1 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
2 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
3 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
4 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
5 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
6 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
7 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
8 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitue faster
9 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE)
10 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
11 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
12 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
13 hash-table usage have been fixed.
14 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
15 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
16 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
17 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
18 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
21 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
22 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
23 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
24 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
25 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
26 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
27 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
28 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
29 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
30 and will signal an error at runtime.
31 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
32 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
33 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
35 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
36 platforms providing stack allocation support.
37 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
38 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
40 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
41 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
42 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
43 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
44 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
45 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
47 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
48 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
50 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
52 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
53 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
54 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
55 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
56 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
57 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
58 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
59 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
60 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
61 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
62 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
63 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
64 a specializer parameter for the method.
65 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
66 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
67 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
68 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
69 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
71 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
72 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
74 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
75 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
76 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
77 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
78 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
79 the CAS operation was being performed.
80 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
81 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
82 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
83 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
86 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
87 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
88 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
89 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
91 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
92 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
93 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
94 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
95 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
96 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
97 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
98 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
99 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
100 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
101 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
102 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
103 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
104 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
105 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
107 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
108 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
109 the underlying file descriptor.
110 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
111 could cause buffer-overflows.
112 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
113 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
114 Slime debugger higlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
116 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
118 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
119 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
120 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
121 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
122 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
123 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
126 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
127 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
128 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
129 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
130 allows assining a global minimum value to optimization qualities
131 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
132 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
134 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
136 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
137 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
138 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
139 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
140 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
141 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
143 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
144 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
145 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
146 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
147 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
148 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
149 objects that can be seen by the GC.
150 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
151 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
152 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
154 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
155 as the property-list of a symbol.
156 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
157 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
158 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
161 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
162 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
163 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
164 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
165 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
166 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
167 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
168 debugging and introspective support.
169 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
170 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
171 has the owning thread as its value.
172 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
173 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
175 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
177 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
178 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
179 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
180 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
181 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
182 (depending on the bignum size.)
183 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
185 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
186 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
188 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
189 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
191 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
192 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
193 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
194 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
195 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
198 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
199 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
201 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
202 significantly faster.
203 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
204 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
205 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
206 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
207 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
208 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
209 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
210 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
211 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
212 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
213 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
215 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
217 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
218 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
219 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
220 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
221 that use the generational garbage collector
222 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
224 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
225 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
227 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
229 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
230 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
231 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
232 system running with GC inhibited.
233 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
234 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
235 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
236 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
237 (reported by Peter Graves)
239 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
240 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
241 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
243 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
244 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
245 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
246 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
247 documented as unsafe.
248 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
249 in multithreaded application code.
250 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
251 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
252 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
254 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
255 variants no longer cons.
256 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
257 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
258 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
259 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
260 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
261 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
262 are significantly faster.
263 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
264 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
265 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
266 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
267 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
268 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
269 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
270 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
271 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
272 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
273 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
275 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
276 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
277 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
278 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
279 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
280 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
281 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
282 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
283 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
284 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
285 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
286 line in a file is unlimited.
287 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
288 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disbled.
289 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
290 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
291 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
292 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
293 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
294 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
295 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
296 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
297 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
298 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
299 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
300 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
301 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
302 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
303 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
304 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
305 experimental until this is fixed.
306 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
307 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
308 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
309 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
310 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
312 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
313 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
314 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
315 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
316 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
317 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
319 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
320 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
321 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
322 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
323 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
324 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
325 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
326 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
327 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
329 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
330 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
331 (reported by Andras Simon)
332 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
333 bugs remain on x86-64.)
334 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
335 funcallable instances.
336 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
337 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
339 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
340 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
341 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
342 non-base strings as arguments
343 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
345 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
346 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
348 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
349 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
350 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
351 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
352 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
353 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
354 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
355 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
356 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
358 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
359 (thanks to Jon Buller)
360 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
361 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
364 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
365 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
366 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
368 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
369 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
370 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
371 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
372 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
374 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
375 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
376 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
377 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
378 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
379 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
380 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
381 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
382 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
383 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
384 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
385 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
386 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
387 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
388 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
389 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
390 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
391 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
392 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
393 stack frames from alien callbacks.
394 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
395 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
396 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
397 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
399 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
400 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
401 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
402 abount function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
403 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
404 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
405 sb-introspect contrib.
406 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
407 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
408 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
409 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
410 users and the general community)
411 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
412 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
413 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
414 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
415 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
416 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
417 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
418 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
419 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
420 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
421 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
422 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
423 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
424 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
425 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
426 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
428 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
429 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
430 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
431 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
432 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
433 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
434 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
436 * improvements to the Windows port:
437 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
438 to Alastair Bridgewater)
439 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
441 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
442 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
444 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
445 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
446 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
447 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
448 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
449 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
450 core, and restored on startup.
451 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
452 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
453 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
454 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
455 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
456 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
457 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
459 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
460 (thanks to Zach Beane)
461 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
463 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
464 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
465 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
467 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
468 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
469 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
470 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
471 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
472 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
474 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
475 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
476 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
477 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
478 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
479 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
480 (reported by Josip Gracin)
481 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
482 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
483 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
484 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
485 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
486 and don't cause extra consing
487 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
488 whose elements types have been declared.
489 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
490 ** Support for allocation profiling
491 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
492 * Improvements to the Windows port:
493 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
494 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
495 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
496 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
498 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
499 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
500 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
501 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
502 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
504 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
505 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
506 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
508 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
509 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
510 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
511 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
512 with non-variable places
513 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
514 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
515 code more stable against memory faults.
516 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
517 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
518 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
519 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
522 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
523 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
524 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
525 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
526 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
527 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
528 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
529 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
530 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
531 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
532 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
533 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
534 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
536 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
537 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
538 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
539 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
540 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
541 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
542 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
544 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
545 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
547 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
548 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
549 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
550 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
551 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
552 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
553 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
554 to the single-stepper REPL.
555 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
556 for a type now works.
557 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
559 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
560 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
561 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
562 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
563 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
564 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
565 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
566 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
568 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
569 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
570 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
571 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
572 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
573 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
574 whose bindings are modified
575 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
576 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
577 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
578 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
580 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
581 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
582 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
583 as specified by AMOP.
584 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
586 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
587 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
588 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
589 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
590 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
591 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
592 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
593 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
594 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
595 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
596 better type inference.
597 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
598 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
599 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
600 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
601 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
602 (reported by Bruno Haible)
603 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
604 initialization of methods can now be used to override
605 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
607 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
608 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
609 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
610 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
611 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
613 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
614 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
615 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
616 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
617 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
618 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
619 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
620 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
621 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
622 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
623 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
624 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
625 (reported by James Y Knight).
626 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
627 argument for shadowing by local functions.
628 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
630 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
631 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
633 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
635 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
636 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
637 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
639 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
640 * thread-safety improvements:
641 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
642 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
643 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
645 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
646 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
648 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
649 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
650 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
652 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
653 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
654 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
655 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
656 class became finalizeable.
657 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
658 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
659 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
660 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
662 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
663 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
664 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
665 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
666 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
667 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
668 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
669 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
670 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
671 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
672 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
673 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
674 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
675 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
676 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
677 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
678 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
679 * minor code generation optimizations:
680 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
681 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
682 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
683 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
684 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
685 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
686 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
689 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
690 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
692 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
694 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
695 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
696 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
697 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
698 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
699 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
700 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
701 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
702 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
703 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
704 the low-level debugger.
705 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
706 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
707 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
708 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
710 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
711 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
712 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
714 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
715 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
716 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
717 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
718 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
719 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
720 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
721 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
722 (reported by James Y Knight)
723 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
724 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
725 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
726 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
727 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
728 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
729 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
730 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
731 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
732 workaround for bug 403.)
733 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
734 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
735 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
736 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
738 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
739 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
740 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
742 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
743 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
744 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
745 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
746 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
748 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
750 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
751 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
752 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
755 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
756 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
757 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
758 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
759 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
760 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
761 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
762 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
763 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
764 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
765 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
766 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
767 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
768 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
769 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
770 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
771 documentation on package locks for details.
772 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
774 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
775 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
776 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
777 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
778 immediately available from the stream
779 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
780 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
781 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
782 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
784 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
785 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
786 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
788 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
789 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
790 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
792 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
793 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
794 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
795 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
797 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
798 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
799 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
800 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
801 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
802 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
803 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
804 ** sb-grovel supported
805 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
806 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
807 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
808 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
809 ** floating-point exception handling support
810 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
811 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
812 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
813 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
814 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
816 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
818 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
819 defaults for optional parameters.
820 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
821 function, which is already optimized.
823 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
824 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
825 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
826 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
827 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
828 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
829 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
830 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
831 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
832 this change is to make it easier to distribute
833 location-independent binaries.
834 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
835 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
837 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
838 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
839 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
840 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
841 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
842 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
843 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
844 Alastair Bridgewater)
845 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
846 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
847 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
848 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
849 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
850 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
851 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
852 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
853 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
854 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
855 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
856 (thanks to James Knight)
857 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
858 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
860 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
861 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
862 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
863 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
864 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
865 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
866 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
867 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
868 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
869 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
870 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
871 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
872 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
873 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
874 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
875 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
876 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
877 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
878 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
879 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
880 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
882 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
883 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
884 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
885 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
886 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
887 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
889 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
890 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
891 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
892 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
893 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
894 many others over the years)
895 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
896 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
897 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
899 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
900 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
901 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
902 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
903 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
904 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
906 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
908 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
909 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
910 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
911 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
912 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
913 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
914 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
915 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
916 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
917 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
918 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
919 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
920 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
921 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
923 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
924 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
925 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
926 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
927 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
928 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
929 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
930 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
931 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
932 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
933 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
934 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
935 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
936 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
937 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
938 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
939 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
940 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
941 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
942 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
944 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
945 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
946 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
947 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
948 index variables in LOOP
949 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
950 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
951 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
952 that don't have a docstring
954 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
955 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
956 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
957 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
958 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
959 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
960 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
961 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
962 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
963 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
964 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
965 Costanza's "Closer" project)
966 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
967 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
969 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
970 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
971 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
972 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
973 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
975 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
976 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
977 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
978 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
979 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
980 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
981 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
982 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
983 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
984 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
985 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
986 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
987 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
988 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
989 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
990 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
991 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
992 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
993 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
995 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
996 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
997 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
998 floating point index variable or a negative step.
1000 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
1001 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
1002 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
1003 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
1004 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
1005 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1006 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
1007 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
1008 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
1009 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1010 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1011 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
1012 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
1013 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
1014 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1015 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
1016 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
1017 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
1018 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
1019 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
1020 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
1021 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1022 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
1023 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1024 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
1025 and dump core on SIGQUIT
1027 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
1028 from their parents (see manual)
1029 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
1030 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
1031 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
1032 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
1033 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
1034 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
1036 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1037 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
1038 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
1039 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
1041 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
1042 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
1043 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
1045 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
1046 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
1047 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
1048 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
1049 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
1050 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
1051 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
1052 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
1053 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
1054 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
1055 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
1056 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
1057 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
1058 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
1060 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
1061 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
1062 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
1064 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
1065 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
1067 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
1068 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1069 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
1070 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
1071 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
1072 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
1073 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
1074 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
1075 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
1077 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
1078 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
1079 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
1080 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
1081 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
1082 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
1084 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
1086 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
1087 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
1088 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
1089 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
1090 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
1091 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
1092 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
1093 classes; see the manual for more details;
1094 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
1095 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
1096 requested slot ordering.
1098 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
1100 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
1101 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
1103 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
1105 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
1106 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
1107 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
1108 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
1109 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1110 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
1111 the :method-class keyword argument.
1113 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
1114 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
1115 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
1116 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1117 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
1118 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1119 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
1120 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1121 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
1122 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
1123 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
1125 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
1126 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
1127 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
1128 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
1129 is switched on or off
1130 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
1131 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
1132 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
1134 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
1135 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1136 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
1137 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
1138 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1139 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
1140 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
1141 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
1142 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
1144 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
1145 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
1146 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
1147 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
1148 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
1149 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
1150 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
1152 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
1153 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
1154 not prevent gc from running
1155 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
1156 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
1157 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
1158 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
1159 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
1160 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
1161 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
1162 an inline 32-bit rotation.
1164 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
1165 there is only one thread in the session
1166 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
1167 written to in another
1168 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
1169 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
1171 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
1172 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
1174 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
1175 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1176 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
1177 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
1178 the orignal arguments.
1179 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
1181 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
1182 name a compiled function.
1183 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
1184 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
1185 derivation were fixed.
1186 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
1187 list-form FUNCTION type.
1188 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
1189 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
1190 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
1192 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
1193 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
1194 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
1195 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
1196 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
1197 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
1199 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
1200 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
1201 of a select system call
1202 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
1204 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
1205 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
1207 * various error reporting improvements.
1208 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
1209 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1210 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
1211 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
1212 code and foreign data with the same name.
1214 ** added x86-64 support
1215 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
1216 objects instead of thread ids
1217 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
1218 starting up or going down
1219 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
1220 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
1221 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
1222 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
1223 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
1224 an inappropriate moment
1225 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
1226 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
1227 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
1228 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1229 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
1230 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
1231 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
1233 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
1234 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
1235 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
1236 range before calling Unix time functions
1238 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
1239 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
1240 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1241 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
1242 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
1243 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
1244 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1245 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
1246 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
1247 for more information.
1248 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
1249 pathname is a directory pathname.
1250 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
1251 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
1253 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
1254 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
1255 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
1256 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
1257 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
1258 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
1260 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
1261 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
1262 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
1263 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
1264 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
1265 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
1266 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1267 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
1268 the PowerPC platform.
1269 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
1270 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
1272 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
1273 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
1274 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
1275 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
1276 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
1277 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1279 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
1280 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
1281 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
1282 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
1283 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
1284 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1285 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
1286 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
1287 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
1288 as the name of a type, or vice versa
1289 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
1290 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
1291 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
1292 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
1293 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
1294 FLET or MACROLET forms
1295 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
1297 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
1299 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
1302 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
1303 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
1304 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
1305 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
1306 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
1307 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
1308 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
1309 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
1310 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
1311 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
1312 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
1313 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
1314 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
1315 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
1316 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
1317 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1318 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
1319 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1320 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
1321 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
1322 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
1323 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
1325 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1326 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
1327 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
1328 a file has the stream as its datum.
1329 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
1330 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
1331 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
1332 a correct expected type
1333 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
1334 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
1335 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
1336 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
1337 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
1338 on broadcast streams.
1340 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
1341 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
1342 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
1343 --disable-debugger option instead.
1344 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
1346 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
1347 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
1348 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
1349 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
1350 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
1351 has been added to the manual.
1352 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
1353 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
1354 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
1355 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
1356 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1357 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
1358 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
1359 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
1360 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
1361 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
1363 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
1364 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
1365 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
1366 (reported by Rajat Datta).
1367 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1368 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1370 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1371 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1372 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1373 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1374 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1375 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1376 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1377 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1378 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1379 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1380 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1381 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1382 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1383 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1384 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1385 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1386 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1387 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1388 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1390 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1392 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1393 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1394 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1395 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1396 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1398 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1399 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1400 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1401 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1402 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1403 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1404 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1406 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1407 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1408 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1410 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1411 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
1412 types for complex arguments better.
1413 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
1415 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
1416 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
1418 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
1419 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
1420 resulting in GC crashes.
1421 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
1423 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
1426 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
1427 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
1428 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
1429 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
1430 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
1431 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
1432 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
1433 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
1434 returning to the top level.
1435 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
1436 global optimization policy.
1437 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
1438 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
1439 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
1441 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
1442 various incompatible changes.
1443 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
1444 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
1445 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
1446 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
1447 level local call to FOO".
1448 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
1449 now have more legible printed representation
1450 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
1451 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
1452 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
1453 explicitly requested.
1454 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1455 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1456 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1457 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1458 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1460 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1461 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1462 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1463 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1464 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1465 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1466 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1467 the specializer is now possible.
1468 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1469 face of package deletion.
1470 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1471 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1472 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1473 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1474 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1475 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1476 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1477 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1478 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1479 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1481 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1482 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1483 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1484 correctable errors to be signalled.
1485 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1486 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
1489 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
1490 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1491 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
1493 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
1494 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1495 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
1496 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
1497 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
1498 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
1499 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
1500 related to the ~@F format directive.
1501 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
1503 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
1504 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
1505 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
1506 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
1508 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
1510 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
1511 coerce function designators to functions.
1512 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
1513 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
1514 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
1515 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
1516 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
1517 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
1518 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1519 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
1520 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
1521 start of the buffer at the next read.
1522 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
1523 passing it through to OPEN.
1524 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1525 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
1526 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
1527 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
1528 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
1529 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1530 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
1531 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
1533 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
1534 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1535 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1536 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
1537 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1538 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
1540 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1541 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
1542 secondary constituent character trait.
1543 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
1545 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
1547 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
1548 works more reliably.
1549 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
1550 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
1551 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
1553 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
1554 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
1556 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
1557 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
1558 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
1559 and reloading shared object files.
1560 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1561 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
1563 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
1564 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
1565 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
1567 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
1568 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
1570 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
1572 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
1573 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
1574 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
1575 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1576 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
1577 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
1578 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
1580 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
1581 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
1583 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
1584 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
1585 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
1586 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
1587 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
1589 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
1590 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
1591 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1592 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
1593 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
1594 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1595 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
1596 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1597 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
1598 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
1599 lisp characters are not eight bits.
1600 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1601 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
1602 the correct number of arguments.
1603 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
1604 to displaced strings.
1605 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
1606 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
1608 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
1609 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
1610 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
1611 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
1612 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
1613 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
1614 available at runtime.
1615 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
1616 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
1617 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
1618 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1619 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
1620 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
1621 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
1622 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
1623 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
1624 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
1625 of lambda-list keywords.
1626 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
1627 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
1629 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
1630 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
1631 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1632 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
1633 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
1634 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
1635 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
1637 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
1638 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1639 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
1640 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
1641 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
1643 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1644 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
1645 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1646 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
1647 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
1648 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1649 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
1651 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
1652 parameters correctly.
1653 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
1654 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
1655 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
1657 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
1660 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
1661 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
1662 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
1663 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
1665 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
1666 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
1667 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
1668 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
1669 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
1670 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
1671 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
1672 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1673 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
1675 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
1676 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1678 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
1680 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
1681 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
1682 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1683 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
1685 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
1686 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1687 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
1688 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
1689 (reported by David Morse)
1690 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
1691 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1692 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
1693 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1694 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
1695 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1696 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
1697 now exists, an signals an error.
1698 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
1699 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
1700 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1701 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
1702 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1703 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
1704 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
1705 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1706 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
1707 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1708 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
1709 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
1711 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
1712 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
1713 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
1714 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
1715 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1716 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
1717 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
1718 specialized array element types.
1719 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
1720 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1721 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
1722 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1723 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
1724 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
1725 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
1726 Wragg for the simple test case)
1727 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1728 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
1730 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
1731 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
1732 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
1733 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
1734 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
1736 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
1738 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
1739 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
1740 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
1741 references to global functions.
1742 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
1744 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
1746 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
1747 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1748 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
1749 supported platforms.
1750 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
1751 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
1752 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1753 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
1754 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
1755 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1756 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
1757 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1758 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
1759 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
1760 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
1761 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
1762 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
1764 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
1765 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1766 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
1767 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
1768 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
1769 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
1771 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
1772 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
1774 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
1775 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
1776 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
1777 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1778 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
1779 returns the right answer.
1780 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
1782 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
1784 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
1785 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
1787 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
1788 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
1790 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
1791 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
1792 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
1793 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
1794 the supported interface.
1795 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
1796 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
1797 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1798 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
1799 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
1800 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
1801 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
1802 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1803 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
1804 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
1805 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
1806 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
1807 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1808 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
1809 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
1810 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
1811 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
1812 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
1813 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
1814 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
1815 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
1816 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
1817 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
1818 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
1819 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
1820 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
1821 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1822 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
1823 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
1825 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
1826 * incompatible change: the internal functions
1827 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
1828 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
1829 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
1830 instead of the old functions.
1831 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
1832 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
1834 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
1835 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
1837 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
1838 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
1839 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
1840 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
1842 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
1843 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1844 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
1845 (reported by Rick Taube)
1846 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
1847 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
1848 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
1849 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
1851 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
1852 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
1853 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
1854 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
1855 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1856 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
1857 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
1858 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
1859 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
1860 represented relative to default pathnames.
1861 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
1862 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
1863 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
1865 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
1866 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
1867 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
1869 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1870 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
1871 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
1872 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
1874 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
1876 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
1877 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
1878 conditional newlines.
1879 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
1880 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
1881 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
1883 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
1884 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
1886 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
1887 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
1888 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
1889 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
1890 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
1891 compiled in unconditionally.
1892 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
1893 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
1894 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
1895 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
1896 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
1898 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
1899 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
1900 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
1901 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
1902 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
1903 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
1904 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
1905 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
1906 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
1907 an implementation-internal package.
1908 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
1910 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
1911 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
1912 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
1913 bodies are now more legible.
1914 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
1915 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
1916 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
1917 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
1918 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1919 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
1920 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
1922 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
1923 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
1924 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
1925 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
1926 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
1927 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
1928 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
1929 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
1930 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
1931 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
1933 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
1934 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
1935 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
1936 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
1937 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
1938 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
1939 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
1940 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
1941 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
1942 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
1943 system even when most of them are idle
1944 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
1945 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1946 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
1948 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
1949 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
1950 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
1951 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
1952 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
1954 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
1955 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
1956 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
1957 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
1958 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
1959 string for information on the protocol.
1960 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
1961 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
1963 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
1964 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
1966 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
1967 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
1968 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
1969 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
1970 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
1971 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
1973 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
1974 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
1976 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
1977 move between its address being taken and the call to
1978 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
1979 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
1980 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
1981 instances corresponding to C structs.
1983 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
1984 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
1985 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
1986 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
1987 has implications for memory management of client code
1988 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
1989 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
1990 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
1991 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
1992 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
1993 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
1994 quality should be considered deprecated.
1995 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
1996 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
1997 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
1998 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
1999 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
2001 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
2002 designator as the defaults argument.
2003 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
2004 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
2005 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2006 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
2007 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
2009 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
2011 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
2012 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2013 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
2014 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
2015 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2016 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
2018 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
2019 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2020 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
2021 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
2022 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
2023 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
2024 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2025 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
2026 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
2027 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
2028 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
2029 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2030 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
2031 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
2032 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
2033 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
2034 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
2036 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
2037 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
2038 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
2040 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
2041 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2042 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
2043 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
2044 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
2045 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
2046 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2047 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
2048 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
2050 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
2051 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
2053 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
2054 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
2056 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
2057 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2058 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
2059 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
2061 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
2062 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
2063 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2064 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
2065 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
2066 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
2067 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
2068 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
2070 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
2071 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
2072 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
2074 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
2075 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
2077 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2078 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
2080 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
2081 from local to shared slots.
2082 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
2083 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
2084 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
2085 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
2087 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
2088 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
2089 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
2090 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
2091 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
2092 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
2093 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
2094 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
2095 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
2097 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
2099 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
2101 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
2102 print using #P"..." syntax.
2104 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
2105 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
2106 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
2107 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
2108 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
2109 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
2110 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
2111 * [placeholder for DX summary]
2112 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
2113 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
2114 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
2115 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
2116 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
2117 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
2118 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
2119 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
2120 the test case to Dave Roberts)
2121 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
2122 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
2123 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
2124 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2125 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
2126 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
2127 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
2128 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2129 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
2130 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
2131 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
2132 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
2133 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2134 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
2135 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
2138 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
2139 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
2140 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
2141 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
2142 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
2143 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
2144 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
2145 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
2146 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
2147 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2148 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
2149 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
2150 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
2152 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
2153 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
2155 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
2156 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
2157 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2158 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
2159 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2160 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
2162 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
2163 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
2164 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
2166 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
2168 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
2170 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
2171 their output stream on EOF from read.
2172 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
2173 have been read to end-of-file.
2174 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
2176 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
2177 description of determination of which consecutive characters
2179 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
2180 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
2181 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2182 less than 10 works correctly.
2183 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2184 more than 10 works correctly.
2185 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
2186 the readtable currently in effect.
2188 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
2189 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
2190 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
2191 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
2192 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
2193 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
2194 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
2195 should usually be replaced by
2196 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
2197 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
2198 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
2199 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
2200 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
2201 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
2202 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
2203 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
2205 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
2206 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
2207 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2208 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
2209 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
2210 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2211 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
2212 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
2213 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
2214 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
2215 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
2216 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
2217 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
2219 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
2220 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
2221 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
2222 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2223 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
2224 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
2225 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
2226 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2227 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
2228 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
2229 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
2230 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
2231 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
2232 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
2233 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2234 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
2235 non-local entry points.
2236 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
2238 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2239 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
2241 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
2242 host is already defined.
2243 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
2245 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
2246 or not a character is whitespace.
2247 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
2248 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
2249 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
2251 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
2252 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
2254 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
2256 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
2257 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
2258 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
2259 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
2260 designator argument does not designate a stream.
2261 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
2262 examining the synonym.
2263 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
2265 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
2266 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
2268 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
2269 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
2270 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
2271 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
2272 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
2273 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
2274 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
2275 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
2276 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
2277 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2278 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
2279 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
2281 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
2282 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
2283 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2284 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
2285 stream position information.
2286 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
2287 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
2288 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
2289 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
2290 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2291 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
2293 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
2294 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
2296 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2297 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2298 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
2299 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
2300 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
2301 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
2302 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
2304 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
2306 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
2307 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
2308 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
2309 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
2310 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
2311 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
2312 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
2313 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
2314 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
2315 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
2316 the "SYS" logical host.
2317 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
2318 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
2319 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
2320 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2321 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
2322 now each have their own history, command character, and other
2323 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2324 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2325 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
2327 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
2328 shift greater than 32.
2329 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
2330 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
2331 in some circumstances.
2333 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
2334 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
2335 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
2336 environments like SLIME.
2337 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
2338 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
2339 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
2340 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
2341 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
2342 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
2343 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
2344 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
2345 argument types for all arguments.
2346 * various threading fixes
2347 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
2348 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
2349 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
2350 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
2352 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
2353 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
2354 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
2355 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
2356 arguments to a full call.
2357 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
2358 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
2359 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
2360 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
2362 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
2363 inserts a space where necessary.
2364 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
2365 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
2366 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
2367 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2368 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2369 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2370 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2371 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2372 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2373 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2374 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2375 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2377 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2378 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2379 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2381 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2383 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2384 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2385 argument and negative second.
2386 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2387 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2388 interval, containing 0.
2389 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2391 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2392 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2394 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2395 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2396 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2397 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2398 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2399 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2400 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2401 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2402 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2403 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2404 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2405 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2406 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2407 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2408 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2409 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2410 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2411 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
2412 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
2413 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
2414 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
2415 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2416 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
2417 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
2418 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
2419 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
2420 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
2421 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
2422 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
2424 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
2425 platform now returns the right answer.
2426 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
2427 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
2428 precomputation is now tunable.
2429 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
2430 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
2431 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
2432 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
2433 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
2434 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
2435 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
2436 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
2437 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
2438 has been added for the alpha.
2439 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
2440 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
2441 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
2442 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
2443 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
2444 MEMBER-types to numeric.
2445 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
2447 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
2448 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
2449 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
2451 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
2452 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2453 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
2454 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2455 might be pseudo-atomic.
2456 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2457 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2459 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2461 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2463 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2464 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2465 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2466 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2467 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2468 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2470 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2471 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2472 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2473 small float arguments.
2474 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2476 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2477 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2478 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2479 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2480 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2481 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2483 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2485 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2486 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
2487 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
2488 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
2489 with negative last argument.
2490 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
2491 an error during type derivation.
2492 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
2494 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
2495 generates a 32-bit binary.
2496 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2497 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
2498 data structures referred to above).
2500 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
2501 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
2502 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
2503 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
2504 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
2505 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
2506 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
2507 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
2508 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
2509 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2510 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
2511 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
2513 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
2514 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
2516 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
2517 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
2518 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
2519 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
2520 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
2521 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
2522 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
2523 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
2524 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
2525 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
2526 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
2527 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2528 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
2529 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
2530 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
2531 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
2532 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
2533 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2534 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
2535 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
2536 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
2537 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
2538 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2539 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
2540 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
2541 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
2542 optimization quality.
2543 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
2544 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
2545 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
2546 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
2547 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2548 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2549 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
2550 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
2551 types form a lattice under type intersection.
2552 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
2553 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
2554 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
2555 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
2556 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
2557 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
2558 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
2559 calling the generic function.
2560 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
2561 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
2562 obscure ANSI requirements
2564 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
2565 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
2566 garbage, confusing the compiler.
2567 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
2568 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
2569 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
2570 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
2571 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
2572 circumstances could go off-by-one.
2573 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
2575 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
2576 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
2577 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
2578 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
2579 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
2580 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
2581 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
2582 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
2583 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
2584 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2585 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
2586 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
2587 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2588 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
2589 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2590 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
2591 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
2592 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
2593 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
2594 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
2596 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
2597 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
2598 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
2599 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
2601 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
2602 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
2603 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
2604 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
2605 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
2606 provide helpful disassembly notes.
2607 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
2608 the class in more cases than previously.
2609 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
2610 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2611 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
2612 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2613 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
2614 without lambda list.
2615 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
2616 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
2617 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2618 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
2619 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
2620 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
2622 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
2623 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
2624 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
2626 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
2627 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
2628 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
2629 were silently accepted).
2630 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
2631 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
2632 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
2633 to warn on static type mismatches and function
2634 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
2635 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
2636 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
2637 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
2638 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
2639 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
2640 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
2641 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
2642 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
2643 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
2645 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
2646 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
2647 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
2648 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
2649 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
2650 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
2652 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
2653 keywords or constants is permissible.
2654 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
2655 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
2656 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2657 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
2658 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
2659 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
2660 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
2661 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
2663 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
2664 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2665 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
2666 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
2667 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2668 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
2669 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
2671 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
2673 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
2674 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
2675 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
2676 respectively change and preserve the value.
2677 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
2678 is now better at handling symbol macros.
2679 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
2680 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
2681 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
2682 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
2683 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
2684 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
2685 their use properly signals an error now.
2686 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
2687 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
2688 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
2689 * fixed simple vector readable printing
2690 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
2691 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
2692 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
2693 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
2694 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
2695 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
2696 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2697 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
2698 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2699 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
2700 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
2701 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2702 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
2703 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
2704 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
2705 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
2706 causes a type error.
2707 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
2708 association between the name and a class.
2709 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
2710 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
2711 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2712 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
2713 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
2714 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
2716 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
2717 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
2718 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
2719 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
2721 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
2722 which its argument is a member.
2723 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
2724 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
2725 otherwise, it creates a new class.
2726 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
2727 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
2728 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
2729 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
2730 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2731 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
2733 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
2734 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
2735 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
2736 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
2737 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
2738 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
2739 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
2741 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
2742 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
2743 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
2744 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
2745 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
2746 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
2747 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
2748 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
2749 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
2750 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
2751 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
2752 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
2753 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2754 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
2756 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
2757 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
2758 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
2759 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
2760 superclasses are applied.
2761 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2762 no method was removed.
2763 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
2764 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
2765 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
2766 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
2768 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
2770 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
2771 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
2772 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
2773 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
2774 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
2775 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
2776 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
2777 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
2778 function lambda list.
2779 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
2781 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
2782 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
2783 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
2784 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
2786 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
2787 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
2788 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
2789 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
2790 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
2791 they look for GNU "make".
2793 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
2794 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
2795 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
2796 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
2798 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
2799 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
2800 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
2801 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
2802 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
2803 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
2804 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
2805 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
2806 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
2807 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
2809 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
2810 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
2811 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
2812 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
2813 libraries, and will know who they are.
2814 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
2815 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
2816 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
2817 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
2818 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
2819 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
2820 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
2821 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
2823 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
2824 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
2825 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2826 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
2827 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
2828 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
2829 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
2830 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
2831 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
2832 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
2833 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2834 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
2836 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
2837 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
2838 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
2839 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
2840 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2841 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
2842 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
2843 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
2844 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
2846 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
2847 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
2848 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
2849 this you were probably losing anyway.
2850 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
2851 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
2852 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
2853 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
2854 with names from the CL package.
2855 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
2856 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
2857 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
2858 documentation string.
2859 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2860 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
2862 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
2863 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
2864 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
2865 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
2867 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
2868 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
2870 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
2871 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2872 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
2874 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
2875 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
2876 arguments contain duplicated elements.
2877 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
2878 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
2879 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
2880 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
2881 in question is unbound.
2882 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
2883 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
2884 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
2885 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
2886 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
2888 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
2890 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
2891 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
2892 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
2893 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
2894 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
2895 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
2896 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
2897 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
2898 by Antonio Martinez)
2899 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
2900 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2901 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
2902 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
2903 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
2904 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
2905 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
2906 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2907 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
2908 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
2909 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
2910 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
2911 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
2912 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
2913 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
2914 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
2915 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
2916 on malformed property lists;
2918 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
2919 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
2920 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
2921 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
2922 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
2923 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
2924 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
2925 modules in this release include:
2926 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
2927 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
2928 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
2929 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2930 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
2932 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
2933 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
2934 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2935 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2936 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
2937 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
2938 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
2939 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
2941 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
2942 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
2943 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
2944 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
2945 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
2946 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
2947 the lexical environment.
2948 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
2949 unprintable packages can now be defined.
2950 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
2951 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2952 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
2953 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2954 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
2955 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
2956 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
2957 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
2958 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
2959 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
2960 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
2961 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
2962 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2963 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
2964 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2965 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
2966 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
2967 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
2968 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2969 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
2970 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
2971 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
2972 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
2974 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
2975 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
2976 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2977 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2978 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
2979 not just nonnegative fixnums;
2980 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
2981 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
2982 freshly-consed result bit-array);
2983 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
2985 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
2986 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
2988 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
2989 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
2990 cases are accurately computed;
2991 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
2992 if it is in the last clause;
2993 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
2995 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
2996 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
2997 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
2998 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
3000 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
3001 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
3002 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
3003 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
3004 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
3006 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
3007 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
3008 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
3009 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
3011 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3012 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
3013 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
3014 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
3015 not cause a type error;
3016 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
3018 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
3019 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
3020 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
3021 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
3022 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
3023 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
3024 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
3025 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
3027 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
3028 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
3029 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
3030 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
3031 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
3032 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
3034 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
3035 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
3037 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
3038 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
3039 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
3040 only for symbols in the CL package.
3041 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
3042 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3043 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
3044 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
3045 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
3047 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3048 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
3049 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
3050 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
3051 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
3052 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
3053 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
3054 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
3055 conditional loop clause;
3056 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
3057 signals a type error iff it should.
3058 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3059 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
3060 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
3061 argument) no longer signals an error;
3062 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
3063 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
3064 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
3066 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
3067 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
3068 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
3070 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
3071 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
3072 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
3073 functionality on said platforms verified.
3074 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
3075 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
3077 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
3078 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
3079 component indicating that directory.
3080 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
3081 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
3082 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
3083 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
3084 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3085 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
3087 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
3088 primary methods with no specializers;
3089 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
3091 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
3092 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
3093 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
3094 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
3096 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
3097 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
3098 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
3100 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
3101 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
3102 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
3103 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
3104 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
3105 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
3106 class STANDARD-CLASS;
3107 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
3108 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3109 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
3110 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
3112 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
3113 value producing form;
3114 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
3115 variables are bound and made to have no value;
3116 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
3118 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
3119 is not a valid sequence index;
3120 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
3121 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
3122 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3123 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
3125 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
3126 symbol-macro places;
3127 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
3128 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
3130 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
3132 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
3134 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
3135 invariant when deleting code.
3136 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
3137 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
3139 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
3140 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3141 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
3143 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
3144 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
3146 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
3147 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
3148 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3149 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
3151 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
3152 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3153 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
3154 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
3156 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
3157 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
3158 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
3159 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
3160 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3161 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
3162 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
3163 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
3164 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
3165 sbcl and .core files.)
3166 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
3167 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
3168 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
3169 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
3170 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
3171 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3172 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
3174 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
3175 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
3176 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
3177 argument precedence order.
3178 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
3179 derived types contradict their declared type.
3180 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
3181 so it can be non-toplevel.
3182 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
3183 implementation of DEFMACRO).
3184 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
3185 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
3186 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
3188 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
3189 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
3190 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
3191 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
3192 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
3193 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
3194 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
3195 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
3196 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
3197 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
3198 symbol macro only once
3199 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
3200 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
3201 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
3204 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
3205 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
3206 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
3207 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
3208 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
3209 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
3210 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
3211 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
3212 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
3213 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3214 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
3215 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
3217 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
3218 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
3219 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
3220 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
3221 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3222 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
3224 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
3226 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
3227 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
3228 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
3229 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
3230 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3231 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
3232 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
3233 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
3234 ways in different special cases
3235 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
3237 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
3238 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
3239 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
3240 are no longer optimized away.
3241 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
3242 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
3243 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
3244 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
3245 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
3246 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
3247 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
3248 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
3251 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
3252 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
3253 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
3254 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
3255 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
3256 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
3257 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
3259 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
3260 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
3261 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
3262 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
3263 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
3264 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
3265 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
3266 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
3267 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
3268 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
3269 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
3270 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
3271 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
3272 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
3273 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
3274 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
3275 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
3276 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3277 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
3278 that are names of constants or global variables.
3279 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
3280 alien routines with docstrings.
3281 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
3282 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
3284 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
3285 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3286 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
3287 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3288 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
3289 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3290 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
3291 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
3292 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
3293 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3294 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
3295 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
3296 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
3297 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
3298 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
3299 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
3300 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
3301 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
3302 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
3303 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
3304 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
3305 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
3306 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
3308 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
3309 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
3311 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
3312 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
3313 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
3314 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
3315 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
3316 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
3317 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
3318 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
3319 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
3320 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
3322 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
3323 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
3324 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
3325 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
3326 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
3327 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
3328 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
3329 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
3330 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
3331 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
3332 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
3333 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
3334 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
3335 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
3336 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
3337 is no longer a static symbol.)
3339 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
3340 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
3341 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
3342 bootstrapping under CLISP.
3343 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
3345 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
3346 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
3348 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
3349 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
3350 to David Lichteblau)
3351 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
3352 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
3353 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
3355 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
3356 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3357 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
3358 count as they should.
3359 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
3360 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3361 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
3362 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
3363 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
3364 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
3365 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
3366 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
3367 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3368 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3369 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3370 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3371 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3372 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3373 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3375 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3376 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3377 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3379 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3381 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3382 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3383 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3384 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3385 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3386 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3387 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3389 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3390 to Christophe Rhodes)
3391 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3392 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3393 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3394 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3395 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3396 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
3397 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3399 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3400 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3401 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3402 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3403 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3404 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3405 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3406 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3407 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3408 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3409 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3410 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3411 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
3413 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
3414 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
3415 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
3416 INFO database to support symbol macros.
3417 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
3418 (thanks to coreythomas)
3419 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
3420 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
3421 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
3422 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
3423 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
3425 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
3426 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
3427 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
3428 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
3429 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
3430 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
3431 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
3432 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
3433 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
3434 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3435 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
3436 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
3437 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
3439 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
3440 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
3443 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
3444 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
3445 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
3446 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
3447 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
3448 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
3449 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
3450 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
3451 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
3452 systems than the old 4M value was)
3453 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
3454 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3455 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3456 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3457 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3458 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3459 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3461 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3462 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3463 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3464 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3465 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3467 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3468 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3469 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3470 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3471 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3472 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3473 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3474 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3476 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3477 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3478 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3479 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3480 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3481 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3482 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3483 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3485 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3486 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3487 * several changes related to debugging:
3488 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
3489 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
3490 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
3491 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
3492 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3493 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
3494 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
3497 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
3499 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
3500 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
3501 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
3502 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
3503 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
3504 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
3505 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
3506 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
3508 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
3509 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
3510 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
3511 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3512 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
3513 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
3514 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
3515 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
3516 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
3517 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
3518 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
3519 file format number to change again.
3521 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
3522 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
3523 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
3524 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
3526 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
3527 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
3528 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
3529 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
3530 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
3531 FUNCALL on the result.
3532 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
3533 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
3534 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
3535 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
3536 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
3537 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
3538 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
3539 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
3541 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
3542 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
3543 the old compiler produced.
3544 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
3545 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
3546 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
3547 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
3548 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
3549 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
3550 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
3551 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
3552 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
3553 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
3554 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
3555 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
3556 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
3557 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
3558 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
3559 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
3560 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
3561 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
3562 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
3563 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
3564 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
3565 straightened out in some future version.)
3566 * minor incompatible changes:
3567 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
3568 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
3569 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
3570 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
3571 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
3572 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
3573 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
3574 implementation dependent:
3575 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
3576 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
3577 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
3578 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
3579 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
3580 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
3581 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
3582 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
3584 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
3586 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
3587 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
3588 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
3589 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
3590 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
3591 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
3592 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
3593 are no longer used for output.
3594 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
3595 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
3596 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
3597 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
3598 increasing it even more.)
3599 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
3600 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
3601 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
3603 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
3604 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
3605 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
3606 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
3607 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
3608 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
3609 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
3610 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
3611 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
3612 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
3613 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
3614 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
3615 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
3616 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
3617 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
3618 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
3619 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
3620 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
3621 compilation of code which calls such functions.
3622 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
3623 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
3624 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
3625 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
3626 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
3627 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
3628 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
3629 built into the system.
3630 * many other bug fixes
3631 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
3632 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
3633 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
3634 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
3635 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
3637 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
3638 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
3639 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
3640 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
3641 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
3642 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
3643 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
3644 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
3645 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
3646 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
3647 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
3649 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
3650 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
3651 and several other LOOP problems as well
3652 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
3653 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
3654 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
3655 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
3656 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
3657 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
3658 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
3659 *** a bug in APROPOS
3660 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
3661 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
3662 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
3663 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
3664 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
3665 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
3666 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
3667 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
3668 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
3669 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
3670 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
3671 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
3672 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
3673 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
3674 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
3676 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
3677 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
3678 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
3679 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
3680 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
3681 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
3682 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
3683 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
3684 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
3685 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
3686 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
3687 some of which are apparent above.
3689 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
3690 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
3691 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
3692 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
3693 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
3694 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
3695 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
3696 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
3697 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
3698 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
3699 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
3700 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
3701 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
3702 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
3703 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
3704 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
3705 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
3706 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
3707 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
3708 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
3709 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
3710 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
3711 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
3712 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
3713 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
3714 different return types.
3715 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
3716 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
3717 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
3718 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
3719 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
3720 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
3721 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
3722 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
3723 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
3724 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
3726 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
3727 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
3728 does the right thing.
3729 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
3730 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
3731 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3732 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
3733 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3734 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3735 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
3736 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
3737 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
3738 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
3739 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3740 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
3741 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3742 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
3743 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
3744 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
3745 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
3746 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
3747 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
3748 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
3749 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
3750 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
3751 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
3752 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
3753 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
3754 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
3755 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
3756 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
3757 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
3758 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
3759 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
3760 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
3761 since historically most system changes which required version
3762 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
3763 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
3766 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
3767 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
3768 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
3769 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
3770 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
3771 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
3772 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
3773 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
3774 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
3775 half a dozen others elsewhere
3776 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
3777 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
3778 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
3779 as flaky as they were.
3780 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
3781 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
3782 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
3783 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
3784 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
3785 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
3786 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
3787 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
3789 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
3790 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
3791 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
3792 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3793 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
3794 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
3795 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
3796 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
3797 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
3798 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
3799 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
3800 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
3801 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
3802 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
3803 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
3804 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
3805 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
3806 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
3807 more obscure bugs as well
3808 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
3809 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
3810 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
3811 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
3812 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
3813 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
3814 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
3815 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
3816 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
3817 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
3818 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
3820 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
3821 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
3823 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
3825 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3826 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
3827 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
3828 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
3829 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
3830 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
3831 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
3832 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
3833 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
3834 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
3835 are local in this sense.)
3836 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
3837 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
3838 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
3839 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
3840 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
3841 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
3842 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3843 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
3844 system's STREAM objects.
3845 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
3846 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3847 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
3848 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3849 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
3850 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
3851 environment from the original process instead of starting the
3852 new process in an empty environment.
3853 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
3854 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
3855 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
3856 for porting convenience.
3857 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
3858 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
3860 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
3862 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
3863 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
3864 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
3865 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
3866 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
3867 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
3868 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
3869 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
3870 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
3871 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
3872 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
3873 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3874 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
3875 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
3876 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
3877 many fewer weird special cases.
3878 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
3879 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
3880 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3881 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
3882 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
3883 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
3884 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
3885 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
3886 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
3887 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3888 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
3891 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
3893 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
3894 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
3895 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
3897 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
3898 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
3899 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
3900 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
3901 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
3902 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
3903 should be constructed the same way as before.
3904 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
3905 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
3906 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
3907 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
3908 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
3909 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
3910 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
3911 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
3912 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
3913 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
3914 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
3915 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
3916 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
3917 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
3918 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
3919 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
3920 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
3921 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
3922 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
3923 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
3924 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
3925 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
3927 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
3928 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
3929 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
3930 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
3931 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
3932 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
3933 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
3934 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
3936 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
3938 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
3939 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
3940 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
3941 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
3942 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
3944 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
3945 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
3946 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
3947 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
3948 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
3949 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
3950 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
3951 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
3952 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
3953 and Douglas Crosher.
3954 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
3955 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
3956 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
3958 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
3959 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
3960 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
3961 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
3962 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
3963 undefined function error.
3964 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
3965 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
3966 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
3967 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
3968 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
3969 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
3970 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
3971 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
3972 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
3973 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
3974 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
3975 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
3976 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
3978 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
3980 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
3981 CVS repository on my home machine).
3982 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
3983 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
3984 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
3985 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
3986 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
3987 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
3988 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
3989 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
3990 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
3991 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
3992 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
3993 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
3994 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
3995 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
3996 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
3997 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
3998 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
3999 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
4000 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
4001 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
4002 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
4003 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
4005 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
4006 FreeBSD have been added.
4007 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
4008 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
4009 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
4010 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
4011 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
4012 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
4014 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
4015 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
4016 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
4017 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
4018 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
4019 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
4020 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
4021 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
4023 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
4024 away by constant folding
4025 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
4026 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
4027 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
4028 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
4029 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
4030 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
4031 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
4032 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
4033 diff-related operations.
4034 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
4035 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
4037 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
4039 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
4040 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
4041 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
4042 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
4043 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
4044 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
4045 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
4046 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
4047 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
4048 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
4049 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
4050 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
4051 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
4052 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
4053 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
4054 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
4055 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
4056 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
4057 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
4058 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
4059 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
4060 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
4061 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
4062 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
4063 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
4064 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
4065 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
4066 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
4067 instead of (VALUES T T).
4068 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
4069 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
4070 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
4071 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
4072 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
4073 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
4074 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
4075 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
4076 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
4077 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
4078 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
4079 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
4080 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
4081 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
4082 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
4083 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
4084 type will be interpreted at runtime.
4085 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
4086 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
4087 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
4088 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
4089 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
4090 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
4091 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
4092 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
4093 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
4094 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
4095 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
4096 fasl files for cold load.
4097 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
4098 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
4099 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
4100 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
4101 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
4102 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
4103 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
4104 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
4105 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
4106 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
4107 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
4109 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
4110 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
4111 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
4112 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
4113 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
4114 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
4115 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
4116 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
4117 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
4118 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
4119 renamed some files to increase consistency.
4120 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
4121 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
4122 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
4123 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
4124 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
4125 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
4127 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
4129 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
4130 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
4131 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
4132 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
4133 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
4134 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
4135 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
4136 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
4137 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
4138 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
4139 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
4140 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
4141 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
4142 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
4143 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
4144 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
4145 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
4146 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
4148 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
4149 as required by ANSI.
4150 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
4151 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
4152 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
4153 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
4155 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
4156 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
4157 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
4158 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
4159 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
4160 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
4161 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
4162 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
4164 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
4165 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
4166 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
4167 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4169 is now basically equivalent to
4170 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4171 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
4173 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
4174 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
4175 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
4176 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
4177 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
4178 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
4179 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
4180 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
4181 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
4182 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
4183 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
4184 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
4185 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
4186 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
4187 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
4188 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4189 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
4190 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
4191 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
4192 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
4193 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
4194 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
4195 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
4197 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
4199 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
4200 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
4201 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
4202 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
4203 GNUMAKE environment variable.
4204 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
4205 can build without error under CMU CL.
4207 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
4209 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
4210 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
4211 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
4212 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
4213 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
4214 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
4215 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
4216 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
4217 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
4218 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
4219 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
4220 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
4221 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
4222 being initialized before the type system knew the final
4223 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
4224 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
4225 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
4226 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
4227 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
4228 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
4229 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
4230 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
4231 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
4232 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
4234 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
4235 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
4236 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
4237 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
4238 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
4239 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
4240 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
4241 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
4242 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
4243 it were currently supported.
4244 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
4245 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
4246 having to maintain patches.
4247 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
4248 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
4250 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
4252 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
4253 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
4254 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
4255 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
4256 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
4257 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
4258 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
4259 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
4260 * various new style warnings:
4261 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
4262 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
4263 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
4264 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
4265 as specified by ANSI.
4266 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
4267 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
4268 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
4269 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
4270 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
4271 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
4272 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
4273 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
4274 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
4275 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
4276 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
4277 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
4278 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
4279 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
4280 argument types can be determined at compile time.
4281 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
4282 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
4283 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
4284 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
4285 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
4286 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
4287 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
4290 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
4292 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
4293 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
4294 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
4295 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
4296 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
4297 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
4298 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
4299 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
4300 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
4302 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
4303 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
4304 the report form was printed.)
4305 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
4306 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
4307 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
4308 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
4309 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
4310 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
4311 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
4312 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
4313 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
4314 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
4315 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
4316 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
4317 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
4318 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
4319 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
4320 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
4321 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
4322 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
4323 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
4324 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
4325 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
4326 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
4327 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
4328 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
4329 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
4330 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
4331 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
4332 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
4333 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
4334 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
4335 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
4336 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
4337 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
4338 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
4339 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
4340 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
4341 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
4342 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
4343 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
4344 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
4345 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
4346 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
4347 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
4348 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
4349 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
4350 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
4351 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
4352 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
4353 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
4354 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
4355 know more about target types.
4356 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
4357 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
4358 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
4359 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
4360 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
4361 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
4363 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
4364 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
4365 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
4366 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
4367 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4368 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4369 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4370 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4371 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4372 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4373 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4374 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4375 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4377 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4380 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4382 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4383 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4384 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4385 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4386 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4387 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4388 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4389 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4390 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4391 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4392 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4393 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4394 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4395 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4396 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4397 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4398 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4399 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4400 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4401 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4402 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4403 invisible at the user level.)
4404 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4405 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4406 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4408 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4410 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4411 * tidied up system directory structure
4412 * better "clean.sh" behavior
4413 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
4414 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
4415 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
4416 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
4417 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
4418 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
4419 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
4420 * command line argument processing
4421 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
4422 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
4423 terminating SBCL on EOF
4424 * non-verbose GC by default
4425 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
4426 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
4427 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
4429 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
4430 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
4431 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
4432 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
4433 transformed along with everything else.
4434 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
4435 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
4436 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
4437 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
4438 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
4439 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
4440 debugging and testing purposes
4441 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
4442 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
4443 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
4444 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
4445 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
4446 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
4447 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
4449 * regularized formatting of source files
4450 * added an install.sh script
4451 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
4452 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
4453 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
4454 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4455 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4456 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4457 was not implemented)
4458 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4459 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4460 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4461 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4462 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4464 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4465 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4466 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4467 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4468 COMPILE-FILE command)
4469 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4470 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4471 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4472 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4473 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4474 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4475 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4476 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4477 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4478 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4479 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4480 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4481 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4482 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4483 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4485 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4486 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
4487 known to be able to handle the current sources
4488 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
4489 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
4490 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
4491 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
4492 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
4493 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
4494 * removed host-oops.lisp
4495 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
4496 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
4497 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
4498 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
4499 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
4500 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by