1 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
2 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
3 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
4 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
5 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
6 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
7 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
8 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
10 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
11 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
12 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
14 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
15 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
16 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
17 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
18 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
19 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
20 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
21 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
22 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
23 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
24 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
25 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
26 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
28 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
29 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
30 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
31 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
32 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
33 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
35 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
36 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
38 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
39 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
40 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
41 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
42 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
43 returns the right answer.
44 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
46 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
48 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
49 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
51 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
52 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
54 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
55 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
56 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
57 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
58 the supported interface.
59 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
60 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
61 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
62 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
63 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
64 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
65 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
66 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
67 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
68 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
69 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
70 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
71 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
72 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
73 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
74 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
75 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
76 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
77 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
78 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
79 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
80 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
81 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
82 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
83 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
84 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
85 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
86 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
87 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
89 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
90 * incompatible change: the internal functions
91 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
92 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
93 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
94 instead of the old functions.
95 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
96 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
98 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
99 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
101 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
102 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
103 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
104 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
106 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
107 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
108 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
109 (reported by Rick Taube)
110 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
111 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
112 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
113 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
115 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
116 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
117 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
118 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
119 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
120 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
121 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
122 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
123 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
124 represented relative to default pathnames.
125 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
126 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
127 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
129 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
130 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
131 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
133 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
134 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
135 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
136 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
138 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
140 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
141 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
142 conditional newlines.
143 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
144 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
145 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
147 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
148 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
150 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
151 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
152 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
153 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
154 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
155 compiled in unconditionally.
156 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
157 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
158 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
159 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
160 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
162 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
163 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
164 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
165 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
166 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
167 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
168 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
169 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
170 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
171 an implementation-internal package.
172 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
174 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
175 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
176 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
177 bodies are now more legible.
178 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
179 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
180 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
181 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
182 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
183 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
184 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
186 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
187 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
188 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
189 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
190 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
191 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
192 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
194 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
195 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
197 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
198 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
199 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
200 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
201 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
202 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
203 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
204 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
205 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
206 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
207 system even when most of them are idle
208 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
209 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
210 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
212 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
213 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
214 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
215 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
216 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
218 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
219 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
220 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
221 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
222 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
223 string for information on the protocol.
224 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
225 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
227 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
228 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
230 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
231 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
232 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
233 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
234 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
235 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
237 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
238 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
240 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
241 move between its address being taken and the call to
242 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
243 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
244 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
245 instances corresponding to C structs.
247 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
248 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
249 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
250 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
251 has implications for memory management of client code
252 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
253 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
254 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
255 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
256 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
257 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
258 quality should be considered deprecated.
259 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
260 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
261 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
262 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
263 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
265 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
266 designator as the defaults argument.
267 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
268 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
269 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
270 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
271 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
273 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
275 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
276 (thanks to Zach Beane)
277 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
278 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
279 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
280 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
282 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
283 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
284 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
285 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
286 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
287 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
288 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
289 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
290 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
291 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
292 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
293 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
294 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
295 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
296 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
297 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
298 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
300 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
301 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
302 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
304 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
305 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
306 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
307 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
308 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
309 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
310 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
311 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
312 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
314 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
315 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
317 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
318 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
320 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
321 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
322 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
323 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
325 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
326 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
327 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
328 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
329 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
330 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
331 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
332 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
334 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
335 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
336 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
338 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
339 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
341 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
342 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
344 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
345 from local to shared slots.
346 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
347 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
348 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
349 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
351 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
352 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
353 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
354 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
355 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
356 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
357 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
358 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
359 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
361 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
363 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
365 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
366 print using #P"..." syntax.
368 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
369 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
370 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
371 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
372 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
373 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
374 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
375 * [placeholder for DX summary]
376 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
377 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
378 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
379 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
380 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
381 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
382 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
383 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
384 the test case to Dave Roberts)
385 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
386 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
387 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
388 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
389 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
390 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
391 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
392 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
393 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
394 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
395 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
396 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
397 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
398 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
399 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
402 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
403 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
404 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
405 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
406 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
407 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
408 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
409 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
410 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
411 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
412 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
413 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
414 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
416 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
417 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
419 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
420 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
421 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
422 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
423 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
424 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
426 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
427 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
428 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
430 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
432 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
434 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
435 their output stream on EOF from read.
436 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
437 have been read to end-of-file.
438 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
440 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
441 description of determination of which consecutive characters
443 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
444 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
445 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
446 less than 10 works correctly.
447 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
448 more than 10 works correctly.
449 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
450 the readtable currently in effect.
452 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
453 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
454 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
455 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
456 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
457 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
458 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
459 should usually be replaced by
460 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
461 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
462 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
463 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
464 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
465 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
466 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
467 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
469 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
470 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
471 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
472 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
473 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
474 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
475 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
476 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
477 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
478 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
479 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
480 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
481 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
483 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
484 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
485 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
486 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
487 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
488 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
489 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
490 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
491 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
492 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
493 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
494 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
495 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
496 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
497 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
498 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
499 non-local entry points.
500 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
502 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
503 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
505 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
506 host is already defined.
507 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
509 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
510 or not a character is whitespace.
511 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
512 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
513 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
515 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
516 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
518 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
520 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
521 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
522 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
523 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
524 designator argument does not designate a stream.
525 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
526 examining the synonym.
527 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
529 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
530 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
532 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
533 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
534 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
535 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
536 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
537 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
538 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
539 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
540 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
541 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
542 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
543 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
545 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
546 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
547 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
548 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
549 stream position information.
550 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
551 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
552 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
553 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
554 (reported by Paul Dietz)
555 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
557 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
558 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
560 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
561 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
562 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
563 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
564 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
565 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
566 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
568 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
570 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
571 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
572 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
573 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
574 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
575 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
576 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
577 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
578 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
579 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
580 the "SYS" logical host.
581 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
582 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
583 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
584 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
585 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
586 now each have their own history, command character, and other
587 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
588 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
589 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
591 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
592 shift greater than 32.
593 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
594 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
595 in some circumstances.
597 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
598 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
599 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
600 environments like SLIME.
601 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
602 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
603 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
604 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
605 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
606 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
607 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
608 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
609 argument types for all arguments.
610 * various threading fixes
611 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
612 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
613 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
614 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
616 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
617 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
618 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
619 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
620 arguments to a full call.
621 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
622 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
623 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
624 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
626 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
627 inserts a space where necessary.
628 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
629 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
630 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
631 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
632 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
633 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
634 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
635 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
636 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
637 counter now raises a meaningful error.
638 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
639 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
641 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
642 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
643 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
645 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
647 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
648 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
649 argument and negative second.
650 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
651 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
652 interval, containing 0.
653 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
655 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
656 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
658 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
659 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
660 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
661 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
662 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
663 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
664 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
665 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
666 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
667 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
668 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
669 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
670 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
671 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
672 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
673 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
674 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
675 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
676 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
677 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
678 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
679 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
680 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
681 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
682 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
683 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
684 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
685 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
686 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
688 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
689 platform now returns the right answer.
690 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
691 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
692 precomputation is now tunable.
693 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
694 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
695 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
696 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
697 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
698 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
699 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
700 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
701 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
702 has been added for the alpha.
703 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
704 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
705 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
706 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
707 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
708 MEMBER-types to numeric.
709 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
711 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
712 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
713 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
715 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
716 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
717 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
718 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
719 might be pseudo-atomic.
720 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
721 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
723 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
725 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
727 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
728 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
729 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
730 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
731 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
732 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
734 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
735 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
736 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
737 small float arguments.
738 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
740 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
741 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
742 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
743 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
744 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
745 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
747 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
749 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
750 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
751 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
752 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
753 with negative last argument.
754 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
755 an error during type derivation.
756 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
758 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
759 generates a 32-bit binary.
760 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
761 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
762 data structures referred to above).
764 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
765 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
766 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
767 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
768 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
769 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
770 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
771 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
772 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
773 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
774 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
775 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
777 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
778 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
780 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
781 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
782 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
783 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
784 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
785 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
786 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
787 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
788 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
789 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
790 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
791 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
792 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
793 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
794 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
795 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
796 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
797 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
798 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
799 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
800 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
801 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
802 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
803 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
804 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
805 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
806 optimization quality.
807 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
808 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
809 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
810 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
811 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
812 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
813 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
814 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
815 types form a lattice under type intersection.
816 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
817 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
818 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
819 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
820 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
821 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
822 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
823 calling the generic function.
824 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
825 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
826 obscure ANSI requirements
828 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
829 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
830 garbage, confusing the compiler.
831 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
832 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
833 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
834 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
835 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
836 circumstances could go off-by-one.
837 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
839 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
840 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
841 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
842 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
843 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
844 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
845 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
846 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
847 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
848 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
849 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
850 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
851 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
852 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
853 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
854 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
855 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
856 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
857 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
858 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
860 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
861 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
862 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
863 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
865 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
866 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
867 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
868 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
869 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
870 provide helpful disassembly notes.
871 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
872 the class in more cases than previously.
873 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
874 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
875 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
876 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
877 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
879 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
880 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
881 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
882 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
883 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
884 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
886 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
887 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
888 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
890 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
891 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
892 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
893 were silently accepted).
894 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
895 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
896 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
897 to warn on static type mismatches and function
898 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
899 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
900 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
901 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
902 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
903 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
904 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
905 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
906 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
907 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
909 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
910 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
911 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
912 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
913 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
914 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
916 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
917 keywords or constants is permissible.
918 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
919 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
920 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
921 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
922 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
923 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
924 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
925 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
927 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
928 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
929 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
930 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
931 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
932 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
933 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
935 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
937 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
938 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
939 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
940 respectively change and preserve the value.
941 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
942 is now better at handling symbol macros.
943 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
944 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
945 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
946 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
947 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
948 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
949 their use properly signals an error now.
950 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
951 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
952 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
953 * fixed simple vector readable printing
954 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
955 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
956 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
957 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
958 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
959 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
960 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
961 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
962 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
963 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
964 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
965 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
966 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
967 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
968 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
969 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
971 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
972 association between the name and a class.
973 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
974 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
975 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
976 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
977 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
978 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
980 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
981 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
982 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
983 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
985 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
986 which its argument is a member.
987 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
988 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
989 otherwise, it creates a new class.
990 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
991 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
992 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
993 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
994 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
995 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
997 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
998 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
999 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
1000 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
1001 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
1002 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
1003 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
1005 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
1006 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
1007 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
1008 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
1009 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
1010 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
1011 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
1012 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
1013 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
1014 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
1015 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
1016 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
1017 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1018 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
1020 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
1021 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
1022 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
1023 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
1024 superclasses are applied.
1025 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1026 no method was removed.
1027 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
1028 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
1029 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
1030 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
1032 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
1034 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
1035 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
1036 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
1037 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
1038 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
1039 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
1040 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
1041 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
1042 function lambda list.
1043 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
1045 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
1046 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
1047 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
1048 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
1050 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
1051 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
1052 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
1053 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
1054 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
1055 they look for GNU "make".
1057 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
1058 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
1059 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
1060 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
1062 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
1063 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
1064 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
1065 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
1066 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
1067 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
1068 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
1069 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
1070 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
1071 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
1073 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
1074 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
1075 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
1076 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
1077 libraries, and will know who they are.
1078 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
1079 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
1080 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
1081 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
1082 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
1083 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
1084 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
1085 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
1087 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
1088 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
1089 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1090 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
1091 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
1092 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
1093 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
1094 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
1095 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
1096 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
1097 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1098 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
1100 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
1101 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
1102 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
1103 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
1104 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1105 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
1106 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
1107 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
1108 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
1110 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
1111 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
1112 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
1113 this you were probably losing anyway.
1114 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
1115 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
1116 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
1117 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
1118 with names from the CL package.
1119 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
1120 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
1121 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
1122 documentation string.
1123 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1124 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
1126 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
1127 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
1128 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
1129 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
1131 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
1132 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
1134 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
1135 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1136 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
1138 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
1139 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
1140 arguments contain duplicated elements.
1141 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
1142 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
1143 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
1144 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
1145 in question is unbound.
1146 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
1147 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
1148 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
1149 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
1150 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
1152 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
1154 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
1155 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
1156 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
1157 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
1158 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
1159 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
1160 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
1161 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
1162 by Antonio Martinez)
1163 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
1164 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1165 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
1166 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
1167 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
1168 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
1169 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
1170 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1171 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
1172 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
1173 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
1174 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
1175 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
1176 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
1177 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
1178 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
1179 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
1180 on malformed property lists;
1182 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
1183 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
1184 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
1185 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
1186 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
1187 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
1188 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
1189 modules in this release include:
1190 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
1191 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
1192 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
1193 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1194 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
1196 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
1197 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
1198 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1199 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1200 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
1201 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
1202 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
1203 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
1205 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
1206 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
1207 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
1208 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
1209 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
1210 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
1211 the lexical environment.
1212 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
1213 unprintable packages can now be defined.
1214 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
1215 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1216 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
1217 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1218 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
1219 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
1220 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
1221 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
1222 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
1223 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
1224 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
1225 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
1226 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1227 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
1228 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1229 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
1230 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
1231 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
1232 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1233 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
1234 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
1235 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
1236 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
1238 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
1239 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
1240 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1241 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1242 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
1243 not just nonnegative fixnums;
1244 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
1245 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
1246 freshly-consed result bit-array);
1247 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
1249 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
1250 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
1252 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
1253 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
1254 cases are accurately computed;
1255 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
1256 if it is in the last clause;
1257 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
1259 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
1260 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
1261 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
1262 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
1264 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
1265 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
1266 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
1267 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
1268 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
1270 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
1271 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
1272 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
1273 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
1275 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1276 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
1277 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
1278 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
1279 not cause a type error;
1280 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
1282 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
1283 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
1284 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
1285 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
1286 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
1287 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
1288 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
1289 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
1291 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
1292 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
1293 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
1294 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
1295 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
1296 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
1298 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
1299 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
1301 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
1302 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
1303 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
1304 only for symbols in the CL package.
1305 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
1306 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1307 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
1308 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
1309 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
1311 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1312 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
1313 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
1314 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
1315 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
1316 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
1317 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
1318 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
1319 conditional loop clause;
1320 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
1321 signals a type error iff it should.
1322 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1323 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
1324 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
1325 argument) no longer signals an error;
1326 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
1327 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
1328 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
1330 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
1331 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
1332 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
1334 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
1335 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
1336 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
1337 functionality on said platforms verified.
1338 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
1339 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
1341 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
1342 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
1343 component indicating that directory.
1344 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
1345 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
1346 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
1347 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
1348 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1349 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
1351 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
1352 primary methods with no specializers;
1353 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
1355 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
1356 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
1357 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
1358 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
1360 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
1361 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
1362 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
1364 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
1365 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
1366 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
1367 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
1368 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
1369 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
1370 class STANDARD-CLASS;
1371 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
1372 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1373 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
1374 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
1376 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
1377 value producing form;
1378 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
1379 variables are bound and made to have no value;
1380 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
1382 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
1383 is not a valid sequence index;
1384 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
1385 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
1386 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1387 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
1389 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
1390 symbol-macro places;
1391 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
1392 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
1394 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
1396 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
1398 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
1399 invariant when deleting code.
1400 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
1401 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
1403 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
1404 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1405 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
1407 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
1408 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
1410 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
1411 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
1412 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1413 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
1415 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
1416 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1417 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
1418 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
1420 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
1421 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
1422 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
1423 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
1424 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
1425 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
1426 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
1427 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
1428 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
1429 sbcl and .core files.)
1430 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
1431 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
1432 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
1433 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
1434 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
1435 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1436 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
1438 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
1439 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
1440 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
1441 argument precedence order.
1442 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
1443 derived types contradict their declared type.
1444 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
1445 so it can be non-toplevel.
1446 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
1447 implementation of DEFMACRO).
1448 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
1449 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
1450 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
1452 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
1453 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
1454 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
1455 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
1456 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
1457 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
1458 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
1459 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
1460 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
1461 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
1462 symbol macro only once
1463 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
1464 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
1465 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
1468 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
1469 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
1470 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
1471 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
1472 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
1473 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
1474 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
1475 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
1476 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
1477 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1478 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
1479 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
1481 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
1482 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
1483 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
1484 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
1485 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1486 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
1488 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
1490 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
1491 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
1492 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
1493 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
1494 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1495 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
1496 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
1497 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
1498 ways in different special cases
1499 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
1501 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
1502 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
1503 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
1504 are no longer optimized away.
1505 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
1506 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
1507 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
1508 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
1509 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
1510 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
1511 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
1512 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
1515 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
1516 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
1517 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
1518 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
1519 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
1520 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
1521 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
1523 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
1524 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
1525 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
1526 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
1527 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
1528 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
1529 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
1530 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
1531 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
1532 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
1533 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
1534 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
1535 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
1536 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
1537 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
1538 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
1539 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
1540 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1541 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
1542 that are names of constants or global variables.
1543 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
1544 alien routines with docstrings.
1545 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
1546 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
1548 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
1549 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1550 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
1551 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1552 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
1553 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1554 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
1555 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
1556 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
1557 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1558 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
1559 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
1560 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
1561 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
1562 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
1563 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
1564 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
1565 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
1566 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
1567 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
1568 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
1569 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
1570 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
1572 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
1573 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
1575 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
1576 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
1577 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
1578 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
1579 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
1580 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
1581 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
1582 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
1583 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
1584 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
1586 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
1587 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
1588 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
1589 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
1590 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
1591 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
1592 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
1593 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
1594 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
1595 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
1596 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
1597 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
1598 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
1599 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
1600 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
1601 is no longer a static symbol.)
1603 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
1604 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
1605 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
1606 bootstrapping under CLISP.
1607 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
1609 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
1610 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
1612 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
1613 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
1614 to David Lichteblau)
1615 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
1616 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
1617 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
1619 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
1620 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1621 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
1622 count as they should.
1623 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
1624 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1625 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
1626 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
1627 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
1628 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
1629 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
1630 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
1631 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
1632 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
1633 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
1634 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
1635 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
1636 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
1637 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
1639 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
1640 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
1641 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
1643 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
1645 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
1646 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
1647 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
1648 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
1649 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
1650 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
1651 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
1653 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
1654 to Christophe Rhodes)
1655 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
1656 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
1657 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
1658 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
1659 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
1660 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
1661 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
1663 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
1664 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
1665 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
1666 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
1667 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
1668 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1669 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
1670 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
1671 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
1672 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
1673 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
1674 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
1675 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
1677 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
1678 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
1679 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
1680 INFO database to support symbol macros.
1681 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
1682 (thanks to coreythomas)
1683 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
1684 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
1685 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
1686 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
1687 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
1689 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
1690 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
1691 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
1692 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
1693 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
1694 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
1695 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
1696 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
1697 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
1698 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1699 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
1700 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
1701 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
1703 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
1704 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
1707 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
1708 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
1709 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
1710 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
1711 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
1712 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
1713 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
1714 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
1715 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
1716 systems than the old 4M value was)
1717 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
1718 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
1719 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
1720 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
1721 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
1722 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
1723 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
1725 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
1726 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
1727 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
1728 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
1729 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
1731 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
1732 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
1733 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
1734 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
1735 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
1736 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
1737 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
1738 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
1740 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
1741 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
1742 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
1743 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1744 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
1745 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
1746 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
1747 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
1749 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
1750 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1751 * several changes related to debugging:
1752 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
1753 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
1754 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
1755 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
1756 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1757 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
1758 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
1761 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
1763 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
1764 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
1765 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
1766 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
1767 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
1768 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
1769 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
1770 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
1772 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
1773 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
1774 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
1775 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1776 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
1777 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
1778 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
1779 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
1780 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
1781 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
1782 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
1783 file format number to change again.
1785 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
1786 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
1787 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
1788 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
1790 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
1791 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
1792 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
1793 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
1794 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
1795 FUNCALL on the result.
1796 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
1797 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
1798 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
1799 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
1800 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
1801 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
1802 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
1803 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
1805 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
1806 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
1807 the old compiler produced.
1808 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
1809 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
1810 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
1811 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
1812 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
1813 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
1814 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
1815 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
1816 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
1817 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
1818 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
1819 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
1820 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
1821 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
1822 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
1823 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
1824 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
1825 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
1826 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
1827 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
1828 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
1829 straightened out in some future version.)
1830 * minor incompatible changes:
1831 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
1832 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
1833 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
1834 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
1835 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
1836 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
1837 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
1838 implementation dependent:
1839 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
1840 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
1841 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
1842 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
1843 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
1844 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
1845 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
1846 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
1848 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
1850 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
1851 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
1852 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
1853 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
1854 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
1855 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
1856 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
1857 are no longer used for output.
1858 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
1859 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
1860 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
1861 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
1862 increasing it even more.)
1863 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
1864 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
1865 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
1867 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
1868 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
1869 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
1870 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
1871 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
1872 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
1873 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
1874 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
1875 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
1876 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
1877 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
1878 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
1879 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
1880 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
1881 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
1882 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
1883 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
1884 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
1885 compilation of code which calls such functions.
1886 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
1887 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
1888 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
1889 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
1890 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
1891 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
1892 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
1893 built into the system.
1894 * many other bug fixes
1895 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
1896 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
1897 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
1898 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
1899 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
1901 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
1902 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
1903 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
1904 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
1905 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
1906 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
1907 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
1908 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
1909 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
1910 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
1911 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
1913 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
1914 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
1915 and several other LOOP problems as well
1916 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
1917 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
1918 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
1919 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
1920 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
1921 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
1922 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
1923 *** a bug in APROPOS
1924 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
1925 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
1926 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
1927 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
1928 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
1929 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
1930 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
1931 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
1932 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
1933 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
1934 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
1935 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
1936 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
1937 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
1938 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
1940 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
1941 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
1942 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
1943 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
1944 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
1945 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
1946 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
1947 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
1948 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
1949 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
1950 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
1951 some of which are apparent above.
1953 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
1954 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
1955 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
1956 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
1957 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
1958 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
1959 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
1960 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
1961 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
1962 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
1963 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
1964 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
1965 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
1966 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
1967 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
1968 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
1969 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
1970 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
1971 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
1972 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
1973 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
1974 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
1975 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
1976 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
1977 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
1978 different return types.
1979 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
1980 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
1981 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
1982 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
1983 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
1984 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
1985 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
1986 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
1987 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
1988 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
1990 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
1991 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
1992 does the right thing.
1993 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
1994 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
1995 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
1996 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
1997 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
1998 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
1999 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
2000 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
2001 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
2002 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
2003 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2004 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
2005 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2006 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
2007 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
2008 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
2009 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
2010 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
2011 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
2012 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
2013 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
2014 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
2015 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
2016 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
2017 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
2018 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
2019 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
2020 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
2021 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
2022 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
2023 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
2024 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
2025 since historically most system changes which required version
2026 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
2027 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
2030 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
2031 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
2032 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
2033 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
2034 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
2035 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
2036 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
2037 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
2038 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
2039 half a dozen others elsewhere
2040 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
2041 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
2042 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
2043 as flaky as they were.
2044 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
2045 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
2046 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
2047 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
2048 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
2049 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
2050 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
2051 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
2053 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
2054 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
2055 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
2056 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2057 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
2058 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
2059 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
2060 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
2061 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
2062 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
2063 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
2064 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
2065 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
2066 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
2067 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
2068 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
2069 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
2070 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
2071 more obscure bugs as well
2072 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
2073 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
2074 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
2075 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
2076 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
2077 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
2078 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
2079 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
2080 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
2081 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
2082 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
2084 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
2085 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
2087 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
2089 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2090 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
2091 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
2092 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
2093 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
2094 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
2095 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
2096 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
2097 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
2098 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
2099 are local in this sense.)
2100 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
2101 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
2102 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
2103 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
2104 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
2105 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
2106 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2107 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
2108 system's STREAM objects.
2109 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
2110 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2111 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
2112 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2113 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
2114 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
2115 environment from the original process instead of starting the
2116 new process in an empty environment.
2117 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
2118 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
2119 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
2120 for porting convenience.
2121 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
2122 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
2124 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
2126 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
2127 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
2128 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
2129 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
2130 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
2131 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
2132 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
2133 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
2134 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
2135 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
2136 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
2137 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2138 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
2139 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
2140 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
2141 many fewer weird special cases.
2142 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
2143 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
2144 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2145 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
2146 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
2147 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
2148 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
2149 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
2150 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
2151 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2152 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
2155 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
2157 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
2158 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
2159 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
2161 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
2162 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
2163 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
2164 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
2165 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
2166 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
2167 should be constructed the same way as before.
2168 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
2169 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
2170 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
2171 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
2172 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
2173 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
2174 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
2175 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
2176 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
2177 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
2178 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
2179 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
2180 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
2181 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
2182 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
2183 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
2184 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
2185 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
2186 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
2187 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
2188 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
2189 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
2191 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
2192 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
2193 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
2194 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
2195 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
2196 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
2197 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
2198 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
2200 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
2202 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
2203 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
2204 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
2205 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
2206 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
2208 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
2209 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
2210 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
2211 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
2212 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
2213 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
2214 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
2215 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
2216 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
2217 and Douglas Crosher.
2218 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
2219 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
2220 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
2222 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
2223 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
2224 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
2225 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
2226 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
2227 undefined function error.
2228 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
2229 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
2230 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
2231 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
2232 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
2233 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
2234 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
2235 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
2236 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
2237 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
2238 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
2239 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
2240 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
2242 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
2244 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
2245 CVS repository on my home machine).
2246 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
2247 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
2248 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
2249 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
2250 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
2251 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
2252 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
2253 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
2254 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
2255 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
2256 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
2257 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
2258 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
2259 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
2260 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
2261 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
2262 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
2263 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
2264 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
2265 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
2266 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
2267 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
2269 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
2270 FreeBSD have been added.
2271 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
2272 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
2273 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
2274 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
2275 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
2276 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
2278 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
2279 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
2280 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
2281 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
2282 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
2283 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
2284 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
2285 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
2287 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
2288 away by constant folding
2289 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
2290 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
2291 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
2292 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
2293 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
2294 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
2295 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
2296 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
2297 diff-related operations.
2298 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
2299 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
2301 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
2303 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
2304 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
2305 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
2306 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
2307 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
2308 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
2309 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
2310 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
2311 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
2312 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
2313 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
2314 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
2315 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
2316 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
2317 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
2318 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
2319 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
2320 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
2321 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
2322 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
2323 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
2324 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
2325 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
2326 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
2327 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
2328 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
2329 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
2330 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
2331 instead of (VALUES T T).
2332 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
2333 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
2334 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
2335 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
2336 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
2337 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
2338 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
2339 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
2340 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
2341 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
2342 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
2343 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
2344 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
2345 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
2346 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
2347 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
2348 type will be interpreted at runtime.
2349 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
2350 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
2351 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
2352 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
2353 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
2354 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
2355 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
2356 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
2357 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
2358 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
2359 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
2360 fasl files for cold load.
2361 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
2362 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
2363 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
2364 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
2365 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
2366 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
2367 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
2368 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
2369 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
2370 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
2371 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
2373 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
2374 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
2375 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
2376 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
2377 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
2378 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
2379 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
2380 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
2381 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
2382 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
2383 renamed some files to increase consistency.
2384 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
2385 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
2386 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
2387 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
2388 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
2389 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
2391 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
2393 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
2394 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
2395 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
2396 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
2397 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
2398 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
2399 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
2400 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
2401 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
2402 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
2403 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
2404 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
2405 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
2406 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
2407 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
2408 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
2409 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
2410 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
2412 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
2413 as required by ANSI.
2414 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
2415 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
2416 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
2417 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
2419 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
2420 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
2421 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
2422 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
2423 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
2424 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
2425 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
2426 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
2428 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
2429 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
2430 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
2431 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2433 is now basically equivalent to
2434 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2435 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
2437 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
2438 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
2439 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
2440 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
2441 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
2442 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
2443 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
2444 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
2445 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
2446 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
2447 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
2448 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
2449 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
2450 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
2451 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
2452 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2453 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
2454 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
2455 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
2456 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
2457 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
2458 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
2459 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
2461 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
2463 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
2464 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
2465 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
2466 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
2467 GNUMAKE environment variable.
2468 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
2469 can build without error under CMU CL.
2471 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
2473 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
2474 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
2475 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
2476 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
2477 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
2478 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
2479 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
2480 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
2481 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
2482 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
2483 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
2484 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
2485 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
2486 being initialized before the type system knew the final
2487 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
2488 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
2489 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
2490 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
2491 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
2492 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
2493 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
2494 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
2495 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
2496 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
2498 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
2499 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
2500 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
2501 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
2502 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
2503 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
2504 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
2505 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
2506 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
2507 it were currently supported.
2508 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
2509 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
2510 having to maintain patches.
2511 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
2512 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
2514 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
2516 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
2517 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
2518 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
2519 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
2520 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
2521 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
2522 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
2523 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
2524 * various new style warnings:
2525 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
2526 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
2527 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
2528 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
2529 as specified by ANSI.
2530 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
2531 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
2532 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
2533 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
2534 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
2535 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
2536 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
2537 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
2538 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
2539 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
2540 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
2541 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
2542 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
2543 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
2544 argument types can be determined at compile time.
2545 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
2546 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
2547 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
2548 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
2549 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
2550 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
2551 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
2554 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
2556 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
2557 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
2558 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
2559 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
2560 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
2561 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
2562 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
2563 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
2564 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
2566 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
2567 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
2568 the report form was printed.)
2569 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
2570 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
2571 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
2572 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
2573 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
2574 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
2575 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
2576 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
2577 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
2578 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
2579 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
2580 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
2581 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
2582 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
2583 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
2584 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
2585 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
2586 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
2587 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
2588 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
2589 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
2590 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
2591 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
2592 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
2593 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
2594 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
2595 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
2596 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
2597 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
2598 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
2599 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
2600 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
2601 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
2602 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
2603 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
2604 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
2605 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
2606 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
2607 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
2608 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
2609 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
2610 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
2611 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
2612 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
2613 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
2614 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
2615 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
2616 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
2617 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
2618 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
2619 know more about target types.
2620 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
2621 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
2622 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
2623 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
2624 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
2625 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
2627 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
2628 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
2629 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
2630 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
2631 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
2632 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
2633 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
2634 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
2635 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
2636 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
2637 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
2638 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
2639 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
2641 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
2644 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
2646 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
2647 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
2648 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
2649 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
2650 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
2651 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
2652 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
2653 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
2654 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
2655 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
2656 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
2657 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
2658 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
2659 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
2660 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
2661 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
2662 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
2663 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
2664 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
2665 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
2666 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
2667 invisible at the user level.)
2668 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
2669 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
2670 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
2672 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
2674 * tidied up "make.sh" script
2675 * tidied up system directory structure
2676 * better "clean.sh" behavior
2677 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
2678 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
2679 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
2680 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
2681 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
2682 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
2683 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
2684 * command line argument processing
2685 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
2686 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
2687 terminating SBCL on EOF
2688 * non-verbose GC by default
2689 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
2690 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
2691 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
2693 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
2694 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
2695 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
2696 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
2697 transformed along with everything else.
2698 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
2699 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
2700 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
2701 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
2702 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
2703 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
2704 debugging and testing purposes
2705 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
2706 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
2707 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
2708 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
2709 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
2710 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
2711 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
2713 * regularized formatting of source files
2714 * added an install.sh script
2715 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
2716 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
2717 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
2718 builds nicely on my old laptop.
2719 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
2720 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
2721 was not implemented)
2722 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
2723 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
2724 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
2725 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
2726 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
2728 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
2729 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
2730 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
2731 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
2732 COMPILE-FILE command)
2733 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
2734 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
2735 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
2736 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
2737 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
2738 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
2739 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
2740 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
2741 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
2742 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
2743 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
2744 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
2745 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
2746 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
2747 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
2749 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
2750 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
2751 known to be able to handle the current sources
2752 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
2753 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
2754 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
2755 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
2756 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
2757 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
2758 * removed host-oops.lisp
2759 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
2760 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
2761 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
2762 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
2763 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
2764 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by
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