Part III. Internals of the CLISP Implementation
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Part III. Internals of the CLISP Implementation

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33. The source files of CLISP

33.1. File Types

33.2. Source Pre-Processing

33.3. Files

33.3.1. Unpreprocessed C code
33.3.2. Other assembly language stuff
33.3.3. Lisp source files
33.3.4. External Modules
33.3.5. Documentation
33.3.6. Internationalization
33.3.7. Automatic configuration on UNIX

34. Overview of CLISP's Garbage Collection

34.1. Introduction

34.2. Lisp objects in CLISP

34.3. Object Pointer Representations

34.4. Memory Models

34.5. The burden of garbage-collection upon the rest of CLISP

34.5.1. object pointer invalidation
34.5.2. Memory protection

34.6. Foreign Pointers

35. Extending CLISP

35.1. Adding a built-in function
35.2. Adding a built-in variable
35.3. Recompilation

36. The CLISP bytecode specification

36.1. Introduction

36.2. The virtual machine

36.3. The structure of compiled functions

36.4. The general structure of the instructions

36.5. The instruction set

36.5.1. Instructions for constants
36.5.2. Instructions for lexical variables
36.5.3. Instructions for dynamic variables
36.5.4. Instructions for stack operations
36.5.5. Instructions for control flow, jumps
36.5.6. Instructions for lexical environment, creation of closures
36.5.7. Instructions for function calls
36.5.8. Instructions for optional and keyword parameters
36.5.9. Instructions for multiple values
36.5.10. Instructions for BLOCK and RETURN-FROM
36.5.11. Instructions for TAGBODY and GO
36.5.12. Instructions for CATCH and THROW
36.5.13. Instructions for UNWIND-PROTECT
36.5.14. Instructions for HANDLER-BIND
36.5.15. Instructions for some inlined functions
36.5.16. Combined instructions
36.5.17. Shortcut instructions

36.6. Bytecode Design

36.6.1. When to add a new bytecode?
36.6.2. Why JMPTAIL?

	These notes document CLISP version 2.41	Last modified: 2006-10-13

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