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2 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
3 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
4 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
5 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
6 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
7 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
8 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
9 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
11 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
12 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
13 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
14 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
15 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
16 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
17 their constant arguments.
18 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
19 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
20 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
21 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
22 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
23 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
24 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
25 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
26 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
28 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
29 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
30 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
31 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
32 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
33 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
34 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
35 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
36 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
37 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
38 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
39 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
40 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
41 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
43 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
45 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
46 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
47 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
48 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
49 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
50 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
51 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
52 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
53 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
54 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
56 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
57 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
58 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
59 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
60 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
61 compile-time style-warning.
62 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
63 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
64 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
65 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
66 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
67 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
68 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
69 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
70 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
71 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
72 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
73 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
74 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
75 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
76 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
77 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
79 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
80 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
81 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
82 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
83 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
84 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
85 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
86 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
87 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
89 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
91 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
94 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
95 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
96 for the associated fast function is also produced.
97 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
99 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
100 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
101 special handling by the pretty printer.
102 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
103 now interact correctly with type declarations.
104 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
105 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
106 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
107 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
108 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
109 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
110 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
111 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
113 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
114 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
115 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
116 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
117 object loading function as-it.
118 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
119 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
121 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
122 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
124 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
125 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
126 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
127 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
128 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
129 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
130 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
131 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
132 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
134 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
135 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
136 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
137 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
138 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
139 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
140 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
141 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
142 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
143 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
144 file descriptors when there were none.
145 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
146 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
147 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
148 pathnames without a directory.
149 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
150 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
152 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
153 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
154 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
155 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
156 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
157 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
158 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
159 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
161 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
162 after alien stack frames.
163 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
165 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
166 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
167 generic function across method addition and removal.
168 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
169 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
170 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
171 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
173 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
174 non-local transfer of control.
175 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
176 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
177 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
178 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
179 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
180 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
181 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
183 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
184 owned by other threads anymore.
185 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
186 subsequence. (reported by budden)
187 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
188 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
189 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
190 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
192 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
193 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
194 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
195 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
196 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
197 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
198 added to the user manual.
199 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
200 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
201 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
202 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
203 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
204 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
206 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
208 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
209 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
210 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
211 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
212 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
213 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
214 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
216 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
217 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
219 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
220 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
221 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
222 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
223 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
224 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
225 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
227 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
228 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
230 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
231 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
232 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
233 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
234 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
235 type of a variable is made.
236 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
237 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
239 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
240 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
241 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
242 (thanks to Michael Weber)
243 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
244 (thanks to Michael Weber)
245 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
246 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
247 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
249 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
250 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
251 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
252 of the type that's the value of this variable.
253 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
255 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
256 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
257 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
258 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
259 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
260 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
261 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
262 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
263 * improvements to the Windows port:
264 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
265 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
266 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
267 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
268 to single-float coercions.
269 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
270 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
271 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
272 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
273 containing invalid type specifiers.
274 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
275 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
277 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
278 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
279 profiles only the current thread.
280 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
281 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
282 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
283 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
284 has also additional sorting options.
285 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
287 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
288 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
289 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
290 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
291 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
292 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
294 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
296 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
297 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
298 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
299 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
300 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
301 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
303 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
304 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
305 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
306 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
307 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
308 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
309 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
310 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
311 (thanks to James Knight)
312 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
313 (thanks to Travis Cross)
314 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
315 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
316 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
317 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
318 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
319 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
320 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
322 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
323 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
324 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
325 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
326 use this feature in the meanwhile.
327 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
328 adjust thread default control stack size.
329 * enhancement: improved TIME output
330 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
331 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
332 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
333 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
334 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
335 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
336 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
337 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
339 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
341 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
342 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
343 in normal SPEED policies.
344 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
345 in normal SPEED policies.
346 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
348 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
349 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
350 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
351 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
352 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
353 as the second argument.
354 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
355 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
356 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
358 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
359 platform word lengths.
360 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
361 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
362 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
364 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
365 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
367 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
368 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
369 signaling added in 1.0.14.
370 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
371 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
372 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
373 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
374 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
375 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
376 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
377 on threaded platforms.
378 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
379 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
380 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
381 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
382 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
383 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
384 representation is available.
385 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
386 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
387 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
388 Francois-Rene Rideau)
389 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
390 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
391 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
392 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
393 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
394 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
395 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
396 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
397 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
399 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
400 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
401 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
402 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
403 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
404 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
405 traces SETF-functions as well.
406 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
407 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
408 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
409 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
411 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
412 is now more efficient.
413 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
414 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
415 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
416 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
417 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
418 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
419 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
420 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
421 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
422 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
423 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
425 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
426 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
427 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
428 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
429 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
430 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
431 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
432 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
433 * improvements to the Windows port:
434 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
435 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
437 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
438 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
439 (see documentation for details.)
440 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
441 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
442 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
443 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
444 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
446 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
447 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
448 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
449 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
450 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
451 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
452 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
453 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
454 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
456 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
457 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
458 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
459 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
460 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
461 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
462 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
464 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
465 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
466 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
467 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
468 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
469 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
470 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
471 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
473 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
474 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
475 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
476 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
477 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
478 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
479 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
480 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
481 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
482 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
483 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
484 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
485 known at compile-time.
486 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
487 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
488 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
490 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
491 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
493 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
494 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
495 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
496 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
497 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
498 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
500 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
502 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
504 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
507 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
508 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
509 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
510 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
511 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
512 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
513 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
514 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
515 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
516 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
517 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
518 END is smaller then START.
519 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
520 calls to profiled functions.
521 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
522 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
523 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
524 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
525 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
526 hash-table usage have been fixed.
527 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
528 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
529 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
530 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
531 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
534 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
535 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
536 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
537 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
538 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
539 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
540 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
541 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
542 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
543 and will signal an error at runtime.
544 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
545 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
546 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
548 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
549 platforms providing stack allocation support.
550 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
551 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
553 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
554 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
555 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
556 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
557 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
558 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
560 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
561 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
563 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
565 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
566 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
567 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
568 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
569 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
570 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
571 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
572 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
573 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
574 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
575 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
576 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
577 a specializer parameter for the method.
578 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
579 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
580 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
581 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
582 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
584 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
585 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
587 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
588 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
589 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
590 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
591 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
592 the CAS operation was being performed.
593 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
594 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
595 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
596 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
599 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
600 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
601 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
602 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
604 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
605 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
606 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
607 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
608 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
609 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
610 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
611 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
612 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
613 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
614 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
615 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
616 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
617 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
618 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
620 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
621 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
622 the underlying file descriptor.
623 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
624 could cause buffer-overflows.
625 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
626 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
627 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
629 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
631 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
632 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
633 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
634 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
635 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
636 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
639 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
640 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
641 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
642 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
643 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
644 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
645 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
647 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
649 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
650 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
651 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
652 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
653 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
654 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
656 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
657 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
658 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
659 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
660 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
661 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
662 objects that can be seen by the GC.
663 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
664 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
665 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
667 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
668 as the property-list of a symbol.
669 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
670 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
671 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
674 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
675 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
676 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
677 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
678 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
679 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
680 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
681 debugging and introspective support.
682 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
683 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
684 has the owning thread as its value.
685 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
686 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
688 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
690 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
691 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
692 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
693 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
694 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
695 (depending on the bignum size.)
696 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
698 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
699 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
701 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
702 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
704 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
705 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
706 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
707 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
708 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
711 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
712 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
714 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
715 significantly faster.
716 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
717 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
718 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
719 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
720 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
721 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
722 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
723 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
724 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
725 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
726 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
728 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
730 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
731 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
732 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
733 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
734 that use the generational garbage collector
735 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
737 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
738 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
740 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
742 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
743 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
744 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
745 system running with GC inhibited.
746 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
747 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
748 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
749 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
750 (reported by Peter Graves)
752 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
753 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
754 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
756 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
757 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
758 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
759 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
760 documented as unsafe.
761 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
762 in multithreaded application code.
763 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
764 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
765 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
767 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
768 variants no longer cons.
769 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
770 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
771 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
772 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
773 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
774 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
775 are significantly faster.
776 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
777 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
778 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
779 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
780 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
781 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
782 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
783 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
784 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
785 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
786 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
788 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
789 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
790 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
791 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
792 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
793 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
794 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
795 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
796 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
797 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
798 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
799 line in a file is unlimited.
800 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
801 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
802 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
803 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
804 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
805 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
806 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
807 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
808 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
809 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
810 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
811 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
812 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
813 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
814 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
815 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
816 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
817 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
818 experimental until this is fixed.
819 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
820 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
821 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
822 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
823 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
825 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
826 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
827 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
828 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
829 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
830 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
832 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
833 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
834 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
835 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
836 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
837 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
838 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
839 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
840 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
842 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
843 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
844 (reported by Andras Simon)
845 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
846 bugs remain on x86-64.)
847 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
848 funcallable instances.
849 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
850 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
852 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
853 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
854 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
855 non-base strings as arguments
856 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
858 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
859 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
861 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
862 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
863 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
864 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
865 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
866 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
867 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
868 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
869 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
871 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
872 (thanks to Jon Buller)
873 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
874 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
877 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
878 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
879 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
881 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
882 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
883 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
884 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
885 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
887 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
888 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
889 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
890 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
891 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
892 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
893 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
894 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
895 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
896 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
897 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
898 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
899 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
900 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
901 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
902 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
903 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
904 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
905 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
906 stack frames from alien callbacks.
907 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
908 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
909 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
910 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
912 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
913 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
914 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
915 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
916 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
917 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
918 sb-introspect contrib.
919 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
920 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
921 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
922 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
923 users and the general community)
924 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
925 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
926 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
927 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
928 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
929 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
930 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
931 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
932 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
933 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
934 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
935 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
936 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
937 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
938 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
939 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
941 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
942 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
943 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
944 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
945 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
946 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
947 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
949 * improvements to the Windows port:
950 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
951 to Alastair Bridgewater)
952 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
954 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
955 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
957 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
958 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
959 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
960 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
961 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
962 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
963 core, and restored on startup.
964 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
965 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
966 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
967 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
968 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
969 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
970 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
972 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
973 (thanks to Zach Beane)
974 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
976 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
977 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
978 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
980 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
981 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
982 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
983 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
984 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
985 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
987 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
988 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
989 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
990 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
991 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
992 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
993 (reported by Josip Gracin)
994 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
995 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
996 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
997 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
998 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
999 and don't cause extra consing
1000 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
1001 whose elements types have been declared.
1002 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
1003 ** Support for allocation profiling
1004 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
1005 * Improvements to the Windows port:
1006 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
1007 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
1008 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1009 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
1011 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
1012 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
1013 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
1014 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
1015 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
1017 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
1018 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
1019 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
1021 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
1022 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
1023 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
1024 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
1025 with non-variable places
1026 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
1027 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
1028 code more stable against memory faults.
1029 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
1030 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
1031 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
1032 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
1035 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
1036 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
1037 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
1038 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
1039 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
1040 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
1041 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
1042 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
1043 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1044 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1045 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
1046 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
1047 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
1049 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
1050 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
1051 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
1052 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
1053 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
1054 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
1055 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
1057 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
1058 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
1060 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
1061 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
1062 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
1063 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
1064 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
1065 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
1066 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
1067 to the single-stepper REPL.
1068 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
1069 for a type now works.
1070 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
1072 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
1073 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
1074 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
1075 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1076 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
1077 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
1078 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
1079 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
1081 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
1082 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
1083 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
1084 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
1085 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
1086 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
1087 whose bindings are modified
1088 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
1089 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
1090 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
1091 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
1093 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
1094 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
1095 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
1096 as specified by AMOP.
1097 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
1099 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
1100 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1101 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
1102 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
1103 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
1104 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
1105 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
1106 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
1107 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
1108 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
1109 better type inference.
1110 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
1111 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
1112 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
1113 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
1114 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
1115 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1116 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
1117 initialization of methods can now be used to override
1118 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
1120 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
1121 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
1122 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
1123 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
1124 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
1126 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
1127 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
1128 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
1129 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
1130 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
1131 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
1132 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
1133 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
1134 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
1135 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
1136 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
1137 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
1138 (reported by James Y Knight).
1139 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
1140 argument for shadowing by local functions.
1141 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
1143 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
1144 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
1145 with type-inference.
1146 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
1147 types in some cases.
1148 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
1149 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1150 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
1152 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
1153 * thread-safety improvements:
1154 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
1155 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
1156 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
1158 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
1159 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
1161 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
1162 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
1163 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
1165 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
1166 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
1167 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
1168 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
1169 class became finalizeable.
1170 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
1171 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
1172 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
1173 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
1175 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
1176 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
1177 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
1178 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
1179 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
1180 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
1181 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1182 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
1183 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
1184 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
1185 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
1186 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
1187 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
1188 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1189 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
1190 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
1191 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
1192 * minor code generation optimizations:
1193 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
1194 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
1195 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
1196 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
1197 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
1198 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1199 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
1200 return its argument.
1202 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
1203 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
1205 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
1207 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
1208 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
1209 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
1210 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
1211 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
1212 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
1213 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
1214 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
1215 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
1216 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
1217 the low-level debugger.
1218 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
1219 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
1220 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
1221 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
1223 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
1224 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
1225 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
1227 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
1228 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1229 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
1230 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
1231 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
1232 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
1233 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
1234 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
1235 (reported by James Y Knight)
1236 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
1237 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
1238 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
1239 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
1240 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
1241 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
1242 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
1243 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
1244 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
1245 workaround for bug 403.)
1246 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
1247 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1248 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1249 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
1251 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
1252 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
1253 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
1255 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
1256 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
1257 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
1258 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
1259 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
1261 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
1263 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
1264 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
1265 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
1268 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
1269 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
1270 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
1271 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
1272 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
1273 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
1274 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
1275 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
1276 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
1277 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
1278 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
1279 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
1280 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
1281 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
1282 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
1283 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
1284 documentation on package locks for details.
1285 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
1287 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
1288 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
1289 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
1290 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
1291 immediately available from the stream
1292 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
1293 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
1294 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
1295 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
1297 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
1298 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
1299 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
1301 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
1302 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
1303 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
1305 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
1306 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
1307 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
1308 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
1310 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
1311 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
1312 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
1313 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1314 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
1315 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
1316 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1317 ** sb-grovel supported
1318 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
1319 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
1320 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
1321 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
1322 ** floating-point exception handling support
1323 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
1324 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1325 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1326 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
1327 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
1328 structure accessors.
1329 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
1331 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
1332 defaults for optional parameters.
1333 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
1334 function, which is already optimized.
1336 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
1337 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
1338 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
1339 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
1340 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
1341 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
1342 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
1343 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
1344 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
1345 this change is to make it easier to distribute
1346 location-independent binaries.
1347 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
1348 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
1350 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
1351 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
1352 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
1353 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
1354 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
1355 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
1356 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
1357 Alastair Bridgewater)
1358 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
1359 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
1360 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1361 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
1362 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
1363 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
1364 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
1365 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
1366 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
1367 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
1368 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
1369 (thanks to James Knight)
1370 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
1371 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
1373 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
1374 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
1375 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
1376 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
1377 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
1378 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
1379 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
1380 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
1381 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
1382 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
1383 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
1384 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
1385 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
1386 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
1387 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
1388 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
1389 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
1390 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
1391 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
1392 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
1393 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
1395 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
1396 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
1397 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
1398 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1399 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
1400 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
1402 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
1403 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
1404 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
1405 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
1406 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
1407 many others over the years)
1408 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
1409 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
1410 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
1412 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
1413 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
1414 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1415 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
1416 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
1417 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
1419 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
1421 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
1422 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
1423 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
1424 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
1425 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
1426 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
1427 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
1428 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
1429 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
1430 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
1431 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
1432 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1433 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
1434 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1436 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
1437 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
1438 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
1439 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
1440 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
1441 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
1442 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
1443 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
1444 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
1445 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1446 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
1447 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
1448 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
1449 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
1450 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
1451 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
1452 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
1453 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1454 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
1455 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
1457 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
1458 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1459 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
1460 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
1461 index variables in LOOP
1462 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
1463 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1464 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
1465 that don't have a docstring
1467 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
1468 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
1469 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
1470 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
1471 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
1472 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
1473 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
1474 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
1475 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
1476 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
1477 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
1478 Costanza's "Closer" project)
1479 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
1480 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
1482 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
1483 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
1484 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
1485 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
1486 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
1487 and Pascal Costanza)
1488 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
1489 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
1490 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
1491 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
1492 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1493 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
1494 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
1495 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
1496 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1497 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
1498 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1499 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
1500 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1501 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
1502 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1503 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
1504 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
1505 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
1506 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
1508 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
1509 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1510 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
1511 floating point index variable or a negative step.
1513 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
1514 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
1515 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
1516 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
1517 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
1518 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1519 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
1520 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
1521 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
1522 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1523 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1524 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
1525 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
1526 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
1527 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1528 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
1529 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
1530 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
1531 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
1532 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
1533 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
1534 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1535 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
1536 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1537 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
1538 and dump core on SIGQUIT
1540 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
1541 from their parents (see manual)
1542 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
1543 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
1544 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
1545 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
1546 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
1547 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
1549 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1550 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
1551 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
1552 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
1554 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
1555 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
1556 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
1558 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
1559 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
1560 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
1561 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
1562 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
1563 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
1564 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
1565 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
1566 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
1567 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
1568 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
1569 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
1570 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
1571 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
1573 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
1574 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
1575 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
1577 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
1578 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
1580 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
1581 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1582 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
1583 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
1584 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
1585 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
1586 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
1587 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
1588 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
1590 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
1591 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
1592 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
1593 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
1594 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
1595 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
1597 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
1599 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
1600 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
1601 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
1602 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
1603 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
1604 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
1605 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
1606 classes; see the manual for more details;
1607 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
1608 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
1609 requested slot ordering.
1611 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
1613 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
1614 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
1616 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
1618 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
1619 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
1620 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
1621 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
1622 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1623 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
1624 the :method-class keyword argument.
1626 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
1627 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
1628 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
1629 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1630 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
1631 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1632 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
1633 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1634 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
1635 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
1636 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
1638 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
1639 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
1640 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
1641 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
1642 is switched on or off
1643 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
1644 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
1645 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
1647 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
1648 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1649 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
1650 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
1651 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1652 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
1653 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
1654 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
1655 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
1657 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
1658 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
1659 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
1660 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
1661 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
1662 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
1663 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
1665 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
1666 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
1667 not prevent gc from running
1668 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
1669 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
1670 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
1671 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
1672 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
1673 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
1674 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
1675 an inline 32-bit rotation.
1677 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
1678 there is only one thread in the session
1679 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
1680 written to in another
1681 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
1682 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
1684 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
1685 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
1687 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
1688 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1689 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
1690 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
1691 the orignal arguments.
1692 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
1694 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
1695 name a compiled function.
1696 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
1697 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
1698 derivation were fixed.
1699 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
1700 list-form FUNCTION type.
1701 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
1702 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
1703 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
1705 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
1706 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
1707 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
1708 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
1709 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
1710 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
1712 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
1713 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
1714 of a select system call
1715 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
1717 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
1718 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
1720 * various error reporting improvements.
1721 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
1722 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1723 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
1724 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
1725 code and foreign data with the same name.
1727 ** added x86-64 support
1728 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
1729 objects instead of thread ids
1730 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
1731 starting up or going down
1732 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
1733 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
1734 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
1735 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
1736 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
1737 an inappropriate moment
1738 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
1739 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
1740 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
1741 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1742 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
1743 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
1744 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
1746 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
1747 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
1748 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
1749 range before calling Unix time functions
1751 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
1752 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
1753 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1754 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
1755 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
1756 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
1757 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1758 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
1759 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
1760 for more information.
1761 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
1762 pathname is a directory pathname.
1763 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
1764 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
1766 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
1767 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
1768 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
1769 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
1770 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
1771 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
1773 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
1774 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
1775 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
1776 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
1777 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
1778 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
1779 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1780 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
1781 the PowerPC platform.
1782 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
1783 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
1785 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
1786 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
1787 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
1788 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
1789 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
1790 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1792 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
1793 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
1794 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
1795 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
1796 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
1797 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1798 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
1799 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
1800 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
1801 as the name of a type, or vice versa
1802 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
1803 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
1804 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
1805 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
1806 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
1807 FLET or MACROLET forms
1808 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
1810 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
1812 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
1815 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
1816 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
1817 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
1818 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
1819 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
1820 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
1821 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
1822 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
1823 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
1824 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
1825 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
1826 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
1827 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
1828 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
1829 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
1830 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1831 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
1832 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1833 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
1834 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
1835 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
1836 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
1838 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1839 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
1840 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
1841 a file has the stream as its datum.
1842 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
1843 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
1844 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
1845 a correct expected type
1846 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
1847 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
1848 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
1849 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
1850 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
1851 on broadcast streams.
1853 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
1854 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
1855 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
1856 --disable-debugger option instead.
1857 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
1859 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
1860 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
1861 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
1862 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
1863 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
1864 has been added to the manual.
1865 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
1866 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
1867 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
1868 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
1869 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1870 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
1871 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
1872 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
1873 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
1874 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
1876 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
1877 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
1878 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
1879 (reported by Rajat Datta).
1880 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1881 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1883 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1884 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1885 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1886 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1887 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1888 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1889 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1890 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1891 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1892 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1893 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1894 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1895 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1896 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1897 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1898 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1899 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1900 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1901 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1903 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1905 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1906 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1907 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1908 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1909 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1911 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1912 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1913 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1914 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1915 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1916 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1917 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1919 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1920 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1921 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1923 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1924 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
1925 types for complex arguments better.
1926 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
1928 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
1929 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
1931 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
1932 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
1933 resulting in GC crashes.
1934 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
1936 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
1939 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
1940 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
1941 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
1942 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
1943 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
1944 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
1945 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
1946 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
1947 returning to the top level.
1948 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
1949 global optimization policy.
1950 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
1951 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
1952 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
1954 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
1955 various incompatible changes.
1956 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
1957 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
1958 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
1959 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
1960 level local call to FOO".
1961 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
1962 now have more legible printed representation
1963 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
1964 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
1965 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
1966 explicitly requested.
1967 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1968 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1969 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1970 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1971 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1973 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1974 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1975 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1976 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1977 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1978 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1979 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1980 the specializer is now possible.
1981 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1982 face of package deletion.
1983 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1984 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1985 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1986 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1987 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1988 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1989 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1990 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1991 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1992 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1994 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1995 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1996 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1997 correctable errors to be signalled.
1998 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1999 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
2002 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
2003 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2004 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
2006 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
2007 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2008 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
2009 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
2010 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
2011 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
2012 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
2013 related to the ~@F format directive.
2014 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
2016 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
2017 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
2018 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
2019 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
2021 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
2023 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
2024 coerce function designators to functions.
2025 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
2026 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
2027 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
2028 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
2029 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
2030 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
2031 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2032 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
2033 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
2034 start of the buffer at the next read.
2035 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
2036 passing it through to OPEN.
2037 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2038 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
2039 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
2040 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
2041 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
2042 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
2043 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
2044 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
2046 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
2047 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2048 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2049 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
2050 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2051 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
2053 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2054 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
2055 secondary constituent character trait.
2056 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
2058 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
2060 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
2061 works more reliably.
2062 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
2063 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
2064 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
2066 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
2067 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
2069 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
2070 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
2071 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
2072 and reloading shared object files.
2073 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2074 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
2076 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
2077 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
2078 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
2080 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
2081 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
2083 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
2085 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
2086 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
2087 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
2088 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2089 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
2090 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
2091 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
2093 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
2094 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
2096 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
2097 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
2098 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
2099 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
2100 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
2102 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
2103 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
2104 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2105 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
2106 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
2107 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
2108 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
2109 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2110 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
2111 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
2112 lisp characters are not eight bits.
2113 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2114 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
2115 the correct number of arguments.
2116 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
2117 to displaced strings.
2118 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
2119 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
2121 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
2122 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
2123 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
2124 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
2125 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
2126 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
2127 available at runtime.
2128 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
2129 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
2130 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
2131 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2132 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
2133 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
2134 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
2135 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
2136 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
2137 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
2138 of lambda-list keywords.
2139 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
2140 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
2142 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
2143 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
2144 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2145 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
2146 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
2147 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
2148 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
2150 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
2151 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2152 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
2153 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
2154 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
2156 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2157 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
2158 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
2159 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
2160 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
2161 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2162 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
2164 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
2165 parameters correctly.
2166 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
2167 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
2168 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
2170 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
2173 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
2174 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
2175 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
2176 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
2178 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
2179 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
2180 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
2181 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
2182 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
2183 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
2184 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
2185 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
2186 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
2188 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
2189 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
2191 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
2193 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
2194 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
2195 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2196 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
2198 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
2199 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2200 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
2201 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
2202 (reported by David Morse)
2203 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
2204 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2205 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
2206 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2207 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
2208 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2209 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
2210 now exists, an signals an error.
2211 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
2212 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
2213 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2214 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
2215 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2216 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
2217 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
2218 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2219 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
2220 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2221 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
2222 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
2224 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
2225 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
2226 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
2227 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
2228 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2229 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
2230 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
2231 specialized array element types.
2232 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
2233 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2234 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
2235 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2236 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
2237 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
2238 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
2239 Wragg for the simple test case)
2240 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2241 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
2243 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
2244 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
2245 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
2246 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
2247 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
2249 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
2251 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
2252 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
2253 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
2254 references to global functions.
2255 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
2257 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
2259 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
2260 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2261 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
2262 supported platforms.
2263 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
2264 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
2265 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
2266 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
2267 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
2268 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2269 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
2270 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2271 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
2272 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
2273 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
2274 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
2275 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
2277 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
2278 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2279 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
2280 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
2281 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
2282 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
2284 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
2285 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
2287 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
2288 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
2289 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
2290 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2291 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
2292 returns the right answer.
2293 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
2295 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
2297 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
2298 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
2300 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
2301 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
2303 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
2304 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
2305 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
2306 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
2307 the supported interface.
2308 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
2309 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
2310 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2311 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
2312 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
2313 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
2314 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
2315 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
2316 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
2317 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
2318 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
2319 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
2320 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
2321 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
2322 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
2323 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
2324 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
2325 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
2326 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
2327 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
2328 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
2329 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
2330 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
2331 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
2332 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
2333 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
2334 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2335 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
2336 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
2338 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
2339 * incompatible change: the internal functions
2340 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
2341 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
2342 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
2343 instead of the old functions.
2344 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
2345 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
2347 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
2348 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
2350 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
2351 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
2352 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
2353 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
2355 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
2356 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2357 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
2358 (reported by Rick Taube)
2359 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
2360 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
2361 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
2362 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
2364 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
2365 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
2366 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
2367 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
2368 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
2369 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
2370 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
2371 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
2372 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
2373 represented relative to default pathnames.
2374 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
2375 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
2376 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
2378 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
2379 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
2380 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
2382 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2383 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
2384 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
2385 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
2387 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
2389 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
2390 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
2391 conditional newlines.
2392 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
2393 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
2394 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
2396 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
2397 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
2399 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
2400 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
2401 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
2402 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
2403 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
2404 compiled in unconditionally.
2405 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
2406 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
2407 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
2408 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
2409 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
2411 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
2412 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
2413 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
2414 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
2415 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
2416 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
2417 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
2418 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
2419 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
2420 an implementation-internal package.
2421 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
2423 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
2424 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
2425 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
2426 bodies are now more legible.
2427 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
2428 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
2429 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
2430 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
2431 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2432 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
2433 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
2435 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
2436 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
2437 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
2438 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
2439 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
2440 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
2441 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
2442 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
2443 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
2444 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
2446 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
2447 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
2448 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
2449 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
2450 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
2451 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
2452 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
2453 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
2454 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
2455 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
2456 system even when most of them are idle
2457 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
2458 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2459 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
2461 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
2462 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
2463 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
2464 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
2465 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
2467 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
2468 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
2469 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
2470 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
2471 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
2472 string for information on the protocol.
2473 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
2474 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
2476 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
2477 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
2479 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
2480 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
2481 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
2482 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
2483 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
2484 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
2486 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
2487 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
2489 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
2490 move between its address being taken and the call to
2491 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
2492 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
2493 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
2494 instances corresponding to C structs.
2496 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
2497 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
2498 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
2499 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
2500 has implications for memory management of client code
2501 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
2502 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
2503 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
2504 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
2505 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
2506 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
2507 quality should be considered deprecated.
2508 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
2509 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
2510 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
2511 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
2512 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
2514 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
2515 designator as the defaults argument.
2516 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
2517 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
2518 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2519 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
2520 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
2522 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
2524 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
2525 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2526 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
2527 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
2528 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2529 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
2531 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
2532 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2533 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
2534 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
2535 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
2536 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
2537 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2538 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
2539 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
2540 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
2541 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
2542 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2543 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
2544 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
2545 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
2546 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
2547 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
2549 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
2550 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
2551 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
2553 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
2554 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2555 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
2556 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
2557 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
2558 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
2559 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2560 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
2561 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
2563 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
2564 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
2566 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
2567 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
2569 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
2570 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2571 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
2572 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
2574 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
2575 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
2576 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2577 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
2578 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
2579 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
2580 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
2581 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
2583 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
2584 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
2585 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
2587 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
2588 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
2590 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2591 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
2593 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
2594 from local to shared slots.
2595 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
2596 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
2597 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
2598 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
2600 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
2601 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
2602 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
2603 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
2604 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
2605 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
2606 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
2607 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
2608 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
2610 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
2612 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
2614 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
2615 print using #P"..." syntax.
2617 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
2618 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
2619 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
2620 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
2621 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
2622 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
2623 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
2624 * [placeholder for DX summary]
2625 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
2626 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
2627 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
2628 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
2629 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
2630 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
2631 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
2632 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
2633 the test case to Dave Roberts)
2634 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
2635 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
2636 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
2637 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2638 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
2639 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
2640 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
2641 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2642 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
2643 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
2644 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
2645 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
2646 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2647 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
2648 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
2651 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
2652 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
2653 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
2654 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
2655 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
2656 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
2657 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
2658 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
2659 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
2660 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2661 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
2662 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
2663 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
2665 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
2666 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
2668 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
2669 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
2670 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2671 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
2672 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2673 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
2675 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
2676 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
2677 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
2679 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
2681 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
2683 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
2684 their output stream on EOF from read.
2685 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
2686 have been read to end-of-file.
2687 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
2689 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
2690 description of determination of which consecutive characters
2692 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
2693 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
2694 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2695 less than 10 works correctly.
2696 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2697 more than 10 works correctly.
2698 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
2699 the readtable currently in effect.
2701 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
2702 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
2703 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
2704 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
2705 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
2706 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
2707 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
2708 should usually be replaced by
2709 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
2710 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
2711 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
2712 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
2713 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
2714 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
2715 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
2716 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
2718 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
2719 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
2720 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2721 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
2722 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
2723 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2724 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
2725 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
2726 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
2727 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
2728 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
2729 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
2730 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
2732 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
2733 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
2734 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
2735 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2736 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
2737 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
2738 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
2739 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2740 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
2741 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
2742 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
2743 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
2744 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
2745 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
2746 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2747 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
2748 non-local entry points.
2749 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
2751 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2752 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
2754 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
2755 host is already defined.
2756 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
2758 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
2759 or not a character is whitespace.
2760 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
2761 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
2762 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
2764 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
2765 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
2767 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
2769 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
2770 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
2771 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
2772 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
2773 designator argument does not designate a stream.
2774 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
2775 examining the synonym.
2776 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
2778 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
2779 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
2781 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
2782 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
2783 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
2784 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
2785 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
2786 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
2787 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
2788 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
2789 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
2790 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2791 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
2792 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
2794 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
2795 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
2796 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2797 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
2798 stream position information.
2799 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
2800 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
2801 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
2802 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
2803 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2804 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
2806 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
2807 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
2809 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2810 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2811 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
2812 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
2813 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
2814 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
2815 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
2817 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
2819 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
2820 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
2821 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
2822 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
2823 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
2824 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
2825 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
2826 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
2827 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
2828 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
2829 the "SYS" logical host.
2830 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
2831 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
2832 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
2833 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2834 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
2835 now each have their own history, command character, and other
2836 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2837 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2838 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
2840 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
2841 shift greater than 32.
2842 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
2843 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
2844 in some circumstances.
2846 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
2847 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
2848 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
2849 environments like SLIME.
2850 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
2851 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
2852 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
2853 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
2854 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
2855 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
2856 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
2857 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
2858 argument types for all arguments.
2859 * various threading fixes
2860 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
2861 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
2862 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
2863 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
2865 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
2866 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
2867 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
2868 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
2869 arguments to a full call.
2870 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
2871 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
2872 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
2873 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
2875 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
2876 inserts a space where necessary.
2877 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
2878 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
2879 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
2880 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2881 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2882 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2883 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2884 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2885 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2886 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2887 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2888 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2890 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2891 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2892 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2894 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2896 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2897 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2898 argument and negative second.
2899 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2900 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2901 interval, containing 0.
2902 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2904 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2905 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2907 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2908 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2909 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2910 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2911 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2912 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2913 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2914 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2915 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2916 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2917 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2918 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2919 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2920 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2921 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2922 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2923 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2924 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
2925 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
2926 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
2927 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
2928 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2929 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
2930 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
2931 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
2932 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
2933 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
2934 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
2935 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
2937 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
2938 platform now returns the right answer.
2939 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
2940 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
2941 precomputation is now tunable.
2942 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
2943 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
2944 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
2945 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
2946 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
2947 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
2948 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
2949 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
2950 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
2951 has been added for the alpha.
2952 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
2953 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
2954 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
2955 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
2956 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
2957 MEMBER-types to numeric.
2958 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
2960 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
2961 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
2962 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
2964 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
2965 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2966 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
2967 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2968 might be pseudo-atomic.
2969 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2970 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2972 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2974 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2976 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2977 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2978 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2979 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2980 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2981 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2983 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2984 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2985 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2986 small float arguments.
2987 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2989 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2990 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2991 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2992 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2993 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2994 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2996 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2998 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2999 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
3000 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
3001 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
3002 with negative last argument.
3003 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
3004 an error during type derivation.
3005 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
3007 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
3008 generates a 32-bit binary.
3009 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3010 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
3011 data structures referred to above).
3013 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
3014 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
3015 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
3016 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
3017 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
3018 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
3019 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
3020 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
3021 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
3022 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3023 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
3024 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
3026 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
3027 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
3029 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
3030 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
3031 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
3032 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
3033 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
3034 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
3035 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
3036 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
3037 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
3038 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
3039 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
3040 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3041 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
3042 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
3043 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
3044 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
3045 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
3046 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3047 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
3048 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
3049 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
3050 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
3051 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3052 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
3053 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
3054 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
3055 optimization quality.
3056 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
3057 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
3058 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
3059 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
3060 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3061 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3062 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
3063 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
3064 types form a lattice under type intersection.
3065 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
3066 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
3067 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
3068 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
3069 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
3070 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
3071 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
3072 calling the generic function.
3073 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
3074 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
3075 obscure ANSI requirements
3077 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
3078 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
3079 garbage, confusing the compiler.
3080 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
3081 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
3082 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
3083 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
3084 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
3085 circumstances could go off-by-one.
3086 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
3088 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
3089 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
3090 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
3091 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
3092 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
3093 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
3094 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
3095 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
3096 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
3097 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3098 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
3099 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
3100 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
3101 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
3102 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
3103 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
3104 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
3105 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
3106 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
3107 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
3109 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
3110 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
3111 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
3112 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
3114 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
3115 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
3116 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
3117 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
3118 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
3119 provide helpful disassembly notes.
3120 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
3121 the class in more cases than previously.
3122 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
3123 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3124 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
3125 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3126 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
3127 without lambda list.
3128 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
3129 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
3130 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3131 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
3132 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
3133 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
3135 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
3136 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
3137 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
3139 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
3140 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
3141 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
3142 were silently accepted).
3143 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
3144 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
3145 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
3146 to warn on static type mismatches and function
3147 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
3148 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
3149 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
3150 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
3151 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
3152 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
3153 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
3154 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
3155 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
3156 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
3158 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
3159 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
3160 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
3161 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
3162 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
3163 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
3165 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
3166 keywords or constants is permissible.
3167 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
3168 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
3169 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
3170 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
3171 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
3172 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
3173 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
3174 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
3176 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
3177 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3178 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
3179 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
3180 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3181 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
3182 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
3184 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
3186 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
3187 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
3188 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
3189 respectively change and preserve the value.
3190 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
3191 is now better at handling symbol macros.
3192 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
3193 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
3194 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
3195 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
3196 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
3197 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
3198 their use properly signals an error now.
3199 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
3200 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
3201 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
3202 * fixed simple vector readable printing
3203 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
3204 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
3205 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
3206 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
3207 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
3208 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
3209 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3210 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
3211 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3212 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
3213 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
3214 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3215 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
3216 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
3217 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
3218 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
3219 causes a type error.
3220 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
3221 association between the name and a class.
3222 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
3223 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
3224 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3225 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
3226 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
3227 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
3229 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
3230 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
3231 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
3232 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
3234 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
3235 which its argument is a member.
3236 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
3237 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
3238 otherwise, it creates a new class.
3239 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
3240 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
3241 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
3242 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
3243 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
3244 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
3246 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
3247 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
3248 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
3249 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
3250 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
3251 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
3252 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
3254 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
3255 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
3256 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
3257 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
3258 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
3259 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
3260 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
3261 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
3262 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
3263 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
3264 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
3265 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
3266 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3267 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
3269 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
3270 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
3271 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
3272 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
3273 superclasses are applied.
3274 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
3275 no method was removed.
3276 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
3277 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
3278 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
3279 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
3281 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
3283 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
3284 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
3285 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
3286 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
3287 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
3288 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
3289 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
3290 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
3291 function lambda list.
3292 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
3294 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
3295 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
3296 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
3297 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
3299 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
3300 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
3301 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
3302 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
3303 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
3304 they look for GNU "make".
3306 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
3307 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
3308 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
3309 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
3311 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
3312 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
3313 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
3314 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
3315 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
3316 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
3317 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
3318 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
3319 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
3320 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
3322 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
3323 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
3324 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
3325 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
3326 libraries, and will know who they are.
3327 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
3328 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
3329 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
3330 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
3331 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
3332 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
3333 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
3334 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
3336 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
3337 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
3338 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
3339 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
3340 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
3341 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
3342 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
3343 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
3344 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
3345 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
3346 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3347 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
3349 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
3350 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
3351 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
3352 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
3353 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
3354 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
3355 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
3356 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
3357 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
3359 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
3360 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
3361 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
3362 this you were probably losing anyway.
3363 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
3364 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
3365 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
3366 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
3367 with names from the CL package.
3368 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
3369 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
3370 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
3371 documentation string.
3372 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3373 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
3375 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
3376 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
3377 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
3378 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
3380 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
3381 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
3383 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
3384 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3385 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
3387 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
3388 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
3389 arguments contain duplicated elements.
3390 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
3391 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
3392 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
3393 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
3394 in question is unbound.
3395 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
3396 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
3397 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
3398 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
3399 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
3401 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
3403 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
3404 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
3405 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
3406 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
3407 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
3408 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
3409 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
3410 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
3411 by Antonio Martinez)
3412 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
3413 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3414 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
3415 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
3416 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
3417 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
3418 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
3419 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3420 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
3421 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
3422 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
3423 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
3424 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
3425 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
3426 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
3427 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
3428 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
3429 on malformed property lists;
3431 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
3432 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
3433 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
3434 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
3435 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
3436 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
3437 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
3438 modules in this release include:
3439 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
3440 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
3441 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
3442 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
3443 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
3445 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
3446 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
3447 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3448 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
3449 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
3450 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
3451 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
3452 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
3454 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
3455 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
3456 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
3457 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
3458 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
3459 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
3460 the lexical environment.
3461 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
3462 unprintable packages can now be defined.
3463 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
3464 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3465 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
3466 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3467 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
3468 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
3469 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
3470 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
3471 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
3472 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
3473 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
3474 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
3475 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3476 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
3477 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3478 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
3479 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
3480 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
3481 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
3482 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
3483 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
3484 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
3485 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
3487 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
3488 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
3489 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3490 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3491 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
3492 not just nonnegative fixnums;
3493 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
3494 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
3495 freshly-consed result bit-array);
3496 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
3498 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
3499 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
3501 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
3502 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
3503 cases are accurately computed;
3504 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
3505 if it is in the last clause;
3506 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
3508 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
3509 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
3510 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
3511 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
3513 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
3514 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
3515 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
3516 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
3517 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
3519 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
3520 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
3521 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
3522 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
3524 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3525 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
3526 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
3527 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
3528 not cause a type error;
3529 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
3531 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
3532 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
3533 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
3534 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
3535 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
3536 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
3537 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
3538 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
3540 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
3541 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
3542 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
3543 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
3544 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
3545 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
3547 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
3548 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
3550 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
3551 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
3552 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
3553 only for symbols in the CL package.
3554 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
3555 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3556 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
3557 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
3558 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
3560 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3561 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
3562 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
3563 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
3564 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
3565 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
3566 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
3567 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
3568 conditional loop clause;
3569 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
3570 signals a type error iff it should.
3571 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3572 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
3573 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
3574 argument) no longer signals an error;
3575 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
3576 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
3577 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
3579 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
3580 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
3581 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
3583 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
3584 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
3585 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
3586 functionality on said platforms verified.
3587 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
3588 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
3590 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
3591 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
3592 component indicating that directory.
3593 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
3594 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
3595 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
3596 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
3597 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3598 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
3600 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
3601 primary methods with no specializers;
3602 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
3604 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
3605 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
3606 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
3607 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
3609 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
3610 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
3611 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
3613 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
3614 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
3615 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
3616 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
3617 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
3618 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
3619 class STANDARD-CLASS;
3620 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
3621 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3622 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
3623 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
3625 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
3626 value producing form;
3627 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
3628 variables are bound and made to have no value;
3629 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
3631 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
3632 is not a valid sequence index;
3633 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
3634 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
3635 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3636 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
3638 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
3639 symbol-macro places;
3640 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
3641 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
3643 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
3645 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
3647 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
3648 invariant when deleting code.
3649 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
3650 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
3652 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
3653 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3654 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
3656 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
3657 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
3659 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
3660 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
3661 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3662 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
3664 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
3665 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3666 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
3667 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
3669 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
3670 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
3671 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
3672 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
3673 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3674 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
3675 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
3676 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
3677 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
3678 sbcl and .core files.)
3679 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
3680 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
3681 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
3682 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
3683 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
3684 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3685 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
3687 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
3688 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
3689 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
3690 argument precedence order.
3691 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
3692 derived types contradict their declared type.
3693 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
3694 so it can be non-toplevel.
3695 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
3696 implementation of DEFMACRO).
3697 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
3698 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
3699 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
3701 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
3702 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
3703 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
3704 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
3705 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
3706 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
3707 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
3708 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
3709 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
3710 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
3711 symbol macro only once
3712 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
3713 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
3714 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
3717 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
3718 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
3719 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
3720 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
3721 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
3722 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
3723 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
3724 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
3725 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
3726 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3727 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
3728 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
3730 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
3731 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
3732 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
3733 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
3734 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3735 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
3737 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
3739 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
3740 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
3741 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
3742 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
3743 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3744 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
3745 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
3746 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
3747 ways in different special cases
3748 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
3750 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
3751 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
3752 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
3753 are no longer optimized away.
3754 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
3755 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
3756 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
3757 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
3758 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
3759 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
3760 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
3761 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
3764 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
3765 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
3766 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
3767 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
3768 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
3769 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
3770 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
3772 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
3773 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
3774 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
3775 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
3776 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
3777 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
3778 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
3779 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
3780 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
3781 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
3782 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
3783 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
3784 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
3785 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
3786 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
3787 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
3788 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
3789 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3790 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
3791 that are names of constants or global variables.
3792 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
3793 alien routines with docstrings.
3794 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
3795 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
3797 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
3798 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3799 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
3800 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3801 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
3802 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3803 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
3804 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
3805 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
3806 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3807 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
3808 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
3809 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
3810 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
3811 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
3812 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
3813 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
3814 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
3815 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
3816 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
3817 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
3818 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
3819 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
3821 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
3822 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
3824 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
3825 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
3826 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
3827 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
3828 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
3829 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
3830 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
3831 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
3832 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
3833 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
3835 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
3836 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
3837 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
3838 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
3839 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
3840 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
3841 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
3842 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
3843 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
3844 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
3845 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
3846 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
3847 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
3848 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
3849 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
3850 is no longer a static symbol.)
3852 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
3853 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
3854 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
3855 bootstrapping under CLISP.
3856 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
3858 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
3859 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
3861 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
3862 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
3863 to David Lichteblau)
3864 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
3865 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
3866 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
3868 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
3869 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3870 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
3871 count as they should.
3872 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
3873 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3874 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
3875 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
3876 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
3877 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
3878 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
3879 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
3880 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3881 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3882 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3883 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3884 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3885 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3886 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3888 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3889 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3890 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3892 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3894 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3895 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3896 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3897 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3898 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3899 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3900 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3902 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3903 to Christophe Rhodes)
3904 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3905 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3906 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3907 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3908 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3909 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
3910 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3912 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3913 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3914 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3915 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3916 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3917 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3918 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3919 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3920 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3921 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3922 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3923 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3924 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
3926 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
3927 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
3928 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
3929 INFO database to support symbol macros.
3930 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
3931 (thanks to coreythomas)
3932 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
3933 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
3934 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
3935 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
3936 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
3938 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
3939 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
3940 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
3941 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
3942 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
3943 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
3944 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
3945 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
3946 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
3947 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3948 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
3949 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
3950 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
3952 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
3953 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
3956 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
3957 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
3958 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
3959 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
3960 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
3961 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
3962 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
3963 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
3964 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
3965 systems than the old 4M value was)
3966 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
3967 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3968 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3969 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3970 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3971 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3972 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3974 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3975 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3976 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3977 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3978 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3980 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3981 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3982 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3983 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3984 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3985 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3986 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3987 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3989 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3990 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3991 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3992 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3993 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3994 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3995 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3996 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3998 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3999 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4000 * several changes related to debugging:
4001 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
4002 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
4003 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
4004 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
4005 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
4006 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
4007 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
4010 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
4012 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
4013 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
4014 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
4015 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
4016 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
4017 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
4018 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
4019 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
4021 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
4022 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
4023 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
4024 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4025 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
4026 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
4027 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
4028 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
4029 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
4030 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
4031 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
4032 file format number to change again.
4034 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
4035 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
4036 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
4037 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
4039 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
4040 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
4041 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
4042 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
4043 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
4044 FUNCALL on the result.
4045 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
4046 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
4047 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
4048 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
4049 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
4050 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
4051 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
4052 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
4054 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
4055 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
4056 the old compiler produced.
4057 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
4058 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
4059 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
4060 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
4061 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
4062 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
4063 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
4064 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
4065 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
4066 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
4067 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
4068 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
4069 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
4070 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
4071 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
4072 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
4073 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
4074 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
4075 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
4076 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
4077 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
4078 straightened out in some future version.)
4079 * minor incompatible changes:
4080 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
4081 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
4082 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
4083 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
4084 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
4085 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
4086 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
4087 implementation dependent:
4088 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
4089 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
4090 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
4091 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
4092 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
4093 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
4094 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
4095 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
4097 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
4099 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
4100 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
4101 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
4102 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
4103 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
4104 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
4105 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
4106 are no longer used for output.
4107 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
4108 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
4109 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
4110 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
4111 increasing it even more.)
4112 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
4113 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
4114 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
4116 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
4117 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
4118 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
4119 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
4120 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
4121 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
4122 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
4123 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
4124 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
4125 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
4126 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
4127 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
4128 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
4129 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
4130 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
4131 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
4132 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
4133 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
4134 compilation of code which calls such functions.
4135 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
4136 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
4137 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
4138 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
4139 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
4140 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
4141 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
4142 built into the system.
4143 * many other bug fixes
4144 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
4145 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
4146 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
4147 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
4148 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
4150 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
4151 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
4152 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
4153 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
4154 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
4155 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
4156 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
4157 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
4158 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
4159 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
4160 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
4162 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
4163 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
4164 and several other LOOP problems as well
4165 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
4166 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
4167 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
4168 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
4169 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
4170 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
4171 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
4172 *** a bug in APROPOS
4173 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
4174 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
4175 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
4176 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
4177 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
4178 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
4179 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
4180 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
4181 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
4182 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
4183 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
4184 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
4185 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
4186 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
4187 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
4189 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
4190 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
4191 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
4192 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
4193 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
4194 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
4195 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
4196 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
4197 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
4198 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
4199 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
4200 some of which are apparent above.
4202 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
4203 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
4204 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
4205 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
4206 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
4207 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
4208 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
4209 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
4210 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
4211 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
4212 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
4213 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
4214 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
4215 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
4216 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
4217 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
4218 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
4219 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
4220 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
4221 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
4222 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
4223 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
4224 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
4225 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
4226 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
4227 different return types.
4228 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
4229 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
4230 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
4231 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
4232 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
4233 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
4234 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
4235 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
4236 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
4237 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
4239 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
4240 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
4241 does the right thing.
4242 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
4243 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
4244 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
4245 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
4246 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
4247 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
4248 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
4249 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
4250 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
4251 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
4252 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
4253 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
4254 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
4255 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
4256 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
4257 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
4258 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
4259 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
4260 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
4261 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
4262 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
4263 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
4264 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
4265 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
4266 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
4267 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
4268 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
4269 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
4270 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
4271 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
4272 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
4273 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
4274 since historically most system changes which required version
4275 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
4276 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
4279 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
4280 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
4281 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
4282 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
4283 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
4284 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
4285 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
4286 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
4287 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
4288 half a dozen others elsewhere
4289 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
4290 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
4291 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
4292 as flaky as they were.
4293 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
4294 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
4295 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
4296 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
4297 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
4298 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
4299 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
4300 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
4302 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
4303 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
4304 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
4305 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
4306 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
4307 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
4308 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
4309 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
4310 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
4311 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
4312 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
4313 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
4314 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
4315 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
4316 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
4317 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
4318 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
4319 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
4320 more obscure bugs as well
4321 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
4322 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
4323 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
4324 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
4325 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
4326 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
4327 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
4328 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
4329 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
4330 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
4331 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
4333 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
4334 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
4336 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
4338 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
4339 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
4340 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
4341 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
4342 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
4343 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
4344 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
4345 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
4346 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
4347 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
4348 are local in this sense.)
4349 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
4350 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
4351 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
4352 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
4353 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
4354 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
4355 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
4356 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
4357 system's STREAM objects.
4358 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
4359 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4360 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
4361 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4362 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
4363 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
4364 environment from the original process instead of starting the
4365 new process in an empty environment.
4366 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
4367 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
4368 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
4369 for porting convenience.
4370 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
4371 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
4373 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
4375 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
4376 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
4377 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
4378 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
4379 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
4380 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
4381 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
4382 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
4383 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
4384 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
4385 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
4386 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
4387 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
4388 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
4389 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
4390 many fewer weird special cases.
4391 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
4392 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
4393 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4394 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
4395 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
4396 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
4397 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
4398 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
4399 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
4400 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
4401 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
4404 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
4406 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
4407 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
4408 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
4410 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
4411 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
4412 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
4413 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
4414 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
4415 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
4416 should be constructed the same way as before.
4417 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
4418 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
4419 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
4420 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
4421 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
4422 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
4423 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
4424 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
4425 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
4426 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
4427 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
4428 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
4429 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
4430 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
4431 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
4432 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
4433 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
4434 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
4435 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
4436 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
4437 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
4438 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
4440 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
4441 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
4442 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
4443 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
4444 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
4445 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
4446 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
4447 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
4449 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
4451 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
4452 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
4453 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
4454 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
4455 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
4457 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
4458 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
4459 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
4460 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
4461 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
4462 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
4463 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
4464 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
4465 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
4466 and Douglas Crosher.
4467 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
4468 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
4469 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
4471 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
4472 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
4473 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
4474 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
4475 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
4476 undefined function error.
4477 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
4478 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
4479 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
4480 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
4481 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
4482 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
4483 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
4484 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
4485 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
4486 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
4487 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
4488 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
4489 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
4491 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
4493 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
4494 CVS repository on my home machine).
4495 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
4496 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
4497 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
4498 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
4499 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
4500 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
4501 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
4502 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
4503 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
4504 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
4505 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
4506 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
4507 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
4508 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
4509 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
4510 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
4511 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
4512 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
4513 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
4514 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
4515 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
4516 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
4518 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
4519 FreeBSD have been added.
4520 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
4521 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
4522 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
4523 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
4524 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
4525 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
4527 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
4528 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
4529 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
4530 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
4531 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
4532 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
4533 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
4534 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
4536 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
4537 away by constant folding
4538 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
4539 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
4540 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
4541 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
4542 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
4543 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
4544 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
4545 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
4546 diff-related operations.
4547 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
4548 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
4550 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
4552 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
4553 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
4554 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
4555 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
4556 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
4557 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
4558 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
4559 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
4560 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
4561 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
4562 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
4563 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
4564 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
4565 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
4566 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
4567 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
4568 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
4569 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
4570 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
4571 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
4572 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
4573 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
4574 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
4575 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
4576 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
4577 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
4578 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
4579 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
4580 instead of (VALUES T T).
4581 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
4582 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
4583 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
4584 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
4585 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
4586 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
4587 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
4588 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
4589 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
4590 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
4591 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
4592 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
4593 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
4594 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
4595 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
4596 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
4597 type will be interpreted at runtime.
4598 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
4599 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
4600 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
4601 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
4602 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
4603 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
4604 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
4605 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
4606 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
4607 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
4608 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
4609 fasl files for cold load.
4610 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
4611 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
4612 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
4613 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
4614 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
4615 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
4616 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
4617 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
4618 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
4619 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
4620 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
4622 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
4623 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
4624 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
4625 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
4626 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
4627 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
4628 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
4629 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
4630 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
4631 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
4632 renamed some files to increase consistency.
4633 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
4634 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
4635 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
4636 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
4637 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
4638 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
4640 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
4642 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
4643 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
4644 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
4645 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
4646 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
4647 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
4648 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
4649 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
4650 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
4651 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
4652 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
4653 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
4654 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
4655 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
4656 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
4657 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
4658 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
4659 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
4661 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
4662 as required by ANSI.
4663 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
4664 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
4665 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
4666 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
4668 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
4669 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
4670 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
4671 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
4672 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
4673 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
4674 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
4675 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
4677 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
4678 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
4679 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
4680 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4682 is now basically equivalent to
4683 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4684 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
4686 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
4687 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
4688 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
4689 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
4690 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
4691 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
4692 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
4693 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
4694 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
4695 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
4696 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
4697 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
4698 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
4699 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
4700 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
4701 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4702 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
4703 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
4704 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
4705 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
4706 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
4707 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
4708 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
4710 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
4712 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
4713 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
4714 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
4715 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
4716 GNUMAKE environment variable.
4717 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
4718 can build without error under CMU CL.
4720 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
4722 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
4723 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
4724 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
4725 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
4726 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
4727 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
4728 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
4729 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
4730 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
4731 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
4732 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
4733 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
4734 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
4735 being initialized before the type system knew the final
4736 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
4737 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
4738 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
4739 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
4740 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
4741 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
4742 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
4743 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
4744 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
4745 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
4747 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
4748 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
4749 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
4750 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
4751 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
4752 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
4753 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
4754 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
4755 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
4756 it were currently supported.
4757 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
4758 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
4759 having to maintain patches.
4760 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
4761 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
4763 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
4765 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
4766 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
4767 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
4768 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
4769 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
4770 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
4771 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
4772 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
4773 * various new style warnings:
4774 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
4775 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
4776 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
4777 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
4778 as specified by ANSI.
4779 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
4780 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
4781 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
4782 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
4783 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
4784 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
4785 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
4786 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
4787 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
4788 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
4789 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
4790 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
4791 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
4792 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
4793 argument types can be determined at compile time.
4794 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
4795 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
4796 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
4797 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
4798 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
4799 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
4800 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
4803 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
4805 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
4806 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
4807 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
4808 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
4809 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
4810 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
4811 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
4812 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
4813 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
4815 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
4816 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
4817 the report form was printed.)
4818 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
4819 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
4820 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
4821 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
4822 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
4823 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
4824 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
4825 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
4826 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
4827 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
4828 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
4829 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
4830 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
4831 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
4832 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
4833 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
4834 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
4835 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
4836 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
4837 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
4838 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
4839 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
4840 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
4841 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
4842 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
4843 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
4844 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
4845 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
4846 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
4847 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
4848 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
4849 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
4850 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
4851 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
4852 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
4853 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
4854 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
4855 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
4856 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
4857 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
4858 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
4859 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
4860 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
4861 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
4862 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
4863 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
4864 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
4865 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
4866 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
4867 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
4868 know more about target types.
4869 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
4870 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
4871 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
4872 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
4873 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
4874 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
4876 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
4877 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
4878 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
4879 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
4880 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4881 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4882 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4883 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4884 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4885 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4886 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4887 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4888 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4890 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4893 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4895 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4896 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4897 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4898 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4899 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4900 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4901 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4902 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4903 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4904 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4905 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4906 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4907 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4908 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4909 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4910 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4911 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4912 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4913 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4914 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4915 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4916 invisible at the user level.)
4917 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4918 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4919 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4921 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4923 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4924 * tidied up system directory structure
4925 * better "clean.sh" behavior
4926 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
4927 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
4928 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
4929 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
4930 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
4931 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
4932 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
4933 * command line argument processing
4934 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
4935 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
4936 terminating SBCL on EOF
4937 * non-verbose GC by default
4938 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
4939 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
4940 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
4942 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
4943 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
4944 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
4945 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
4946 transformed along with everything else.
4947 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
4948 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
4949 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
4950 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
4951 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
4952 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
4953 debugging and testing purposes
4954 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
4955 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
4956 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
4957 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
4958 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
4959 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
4960 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
4962 * regularized formatting of source files
4963 * added an install.sh script
4964 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
4965 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
4966 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
4967 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4968 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4969 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4970 was not implemented)
4971 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4972 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4973 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4974 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4975 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4977 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4978 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4979 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4980 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4981 COMPILE-FILE command)
4982 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4983 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4984 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4985 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4986 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4987 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4988 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4989 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4990 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4991 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4992 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4993 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4994 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4995 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4996 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4998 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4999 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
5000 known to be able to handle the current sources
5001 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
5002 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
5003 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
5004 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
5005 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
5006 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
5007 * removed host-oops.lisp
5008 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
5009 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
5010 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
5011 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
5012 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
5013 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by