NAME¶
elk, scheme-elk - extensible Scheme interpreter
SYNOPSIS¶
elk [
-l file ] [
-h KBytes ] [
-p
load-path ] [
-g ] [
-i ] [
-v type ]
[[
-- ]
args]
elk...
DESCRIPTION¶
Elk (Extension Language Kit) is a Scheme implementation designed as a
general extension language for applications written in C or C++. Normally,
Elk is linked with the application it serves, but a stand-alone version
of the Scheme interpreter is installed as well (usually under the name
elk). This interpreter, together with the standard Scheme toplevel,
Elk can be used as an ordinary, stand-alone implementation of the
Scheme language.
When called without the
-l option,
Elk loads the standard
“toplevel” to start an interactive session. When called with
-l file, the contents of the specified file is loaded instead.
If a `-' is given as a filename argument,
Elk loads from standard
input.
The option
-p load-path can be used to override the standard
load-path. The argument is a colon-separated list of directories. If
this option is not present and the environment variable ELK_LOADPATH is
defined, the value of this variable is used to initialize the
load-path. The value of ELK_LOADPATH has the same format as the
argument to the
-p option.
The
-h KBytes option is used to specify a non-standard heap size.
The default heap size is 512 KBytes.
If the option
-i is specified, symbols are mapped to lower case.
Normally,
Elk is case-sensitive.
The
-g option causes the interpreter to run the garbage collector each
time memory is allocated on the heap. This is useful for writers of extensions
who want to test the garbage collect behavior of an extension. Running
Elk with the
-g option is likely to reveal GC-related bugs in
extensions (such as not properly protected local objects), as it triggers a
garbage collection each time an object is allocated on the Scheme heap. A dot
is written to standard output each time a garbage collection is performed when
-g has been specified.
When called with one or more
-v type (``verbose'') options, the
interpreter prints additional informational messages to standard output,
depending on the value of the
type argument. If
type is
load, the linker command and options are printed each time an object
file is loaded; if
type is
init, the names of extension
initialization and finalization functions are printed as they are called.
The remaining
args are put into a list of strings, and the Scheme
variable
command-line-args is bound to this list in the global
environment. If arguments could be interpreted as options, `--´ can be
used to indicate the end of the options.
FILES¶
$TMPDIR/ldXXXXXX Temporary files
AUTHOR¶
Oliver Laumann