GNU Smalltalk User's Guide
GNU Smalltalk Version 1.1.1
by Steven B. Byrne
Introduction
Installation
Which files to examine before compiling
Compiling GNU Smalltalk
Implementations
Readline interface for GNU Smalltalk
Invoking GNU Smalltalk
Command line arguments
Startup sequence
Syntax of GNU Smalltalk
Operating GNU Smalltalk
Per-user init files
Running the test suite
Features of GNU Smalltalk
General Features
Additional features of GNU Smalltalk
Using the C callout mechanism
UNIX file-IO primitive messages
The system message
The getenv message
Initialization blocks
Editing method definitions
Explicitly loading files
Memory accessing methods
Producing backtraces
Controlling tracing of bytecode execution
Printing Smalltalk stack during execution
Assistance using C debuggers
Control C profiling during execution of methods.
Controlling generation of GC flip messages
Explicit termination of GNU Smalltalk
Alternate assignment operator
Differences from Blue Book Smalltalk
Smalltalk interface for GNU Emacs
Autoloading GNU Smalltalk mode
Smalltalk editing mode
Smalltalk interactor mode
Smalltalk Interface to X (STIX)
What is STIX?
Requirements for STIX
Running STIX
Future directions and tasks for GNU Smalltalk
Acknowledgements