GNU Smalltalk User's Guide

GNU Smalltalk Version 1.1.1

• Introduction
• Installation
  • Which files to examine before compiling
  • Compiling GNU Smalltalk
  • Implementations
  • Readline interface for GNU Smalltalk
• Invoking GNU Smalltalk
  • Command line arguments
  • Startup sequence
  • Syntax of GNU Smalltalk
  • Operating GNU Smalltalk
  • Per-user init files
  • Running the test suite
• Features of GNU Smalltalk
  • General Features
  • Additional features of GNU Smalltalk
    • Using the C callout mechanism
    • UNIX file-IO primitive messages
    • The system message
    • The getenv message
    • Initialization blocks
    • Editing method definitions
    • Explicitly loading files
    • Memory accessing methods
    • Producing backtraces
    • Controlling tracing of bytecode execution
    • Printing Smalltalk stack during execution
    • Assistance using C debuggers
    • Control C profiling during execution of methods.
    • Controlling generation of GC flip messages
    • Explicit termination of GNU Smalltalk
    • Alternate assignment operator
  • Differences from Blue Book Smalltalk
• Smalltalk interface for GNU Emacs
  • Autoloading GNU Smalltalk mode
  • Smalltalk editing mode
  • Smalltalk interactor mode
• Smalltalk Interface to X (STIX)
  • What is STIX?
  • Requirements for STIX
  • Running STIX
• Future directions and tasks for GNU Smalltalk
• Acknowledgements