;;;; -*- Lisp -*- ;;;; tags which are set during the build process and which end up in ;;;; CL:*FEATURES* in the target SBCL, plus some comments about other ;;;; CL:*FEATURES* tags which have special meaning to SBCL or which ;;;; have a special conventional meaning ;;;; ;;;; Note that the recommended way to customize the features of a ;;;; local build of SBCL is not to edit this file, but instead to ;;;; tweak customize-target-features.lisp. If you define a function ;;;; in customize-target-features.lisp, it will be used to transform ;;;; the target features list after it's read and before it's used. ;;;; E.g. you can use code like this: ;;;; (lambda (list) ;;;; (flet ((enable (x) (pushnew x list)) ;;;; (disable (x) (setf list (remove x list)))) ;;;; #+nil (enable :sb-show) ;;;; (enable :sb-after-xc-core) ;;;; #+nil (disable :sb-doc) ;;;; list)) ;;;; By thus editing a local file (one which is not in the source ;;;; distribution, and which is in .cvsignore) your customizations ;;;; will remain local even if you do things like "cvs update", ;;;; will not show up if you try to submit a patch with "cvs diff", ;;;; and might even stay out of the way if you use other non-CVS-based ;;;; methods to upgrade the files or store your configuration. ;;;; This software is part of the SBCL system. See the README file for ;;;; more information. ;;;; ;;;; This software is derived from the CMU CL system, which was ;;;; written at Carnegie Mellon University and released into the ;;;; public domain. The software is in the public domain and is ;;;; provided with absolutely no warranty. See the COPYING and CREDITS ;;;; files for more information. ( ;; ;; features present in all builds ;; ;; our standard :ansi-cl :common-lisp ;; FIXME: Isn't there a :x3jsomething feature which we should set too? ;; No. CLHS says ":x3j13 [...] A conforming implementation might or ;; might not contain such a feature." -- CSR, 2002-02-21 ;; our dialect :sbcl ;; Douglas Thomas Crosher's conservative generational GC (the only one ;; we currently support for X86). ;; :gencgc used to be here; CSR moved it into ;; local-target-features.lisp-expr via make-config.sh, as alpha, ;; sparc and ppc ports don't currently support it. -- CSR, 2002-02-21 ;; We're running under a UNIX. This is sort of redundant, and it was also ;; sort of redundant under CMU CL, which we inherited it from: neither SBCL ;; nor CMU CL supports anything but UNIX (and "technically not UNIX"es ;; such as *BSD and Linux). But someday, maybe we might, and in that case ;; we'd presumably remove this, so its presence conveys the information ;; that the system isn't one which follows such a change. :unix ;; ;; features present in this particular build ;; ;; Setting this enables the compilation of documentation strings ;; from the system sources into the target Lisp executable. ;; Traditional Common Lisp folk will want this option set. ;; I (WHN) made it optional because I came to Common Lisp from ;; C++ through Scheme, so I'm accustomed to asking ;; Emacs about things that I'm curious about instead of asking ;; the executable I'm running. :sb-doc ;; Do regression and other tests when building the system. You might ;; or might not want this if you're not a developer, depending on how ;; paranoid you are. You probably do want it if you are a developer. ;; This test does not affect the target system (in much the same way ;; as :sb-after-xc-core, below). :sb-test ;; Make more debugging information available (for debugging SBCL ;; itself). If you aren't hacking or troubleshooting SBCL itself, ;; you probably don't want this set. ;; ;; At least two varieties of debugging information are enabled by this ;; option: ;; * SBCL is compiled with a higher level of OPTIMIZE DEBUG, so that ;; the debugger can tell more about the state of the system. ;; * Various code to print debugging messages, and similar debugging code, ;; is compiled only when this feature is present. ;; ;; Note that the extra information recorded by the compiler at ;; this higher level of OPTIMIZE DEBUG includes the source location ;; forms. In order for the debugger to use this information, it has to ;; re-READ the source file. In an ordinary installation of SBCL, this ;; re-READing may not work very well, for either of two reasons: ;; * The sources aren't present on the system in the same location that ;; they were on the system where SBCL was compiled. ;; * SBCL is using the standard readtable, without the added hackage ;; which allows it to handle things like target features. ;; If you want to be able to use the extra debugging information, ;; therefore, be sure to keep the sources around, and run with the ;; readtable configured so that the system sources can be read. ; :sb-show ;; Build SBCL with the old CMU CL low level debugger, "ldb". If are ;; aren't messing with SBCL at a very low level (e.g., trying to ;; diagnose GC problems, or trying to debug assembly code for a port ;; to a new CPU) you shouldn't need this. ; :sb-ldb ;; This isn't really a target Lisp feature at all, but controls ;; whether the build process produces an after-xc.core file. This ;; can be useful for shortening the edit/compile/debug cycle when ;; you modify SBCL's own source code, as in slam.sh. Otherwise ;; you don't need it. ; :sb-after-xc-core ;; Enable extra debugging output in the assem.lisp assembler/scheduler ;; code. (This is the feature which was called :DEBUG in the ;; original CMU CL code.) ; :sb-show-assem ;; Setting this makes SBCL more "fluid", i.e. more amenable to ;; modification at runtime, by suppressing various INLINE declarations, ;; compiler macro definitions, FREEZE-TYPE declarations; and by ;; suppressing various burning-our-ships-behind-us actions after ;; initialization is complete; and so forth. This tends to clobber the ;; performance of the system, so unless you have some special need for ;; this when hacking SBCL itself, you don't want this set. ; :sb-fluid ;; Enable code for collecting statistics on usage of various operations, ;; useful for performance tuning of the SBCL system itself. This code ;; is probably pretty stale (having not been tested since the fork from ;; base CMU CL) but might nonetheless be a useful starting point for ;; anyone who wants to collect such statistics in the future. ; :sb-dyncount ;; Peter Van Eynde's increase-bulletproofness code for CMU CL ;; ;; Some of the code which was #+high-security before the fork has now ;; been either made unconditional, deleted, or rewritten into ;; unrecognizability, but some remains. What remains is not maintained ;; or tested in current SBCL, but I haven't gone out of my way to ;; break it, either. ;; ; :high-security ; :high-security-support ;; low-level thread primitives support ;; ;; As of SBCL 0.8, this is only supposed to work in x86 Linux with ;; NPTL support (usually kernel 2.6, though sme Red Hat distributions ;; with older kernels also have it) and is implemented using clone(2) ;; and the %fs segment register. Note that no consistent effort to ;; audit the SBCL library code for thread safety has been performed, ;; so caveat executor. ; :sb-thread ;; Support for detection of unportable code (when applied to the ;; COMMON-LISP package, or SBCL-internal pacakges) or bad-neighbourly ;; code (when applied to user-level packages), relating to material ;; alteration to packages or to bindings in symbols in packages. :sb-package-locks ;; Support for the entirety of the 21-bit character space defined by ;; the Unicode consortium, rather than the classical 8-bit ISO-8859-1 ;; character set. :sb-unicode ;; Record source location information for variables, classes, conditions, ;; packages, etc. Gives much better information on M-. in Slime, but ;; increases core size by about 100kB. :sb-source-locations ;; This affects the definition of a lot of things in bignum.lisp. It ;; doesn't seem to be documented anywhere what systems it might apply ;; to. It doesn't seem to be needed for X86 systems anyway. ; :32x16-divide ;; This is set in classic CMU CL, and presumably there it means ;; that the floating point arithmetic implementation ;; conforms to IEEE's standard. Here it definitely means that the ;; floating point arithmetic implementation conforms to IEEE's standard. ;; I (WHN 19990702) haven't tried to verify ;; that it does conform, but it should at least mostly conform (because ;; the underlying x86 hardware tries). :ieee-floating-point ;; CMU CL had, and we inherited, code to support 80-bit LONG-FLOAT on the x86 ;; architecture. Nothing has been done to actively destroy the long float ;; support, but it hasn't been thoroughly maintained, and needs at least ;; some maintenance before it will work. (E.g. the LONG-FLOAT-only parts of ;; genesis are still implemented in terms of unportable CMU CL functions ;; which are not longer available at genesis time in SBCL.) A deeper ;; problem is SBCL's bootstrap process implicitly assumes that the ;; cross-compilation host will be able to make the same distinctions ;; between floating point types that it does. This assumption is ;; fundamentally sleazy, even though in practice it's unlikely to break down ;; w.r.t. distinguishing SINGLE-FLOAT from DOUBLE-FLOAT; it's much more ;; likely to break down w.r.t. distinguishing DOUBLE-FLOAT from LONG-FLOAT. ;; Still it's likely to be quite doable to get LONG-FLOAT support working ;; again, if anyone's sufficiently motivated. ; :long-float ;; ;; miscellaneous notes on other things which could have special significance ;; in the *FEATURES* list ;; ;; Any target feature which affects binary compatibility of fasl files ;; needs to be recorded in *FEATURES-POTENTIALLY-AFFECTING-FASL-FORMAT* ;; (elsewhere). ;; notes on the :NIL and :IGNORE features: ;; ;; #+NIL is used to comment out forms. Occasionally #+IGNORE is used ;; for this too. So don't use :NIL or :IGNORE as the names of features.. ;; notes on :SB-XC and :SB-XC-HOST features (which aren't controlled by this ;; file, but are instead temporarily pushed onto *FEATURES* or ;; *TARGET-FEATURES* during some phases of cross-compilation): ;; ;; :SB-XC-HOST stands for "cross-compilation host" and is in *FEATURES* ;; during the first phase of cross-compilation bootstrapping, when the ;; host Lisp is being used to compile the cross-compiler. ;; ;; :SB-XC stands for "cross compiler", and is in *FEATURES* during the second ;; phase of cross-compilation bootstrapping, when the cross-compiler is ;; being used to create the first target Lisp. ;; notes on the :SB-ASSEMBLING feature (which isn't controlled by ;; this file): ;; ;; This is a flag for whether we're in the assembler. It's ;; temporarily pushed onto the *FEATURES* list in the setup for ;; the ASSEMBLE-FILE function. It would be a bad idea ;; to use it as a name for a permanent feature. ;; notes on local features (which are set automatically by the ;; configuration script, and should not be set here unless you ;; really, really know what you're doing): ;; ;; machine architecture features: ;; :x86 ;; any Intel 386 or better, or compatibles like the AMD K6 or K7 ;; :x86-64 ;; any x86-64 CPU running in 64-bit mode ;; :alpha ;; DEC/Compaq Alpha CPU ;; :sparc ;; any Sun UltraSPARC (possibly also non-Ultras -- currently untested) ;; :ppc ;; any PowerPC CPU ;; :hppa ;; any PA-RISC CPU ;; :mips ;; any MIPS CPU (in little-endian mode with :little-endian -- currently ;; untested) ;; ;; (CMU CL also had a :pentium feature, which affected the definition ;; of some floating point vops. It was present but not enabled or ;; documented in the CMU CL code that SBCL is derived from, and has ;; now been moved to the backend-subfeatures mechanism.) ;; ;; properties derived from the machine architecture ;; :control-stack-grows-downward-not-upward ;; On the X86, the Lisp control stack grows downward. On the ;; other supported CPU architectures as of sbcl-0.7.1.40, the ;; system stack grows upward. ;; Note that there are other stack-related differences between the ;; X86 port and the other ports. E.g. on the X86, the Lisp control ;; stack coincides with the C stack, meaning that on the X86 there's ;; stuff on the control stack that the Lisp-level debugger doesn't ;; understand very well. As of sbcl-0.7.1.40 things like that are ;; just parameterized by #!+X86, but it'd probably be better to ;; use new flags like :CONTROL-STACK-CONTAINS-C-STACK. ;; ;; :stack-allocatable-closures ;; The compiler can allocate dynamic-extent closures on stack. ;; ;; operating system features: ;; :linux = We're intended to run under some version of Linux. ;; :bsd = We're intended to run under some version of BSD Unix. (This ;; is not exclusive with the features which indicate which ;; particular version of BSD we're intended to run under.) ;; :freebsd = We're intended to run under FreeBSD. ;; :openbsd = We're intended to run under OpenBSD. ;; :netbsd = We're intended to run under NetBSD. ;; :darwin = We're intended to run under Darwin (including MacOS X). ;; :sunos = We're intended to run under Solaris user environment ;; with the SunOS kernel. ;; :osf1 = We're intended to run under Tru64 (aka Digital Unix ;; aka OSF/1). ;; (No others are supported by SBCL as of 0.9.6, but :hpux or :irix ;; support could be ported from CMU CL if anyone is sufficiently ;; motivated to do so, and it'd even be possible, though harder, to ;; port the system to Microsoft Windows.) )