Gambit-C, version 4.0 beta 20

A portable implementation of Scheme

Edition 4.0 beta 20, October 2006

• The Gambit-C system
  • Accessing the system files
• The Gambit Scheme interpreter
  • Interactive mode
  • Batch mode
  • Customization
  • Process exit status
  • Scheme scripts
    • Scripts under UNIX and Mac OS X
    • Scripts under Microsoft Windows
    • Compiling scripts
• The Gambit Scheme compiler
  • Interactive mode
  • Customization
  • Batch mode
  • Link files
    • Building an executable program
    • Building a loadable library
    • Building a shared-library
    • Other compilation options
  • Procedures specific to compiler
• Runtime options for all programs
• Debugging
  • Debugging model
  • Debugging commands
  • Procedures related to debugging
  • Console line-editing
  • Emacs interface
  • GUIDE
• Scheme extensions
  • Extensions to standard procedures
  • Extensions to standard special forms
  • Miscellaneous extensions
  • Undocumented extensions
• Modules
• Characters and strings
  • Extensions to character procedures
  • Extensions to string procedures
• Numbers
  • Extensions to numeric procedures
  • IEEE floating point arithmetic
  • Integer square root and nth root
  • Bitwise-operations on exact integers
  • Fixnum specific operations
  • Flonum specific operations
  • Pseudo random numbers
• Homogeneous vectors
• Hashing and weak references
  • Hashing
  • Weak references
    • Wills
    • Tables
• Records
• Threads
  • Introduction
  • Thread objects
  • Mutex objects
  • Condition variable objects
  • Fairness
  • Memory coherency
  • Timeouts
  • Primordial thread
  • Procedures
• Dynamic environment
• Exceptions
  • Exception-handling
  • Exception objects related to memory management
  • Exception objects related to the host environment
  • Exception objects related to threads
  • Exception objects related to C-interface
  • Exception objects related to the reader
  • Exception objects related to evaluation and compilation
  • Exception objects related to type checking
  • Exception objects related to procedure call
  • Other exception objects
• Host environment
  • Handling of file names
  • Filesystem operations
  • Shell command execution
  • Process termination
  • Command line arguments
  • Environment variables
  • Measuring time
  • File information
  • Group information
  • User information
  • Host information
  • Service information
  • Protocol information
  • Network information
• I/O and ports
  • Unidirectional and bidirectional ports
  • Port classes
  • Port settings
  • Object-ports
    • Object-port settings
    • Object-port operations
  • Character-ports
    • Character-port settings
    • Character-port operations
  • Byte-ports
    • Byte-port settings
    • Byte-port operations
  • Device-ports
    • Filesystem devices
    • Process devices
    • Network devices
  • Directory-ports
  • Vector-ports
  • String-ports
  • U8vector-ports
  • Parameter objects related to I/O
• Lexical syntax and readtables
  • Readtables
  • Boolean syntax
  • Character syntax
  • String syntax
  • Symbol syntax
  • Keyword syntax
  • Box syntax
  • Number syntax
  • Homogeneous vector syntax
  • Special #! syntax
  • Multiline comment syntax
  • Scheme infix syntax extension
    • SIX grammar
    • SIX semantics
• C-interface
  • The mapping of types between C and Scheme
  • The c-declare special form
  • The c-initialize special form
  • The c-lambda special form
  • The c-define special form
  • The c-define-type special form
  • Continuations and the C-interface
• System limitations
• Copyright and license
• General index

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