Design of CMU Common Lisp

• Package and File Structure
• System Building
• Compiler Overview
• The Implicit Continuation Representation
• ICR conversion
• Local call analysis
• Find components
• ICR optimize
• Type checking
• Constraint propagation
• ICR finalize
• Environment analysis
• Virtual Machine Representation Introduction
• Global TN assignment
• Local TN assignment
• Control optimization
• VMR conversion
• Copy propagation
• Representation selection
• Lifetime analysis
• Packing
• Code generation
• Assembly
• Dumping
• User Interface of the Compiler
• Retargeting the Compiler
• Storage bases and classes
• Type system parameterization
• VOP Definition
• Assembler Retargeting
• Writing Assembly Code
• Required VOPS
• Standard Primitives
• Customizing VMR Conversion
• The Type System
• The Info Database
• The IR1 Interpreter
• Debugger
• Debugger Information
• Object Format
• Memory Management
• Interface to C and Assembler
• Low-level debugging
• Core File Format
• Fasload File Format
• Glossary