sbcl.sbcl/doc
Douglas Katzman d3a9421474 Rename CLASSOID-LAYOUT to CLASSOID-WRAPPER
If built with :METASPACE, then classoids point to wrappers, not layouts.
If built without that, there should be zero impact, but the slot name
is still WRAPPER, which means LAYOUT.
2021-03-19 22:21:04 -04:00
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internals Rip out the (ARRAY NIL (*)) is STRINGP logic 2020-10-29 13:05:59 -04:00
internals-notes Rename CLASSOID-LAYOUT to CLASSOID-WRAPPER 2021-03-19 22:21:04 -04:00
manual Fix docstring generation in the manual. 2021-03-08 19:50:46 +03:00
clean.sh Tighten up the cd-then-clean.sh idiom. 2021-03-14 19:37:32 +03:00
entities.inc 0.8.6.1: 2003-11-26 02:11:09 +00:00
FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS Remove #\! reader macro 2019-01-30 13:05:59 -05:00
GIT-FOR-SBCL-HACKERS.txt 1.0.20.29: small FIND fix & win32 build fix 2008-09-24 14:55:13 +00:00
GIT-WORKFLOW.md A git-only SBCL workflow 2011-06-06 09:48:08 +03:00
make-doc.sh 1.0.42.51: disable split html manual building 2010-09-21 15:29:10 +00:00
PACKAGING-SBCL.txt A git-only SBCL workflow 2011-06-06 09:48:08 +03:00
README 1.0.13.22: text tweaks 2008-01-10 15:54:04 +00:00
sbcl.1 Update random bits of text 2020-08-24 16:31:22 -04:00

SBCL is -- ahem! -- imperfectly documented. What can we say? Help with
documentation might not be refused.:-)

There is a Unix man page, sbcl.1.

There is a user manual in texinfo format, in doc/manual/. (In
binary distributions, the compiled-into-HTML translations are also
included.) 

Much of the documentation for supported extensions is in their Lisp
doc strings. For example, to find out how to use the SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
function in the SB-EXT package, you can execute
  (documentation 'sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die 'function)
or
  (describe 'sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die)
in SBCL.

The user manual is incomplete, and some of its chapters are just notes
that "this is similar to chapter such-and-such of the CMU CL user
manual". The old CMU CL documentation can still be useful both for
missing chapters of the user manual and for documentation of the
internals of the system. It can be downloaded from
<ftp://sbcl.sourceforge.net/pub/sbcl/cmucl-docs.tar.bz2>.