Part I. Standards

Table of Contents

1. Overview

1.1. Reading this manual

1.1.1. Common Lisp users

1.1.2. C/C++ programmers

1.2. C Reference

1.2.1. One type for everything: cl_object

1.2.2. Naming conventions

1.2.3. Only in Common Lisp

2. Evaluation and compilation

2.1. Declarations

2.1.1. OPTIMIZE

2.2. C Reference

ecl_process_env — Per-thread environment

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

3. Types and classes

3.1. C Reference

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

4. Data and control flow

4.1. Minimal compilation

4.2. Function types

4.3. C Calling conventions

4.4. C Reference

ecl_bds_bind — Bind a special variable

ecl_bds_unwind — Undo one variable binding

ecl_setqC equivalent of setq

ecl_symbol_valueC equivalent of symbol-value

ecl_va_arg — Accepting a variable number of arguments

ecl_nth_value, ecl_nvalues — Accessing output values

ecl_return0, ecl_return1, ... — Returning multiple values

ECL_BLOCK_BEGINC macro for block

ECL_CATCH_BEGINC macro for catch

ECL_UNWIND_PROTECT_BEGINC macro for unwind-protect

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

5. Structures

5.1. C Reference

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

6. Conditions

6.1. C Reference

ECL_HANDLER_CASEC macro for handler-case

ECL_RESTART_CASEC macro for restart-case

Conditions C dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

7. Objects

7.1. C Reference

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

8. Symbols

8.1. C Reference

ecl_make_keyword — Find a lisp keyword

ecl_make_symbol — Find a lisp symbol

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

9. Packages

9.1. C Reference

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

10. Numbers

10.1. Numeric types

10.2. Random-States

10.3. C Reference

Number C types — Numeric C types understood by ECL

Number constructors — Creating Lisp types from C numbers

Number accessors — Unchecked conversion from Lisp types to C numbers

Number coercion — Checked conversion from Lisp types to C numbers

Numbers C dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

11. Characters

11.1. Unicode vs. POSIX locale

11.1.1. Character types

11.1.2. Character names

11.2. #\Newline characters

11.3. C Reference

C types — C character types

Constructors — Creating and extracting characters from Lisp objects

Predicates — C predicates for Lisp characters

Character case — C functions related to the character case

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

12. Conses

12.1. C Reference

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

13. Arrays

13.1. Array limits

13.2. Specializations

13.3. C Reference

Types and constants — C types, limits and enumerations

ecl_aet_to_symbol, ecl_symbol_to_aet — To and from element types

Constructors — Creating arrays and vectors

Accessors — Reading and writing array elements

Array properties — Array size, fill pointer, etc

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

14. Strings

14.1. String types & Unicode

14.2. C Reference

Base string constructors — Building strings for C data

String accessors — Reading and writing characters into a string

Strings C dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

15. Sequences

15.1. C Reference

Sequences C dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

16. Hash tables

16.1. C Reference

Hash tables C dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

17. Filenames

17.1. Syntax

17.2. Wild pathnames and matching

17.3. C Reference

Filenames C dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

18. Files

18.1. Dictionary

18.1.1. DIRECTORY

18.2. C Reference

Files C dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

19. Streams

19.1. ANSI Streams

19.1.1. Supported types

19.1.2. Element types

19.1.3. External formats

19.2. C Reference

Streams C dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

20. Printer

20.1. C Reference

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

21. Reader

21.1. C Reference

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

22. System Construction

22.1. C Reference

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence

23. Environment

23.1. Dictionary

disassemble — Display the assembly code of a function

trace — Follow execution of functions

23.2. C Reference

ANSI Dictionary — Common Lisp and C equivalence