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Name

clisp - Common Lisp language interpreter and compiler

Synopsis

clisp [ -h ] [ -m memsize ] #ifndef NO_SP_MALLOC [ -s stacksize ] #endif #ifdef MULTIMAP_MEMORY_VIA_FILE [ -t tempdir ] #endif [ -M memfile ] [ -L language ] [ -q ] [ -I ] [ -i initfile ... ] [ -c [ -l ] lispfile [ -o outputfile ] ... ] [ -p packagename ] [ -x expression ]

Description

Invokes the common lisp interpreter and compiler. Invoked without arguments, executes a read-eval-print loop, in which expressions are in turn read from standard input, evaluated by the lisp interpreter, and their results output to standard output. Invoked with -c, the specified lisp files are compiled to a bytecode that can be executed more efficiently.

Options

-h
Displays a help message on how to use clisp.

-m memsize
Sets the amount of memory clisp tries to grab on startup. The amount may be given as nnnnnnn (measured in bytes), nnnn K or nnnn KB (measured in kilobytes) or n M or n MB (measured in megabytes). #ifdef WIDE Default is 4 megabytes. #else Default is 2 megabytes. #endif #if (oint_addr_len+addr_shift==24) The argument is constrained between 100 KB and 16 MB. #elif (oint_addr_len+addr_shift==26) The argument is constrained between 100 KB and 64 MB. #elif (oint_addr_len+addr_shift==28) The argument is constrained between 100 KB and 256 MB. #else The argument is constrained above 100 KB. #endif -- This version of clisp #if defined(SPVW_MIXED) && defined(SPVW_BLOCKS) #ifdef GENERATIONAL_GC is not likely to actually use the entire memsize since garbage collection will periodically reduce the amount of used memory. It is therefore common to specify 10 MB even if only 2 MB are going to be used. #else eventually uses the entire memsize. #endif #else allocates memory dynamically. memsize is essentially ignored. #endif

#ifndef NO_SP_MALLOC

-s stacksize
Sets the size of the stack clisp allocates for itself. The syntax is the same as for memsize. Default is one eighth of memsize. The argument is constrained between 40 KB and 8 MB.

#endif #ifdef MULTIMAP_MEMORY_VIA_FILE

-t tempdir
Specifies the directory where the temporary core file is to be held. This option takes precedence over the environment variable TMPDIR.

#endif

-M memfile
Specifies the initial memory image. This must be a memory dump produced by the saveinitmem function. #ifdef UNIX It may have been compressed using GNU gzip. This option is normally already set by the shell script /usr/local/bin/clisp.

#endif

-L language
Specifies the language clisp uses to communicate with the user. This may be english, deutsch, francais.

-q
Quiet: clisp displays no banner at startup and no good-bye message when quitting.

-I
ILISP friendly: clisp interacts in a way that ILISP (a popular Emacs LISP interface) can deal with. Currently the only effect of this is that unnecessary prompts are not suppressed. #ifdef GNU_READLINE Furthermore, the GNU readline library treats Tab as a normal self-inserting character. #endif

-i initfile ...
Specifies initialization files to be loaded at startup. These should be lisp files (source or compiled).

-c lispfile ...
Compiles the specified lispfiles to bytecode. The compiled files can then be loaded instead of the sources to gain efficiency.

-o outputfile
Specifies the output file or directory for the compilation of the last specified lispfile.

-l
A bytecode listing of the files being compiled will be produced. Useful only for debugging purposes.

-p packagename
At startup the value of the variable *package* will be set to the package named packagename.

-x expressions
Executes a series of arbitrary expressions instead of a read-eval-print loop. The values of the expressions will be output to standard output. Due to the argument processing done by the shell, the expressions must be enclosed in single quotes, and double quotes and backslashes must be preceded by backslashes.

#ifdef EMUNIX

@optionfile
substitutes the contents of optionfile as arguments. Each line of optionfile is treated as a separate argument to clisp.

#endif

#ifdef AMIGAOS

Workbench

Two kinds of tooltypes are supported:
WINDOW=windowspec
clisp will communicate with the console window or pipe specified by windowspec.

ARGS=arguments
Specifies the command line arguments for clisp. Within arguments the token * may be used to denote the project's filename. arguments defaults to -i * which means that the file will be loaded (see above).

#endif

Reference

The language implemented conforms to
Guy L. Steele Jr.: Common Lisp - The Language. Digital Press. 1st edition 1984, 465 pages. ("CLtL1" for short)
and to the older parts of
Guy L. Steele Jr.: Common Lisp - The Language. Digital Press. 2nd edition 1990, 1032 pages. ("CLtL2" for short)

Use

help
to get some on-line help.

(apropos name)
lists the symbols relating to name.

(exit) or (quit) or (bye)
to quit clisp.

#if defined(UNIX) || defined(MSDOS) || defined(AMIGAOS) || defined(RISCOS)

#if defined(UNIX) || defined(RISCOS) EOF (Ctrl-D) #endif #ifdef MSDOS EOF (Ctrl-Z) #endif #ifdef AMIGAOS EOF (Ctrl-\e) #endif
to leave the current read-eval-print loop.

#endif #ifdef GNU_READLINE

arrow keys
for editing and viewing the input history.

Tab key
to complete the symbol's name you are just typing.

#endif

Files

#ifdef UNIX
clisp
startup script

#endif

#if defined(UNIX) lisp.run #endif #if defined(MSDOS) lisp.exe #endif #if defined(AMIGAOS) lisp.run #endif #if defined(RISCOS) lisp #endif
main executable

lispinit.mem
initial memory image

config.lsp
site-dependent configuration

*.lsp
lisp source

*.fas
lisp code, compiled by clisp

*.lib
lisp source library information, generated and used by the clisp compiler

*.c
C code, compiled from lisp source by clisp

#ifdef HAVE_ENVIRONMENT

Environment

CLISP_LANGUAGE
specifies the language clisp uses to communicate with the user. The value may be english, deutsch, francais and defaults to english. The -L option can be used to override this environment variable.

LANG
specifies the language clisp uses to communicate with the user, unless it is already specified through the environment variable CLISP_LANGUAGE or the -L option. The value may begin with a two-letter ISO 639 language code, for example en, de, fr.

#ifdef UNIX

HOME and USER
are used for determining the value of the function user-homedir-pathname. (Unix implementation only.)

#endif #if defined(UNIX) || defined(MSDOS)

#ifdef UNIX SHELL (Unix implementation only)
is used to find the interactive command interpreter called by (shell). #endif #ifdef MSDOS COMSPEC (DOS, OS/2 implementations only)
is used to find the command interpreter called by the function (shell). #endif

#endif #ifdef UNIX

TERM
determines the screen size recognized by the pretty printer. This environment variable is also mandatory for the built-in screen editor.

#endif #ifdef EMUNIX_PORTABEL

TERM
specifies the terminal emulation clisp relies on. If you have ANSI.SYS loaded, possible values are ansi, ansi-color-2, ansi-color-3 and mono.

TERMCAP
should be set to the slashified file name of the terminal capabilities database termcap.dat.

#endif #ifdef MULTIMAP_MEMORY_VIA_FILE

TMPDIR (Sparc implementation only)
specifies the directory where the temporary core file is to be held.

#endif #endif

See also

cmulisp(1), emacs(1).

Bugs

Projects

Authors

Bruno Haible <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de> and Michael Stoll.


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Bruno Haible <haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Last modified: 15 June 1995.