X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=base-target-features.lisp-expr;h=db5dfbcddd1a94cfa39509191b52f84e4bb56cea;hb=740af378fef405f7d3735fd95423d90100a10beb;hp=8b9de1bdecad83797c4fd67f71a5439197f46ea5;hpb=f61bddabbb69f1347b81b8ab76e709635a7a0739;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/base-target-features.lisp-expr b/base-target-features.lisp-expr index 8b9de1b..db5dfbc 100644 --- a/base-target-features.lisp-expr +++ b/base-target-features.lisp-expr @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +;;;; -*- 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 @@ -40,13 +42,17 @@ ;; 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 + ;; 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 @@ -69,10 +75,11 @@ ;; 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. + ;; 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 @@ -102,14 +109,15 @@ ;; 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) you shouldn't need this. + ;; 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 if - ;; you're messing around with low-level internals of the system, - ;; as in slam.sh. Otherwise you don't need it. + ;; 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 @@ -133,10 +141,13 @@ ;; anyone who wants to collect such statistics in the future. ; :sb-dyncount - ;; Peter Van Eynde's increase-bulletproofness code + ;; Peter Van Eynde's increase-bulletproofness code for CMU CL ;; - ;; This is not maintained or tested in current SBCL, but I haven't - ;; gone out of my way to remove or break it, either. + ;; 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 @@ -229,14 +240,33 @@ ;; any Intel 386 or better, or compatibles like the AMD K6 or K7 ;; :alpha ;; DEC/Compaq Alpha CPU - ;; (No other CPUs are supported by SBCL as of 0.6.12.15, but SPARC or - ;; PowerPC support could be ported from CMU CL if anyone is - ;; sufficiently motivated to do so, or if you're *really* motivated, - ;; you could write a port from scratch for a new CPU architecture.) + ;; :sparc + ;; any Sun UltraSPARC (possibly also non-Ultras -- currently untested) + ;; :ppc + ;; any PowerPC CPU + ;; + ;; (No other CPUs are supported by SBCL as of 0.7.5, but MIPS or HPPA + ;; support could be ported from CMU CL if anyone is sufficiently + ;; motivated to do so, or if you're *really* motivated, you could + ;; write a port from scratch for a new CPU architecture.) + ;; ;; (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 is - ;; present but stale in SBCL as of 0.6.12.) + ;; 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. ;; ;; operating system features: ;; :linux = We're intended to run under some version of Linux. @@ -244,9 +274,13 @@ ;; 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 FreeBSD. - ;; (No others are supported by SBCL as of 0.6.7, but :hpux or - ;; :solaris support could be ported from CMU CL if anyone is + ;; :openbsd = We're intended to run under OpenBSD. + ;; :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 0.7.5, 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.) )