotion
8.8
- Garbage collection strategy
8.9
- Overflow
8.10
- Behavior of generation 1
8.11
- Behavior of generation 2
8.12
- Timing the garbage collector
8.13
- Summary of garbage collection symbols
8.13.1
- Determining storage usage
8.13.2
- Allocating in specific generations
8.13.3
- Controlling a specific generation
8.13.4
- Reducing image size
8.13.5
- Controlling the garbage collector
8.13.6
- Garbage collection of foreign objects
8.13.7
- Using special actions
9
- The Profiler
9.1
- What the profiler does
9.2
- Setting up the profiler
9.3
- Running the profiler
9.4
- Interpretation of profiling results
9.5
- Profiling pitfalls
9.6
- Profiling and garbage collection
10
- Simple Customization of LispWorks
10.1
- Customizing the editor
10.1.1
- Placing definitions at the top of a window
10.1.2
- Specifying the number of editor windows
10.1.3
- Binding commands to keystrokes
10.2
- Using ! for :redo
10.3
- Customizing LispWorks for use with your own code
10.3.1
- Preloading selected modules
10.3.2
- Creating packages
10.4
- Configuring the printer
10.4.1
- PPD file details
11
- Multiprocessing
11.1
- Introduction to processes
11.2
- The process programming interface
11.2.1
- Creating a process
11.2.2
- Finding out about processes
11.2.3
- Interrupting a process
11.2.4
- Multiprocessing
11.2.5
- Saving images with multiprocessing
11.2.6
- Example
11.3
- Locks
11.4
- Example
12
- Common Defsystem
12.1
- Introduction
12.2
- Defining a system
12.2.1
- DEFSYSTEM syntax
12.2.2
- DEFSYSTEM options
12.2.3
- DEFSYSTEM members
12.2.4
- DEFSYSTEM rules
12.2.5
- Examples
13
- The Parser Generator
13.1
- Introduction
13.2
- Grammar rules
13.2.1
- Example
13.2.2
- Resolving ambiguities
13.3
- Functions defined by defparser
13.4
- Error handling
13.5
- Interface to lexical analyzer
13.6
- Example
14
- Common SQL
14.1
- Introduction
14.1.1
- Overview
14.2
- Initialization
14.2.1
- SQL interface
14.2.2
- Database classes
14.2.3
- Initialization functions and variables
14.2.4
- Database libraries
14.2.5
- Database connection and disconnection
14.2.5.1
- Connection example
14.3
- Functional interface
14.3.1
- Functional Data Manipulation Language (FDML)
14.3.1.1
- Querying
14.3.1.2
- Modification
14.3.1.3
- Transaction handling
14.3.1.4
- Iteration
14.3.2
- Functional Data Definition Language (FDDL)
14.3.2.1
- Queries
14.3.2.2
- FDDL Querying example
14.3.2.3
- Modification
14.4
- Object oriented interface
14.4.1
- Object oriented/relational model
14.4.2
- Object-Oriented Data Definition Language (OODDL)
14.4.2.1
- Example view-class definition
14.4.3
- Object-Oriented Data Manipulation Language (OODML)
14.4.3.1
- Examples
14.4.3.2
- Iteration
14.5
- Symbolic SQL syntax
14.5.1
- The "[...]" Syntax
14.5.1.1
- Enclosing database identifiers
14.5.1.2
- SQL strings representing symbolic expressions
14.5.1.3
- Enclosing literal SQL
14.5.2
- Programmatic interface
14.5.2.1
- Examples
14.5.3
- Utilities
14.6
- SQL I/O recording
14.7
- SQL errors
15
- User Defined Streams
15.1
- Introduction
15.2
- An illustrative example of user defined streams
15.2.1
- Defining a new stream class
15.2.2
- Recognizing the stream element type
15.2.3
- Stream directionality
15.2.4
- Stream input
15.2.5
- Stream output
15.2.6
- Instantiating the stream
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