;; 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 CMU CL 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.
+ ;; 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
;; runtime
; :sb-futex
- ;; Package locking support.
- ; :sb-package-locks
+ ;; 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
;; 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
;; :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.
+ ;; 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
;; 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