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;;;; stuff related to the toplevel read-eval-print loop, plus some
;;;; other miscellaneous functions that we don't have any better place
;;;; for

;;;; This software is part of the SBCL system. See the README file for
;;;; more information.
;;;;
;;;; This software is derived from the CMU CL system, which was
;;;; written at Carnegie Mellon University and released into the
;;;; public domain. The software is in the public domain and is
;;;; provided with absolutely no warranty. See the COPYING and CREDITS
;;;; files for more information.

(in-package "SB!IMPL")
\f
;;;; magic specials initialized by GENESIS

;;; FIXME: The DEFVAR here is redundant with the (DECLAIM (SPECIAL ..))
;;; of all static symbols in early-impl.lisp.
(progn
  (defvar sb!vm::*current-catch-block*)
  (defvar sb!vm::*current-unwind-protect-block*)
  (defvar *free-interrupt-context-index*))
\f
;;; specials initialized by !COLD-INIT

;;; FIXME: These could be converted to DEFVARs.
(declaim (special #!+(or x86 x86-64) *pseudo-atomic-bits*
                  *allow-with-interrupts*
                  *interrupts-enabled*
                  *interrupt-pending*
                  *type-system-initialized*))

(defvar *cold-init-complete-p*)

;;; counts of nested errors (with internal errors double-counted)
(defvar *maximum-error-depth*)
(defvar *current-error-depth*)

;;;; default initfiles

(defun sysinit-pathname ()
  (or (let ((sbcl-homedir (sbcl-homedir-pathname)))
        (when sbcl-homedir
          (probe-file (merge-pathnames "sbclrc" sbcl-homedir))))
      #!+win32
      (merge-pathnames "sbcl\\sbclrc"
                       (sb!win32::get-folder-pathname
                        sb!win32::csidl_common_appdata))
      #!-win32
      "/etc/sbclrc"))

(defun userinit-pathname ()
  (merge-pathnames ".sbclrc" (user-homedir-pathname)))

(defvar *sysinit-pathname-function* #'sysinit-pathname
  #!+sb-doc
  "Designator for a function of zero arguments called to obtain a pathname
designator for the default sysinit file, or NIL. If the function returns NIL,
no sysinit file is used unless one has been specified on the command-line.")

(defvar *userinit-pathname-function* #'userinit-pathname
  #!+sb-doc
  "Designator for a function of zero arguments called to obtain a pathname
designator or a stream for the default userinit file, or NIL. If the function
returns NIL, no userinit file is used unless one has been specified on the
command-line.")

\f
;;;; miscellaneous utilities for working with with TOPLEVEL

;;; Execute BODY in a context where any %END-OF-THE-WORLD (thrown e.g.
;;; by QUIT) is caught and any final processing and return codes are
;;; handled appropriately.
(defmacro handling-end-of-the-world (&body body)
  (with-unique-names (caught)
    `(let ((,caught (catch '%end-of-the-world
                      (/show0 "inside CATCH '%END-OF-THE-WORLD")
                      ,@body)))
      (/show0 "back from CATCH '%END-OF-THE-WORLD, flushing output")
      (flush-standard-output-streams)
      (sb!thread::terminate-session)
      (/show0 "calling UNIX-EXIT")
      (sb!unix:unix-exit ,caught))))
\f
;;;; working with *CURRENT-ERROR-DEPTH* and *MAXIMUM-ERROR-DEPTH*

;;; INFINITE-ERROR-PROTECT is used by ERROR and friends to keep us out
;;; of hyperspace.
(defmacro infinite-error-protect (&rest forms)
  `(unless (infinite-error-protector)
     (/show0 "back from INFINITE-ERROR-PROTECTOR")
     (let ((*current-error-depth* (1+ *current-error-depth*)))
       (/show0 "in INFINITE-ERROR-PROTECT, incremented error depth")
       ;; arbitrary truncation
       #!+sb-show (sb!debug:backtrace 8)
       ,@forms)))

;;; a helper function for INFINITE-ERROR-PROTECT
(defun infinite-error-protector ()
  (/show0 "entering INFINITE-ERROR-PROTECTOR, *CURRENT-ERROR-DEPTH*=..")
  (/hexstr *current-error-depth*)
  (cond ((not *cold-init-complete-p*)
         (%primitive print "Argh! error in cold init, halting")
         (%primitive sb!c:halt))
        ((or (not (boundp '*current-error-depth*))
             (not (realp   *current-error-depth*))
             (not (boundp '*maximum-error-depth*))
             (not (realp   *maximum-error-depth*)))
         (%primitive print "Argh! corrupted error depth, halting")
         (%primitive sb!c:halt))
        ((> *current-error-depth* *maximum-error-depth*)
         (/show0 "*MAXIMUM-ERROR-DEPTH*=..")
         (/hexstr *maximum-error-depth*)
         (/show0 "in INFINITE-ERROR-PROTECTOR, calling ERROR-ERROR")
         (error-error "Help! "
                      *current-error-depth*
                      " nested errors. "
                      "SB-KERNEL:*MAXIMUM-ERROR-DEPTH* exceeded.")
         t)
        (t
         (/show0 "returning normally from INFINITE-ERROR-PROTECTOR")
         nil)))

;;; FIXME: I had a badly broken version of INFINITE-ERROR-PROTECTOR at
;;; one point (shown below), and SBCL cross-compiled it without
;;; warning about FORMS being undefined. Check whether that problem
;;; (missing warning) is repeatable in the final system and if so, fix
;;; it.
#|
(defun infinite-error-protector ()
  `(cond ((not *cold-init-complete-p*)
          (%primitive print "Argh! error in cold init, halting")
          (%primitive sb!c:halt))
         ((or (not (boundp '*current-error-depth*))
              (not (realp   *current-error-depth*))
              (not (boundp '*maximum-error-depth*))
              (not (realp   *maximum-error-depth*)))
          (%primitive print "Argh! corrupted error depth, halting")
          (%primitive sb!c:halt))
         ((> *current-error-depth* *maximum-error-depth*)
          (/show0 "in INFINITE-ERROR-PROTECTOR, calling ERROR-ERROR")
          (error-error "Help! "
                       *current-error-depth*
                       " nested errors. "
                       "SB-KERNEL:*MAXIMUM-ERROR-DEPTH* exceeded.")
          (progn ,@forms)
          t)
         (t
          (/show0 "in INFINITE-ERROR-PROTECTOR, returning normally")
          nil)))
|#
\f
;;;; miscellaneous external functions

(defun sleep (n)
  #!+sb-doc
  "This function causes execution to be suspended for N seconds. N may
  be any non-negative, non-complex number."
  (when (or (not (realp n))
            (minusp n))
    (error 'simple-type-error
           :format-control "invalid argument to SLEEP: ~S"
           :format-arguments (list n)
           :datum n
           :expected-type '(real 0)))
  #!-win32
  (multiple-value-bind (sec nsec)
      (if (integerp n)
          (values n 0)
          (multiple-value-bind (sec frac)
              (truncate n)
            (values sec (truncate frac 1e-9))))
    (sb!unix:nanosleep sec nsec))
  #!+win32
  (sb!win32:millisleep (truncate (* n 1000)))
  nil)
\f
;;;; SCRUB-CONTROL-STACK

(defconstant bytes-per-scrub-unit 2048)

;;; Zero the unused portion of the control stack so that old objects
;;; are not kept alive because of uninitialized stack variables.

;;; "To summarize the problem, since not all allocated stack frame
;;; slots are guaranteed to be written by the time you call an another
;;; function or GC, there may be garbage pointers retained in your
;;; dead stack locations.  The stack scrubbing only affects the part
;;; of the stack from the SP to the end of the allocated stack."
;;; - ram, on cmucl-imp, Tue, 25 Sep 2001

;;; So, as an (admittedly lame) workaround, from time to time we call
;;; scrub-control-stack to zero out all the unused portion.  This is
;;; supposed to happen when the stack is mostly empty, so that we have
;;; a chance of clearing more of it: callers are currently (2002.07.18)
;;; REPL and SUB-GC

(defun scrub-control-stack ()
  (declare (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0))
           (values (unsigned-byte 20))) ; FIXME: DECLARE VALUES?

  #!-stack-grows-downward-not-upward
  (let* ((csp (sap-int (sb!c::control-stack-pointer-sap)))
         (initial-offset (logand csp (1- bytes-per-scrub-unit)))
         (end-of-stack
          (- (sap-int (sb!di::descriptor-sap sb!vm:*control-stack-end*))
             sb!c:*backend-page-size*)))
    (labels
        ((scrub (ptr offset count)
           (declare (type system-area-pointer ptr)
                    (type (unsigned-byte 16) offset)
                    (type (unsigned-byte 20) count)
                    (values (unsigned-byte 20)))
           (cond ((>= (sap-int ptr) end-of-stack) 0)
                 ((= offset bytes-per-scrub-unit)
                  (look (sap+ ptr bytes-per-scrub-unit) 0 count))
                 (t
                  (setf (sap-ref-word ptr offset) 0)
                  (scrub ptr (+ offset sb!vm:n-word-bytes) count))))
         (look (ptr offset count)
           (declare (type system-area-pointer ptr)
                    (type (unsigned-byte 16) offset)
                    (type (unsigned-byte 20) count)
                    (values (unsigned-byte 20)))
           (cond ((>= (sap-int ptr) end-of-stack) 0)
                 ((= offset bytes-per-scrub-unit)
                  count)
                 ((zerop (sap-ref-word ptr offset))
                  (look ptr (+ offset sb!vm:n-word-bytes) count))
                 (t
                  (scrub ptr offset (+ count sb!vm:n-word-bytes))))))
      (declare (type sb!vm::word csp))
      (scrub (int-sap (- csp initial-offset))
             (* (floor initial-offset sb!vm:n-word-bytes) sb!vm:n-word-bytes)
             0)))

  #!+stack-grows-downward-not-upward
  (let* ((csp (sap-int (sb!c::control-stack-pointer-sap)))
         (end-of-stack (+ (sap-int (sb!di::descriptor-sap sb!vm:*control-stack-start*))
                          sb!c:*backend-page-size*))
         (initial-offset (logand csp (1- bytes-per-scrub-unit))))
    (labels
        ((scrub (ptr offset count)
           (declare (type system-area-pointer ptr)
                    (type (unsigned-byte 16) offset)
                    (type (unsigned-byte 20) count)
                    (values (unsigned-byte 20)))
           (let ((loc (int-sap (- (sap-int ptr) (+ offset sb!vm:n-word-bytes)))))
             (cond ((< (sap-int loc) end-of-stack) 0)
                   ((= offset bytes-per-scrub-unit)
                    (look (int-sap (- (sap-int ptr) bytes-per-scrub-unit))
                          0 count))
                   (t ;; need to fix bug in %SET-STACK-REF
                    (setf (sap-ref-word loc 0) 0)
                    (scrub ptr (+ offset sb!vm:n-word-bytes) count)))))
         (look (ptr offset count)
           (declare (type system-area-pointer ptr)
                    (type (unsigned-byte 16) offset)
                    (type (unsigned-byte 20) count)
                    (values (unsigned-byte 20)))
           (let ((loc (int-sap (- (sap-int ptr) offset))))
             (cond ((< (sap-int loc) end-of-stack) 0)
                   ((= offset bytes-per-scrub-unit)
                    count)
                   ((zerop (sb!kernel::get-lisp-obj-address (stack-ref loc 0)))
                    (look ptr (+ offset sb!vm:n-word-bytes) count))
                   (t
                    (scrub ptr offset (+ count sb!vm:n-word-bytes)))))))
      (declare (type sb!vm::word csp))
      (scrub (int-sap (+ csp initial-offset))
             (* (floor initial-offset sb!vm:n-word-bytes) sb!vm:n-word-bytes)
             0))))
\f
;;;; the default toplevel function

(defvar / nil
  #!+sb-doc
  "a list of all the values returned by the most recent top level EVAL")
(defvar //  nil #!+sb-doc "the previous value of /")
(defvar /// nil #!+sb-doc "the previous value of //")
(defvar *   nil #!+sb-doc "the value of the most recent top level EVAL")
(defvar **  nil #!+sb-doc "the previous value of *")
(defvar *** nil #!+sb-doc "the previous value of **")
(defvar +   nil #!+sb-doc "the value of the most recent top level READ")
(defvar ++  nil #!+sb-doc "the previous value of +")
(defvar +++ nil #!+sb-doc "the previous value of ++")
(defvar -   nil #!+sb-doc "the form currently being evaluated")

(defun interactive-eval (form)
  #!+sb-doc
  "Evaluate FORM, returning whatever it returns and adjusting ***, **, *,
+++, ++, +, ///, //, /, and -."
  (setf - form)
  (unwind-protect
       (let ((results (multiple-value-list (eval form))))
         (setf /// //
               // /
               / results
               *** **
               ** *
               * (car results)))
    (setf +++ ++
          ++ +
          + -))
  (unless (boundp '*)
    ;; The bogon returned an unbound marker.
    ;; FIXME: It would be safer to check every one of the values in RESULTS,
    ;; instead of just the first one.
    (setf * nil)
    (cerror "Go on with * set to NIL."
            "EVAL returned an unbound marker."))
  (values-list /))

;;; Flush anything waiting on one of the ANSI Common Lisp standard
;;; output streams before proceeding.
(defun flush-standard-output-streams ()
  (dolist (name '(*debug-io*
                  *error-output*
                  *query-io*
                  *standard-output*
                  *trace-output*
                  *terminal-io*))
    ;; FINISH-OUTPUT may block more easily than FORCE-OUTPUT
    (force-output (symbol-value name)))
  (values))

(defun process-init-file (specified-pathname default-function)
  (restart-case
      (let ((cookie (list)))
        (flet ((process-stream (stream &optional pathname)
                 (loop
                    (restart-case
                        (handler-bind
                            ((error (lambda (e)
                                      (error "Error during processing of ~
                                             initialization file ~A:~%~%  ~A"
                                             (or pathname stream) e))))
                          (let ((form (read stream nil cookie)))
                            (if (eq cookie form)
                                (return-from process-init-file nil)
                                (eval form))))
                      (continue ()
                        :report "Ignore and continue processing.")))))
          (if specified-pathname
              (with-open-file (stream (parse-native-namestring specified-pathname)
                                      :if-does-not-exist nil)
                (if stream
                    (process-stream stream (pathname stream))
                    (error "The specified init file ~S was not found."
                           specified-pathname)))
              (let ((default (funcall default-function)))
                (when default
                  (with-open-file (stream (pathname default) :if-does-not-exist nil)
                    (when stream
                      (process-stream stream (pathname stream)))))))))
    (abort ()
      :report "Skip this initialization file.")))

(defun process-eval-options (eval-strings-or-forms)
  (/show0 "handling --eval options")
  (flet ((process-1 (string-or-form)
           (etypecase string-or-form
             (string
              (multiple-value-bind (expr pos) (read-from-string string-or-form)
                (unless (eq string-or-form
                            (read-from-string string-or-form nil string-or-form
                                              :start pos))
                  (error "More than one expression in ~S" string-or-form))
                (eval expr)
                (flush-standard-output-streams)))
             (cons (eval string-or-form) (flush-standard-output-streams)))))
    (restart-case
        (dolist (expr-as-string-or-form eval-strings-or-forms)
          (/show0 "handling one --eval option")
          (restart-case
              (handler-bind
                  ((error (lambda (e)
                            (error "Error during processing of --eval ~
                                    option ~S:~%~%  ~A"
                                   expr-as-string-or-form e))))
                (process-1 expr-as-string-or-form))
            (continue ()
              :report "Ignore and continue with next --eval option.")))
      (abort ()
        :report "Skip rest of --eval options."))))

;; Errors while processing the command line cause the system to QUIT,
;; instead of trying to go into the Lisp debugger, because trying to
;; go into the Lisp debugger would get into various annoying issues of
;; where we should go after the user tries to return from the
;; debugger.
(defun startup-error (control-string &rest args)
  (format *error-output*
          "fatal error before reaching READ-EVAL-PRINT loop: ~%  ~?~%"
          control-string
          args)
  (quit :unix-status 1))

;;; the default system top level function
(defun toplevel-init ()
  (/show0 "entering TOPLEVEL-INIT")
  (let ( ;; value of --sysinit option
        (sysinit nil)
        ;; t if --no-sysinit option given
        (no-sysinit nil)
        ;; value of --userinit option
        (userinit nil)
        ;; t if --no-userinit option given
        (no-userinit nil)
        ;; values of --eval options, in reverse order; and also any
        ;; other options (like --load) which're translated into --eval
        ;;
        ;; The values are stored as strings, so that they can be
        ;; passed to READ only after their predecessors have been
        ;; EVALed, so that things work when e.g. REQUIRE in one EVAL
        ;; form creates a package referred to in the next EVAL form,
        ;; except for forms transformed from syntactically-sugary
        ;; switches like --load and --disable-debugger.
        (reversed-evals nil)
        ;; Has a --noprint option been seen?
        (noprint nil)
        ;; everything in *POSIX-ARGV* except for argv[0]=programname
        (options (rest *posix-argv*)))

    (declare (type list options))

    (/show0 "done with outer LET in TOPLEVEL-INIT")

    ;; FIXME: There are lots of ways for errors to happen around here
    ;; (e.g. bad command line syntax, or READ-ERROR while trying to
    ;; READ an --eval string). Make sure that they're handled
    ;; reasonably.

    ;; Process command line options.
    (loop while options do
         (/show0 "at head of LOOP WHILE OPTIONS DO in TOPLEVEL-INIT")
         (let ((option (first options)))
           (flet ((pop-option ()
                    (if options
                        (pop options)
                        (startup-error
                         "unexpected end of command line options"))))
             (cond ((string= option "--sysinit")
                    (pop-option)
                    (if sysinit
                        (startup-error "multiple --sysinit options")
                        (setf sysinit (pop-option))))
                   ((string= option "--no-sysinit")
                    (pop-option)
                    (setf no-sysinit t))
                   ((string= option "--userinit")
                    (pop-option)
                    (if userinit
                        (startup-error "multiple --userinit options")
                        (setf userinit (pop-option))))
                   ((string= option "--no-userinit")
                    (pop-option)
                    (setf no-userinit t))
                   ((string= option "--eval")
                    (pop-option)
                    (push (pop-option) reversed-evals))
                   ((string= option "--load")
                    (pop-option)
                    (push
                     (list 'cl:load (native-pathname (pop-option)))
                     reversed-evals))
                   ((string= option "--noprint")
                    (pop-option)
                    (setf noprint t))
                   ((string= option "--disable-debugger")
                    (pop-option)
                    (push (list 'sb!ext:disable-debugger) reversed-evals))
                   ((string= option "--end-toplevel-options")
                    (pop-option)
                    (return))
                   (t
                    ;; Anything we don't recognize as a toplevel
                    ;; option must be the start of user-level
                    ;; options.. except that if we encounter
                    ;; "--end-toplevel-options" after we gave up
                    ;; because we didn't recognize an option as a
                    ;; toplevel option, then the option we gave up on
                    ;; must have been an error. (E.g. in
                    ;;  "sbcl --eval '(a)' --eval'(b)' --end-toplevel-options"
                    ;; this test will let us detect that the string
                    ;; "--eval(b)" is an error.)
                    (if (find "--end-toplevel-options" options
                              :test #'string=)
                        (startup-error "bad toplevel option: ~S"
                                       (first options))
                        (return)))))))
    (/show0 "done with LOOP WHILE OPTIONS DO in TOPLEVEL-INIT")

    ;; Delete all the options that we processed, so that only
    ;; user-level options are left visible to user code.
    (setf (rest *posix-argv*) options)

    ;; Handle initialization files.
    (/show0 "handling initialization files in TOPLEVEL-INIT")
    ;; This CATCH is needed for the debugger command TOPLEVEL to
    ;; work.
    (catch 'toplevel-catcher
      ;; We wrap all the pre-REPL user/system customized startup
      ;; code in a restart.
      ;;
      ;; (Why not wrap everything, even the stuff above, in this
      ;; restart? Errors above here are basically command line
      ;; or Unix environment errors, e.g. a missing file or a
      ;; typo on the Unix command line, and you don't need to
      ;; get into Lisp to debug them, you should just start over
      ;; and do it right at the Unix level. Errors below here
      ;; are generally errors in user Lisp code, and it might be
      ;; helpful to let the user reach the REPL in order to help
      ;; figure out what's going on.)
      (restart-case
          (progn
            (unless no-sysinit
              (process-init-file sysinit *sysinit-pathname-function*))
            (unless no-userinit
              (process-init-file userinit *userinit-pathname-function*))
            (process-eval-options (nreverse reversed-evals)))
        (abort ()
          :report "Skip to toplevel READ/EVAL/PRINT loop."
          (/show0 "CONTINUEing from pre-REPL RESTART-CASE")
          (values))                     ; (no-op, just fall through)
        (quit ()
          :report "Quit SBCL (calling #'QUIT, killing the process)."
          (/show0 "falling through to QUIT from pre-REPL RESTART-CASE")
          (quit :unix-status 1))))

    ;; one more time for good measure, in case we fell out of the
    ;; RESTART-CASE above before one of the flushes in the ordinary
    ;; flow of control had a chance to operate
    (flush-standard-output-streams)

    (/show0 "falling into TOPLEVEL-REPL from TOPLEVEL-INIT")
    (toplevel-repl noprint)
    ;; (classic CMU CL error message: "You're certainly a clever child.":-)
    (critically-unreachable "after TOPLEVEL-REPL")))

;;; hooks to support customized toplevels like ACL-style toplevel from
;;; KMR on sbcl-devel 2002-12-21.  Altered by CSR 2003-11-16 for
;;; threaded operation: altered *REPL-FUN* to *REPL-FUN-GENERATOR*.
(defvar *repl-read-form-fun* #'repl-read-form-fun
  #!+sb-doc
  "A function of two stream arguments IN and OUT for the toplevel REPL to
call: Return the next Lisp form to evaluate (possibly handling other magic --
like ACL-style keyword commands -- which precede the next Lisp form). The OUT
stream is there to support magic which requires issuing new prompts.")
(defvar *repl-prompt-fun* #'repl-prompt-fun
  #!+sb-doc
  "A function of one argument STREAM for the toplevel REPL to call: Prompt
the user for input.")
(defvar *repl-fun-generator* (constantly #'repl-fun)
  #!+sb-doc
  "A function of no arguments returning a function of one argument NOPRINT
that provides the REPL for the system. Assumes that *STANDARD-INPUT* and
*STANDARD-OUTPUT* are set up.")

;;; read-eval-print loop for the default system toplevel
(defun toplevel-repl (noprint)
  (/show0 "entering TOPLEVEL-REPL")
  (let ((* nil) (** nil) (*** nil)
        (- nil)
        (+ nil) (++ nil) (+++ nil)
        (/// nil) (// nil) (/ nil))
    (/show0 "about to funcall *REPL-FUN-GENERATOR*")
    (let ((repl-fun (funcall *repl-fun-generator*)))
      ;; Each REPL in a multithreaded world should have bindings of
      ;; most CL specials (most critically *PACKAGE*).
      (with-rebound-io-syntax
          (handler-bind ((step-condition 'invoke-stepper))
            (loop
               (/show0 "about to set up restarts in TOPLEVEL-REPL")
               ;; CLHS recommends that there should always be an
               ;; ABORT restart; we have this one here, and one per
               ;; debugger level.
               (with-simple-restart
                   (abort "~@<Exit debugger, returning to top level.~@:>")
                 (catch 'toplevel-catcher
                   #!-win32 (sb!unix::reset-signal-mask)
                   ;; In the event of a control-stack-exhausted-error, we
                   ;; should have unwound enough stack by the time we get
                   ;; here that this is now possible.
                   #!-win32
                   (sb!kernel::protect-control-stack-guard-page 1)
                   (funcall repl-fun noprint)
                   (critically-unreachable "after REPL")))))))))

;;; Our default REPL prompt is the minimal traditional one.
(defun repl-prompt-fun (stream)
  (fresh-line stream)
  (write-string "* " stream)) ; arbitrary but customary REPL prompt

;;; Our default form reader does relatively little magic, but does
;;; handle the Unix-style EOF-is-end-of-process convention.
(defun repl-read-form-fun (in out)
  (declare (type stream in out) (ignore out))
  (let* ((eof-marker (cons nil nil))
         (form (read in nil eof-marker)))
    (if (eq form eof-marker)
        (quit)
        form)))

(defun repl-fun (noprint)
  (/show0 "entering REPL")
  (loop
   (unwind-protect
        (progn
          ;; (See comment preceding the definition of SCRUB-CONTROL-STACK.)
          (scrub-control-stack)
          (sb!thread::get-foreground)
          (unless noprint
            (flush-standard-output-streams)
            (funcall *repl-prompt-fun* *standard-output*)
            ;; (Should *REPL-PROMPT-FUN* be responsible for doing its own
            ;; FORCE-OUTPUT? I can't imagine a valid reason for it not to
            ;; be done here, so leaving it up to *REPL-PROMPT-FUN* seems
            ;; odd. But maybe there *is* a valid reason in some
            ;; circumstances? perhaps some deadlock issue when being driven
            ;; by another process or something...)
            (force-output *standard-output*))
          (let* ((form (funcall *repl-read-form-fun*
                                *standard-input*
                                *standard-output*))
                 (results (multiple-value-list (interactive-eval form))))
            (unless noprint
              (dolist (result results)
                (fresh-line)
                (prin1 result)))))
     ;; If we started stepping in the debugger we want to stop now.
     (disable-stepping))))
\f
;;; a convenient way to get into the assembly-level debugger
(defun %halt ()
  (%primitive sb!c:halt))