GST(1) GST(1)
NAME
gst - GNU Smalltalk
SYNOPSIS
gst [options] files ...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the gst command. This manual page
is not a full reference. The program, instead, has documentation in
the GNU Info format; see below.
OPTIONS
The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
-a, --smalltalk
Make command line arguments available to smalltalk code.
-c, --core-dump
Produce core dumps on fatal signals.
-d, --user-declaration-trace
Trace compilation of user specified files.
-D, --kernel-declaration-trace
Trace compilation of kernel and user specified files.
-e, --user-execution-trace
Trace execution of files specified on the command line.
-E, --kernel-declaration-trace
Trace execution of kernel and user files.
-g, --no-gc-messages
Suppress garbage collection messages.
-h, -H, -?, --help
Show summary of options.
-i, --rebuild-image
Ignore the saved image file; always load from the kernel method
definition files.
-I FILE, --image-file FILE
Use FILE as the image file to load.
-l, --log-changes
Produce a log of the compiled Smalltalk code to ./st-changes.st.
-L FILE, --log-file FILE
Produce a log of the compiled Smalltalk code to the file FILE.
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-q, --quiet, --silent
Suppress the printing of execution information while running.
-Q, --no-messages
Suppress the printing of execution information and any other
informative message.
-r, --regression-test
Disable certain informative I/O; used by the regression testing
system.
-s, --store-no-source
Store all methods' source code as FileSegments.
-S, --snapshot
Save a snapshot after loading files from the command line.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
-V, --verbose
Print extra diagnostic information while running.
-y, --yacc-debug
Turns on parser debugging.
SEE ALSO
GNU Smalltalk is documented more fully by the info pages. An
excellent reference on Smalltalk in general is Smalltalk-80: the
Language and its Implementation, by Adele Goldberg and David Robson.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Alexander Shinn <foof@debian.org>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
GNU Smalltalk was developed by Steve Byrne, Paolo Bonzini, Brad
Diller, with contributions from many others.
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