- (when sysinit-truename
- (unless (load sysinit-truename)
- (error "~S was not successfully loaded." sysinit-truename))
- (flush-standard-output-streams))
- (/show0 "loaded SYSINIT-TRUENAME")
- (when userinit-truename
- (unless (load userinit-truename)
- (error "~S was not successfully loaded." userinit-truename))
- (flush-standard-output-streams))
- (/show0 "loaded USERINIT-TRUENAME"))
-
- ;; Handle --eval options.
- (/show0 "handling --eval options in TOPLEVEL-INIT")
- (dolist (eval (reverse evals))
- (/show0 "handling one --eval option in TOPLEVEL-INIT")
- (eval eval)
- (flush-standard-output-streams))
+
+
+ ;; We wrap all the pre-REPL user/system customized startup code
+ ;; in a restart.
+ ;;
+ ;; (Why not wrap everything, even the stuff above, in this
+ ;; restart? Errors above here are basically command line or
+ ;; Unix environment errors, e.g. a missing file or a typo on
+ ;; the Unix command line, and you don't need to get into Lisp
+ ;; to debug them, you should just start over and do it right
+ ;; at the Unix level. Errors below here are usually errors in
+ ;; user Lisp code, and it might be helpful to let the user
+ ;; reach the REPL in order to help figure out what's going on.)
+ (restart-case
+ (flet ((process-init-file (truename)
+ (when truename
+ (unless (load truename)
+ (error "~S was not successfully loaded." truename))
+ (flush-standard-output-streams))))
+ (process-init-file sysinit-truename)
+ (process-init-file userinit-truename)
+
+ ;; Process --eval options.
+ (/show0 "handling --eval options in TOPLEVEL-INIT")
+ (dolist (eval (reverse reversed-evals))
+ (/show0 "handling one --eval option in TOPLEVEL-INIT")
+ (eval eval)
+ (flush-standard-output-streams)))
+ (continue ()
+ :report "Continue anyway (skipping to toplevel read/eval/print loop)."
+ (values)) ; (no-op, just fall through)
+ (quit ()
+ :report "Quit SBCL (calling #'QUIT, killing the process)."
+ (quit))))
+
+ ;; one more time for good measure, in case we fell out of the
+ ;; RESTART-CASE above before one of the flushes in the ordinary
+ ;; flow of control had a chance to operate
+ (flush-standard-output-streams)