;; original CMU CL code.)
; :sb-show-assem
+ ;; Compile the C runtime with support for low-level debugging output
+ ;; through FSHOW and FSHOW_SIGNAL. If enabled, this feature allows
+ ;; users to turn on such debugging output using environment variables at
+ ;; run-time.
+ ; :sb-qshow
+
;; 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
;; x86oid Darwin, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
; :sb-thread
- ;; lutex support
+ ;; futex support
;;
;; While on linux we are able to use futexes for our locking
- ;; primitive, on other platforms we don't have this luxury. NJF's
- ;; lutexes present a locking API similar to the futex-based API that
- ;; allows for sb-thread support on x86 OS X, Solaris and
- ;; FreeBSD.
+ ;; primitive, on other platforms we don't have this luxury.
;;
- ; :sb-lutex
+ ; :sb-futex
;; On some operating systems the FS segment register (used for SBCL's
;; thread local storage) is not reliably preserved in signal
;; on zlib.
; :sb-core-compression
+ ;; On certain thread-enabled platforms, synchronization between threads
+ ;; for the purpose of stopping and starting the world around GC can be
+ ;; performed using safepoints instead of signals. Enable this feature
+ ;; to compile with safepoints and to use them for GC.
+ ;; (Replaces use of SIG_STOP_FOR_GC.)
+ ; :sb-safepoint
+
+ ;; When compiling with safepoints, the INTERRUPT-THREAD mechanism can
+ ;; also use safepoints to roll the target thread to a point at which it
+ ;; can be interrupted safely, instead of using a signal for this
+ ;; purpose. Enable this feature in addition to :SB-SAFEPOINT to enable
+ ;; such behaviour.
+ ;; (Replaces use of SIGPIPE, except to wake up syscalls.)
+ ; :sb-thruption
+
+ ;; When compiling with safepoints and thruptions, the TIMER facility
+ ;; can replace its use of setitimer with a background thread.
+ ;; (Replaces use of SIGALRM.)
+ ; :sb-wtimer
+
;;
;; miscellaneous notes on other things which could have special significance
;; in the *FEATURES* list