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;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
* feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
on OS X/x86.
* feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
of heap.
* feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
* minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
* minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
the low-level debugger.
* enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
strategy.
* thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
* bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
MACROLET forms.
* bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
(reported by Pascal Costanza)
* bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
* bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
* bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
(reported by James Y Knight)
* bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
* bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
* bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
* feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
* bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
(PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
workaround for bug 403.)
* bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
(thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
compilation stages.
* improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
* new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
* bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
* bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
TYPEP.
* improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
faster
* optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
* minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
system return before any subclasses are finalized.
* minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
* new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
inhibit loading the corresponding init files
* new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
* minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
* minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
documentation on package locks for details.
* enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
compiler.
* bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
(reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
* bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
immediately available from the stream
* fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
* fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
by Utz-Uwe Haus)
* bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
* bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
list.
* bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
Mészároz)
* improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
(SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
King)
* improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
** sb-grovel supported
** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
* improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
** floating-point exception handling support
** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
structure accessors.
** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
directive.
** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
defaults for optional parameters.
** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
function, which is already optimized.
changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
* new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
* new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
(through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
* new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
* minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
this change is to make it easier to distribute
location-independent binaries.
* bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
Pascal Costanza)
* optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
(FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
* optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
Alastair Bridgewater)
* optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
(thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
* enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
* fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
* optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
* enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
(thanks to James Knight)
* fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
* new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
* new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
(thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
* minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
* enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
* fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
* fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
* fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
Glenn Ehrlich)
* fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
* fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
Bresson)
* fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
(reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
many others over the years)
* fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
(thanks to Peter van Eynde)
changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
* new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
* fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
* bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
Dietz)
* bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
Kreuter)
* bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
* bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
* bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
(reported by tomppa on #lisp)
* bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
(reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
* optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
* optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
* optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
* optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
* fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
* minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
* fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
* fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
* fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
* fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
* fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
* bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
returning the number of octets which would be written to the
file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
* bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
Lichteblau)
* bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
* bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
* optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
index variables in LOOP
* optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
that don't have a docstring
changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
* minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
* bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
Costanza's "Closer" project)
* bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
specified by AMOP.
* bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
(reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
* bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
and Pascal Costanza)
* bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
* bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
* bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
* bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
(thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
* enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
* enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
(thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
* optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
(thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
* optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
:ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
* optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
* optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
on gencgc
* optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
(thanks to Lutz Euler)
* optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
floating point index variable or a negative step.
changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
* bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
(thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
* bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
(thanks to David Lichteblau)
* bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
* optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
(e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
* enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
* bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
* bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
* bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
* bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
(thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
* new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
(thanks to Kevin Reid)
* new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
* bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
and dump core on SIGQUIT
* threads
** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
from their parents (see manual)
** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
suspended for gc
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
* GENCGC
** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
* new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
* added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
* incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
* bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
* optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
platforms
* bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
mounted.
* bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
Faré Rideau)
* bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
* bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
* bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
* bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
by Vasile Rotaru)
* bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
* bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
* bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
aka froog on #lisp)
* fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
specified by AMOP:
** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
classes; see the manual for more details;
** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
requested slot ordering.
* threads
** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
child thread
** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
Hannu Koivisto)
** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
Hannu Koivisto)
** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
the :method-class keyword argument.
changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
* new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
* enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
* optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
* minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
* minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
*DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
is disabled.
* minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
* minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
is switched on or off
* bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
by Bruno Haible)
* bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
* bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
* bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
(thanks to Kevin Reid)
* bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
* fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
regular LAMBDA.
* bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
* bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
* optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
* flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
debugger.
* bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
not prevent gc from running
* bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
approximation for timezone and DST information between the
universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
* bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
* bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
an inline 32-bit rotation.
* threads
** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
there is only one thread in the session
** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
written to in another
** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
inhibited
** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
queue is full
** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
the orignal arguments.
** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
cell.
** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
name a compiled function.
** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
derivation were fixed.
** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
list-form FUNCTION type.
** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
* New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
(unsigned-byte 8) I/O
* Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
* Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
to Zach Beane)
* bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
of a select system call
* compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
Muñoz)
* bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
Oliveira)
* various error reporting improvements.
* optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
(Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
* bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
* bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
code and foreign data with the same name.
* threads
** added x86-64 support
** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
objects instead of thread ids
** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
starting up or going down
** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
an inappropriate moment
** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
* fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
values form.
** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
** COMPILE may never return NIL.
** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
range before calling Unix time functions
changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
* numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
* Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
* minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
* new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
:SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
for more information.
* TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
pathname is a directory pathname.
* SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
* dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
Cyrus Harmon)
* SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
:METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
* RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
(reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
* bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
Sascha Wilde)
* bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
* bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
* optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
* optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
the PowerPC platform.
* optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
David Lichteblau)
* optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
* contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
(thanks to Tony Martinez)
* threads
** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
** threads block signals until they are set up properly
** errno is no longer shared by threads
** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
*READ-SUPPRESS* is T
** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
as the name of a type, or vice versa
** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
(declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
FLET or MACROLET forms
** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
DOLIST return-form
** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
and OUTPUT-FILE
** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
always evaluated
changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
* fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
target with a 64-bit host compiler.
* fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
* fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
* bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
* bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
"frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
* compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
* contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
* optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
* optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
* bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
* improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
are now supported.
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
a file has the stream as its datum.
** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
:INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
a correct expected type
** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
on broadcast streams.
changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
* incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
--disable-debugger option instead.
* incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
interrupts enabled.
* incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
* null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
* documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
has been added to the manual.
* optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
* optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
* fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
* fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
* fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
safe.
* fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
*ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
* fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
(reported by Rajat Datta).
* fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
unused variable.
* fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
* fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
* fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
* fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
(reported by Baughn on #lisp)
* a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
* improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
(thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
* increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
* partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
* improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
* optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
* fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
on x86-64
* bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
on Alpha-32.
* bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
#380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
* the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
to Wendall Marvel)
* on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
* support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
* fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
handle.
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
transformations.
** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
types for complex arguments better.
** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
complex types.
** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
of type BIT-VECTOR.
** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
resulting in GC crashes.
** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
optional.
** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
declarations.
changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
* incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
* incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
returning to the top level.
* incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
global optimization policy.
* incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
can be set by them.
* The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
various incompatible changes.
* internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
* built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
level local call to FOO".
* fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
now have more legible printed representation
* fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
* workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
explicitly requested.
* fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
Wang)
* fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
(reported by Lutz Euler)
* fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
* fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
the specializer is now possible.
* fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
face of package deletion.
* fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
* contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
* contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
(thanks to Luke Gorrie)
* a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
* optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
on x86-64
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
correctable errors to be signalled.
** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
operands.
changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
* fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
* fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
Lichteblau)
* fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
(thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
* fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
(see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
* fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
related to the ~@F format directive.
* fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
Hanche-Olsen)
* fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
* fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
Euler)
* fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
by Svein Ove Aas)
* optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
coerce function designators to functions.
* optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
* optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
* optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
fixnums no longer create extra rationals
* fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
start of the buffer at the next read.
** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
passing it through to OPEN.
** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
* fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
correctly.
** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
operations.
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
secondary constituent character trait.
** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
syntax.
** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
normal termination.
** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
works more reliably.
** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
RATIO imagpart.
** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
(IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
* new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
and reloading shared object files.
* enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
platforms.
* enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
foreign functions.
* enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
itself.
* bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
to MAKE-INSTANCE.
* bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
* bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
* bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
* fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
by Gabe Garza)
* bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
"Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
Robert J. Macomber)
* bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
* build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
*COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
* on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
closures.
* GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
when compiled with SAFETY 0.
* fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
lisp characters are not eight bits.
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
the correct number of arguments.
** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
to displaced strings.
** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
constituent characters by the tokenizer.
changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
* new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
* new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
available at runtime.
* Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
* SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
* fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
* fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
(backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
* bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
of lambda-list keywords.
* bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
by Bruno Haible)
* bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
(reported by Paul Dietz)
* bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
* bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
TRACE).
* bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
* bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
(reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
* bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
to Gabor Melis)
* fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
CLtS 5.1.3.
** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
parameters correctly.
** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
consequent uses no arguments correctly.
** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
type specifier.
** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
required.
changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
* new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
Unicode consortium.
* new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
* minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
* minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
SB-DEBUG).
* minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
instead.
* fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
LET and LET* forms.
* fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
(reported by Bruno Haible)
* fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
types.
* fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
* bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
(reported by David Morse)