don't stack-allocate specialized vectors on non-conservtive control stacks

[sbcl.git] / doc / manual / beyond-ansi.texinfo

diff --git a/doc/manual/beyond-ansi.texinfo b/doc/manual/beyond-ansi.texinfo
index 83197f6..1e684d4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/manual/beyond-ansi.texinfo
+++ b/doc/manual/beyond-ansi.texinfo
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ ANSI standard. SBCL doesn't support as many extensions as CMUCL, but
 it still has quite a few.  @xref{Contributed Modules}.
 
 @menu
+* Reader Extensions::
 * Garbage Collection::
 * Metaobject Protocol::
 * Support For Unix::
@@ -19,6 +20,24 @@ it still has quite a few.  @xref{Contributed Modules}.
 * Efficiency Hacks::
 @end menu
 
+@node Reader Extensions
+@comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
+@section Reader Extensions
+@cindex Reader Extensions
+
+SBCL supports extended package prefix syntax, which allows specifying
+the package to read an arbitrary form in:
+
+@lisp
+<package-name>::<form-in-package>
+@end lisp
+
+Example:
+
+@lisp
+  'foo::(bar quux zot) == '(foo::bar foo::quux foo::zot)
+@end lisp
+
 @node  Garbage Collection
 @comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
 @section Garbage Collection
@@ -57,18 +76,22 @@ Extensions}.
 
 @include var-sb-ext-star-gc-run-time-star.texinfo
 @include fun-sb-ext-bytes-consed-between-gcs.texinfo
+@include fun-sb-ext-dynamic-space-size.texinfo
+@include fun-sb-ext-get-bytes-consed.texinfo
+@include fun-sb-ext-gc-logfile.texinfo
 @include fun-sb-ext-generation-average-age.texinfo
 @include fun-sb-ext-generation-bytes-allocated.texinfo
 @include fun-sb-ext-generation-bytes-consed-between-gcs.texinfo
 @include fun-sb-ext-generation-minimum-age-before-gc.texinfo
 @include fun-sb-ext-generation-number-of-gcs-before-promotion.texinfo
 @include fun-sb-ext-generation-number-of-gcs.texinfo
-@include fun-sb-ext-get-bytes-consed.texinfo
 
 @node Metaobject Protocol
 @comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
 @section Metaobject Protocol
 
+@subsection AMOP Compatibility of Metaobject Protocol
+
 SBCL supports a metaobject protocol which is intended to be compatible
 with AMOP; present exceptions to this (as distinct from current bugs)
 are:
@@ -217,6 +240,8 @@ states that any class found by @code{find-class}, no matter what its
 
 @end itemize
 
+@subsection Metaobject Protocol Extensions
+
 In addition, SBCL supports extensions to the Metaobject protocol from
 AMOP; at present, they are:
 
@@ -256,6 +281,15 @@ specializer.  The system-provided methods on those methods convert
 between classes and proper names and between lists of the form
 @code{(eql @var{x})} and interned eql specializer objects.
 
+@item
+@vindex @sbpcl{+slot-unbound+}
+@findex @sbmop{standard-instance-access}
+@findex @sbmop{funcallable-standard-instance-access}
+distinguising unbound instance allocated slots from bound ones when
+using @code{standard-instance-access} and
+@code{funcallable-standard-instance-access} is possible by comparison
+to the constant @code{+slot-unbound+}.
+
 @end itemize
 
 @node  Support For Unix
@@ -411,6 +445,7 @@ arguments to @code{make-hash-table}.
 @include fun-sb-ext-delete-directory.texinfo
 @include fun-sb-ext-get-time-of-day.texinfo
 @include fun-sb-ext-seed-random-state.texinfo
+@include macro-sb-ext-wait-for.texinfo
 
 @node Stale Extensions
 @comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up