1 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
2 * incompatible change: the internal functions
3 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
4 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
5 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
6 instead of the old functions.
7 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
8 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
10 * documentation: networking interface SB-BSD-SOCKETS' documentation
11 has been integrated into the user manual.
12 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
13 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
14 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
16 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
17 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
18 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
19 (reported by Rick Taube)
20 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
21 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
22 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
23 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
25 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
26 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
27 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
28 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
29 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
30 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
31 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
32 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
33 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
34 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
35 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
37 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
38 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
39 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
40 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
42 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
46 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
47 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
48 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
49 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
50 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
51 compiled in unconditionally.
52 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
53 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
54 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
55 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
56 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
58 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
59 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
60 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
61 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
62 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
63 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
64 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
65 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
66 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
67 an implementation-internal package.
68 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
70 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
71 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
72 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
73 bodies are now more legible.
74 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
75 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
76 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
77 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
78 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
79 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
80 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
82 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
83 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
84 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
85 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
86 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
87 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
88 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
90 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
91 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
93 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
94 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
95 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
96 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
97 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
98 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
99 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
100 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
101 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
102 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
103 system even when most of them are idle
104 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
105 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
106 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
108 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
109 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
110 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
111 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
112 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
114 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
115 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
116 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
117 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
118 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
119 string for information on the protocol.
120 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
121 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
123 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
124 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
126 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
127 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
128 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
129 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
130 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
131 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
133 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
134 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
136 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
137 move between its address being taken and the call to
138 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
139 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
140 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
141 instances corresponding to C structs.
143 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
144 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
145 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
146 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
147 has implications for memory management of client code
148 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
149 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
150 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
151 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
152 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
153 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
154 quality should be considered deprecated.
155 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
156 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
157 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
158 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
159 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
161 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
162 designator as the defaults argument.
163 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
164 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
165 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
166 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
167 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
169 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
171 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
172 (thanks to Zach Beane)
173 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
174 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
175 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
176 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
178 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
179 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
180 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
181 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
182 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
183 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
184 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
185 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
186 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
187 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
188 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
189 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
190 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
191 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
192 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
193 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
194 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
196 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
197 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
198 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
200 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
201 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
202 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
203 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
204 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
205 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
206 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
207 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
208 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
210 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
211 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
213 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
214 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
216 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
217 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
218 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
219 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
221 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
222 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
223 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
224 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
225 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
226 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
227 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
228 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
230 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
231 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
232 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
234 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
235 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
237 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
238 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
240 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
241 from local to shared slots.
242 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
243 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
244 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
245 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
247 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
248 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
249 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
250 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
251 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
252 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
253 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
254 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
255 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
257 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
259 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
261 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
262 print using #P"..." syntax.
264 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
265 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
266 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
267 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
268 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
269 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
270 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
271 * [placeholder for DX summary]
272 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
273 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
274 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
275 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
276 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
277 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
278 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
279 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
280 the test case to Dave Roberts)
281 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
282 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
283 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
284 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
285 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
286 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
287 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
288 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
289 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
290 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
291 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
292 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
293 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
294 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
295 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
298 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
299 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
300 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
301 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
302 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
303 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
304 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
305 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
306 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
307 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
308 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
309 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
310 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
312 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
313 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
315 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
316 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
317 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
318 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
319 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
320 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
322 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
323 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
324 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
326 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
328 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
330 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
331 their output stream on EOF from read.
332 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
333 have been read to end-of-file.
334 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
336 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
337 description of determination of which consecutive characters
339 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
340 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
341 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
342 less than 10 works correctly.
343 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
344 more than 10 works correctly.
345 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
346 the readtable currently in effect.
348 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
349 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
350 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
351 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
352 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
353 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
354 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
355 should usually be replaced by
356 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
357 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
358 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
359 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
360 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
361 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
362 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
363 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
365 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
366 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
367 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
368 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
369 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
370 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
371 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
372 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
373 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
374 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
375 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
376 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
377 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
379 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
380 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
381 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
382 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
383 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
384 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
385 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
386 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
387 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
388 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
389 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
390 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
391 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
392 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
393 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
394 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
395 non-local entry points.
396 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
398 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
399 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
401 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
402 host is already defined.
403 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
405 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
406 or not a character is whitespace.
407 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
408 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
409 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
411 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
412 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
414 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
416 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
417 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
418 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
419 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
420 designator argument does not designate a stream.
421 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
422 examining the synonym.
423 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
425 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
426 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
428 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
429 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
430 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
431 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
432 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
433 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
434 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
435 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
436 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
437 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
438 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
439 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
441 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
442 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
443 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
444 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
445 stream position information.
446 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
447 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
448 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
449 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
450 (reported by Paul Dietz)
451 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
453 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
454 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
456 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
457 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
458 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
459 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
460 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
461 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
462 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
464 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
466 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
467 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
468 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
469 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
470 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
471 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
472 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
473 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
474 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
475 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
476 the "SYS" logical host.
477 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
478 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
479 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
480 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
481 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
482 now each have their own history, command character, and other
483 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
484 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
485 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
487 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
488 shift greater than 32.
489 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
490 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
491 in some circumstances.
493 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
494 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
495 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
496 environments like SLIME.
497 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
498 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
499 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
500 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
501 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
502 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
503 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
504 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
505 argument types for all arguments.
506 * various threading fixes
507 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
508 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
509 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
510 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
512 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
513 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
514 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
515 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
516 arguments to a full call.
517 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
518 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
519 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
520 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
522 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
523 inserts a space where necessary.
524 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
525 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
526 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
527 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
528 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
529 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
530 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
531 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
532 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
533 counter now raises a meaningful error.
534 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
535 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
537 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
538 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
539 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
541 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
543 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
544 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
545 argument and negative second.
546 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
547 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
548 interval, containing 0.
549 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
551 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
552 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
554 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
555 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
556 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
557 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
558 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
559 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
560 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
561 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
562 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
563 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
564 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
565 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
566 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
567 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
568 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
569 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
570 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
571 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
572 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
573 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
574 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
575 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
576 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
577 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
578 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
579 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
580 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
581 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
582 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
584 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
585 platform now returns the right answer.
586 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
587 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
588 precomputation is now tunable.
589 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
590 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
591 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
592 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
593 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
594 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
595 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
596 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
597 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
598 has been added for the alpha.
599 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
600 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
601 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
602 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
603 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
604 MEMBER-types to numeric.
605 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
607 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
608 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
609 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
611 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
612 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
613 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
614 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
615 might be pseudo-atomic.
616 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
617 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
619 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
621 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
623 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
624 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
625 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
626 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
627 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
628 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
630 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
631 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
632 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
633 small float arguments.
634 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
636 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
637 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
638 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
639 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
640 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
641 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
643 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
645 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
646 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
647 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
648 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
649 with negative last argument.
650 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
651 an error during type derivation.
652 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
654 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
655 generates a 32-bit binary.
656 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
657 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
658 data structures referred to above).
660 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
661 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
662 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
663 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
664 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
665 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
666 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
667 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
668 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
669 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
670 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
671 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
673 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
674 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
676 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
677 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
678 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
679 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
680 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
681 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
682 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
683 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
684 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
685 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
686 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
687 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
688 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
689 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
690 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
691 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
692 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
693 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
694 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
695 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
696 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
697 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
698 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
699 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
700 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
701 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
702 optimization quality.
703 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
704 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
705 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
706 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
707 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
708 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
709 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
710 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
711 types form a lattice under type intersection.
712 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
713 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
714 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
715 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
716 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
717 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
718 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
719 calling the generic function.
720 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
721 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
722 obscure ANSI requirements
724 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
725 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
726 garbage, confusing the compiler.
727 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
728 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
729 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
730 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
731 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
732 circumstances could go off-by-one.
733 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
735 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
736 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
737 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
738 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
739 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
740 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
741 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
742 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
743 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
744 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
745 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
746 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
747 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
748 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
749 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
750 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
751 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
752 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
753 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
754 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
756 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
757 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
758 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
759 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
761 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
762 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
763 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
764 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
765 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
766 provide helpful disassembly notes.
767 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
768 the class in more cases than previously.
769 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
770 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
771 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
772 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
773 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
775 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
776 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
777 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
778 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
779 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
780 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
782 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
783 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
784 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
786 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
787 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
788 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
789 were silently accepted).
790 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
791 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
792 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
793 to warn on static type mismatches and function
794 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
795 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
796 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
797 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
798 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
799 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
800 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
801 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
802 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
803 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
805 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
806 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
807 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
808 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
809 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
810 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
812 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
813 keywords or constants is permissible.
814 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
815 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
816 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
817 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
818 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
819 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
820 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
821 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
823 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
824 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
825 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
826 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
827 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
828 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
829 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
831 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
833 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
834 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
835 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
836 respectively change and preserve the value.
837 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
838 is now better at handling symbol macros.
839 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
840 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
841 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
842 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
843 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
844 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
845 their use properly signals an error now.
846 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
847 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
848 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
849 * fixed simple vector readable printing
850 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
851 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
852 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
853 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
854 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
855 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
856 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
857 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
858 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
859 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
860 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
861 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
862 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
863 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
864 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
865 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
867 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
868 association between the name and a class.
869 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
870 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
871 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
872 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
873 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
874 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
876 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
877 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
878 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
879 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
881 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
882 which its argument is a member.
883 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
884 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
885 otherwise, it creates a new class.
886 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
887 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
888 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
889 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
890 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
891 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
893 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
894 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
895 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
896 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
897 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
898 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
899 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
901 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
902 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
903 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
904 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
905 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
906 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
907 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
908 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
909 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
910 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
911 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
912 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
913 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
914 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
916 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
917 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
918 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
919 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
920 superclasses are applied.
921 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
922 no method was removed.
923 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
924 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
925 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
926 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
928 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
930 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
931 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
932 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
933 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
934 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
935 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
936 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
937 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
938 function lambda list.
939 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
941 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
942 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
943 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
944 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
946 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
947 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
948 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
949 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
950 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
951 they look for GNU "make".
953 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
954 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
955 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
956 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
958 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
959 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
960 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
961 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
962 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
963 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
964 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
965 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
966 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
967 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
969 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
970 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
971 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
972 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
973 libraries, and will know who they are.
974 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
975 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
976 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
977 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
978 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
979 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
980 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
981 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
983 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
984 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
985 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
986 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
987 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
988 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
989 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
990 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
991 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
992 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
993 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
994 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
996 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
997 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
998 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
999 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
1000 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1001 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
1002 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
1003 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
1004 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
1006 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
1007 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
1008 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
1009 this you were probably losing anyway.
1010 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
1011 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
1012 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
1013 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
1014 with names from the CL package.
1015 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
1016 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
1017 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
1018 documentation string.
1019 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1020 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
1022 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
1023 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
1024 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
1025 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
1027 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
1028 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
1030 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
1031 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1032 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
1034 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
1035 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
1036 arguments contain duplicated elements.
1037 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
1038 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
1039 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
1040 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
1041 in question is unbound.
1042 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
1043 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
1044 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
1045 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
1046 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
1048 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
1050 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
1051 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
1052 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
1053 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
1054 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
1055 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
1056 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
1057 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
1058 by Antonio Martinez)
1059 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
1060 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1061 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
1062 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
1063 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
1064 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
1065 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
1066 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1067 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
1068 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
1069 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
1070 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
1071 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
1072 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
1073 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
1074 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
1075 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
1076 on malformed property lists;
1078 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
1079 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
1080 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
1081 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
1082 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
1083 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
1084 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
1085 modules in this release include:
1086 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
1087 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
1088 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
1089 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1090 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
1092 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
1093 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
1094 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1095 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1096 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
1097 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
1098 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
1099 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
1101 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
1102 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
1103 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
1104 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
1105 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
1106 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
1107 the lexical environment.
1108 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
1109 unprintable packages can now be defined.
1110 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
1111 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1112 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
1113 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1114 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
1115 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
1116 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
1117 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
1118 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
1119 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
1120 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
1121 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
1122 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1123 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
1124 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1125 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
1126 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
1127 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
1128 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1129 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
1130 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
1131 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
1132 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
1134 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
1135 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
1136 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1137 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1138 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
1139 not just nonnegative fixnums;
1140 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
1141 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
1142 freshly-consed result bit-array);
1143 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
1145 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
1146 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
1148 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
1149 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
1150 cases are accurately computed;
1151 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
1152 if it is in the last clause;
1153 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
1155 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
1156 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
1157 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
1158 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
1160 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
1161 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
1162 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
1163 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
1164 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
1166 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
1167 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
1168 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
1169 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
1171 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1172 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
1173 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
1174 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
1175 not cause a type error;
1176 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
1178 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
1179 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
1180 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
1181 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
1182 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
1183 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
1184 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
1185 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
1187 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
1188 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
1189 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
1190 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
1191 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
1192 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
1194 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
1195 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
1197 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
1198 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
1199 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
1200 only for symbols in the CL package.
1201 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
1202 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1203 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
1204 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
1205 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
1207 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1208 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
1209 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
1210 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
1211 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
1212 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
1213 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
1214 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
1215 conditional loop clause;
1216 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
1217 signals a type error iff it should.
1218 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1219 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
1220 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
1221 argument) no longer signals an error;
1222 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
1223 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
1224 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
1226 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
1227 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
1228 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
1230 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
1231 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
1232 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
1233 functionality on said platforms verified.
1234 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
1235 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
1237 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
1238 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
1239 component indicating that directory.
1240 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
1241 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
1242 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
1243 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
1244 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1245 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
1247 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
1248 primary methods with no specializers;
1249 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
1251 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
1252 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
1253 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
1254 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
1256 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
1257 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
1258 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
1260 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
1261 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
1262 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
1263 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
1264 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
1265 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
1266 class STANDARD-CLASS;
1267 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
1268 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1269 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
1270 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
1272 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
1273 value producing form;
1274 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
1275 variables are bound and made to have no value;
1276 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
1278 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
1279 is not a valid sequence index;
1280 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
1281 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
1282 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1283 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
1285 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
1286 symbol-macro places;
1287 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
1288 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
1290 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
1292 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
1294 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
1295 invariant when deleting code.
1296 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
1297 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
1299 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
1300 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1301 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
1303 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
1304 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
1306 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
1307 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
1308 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1309 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
1311 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
1312 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1313 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
1314 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
1316 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
1317 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
1318 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
1319 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
1320 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
1321 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
1322 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
1323 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
1324 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
1325 sbcl and .core files.)
1326 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
1327 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
1328 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
1329 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
1330 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
1331 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1332 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
1334 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
1335 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
1336 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
1337 argument precedence order.
1338 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
1339 derived types contradict their declared type.
1340 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
1341 so it can be non-toplevel.
1342 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
1343 implementation of DEFMACRO).
1344 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
1345 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
1346 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
1348 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
1349 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
1350 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
1351 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
1352 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
1353 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
1354 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
1355 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
1356 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
1357 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
1358 symbol macro only once
1359 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
1360 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
1361 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
1364 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
1365 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
1366 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
1367 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
1368 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
1369 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
1370 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
1371 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
1372 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
1373 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1374 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
1375 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
1377 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
1378 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
1379 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
1380 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
1381 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1382 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
1384 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
1386 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
1387 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
1388 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
1389 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
1390 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1391 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
1392 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
1393 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
1394 ways in different special cases
1395 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
1397 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
1398 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
1399 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
1400 are no longer optimized away.
1401 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
1402 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
1403 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
1404 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
1405 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
1406 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
1407 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
1408 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
1411 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
1412 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
1413 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
1414 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
1415 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
1416 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
1417 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
1419 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
1420 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
1421 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
1422 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
1423 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
1424 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
1425 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
1426 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
1427 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
1428 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
1429 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
1430 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
1431 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
1432 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
1433 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
1434 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
1435 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
1436 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1437 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
1438 that are names of constants or global variables.
1439 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
1440 alien routines with docstrings.
1441 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
1442 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
1444 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
1445 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1446 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
1447 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1448 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
1449 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1450 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
1451 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
1452 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
1453 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1454 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
1455 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
1456 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
1457 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
1458 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
1459 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
1460 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
1461 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
1462 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
1463 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
1464 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
1465 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
1466 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
1468 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
1469 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
1471 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
1472 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
1473 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
1474 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
1475 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
1476 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
1477 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
1478 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
1479 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
1480 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
1482 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
1483 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
1484 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
1485 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
1486 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
1487 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
1488 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
1489 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
1490 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
1491 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
1492 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
1493 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
1494 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
1495 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
1496 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
1497 is no longer a static symbol.)
1499 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
1500 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
1501 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
1502 bootstrapping under CLISP.
1503 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
1505 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
1506 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
1508 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
1509 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
1510 to David Lichteblau)
1511 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
1512 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
1513 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
1515 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
1516 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1517 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
1518 count as they should.
1519 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
1520 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1521 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
1522 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
1523 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
1524 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
1525 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
1526 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
1527 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
1528 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
1529 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
1530 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
1531 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
1532 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
1533 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
1535 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
1536 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
1537 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
1539 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
1541 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
1542 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
1543 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
1544 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
1545 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
1546 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
1547 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
1549 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
1550 to Christophe Rhodes)
1551 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
1552 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
1553 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
1554 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
1555 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
1556 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
1557 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
1559 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
1560 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
1561 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
1562 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
1563 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
1564 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1565 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
1566 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
1567 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
1568 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
1569 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
1570 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
1571 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
1573 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
1574 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
1575 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
1576 INFO database to support symbol macros.
1577 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
1578 (thanks to coreythomas)
1579 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
1580 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
1581 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
1582 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
1583 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
1585 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
1586 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
1587 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
1588 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
1589 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
1590 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
1591 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
1592 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
1593 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
1594 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1595 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
1596 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
1597 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
1599 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
1600 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
1603 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
1604 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
1605 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
1606 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
1607 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
1608 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
1609 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
1610 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
1611 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
1612 systems than the old 4M value was)
1613 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
1614 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
1615 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
1616 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
1617 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
1618 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
1619 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
1621 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
1622 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
1623 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
1624 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
1625 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
1627 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
1628 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
1629 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
1630 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
1631 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
1632 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
1633 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
1634 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
1636 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
1637 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
1638 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
1639 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1640 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
1641 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
1642 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
1643 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
1645 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
1646 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1647 * several changes related to debugging:
1648 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
1649 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
1650 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
1651 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
1652 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1653 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
1654 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
1657 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
1659 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
1660 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
1661 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
1662 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
1663 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
1664 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
1665 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
1666 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
1668 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
1669 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
1670 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
1671 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1672 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
1673 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
1674 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
1675 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
1676 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
1677 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
1678 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
1679 file format number to change again.
1681 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
1682 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
1683 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
1684 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
1686 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
1687 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
1688 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
1689 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
1690 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
1691 FUNCALL on the result.
1692 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
1693 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
1694 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
1695 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
1696 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
1697 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
1698 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
1699 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
1701 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
1702 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
1703 the old compiler produced.
1704 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
1705 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
1706 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
1707 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
1708 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
1709 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
1710 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
1711 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
1712 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
1713 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
1714 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
1715 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
1716 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
1717 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
1718 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
1719 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
1720 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
1721 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
1722 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
1723 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
1724 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
1725 straightened out in some future version.)
1726 * minor incompatible changes:
1727 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
1728 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
1729 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
1730 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
1731 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
1732 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
1733 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
1734 implementation dependent:
1735 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
1736 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
1737 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
1738 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
1739 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
1740 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
1741 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
1742 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
1744 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
1746 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
1747 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
1748 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
1749 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
1750 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
1751 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
1752 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
1753 are no longer used for output.
1754 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
1755 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
1756 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
1757 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
1758 increasing it even more.)
1759 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
1760 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
1761 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
1763 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
1764 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
1765 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
1766 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
1767 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
1768 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
1769 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
1770 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
1771 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
1772 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
1773 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
1774 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
1775 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
1776 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
1777 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
1778 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
1779 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
1780 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
1781 compilation of code which calls such functions.
1782 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
1783 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
1784 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
1785 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
1786 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
1787 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
1788 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
1789 built into the system.
1790 * many other bug fixes
1791 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
1792 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
1793 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
1794 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
1795 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
1797 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
1798 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
1799 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
1800 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
1801 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
1802 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
1803 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
1804 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
1805 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
1806 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
1807 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
1809 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
1810 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
1811 and several other LOOP problems as well
1812 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
1813 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
1814 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
1815 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
1816 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
1817 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
1818 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
1819 *** a bug in APROPOS
1820 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
1821 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
1822 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
1823 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
1824 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
1825 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
1826 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
1827 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
1828 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
1829 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
1830 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
1831 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
1832 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
1833 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
1834 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
1836 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
1837 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
1838 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
1839 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
1840 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
1841 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
1842 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
1843 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
1844 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
1845 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
1846 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
1847 some of which are apparent above.
1849 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
1850 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
1851 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
1852 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
1853 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
1854 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
1855 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
1856 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
1857 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
1858 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
1859 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
1860 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
1861 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
1862 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
1863 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
1864 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
1865 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
1866 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
1867 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
1868 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
1869 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
1870 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
1871 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
1872 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
1873 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
1874 different return types.
1875 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
1876 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
1877 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
1878 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
1879 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
1880 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
1881 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
1882 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
1883 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
1884 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
1886 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
1887 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
1888 does the right thing.
1889 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
1890 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
1891 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
1892 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
1893 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
1894 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
1895 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
1896 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
1897 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
1898 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
1899 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
1900 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
1901 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
1902 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
1903 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
1904 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
1905 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
1906 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
1907 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
1908 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
1909 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
1910 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
1911 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
1912 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
1913 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
1914 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
1915 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
1916 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
1917 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
1918 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
1919 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
1920 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
1921 since historically most system changes which required version
1922 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
1923 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
1926 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
1927 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
1928 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
1929 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
1930 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
1931 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
1932 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
1933 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
1934 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
1935 half a dozen others elsewhere
1936 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
1937 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
1938 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
1939 as flaky as they were.
1940 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
1941 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
1942 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
1943 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
1944 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
1945 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
1946 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
1947 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
1949 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
1950 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
1951 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
1952 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
1953 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
1954 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
1955 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
1956 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
1957 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
1958 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
1959 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
1960 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
1961 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
1962 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
1963 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
1964 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
1965 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
1966 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
1967 more obscure bugs as well
1968 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
1969 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
1970 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
1971 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
1972 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
1973 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
1974 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
1975 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
1976 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
1977 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
1978 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
1980 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
1981 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
1983 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
1985 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
1986 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
1987 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
1988 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
1989 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
1990 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
1991 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
1992 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
1993 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
1994 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
1995 are local in this sense.)
1996 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
1997 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
1998 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
1999 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
2000 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
2001 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
2002 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2003 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
2004 system's STREAM objects.
2005 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
2006 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2007 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
2008 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2009 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
2010 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
2011 environment from the original process instead of starting the
2012 new process in an empty environment.
2013 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
2014 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
2015 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
2016 for porting convenience.
2017 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
2018 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
2020 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
2022 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
2023 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
2024 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
2025 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
2026 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
2027 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
2028 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
2029 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
2030 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
2031 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
2032 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
2033 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2034 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
2035 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
2036 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
2037 many fewer weird special cases.
2038 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
2039 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
2040 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2041 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
2042 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
2043 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
2044 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
2045 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
2046 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
2047 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2048 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
2051 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
2053 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
2054 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
2055 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
2057 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
2058 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
2059 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
2060 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
2061 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
2062 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
2063 should be constructed the same way as before.
2064 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
2065 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
2066 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
2067 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
2068 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
2069 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
2070 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
2071 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
2072 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
2073 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
2074 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
2075 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
2076 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
2077 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
2078 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
2079 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
2080 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
2081 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
2082 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
2083 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
2084 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
2085 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
2087 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
2088 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
2089 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
2090 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
2091 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
2092 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
2093 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
2094 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
2096 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
2098 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
2099 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
2100 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
2101 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
2102 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
2104 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
2105 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
2106 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
2107 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
2108 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
2109 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
2110 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
2111 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
2112 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
2113 and Douglas Crosher.
2114 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
2115 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
2116 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
2118 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
2119 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
2120 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
2121 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
2122 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
2123 undefined function error.
2124 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
2125 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
2126 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
2127 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
2128 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
2129 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
2130 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
2131 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
2132 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
2133 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
2134 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
2135 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
2136 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
2138 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
2140 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
2141 CVS repository on my home machine).
2142 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
2143 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
2144 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
2145 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
2146 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
2147 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
2148 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
2149 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
2150 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
2151 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
2152 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
2153 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
2154 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
2155 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
2156 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
2157 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
2158 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
2159 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
2160 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
2161 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
2162 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
2163 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
2165 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
2166 FreeBSD have been added.
2167 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
2168 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
2169 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
2170 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
2171 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
2172 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
2174 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
2175 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
2176 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
2177 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
2178 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
2179 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
2180 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
2181 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
2183 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
2184 away by constant folding
2185 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
2186 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
2187 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
2188 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
2189 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
2190 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
2191 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
2192 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
2193 diff-related operations.
2194 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
2195 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
2197 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
2199 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
2200 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
2201 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
2202 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
2203 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
2204 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
2205 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
2206 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
2207 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
2208 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
2209 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
2210 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
2211 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
2212 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
2213 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
2214 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
2215 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
2216 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
2217 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
2218 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
2219 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
2220 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
2221 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
2222 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
2223 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
2224 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
2225 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
2226 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
2227 instead of (VALUES T T).
2228 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
2229 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
2230 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
2231 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
2232 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
2233 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
2234 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
2235 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
2236 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
2237 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
2238 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
2239 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
2240 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
2241 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
2242 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
2243 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
2244 type will be interpreted at runtime.
2245 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
2246 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
2247 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
2248 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
2249 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
2250 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
2251 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
2252 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
2253 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
2254 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
2255 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
2256 fasl files for cold load.
2257 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
2258 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
2259 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
2260 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
2261 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
2262 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
2263 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
2264 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
2265 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
2266 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
2267 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
2269 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
2270 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
2271 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
2272 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
2273 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
2274 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
2275 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
2276 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
2277 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
2278 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
2279 renamed some files to increase consistency.
2280 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
2281 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
2282 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
2283 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
2284 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
2285 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
2287 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
2289 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
2290 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
2291 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
2292 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
2293 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
2294 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
2295 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
2296 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
2297 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
2298 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
2299 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
2300 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
2301 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
2302 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
2303 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
2304 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
2305 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
2306 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
2308 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
2309 as required by ANSI.
2310 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
2311 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
2312 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
2313 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
2315 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
2316 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
2317 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
2318 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
2319 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
2320 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
2321 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
2322 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
2324 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
2325 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
2326 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
2327 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2329 is now basically equivalent to
2330 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2331 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
2333 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
2334 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
2335 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
2336 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
2337 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
2338 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
2339 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
2340 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
2341 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
2342 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
2343 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
2344 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
2345 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
2346 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
2347 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
2348 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2349 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
2350 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
2351 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
2352 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
2353 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
2354 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
2355 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
2357 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
2359 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
2360 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
2361 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
2362 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
2363 GNUMAKE environment variable.
2364 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
2365 can build without error under CMU CL.
2367 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
2369 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
2370 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
2371 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
2372 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
2373 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
2374 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
2375 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
2376 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
2377 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
2378 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
2379 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
2380 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
2381 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
2382 being initialized before the type system knew the final
2383 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
2384 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
2385 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
2386 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
2387 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
2388 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
2389 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
2390 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
2391 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
2392 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
2394 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
2395 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
2396 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
2397 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
2398 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
2399 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
2400 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
2401 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
2402 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
2403 it were currently supported.
2404 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
2405 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
2406 having to maintain patches.
2407 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
2408 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
2410 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
2412 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
2413 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
2414 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
2415 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
2416 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
2417 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
2418 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
2419 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
2420 * various new style warnings:
2421 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
2422 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
2423 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
2424 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
2425 as specified by ANSI.
2426 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
2427 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
2428 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
2429 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
2430 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
2431 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
2432 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
2433 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
2434 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
2435 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
2436 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
2437 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
2438 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
2439 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
2440 argument types can be determined at compile time.
2441 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
2442 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
2443 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
2444 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
2445 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
2446 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
2447 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
2450 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
2452 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
2453 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
2454 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
2455 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
2456 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
2457 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
2458 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
2459 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
2460 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
2462 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
2463 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
2464 the report form was printed.)
2465 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
2466 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
2467 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
2468 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
2469 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
2470 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
2471 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
2472 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
2473 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
2474 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
2475 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
2476 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
2477 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
2478 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
2479 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
2480 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
2481 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
2482 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
2483 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
2484 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
2485 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
2486 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
2487 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
2488 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
2489 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
2490 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
2491 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
2492 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
2493 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
2494 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
2495 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
2496 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
2497 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
2498 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
2499 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
2500 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
2501 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
2502 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
2503 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
2504 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
2505 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
2506 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
2507 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
2508 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
2509 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
2510 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
2511 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
2512 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
2513 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
2514 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
2515 know more about target types.
2516 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
2517 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
2518 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
2519 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
2520 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
2521 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
2523 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
2524 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
2525 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
2526 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
2527 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
2528 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
2529 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
2530 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
2531 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
2532 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
2533 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
2534 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
2535 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
2537 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
2540 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
2542 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
2543 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
2544 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
2545 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
2546 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
2547 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
2548 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
2549 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
2550 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
2551 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
2552 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
2553 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
2554 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
2555 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
2556 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
2557 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
2558 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
2559 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
2560 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
2561 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
2562 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
2563 invisible at the user level.)
2564 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
2565 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
2566 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
2568 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
2570 * tidied up "make.sh" script
2571 * tidied up system directory structure
2572 * better "clean.sh" behavior
2573 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
2574 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
2575 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
2576 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
2577 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
2578 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
2579 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
2580 * command line argument processing
2581 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
2582 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
2583 terminating SBCL on EOF
2584 * non-verbose GC by default
2585 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
2586 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
2587 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
2589 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
2590 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
2591 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
2592 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
2593 transformed along with everything else.
2594 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
2595 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
2596 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
2597 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
2598 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
2599 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
2600 debugging and testing purposes
2601 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
2602 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
2603 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
2604 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
2605 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
2606 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
2607 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
2609 * regularized formatting of source files
2610 * added an install.sh script
2611 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
2612 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
2613 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
2614 builds nicely on my old laptop.
2615 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
2616 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
2617 was not implemented)
2618 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
2619 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
2620 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
2621 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
2622 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
2624 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
2625 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
2626 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
2627 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
2628 COMPILE-FILE command)
2629 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
2630 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
2631 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
2632 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
2633 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
2634 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
2635 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
2636 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
2637 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
2638 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
2639 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
2640 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
2641 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
2642 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
2643 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
2645 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
2646 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
2647 known to be able to handle the current sources
2648 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
2649 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
2650 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
2651 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
2652 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
2653 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
2654 * removed host-oops.lisp
2655 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
2656 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
2657 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
2658 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
2659 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
2660 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by