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diff --git a/features.txi b/features.txi deleted file mode 100644 index 3580171..0000000 --- a/features.txi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,196 +0,0 @@ -@item array -@cindex array -Alias for ARRAYS - -@item array-for-each -@cindex array-for-each -array-map! and array-for-each (arrays must also be featured). - -@item arrays -@cindex arrays -Use if you want arrays, uniform-arrays and uniform-vectors. - -@item bignums -@cindex bignums -Large precision integers. - -@item careful-interrupt-masking -@cindex careful-interrupt-masking -Define this for extra checking of interrupt masking and some simple -checks for proper use of malloc and free. This is for debugging C -code in @file{sys.c}, @file{eval.c}, @file{repl.c} and makes the -interpreter several times slower than usual. - -@item cautious -@cindex cautious -Normally, the number of arguments arguments to interpreted closures -(from LAMBDA) are checked if the function part of a form is not a -symbol or only the first time the form is executed if the function -part is a symbol. defining @samp{reckless} disables any checking. -If you want to have SCM always check the number of arguments to -interpreted closures define feature @samp{cautious}. - -@item cheap-continuations -@cindex cheap-continuations -If you only need straight stack continuations, executables compile with -this feature will run faster and use less storage than not having it. -Machines with unusual stacks @emph{need} this. Also, if you incorporate -new C code into scm which uses VMS system services or library routines -(which need to unwind the stack in an ordrly manner) you may need to -use this feature. - -@item compiled-closure -@cindex compiled-closure -Use if you want to use compiled closures. - -@item curses -@cindex curses -For the @dfn{curses} screen management package. - -@item debug -@cindex debug -Turns on the features @samp{cautious}, -@samp{careful-interrupt-masking}, and @samp{stack-limit}; uses -@code{-g} flags for debugging SCM source code. - -@item dump -@cindex dump -Convert a running scheme program into an executable file. - -@item dynamic-linking -@cindex dynamic-linking -Be able to load compiled files while running. - -@item edit-line -@cindex edit-line -interface to the editline or GNU readline library. - -@item engineering-notation -@cindex engineering-notation -Use if you want floats to display in engineering notation (exponents -always multiples of 3) instead of scientific notation. - -@item generalized-c-arguments -@cindex generalized-c-arguments -@code{make_gsubr} for arbitrary (< 11) arguments to C functions. - -@item i/o-extensions -@cindex i/o-extensions -Commonly available I/O extensions: @dfn{exec}, line I/O, file -positioning, file delete and rename, and directory functions. - -@item inexact -@cindex inexact -Use if you want floating point numbers. - -@item lit -@cindex lit -Lightweight -- no features - -@item macro -@cindex macro -C level support for hygienic and referentially transparent macros -(syntax-rules macros). - -@item mysql -@cindex mysql -Client connections to the mysql databases. - -@item no-heap-shrink -@cindex no-heap-shrink -Use if you want segments of unused heap to not be freed up after -garbage collection. This may increase time in GC for *very* large -working sets. - -@item none -@cindex none -No features - -@item posix -@cindex posix -Posix functions available on all @dfn{Unix-like} systems. fork and -process functions, user and group IDs, file permissions, and -@dfn{link}. - -@item reckless -@cindex reckless -If your scheme code runs without any errors you can disable almost -all error checking by compiling all files with @samp{reckless}. - -@item record -@cindex record -The Record package provides a facility for user to define their own -record data types. See SLIB for documentation. - -@item regex -@cindex regex -String regular expression matching. - -@item rev2-procedures -@cindex rev2-procedures -These procedures were specified in the @cite{Revised^2 Report on Scheme} -but not in @cite{R4RS}. - -@item sicp -@cindex sicp -Use if you want to run code from: - -@cindex SICP -Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. -@cite{Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.} -The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1985. - -Differences from R5RS are: -@itemize @bullet -@item -(eq? '() '#f) -@item -(define a 25) returns the symbol a. -@item -(set! a 36) returns 36. -@end itemize - -@item single-precision-only -@cindex single-precision-only -Use if you want all inexact real numbers to be single precision. This -only has an effect if SINGLES is also defined (which is the default). -This does not affect complex numbers. - -@item socket -@cindex socket -BSD @dfn{socket} interface. - -@item stack-limit -@cindex stack-limit -Use to enable checking for stack overflow. Define value of the C -preprocessor variable @var{STACK_LIMIT} to be the size to which SCM -should allow the stack to grow. STACK_LIMIT should be less than the -maximum size the hardware can support, as not every routine checks the -stack. - -@item tick-interrupts -@cindex tick-interrupts -Use if you want the ticks and ticks-interrupt functions. - -@item turtlegr -@cindex turtlegr -@dfn{Turtle} graphics calls for both Borland-C and X11 from -sjm@@ee.tut.fi. - -@item unix -@cindex unix -Those unix features which have not made it into the Posix specs: -nice, acct, lstat, readlink, symlink, mknod and sync. - -@item windows -@cindex windows -Microsoft Windows executable. - -@item x -@cindex x -Alias for Xlib feature. - -@item xlib -@cindex xlib -Interface to Xlib graphics routines. - |