Documentation for ACL2 Version 6.1

The ACL2 Documentation is divided into the following Major Topics

• ABOUT-ACL2 -- about ACL2

• ACL2-TUTORIAL -- tutorial introduction to ACL2

• BDD -- ordered binary decision diagrams with rewriting

• BOOKS -- files of ACL2 event forms

• BREAK-REWRITE -- the read-eval-print loop entered to monitor rewrite rules

• DOCUMENTATION -- functions that display documentation

• EVENTS -- functions that extend the logic

• FORWARD-CHAINING-REPORTS -- to see reports about the forward chaining process

• HISTORY -- functions that display or change history

• HONS-AND-MEMOIZATION -- hash cons, function memoization, and applicative hash tables

• INTRODUCTION-TO-THE-TAU-SYSTEM -- a decision procedure for runtime types

• IO -- input/output facilities in ACL2

• MISCELLANEOUS -- a miscellany of documented functions and concepts
  (often cited in more accessible documentation)

• OTHER -- other commonly used top-level functions

• PARALLELISM -- experimental extension for parallel execution and proofs

• PROGRAMMING -- programming in ACL2

• PROOF-CHECKER -- support for low-level interaction

• PROOF-TREE -- proof tree displays

• Pages Written Especially for the Tours -- Pages Written Especially for the Tours

• REAL -- ACL2(r) support for real numbers

• RELEASE-NOTES -- pointers to what has changed

• RULE-CLASSES -- adding rules to the database

• SERIALIZE -- routines for saving ACL2 objects to files, and later restoring them

• STOBJ -- single-threaded objects or ``von Neumann bottlenecks''

• SWITCHES-PARAMETERS-AND-MODES -- a variety of ways to modify the ACL2 environment

• THEORIES -- sets of runes to enable/disable in concert

• TRACE -- tracing functions in ACL2