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