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\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1}Introduction}{5}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2}Getting Started}{6}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1}The Dynamic Loader Search Path}{6}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2}System Directories}{7}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.3}Invoking the Simulator}{7}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.4}Executing Programs}{8}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {2.4.1}Compiling Programs}{8}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {2.4.2}Loading Byte Code Files}{9}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {2.4.3}Consulting Programs}{10}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.5}Execution Directives}{11}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3}Syntax}{11}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.1}Terms}{11}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.2}Operators}{14}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.3}Clause?}{17}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.4}Rule?}{18}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.5}Query?}{18}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4}SB-Prolog: Operational Semantics}{18}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1}Standard Execution Behaviour}{18}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.2}Cuts and If-Then-Else}{18}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3}Unification of Floating Point Numbers}{19}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5}Evaluable Predicates}{19}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.1}Input and Output}{20}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {5.1.1}File Handling}{21}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {5.1.2}Term I/O}{21}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {5.1.3}Character I/O}{22}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.2}Arithmetic}{23}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.3}Convenience}{25}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.4}Extra Control}{26}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.5}Meta-Logical}{27}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.6}Sets}{29}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.7}Comparison of Terms}{30}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.8}Buffers}{32}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.9}Modification of the Program}{33}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.10}Internal Database}{36}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.11}Information about the State of the Program}{36}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.12}Environmental}{38}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.13}Global Values}{42}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {5.14}Exotica}{43}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {6}Debugging}{45}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.1}High-Level Tracing}{45}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.2}Low-Level Tracing}{48}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7}The Simulator}{48}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {7.1}Invoking the Simulator}{48}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {7.2}Simulator Options}{49}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {7.3}Interrupts}{50}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {8}The Compiler}{51}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {8.1}Invoking the Compiler}{51}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {8.2}Compiler Options}{53}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {8.3}Assembly}{53}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {8.4}Compiler Directives}{54}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {8.4.1}Mode Declarations}{54}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {8.4.2}Indexing Directives}{55}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {9}Libraries}{56}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {10}Macros}{57}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {10.1}Defining Macros}{57}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {10.2}Macro Expander Options}{58}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {11}Extension Tables: Memo Relations}{58}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {12}Definite Clause Grammars}{62}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {13}Profiling Programs}{64}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {14}Other Library Utilities}{67}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {15}CREDITS}{68}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {A}Evaluable Predicates of SB-Prolog}{74}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {B}A Note on Coding for Efficiency}{77}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {B.1}Avoiding Creation of Backtrack Points}{77}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {B.2}Minimizing Data Movement Between Registers}{79}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {B.3}Processing All Arguments of a Term}{79}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {B.4}Testing Unifiability}{80}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {C}Adding Builtins to SB-Prolog}{81}