1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
4 <herd>common-lisp</herd>
6 Steel Bank Common Lisp is an open source Common Lisp implementation. It
7 provides an integrated native compiler, interpreter, and debugger.
9 SBCL is a fork off of the main branch of CMUCL. SBCL is distinguished from
10 CMUCL by a greater emphasis on maintainability. In particular, the SBCL system
11 can be built directly from its source code, so that the output corresponds to
12 the source code in a controlled, verifiable way, and arbitrary changes can be
13 made to the system without causing bootstrapping problems. SBCL also places
14 less emphasis than CMU CL does on new non-ANSI extensions, or on backward
15 compatibility with old non-ANSI features.
17 Support for native threading on GNU/Linux is available for the x86 and amd64
18 platforms using an NPTL enabled GLIBC.
20 SBCL 0.8.17 and later support Unicode.
23 <flag name='cobalt'>mips only: use mipsel binary instead of mips big endian
24 binary to bootstrap</flag>
25 <flag name='ldb'>Include support for the SBCL low level debugger</flag>