A C Portable LISP Interpreter and Compiler

E. Karabudak, G. Üçoluk , T. Yilmaz

August 1990

• Contents
• About the Distribution
• Introduction
  • Choice of Design Preferences
    • Parameter Passing
    • Why Off-Line Compilation ?
    • Why not an Integrated Development Environment ?
  • Source Organization & Implementation
    • LISP Options On The Command Line
• Syntax and Data Structure
  • Dotted Pairs
    • Implementation
  • Identifiers
    • Implementation
  • Strings
    • Implementation
  • Integers and Big Integers
    • Implementation
  • Floating Point Numbers
    • Implementation
  • Vectors
    • Implementation
  • Function Pointers
  • Functions and Function Definitions
    • Implementation
  • The Lexical Analyzer
• The Dynamic Structure
  • Memory Management
  • The Stacks
  • Garbage Collection
    • Pair space compactification
• Compilation
  • General
  • Bootstrapping LISP
  • Creating LISP with Compiler
  • Compiling a LISP Code
  • Traceable/Redefinable Code Generation
  • Altering the size of compiler generated C files
  • Compiler's naming convention
  • Built-in atoms
• References