Part IV. Internals of the CLISP Implementation
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Part IV. Internals of the CLISP Implementation

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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. Forcing or inhibiting Garbage Collections

35.8. 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?

	These notes document CLISP version 2.49.93+	Last modified: 2018-02-19

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