Part IV. Internals of the CLISP Implementation

Table of Contents

34. The source files of CLISP

34.1. File Types

34.2. Source Pre-Processing

34.3. Files

34.3.1. Unpreprocessed C code

34.3.2. Other assembly language stuff

34.3.3. Lisp source files

34.3.4. External Modules

34.3.5. Documentation

34.3.6. Internationalization

34.3.7. Automatic configuration on UNIX and MinGW

34.3.8. Externally maintained files

35. Overview of CLISP's Garbage Collection

35.1. Introduction

35.2. Lisp objects in CLISP

35.3. Object Pointer Representations

35.4. Memory Models

35.5. The burden of garbage-collection upon the rest of CLISP

35.5.1. Lisp object invalidation

35.5.2. Managing Lisp objects in C

35.5.3. Run-time GC-safety checks

35.5.4. Memory protection

35.6. Foreign Pointers

35.7. Garbage Collection and Multithreading

36. Extending CLISP Core

36.1. Adding a built-in function

36.2. Adding a built-in variable

36.3. Recompilation

37. The CLISP bytecode specification

37.1. Introduction

37.2. The virtual machine

37.3. The structure of compiled functions

37.4. The general structure of the instructions

37.5. The instruction set

37.5.1. Instructions for constants

37.5.2. Instructions for lexical variables

37.5.3. Instructions for dynamic variables

37.5.4. Instructions for stack operations

37.5.5. Instructions for control flow, jumps

37.5.6. Instructions for lexical environment, creation of closures

37.5.7. Instructions for function calls

37.5.8. Instructions for optional and keyword parameters

37.5.9. Instructions for multiple values

37.5.10. Instructions for BLOCK and RETURN-FROM

37.5.11. Instructions for TAGBODY and GO

37.5.12. Instructions for CATCH and THROW

37.5.13. Instructions for UNWIND-PROTECT

37.5.14. Instructions for HANDLER-BIND

37.5.15. Instructions for some inlined functions

37.5.16. Combined instructions

37.5.17. Shortcut instructions

37.6. Examining compiled closures

37.7. Bytecode Design

37.7.1. When to add a new bytecode?

37.7.2. Why JMPTAIL?