magic/lisp
Darryl L. Miles 2b4fcf5968 build: include rules.mak from source, drop the build-top copy
rules.mak has no @...@ substitutions, so there is no reason to copy it into
the build top.  Point all 38 subdir Makefile.in includes at the source copy
directly -- ${MAGICSRC}/rules.mak instead of ${MAGICDIR}/rules.mak -- and
remove AC_CONFIG_FILES([rules.mak:rules.mak]) from configure.  defs.mak (the
one make fragment with substitutions) remains the only generated file in the
build top.  readline/ and the top Makefile never included rules.mak, so they
are unaffected; AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(rules.mak) (the srcdir sentinel) is kept.

Now editing rules.mak in the source tree takes effect without reconfiguring.

Verified rc=0, 375 files, both in-tree and out-of-tree; out-of-tree build
top has no rules.mak; distclean rc=0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 14:54:11 -04:00
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scm Convert $Id$ placeholders to $Header$ placeholders. 2020-05-23 17:00:38 -04:00
Makefile.in build: include rules.mak from source, drop the build-top copy 2026-07-26 14:54:11 -04:00
README Convert $Id$ placeholders to $Header$ placeholders. 2020-05-23 17:00:38 -04:00
lisp.h Updates from running the fix-ending-whitespace script. 2020-05-23 17:13:14 -04:00
lispA-Z.c lisp: Add needed system #include directives 2026-07-23 16:10:09 -04:00
lispA-Z.h Updates from running the fix-ending-whitespace script. 2020-05-23 17:13:14 -04:00
lispArith.c Updates from running the fix-ending-whitespace script. 2020-05-23 17:13:14 -04:00
lispEval.c lisp: Add needed system #include directives 2026-07-23 16:10:09 -04:00
lispFrame.c Updates from running the fix-ending-whitespace script. 2020-05-23 17:13:14 -04:00
lispGC.c lisp: Add needed system #include directives 2026-07-23 16:10:09 -04:00
lispIO.c lisp: Add needed system #include directives 2026-07-23 16:10:09 -04:00
lispInt.h listInt.h: correct prototype names 2026-07-23 16:10:09 -04:00
lispMagic.c lisp: Add needed system #include directives 2026-07-23 16:10:09 -04:00
lispMain.c lisp: Add needed system #include directives 2026-07-23 16:10:09 -04:00
lispParse.c lisp: Clean up compiler warnings 2026-07-23 16:10:09 -04:00
lispPrint.c lisp: Clean up compiler warnings 2026-07-23 16:10:09 -04:00
lispString.c lisp: Add needed system #include directives 2026-07-23 16:10:09 -04:00
lispTrace.c Updates from running the fix-ending-whitespace script. 2020-05-23 17:13:14 -04:00
lispargs.h Updates from running the fix-ending-whitespace script. 2020-05-23 17:13:14 -04:00

README

This is a mini-scheme interpreter, even though the files are all named
lisp*.{c,h}.

This interpreter is *extremely* slow. I can think of lots of ways to
improve its memory usage and performance (a factor of 5 improvement
seems easy), but it is very robust and it works. :) Besides, it turns
out that the bottleneck in most common tasks is magic itself, not the
interpreter.

The memory usage of this interpreter is ridiculously high. Collect garbage
often. :) Garbage collection is done automatically based on the
variable scm-gc-frequency at the top-level . . . i.e., when you see
magic's ">" prompt. To collect garbage at intermediate points in the
computation, you have to call "collect-garbage" explicitly.


-Rajit Manohar <rajit@csl.cornell.edu>
 Computer Systems Laboratory
 Cornell University
 Ithaca NY 14853
 http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~rajit/

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