1 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
2 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
3 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
4 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
6 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
7 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
9 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
10 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
11 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
12 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
13 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
14 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
15 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
16 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
17 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
19 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
20 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
22 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
23 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
24 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
25 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
26 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
27 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
28 file descriptors when there were none.
29 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
30 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
31 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
32 pathnames without a directory.
33 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
34 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
37 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
38 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
39 generic function across method addition and removal.
40 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
41 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
42 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
43 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
45 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
46 non-local transfer of control.
47 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
48 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
49 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
50 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
51 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
52 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
53 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
55 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
56 owned by other threads anymore.
57 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
58 subsequence. (reported by budden)
59 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
60 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
61 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
62 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
64 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
65 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
66 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
67 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
68 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
69 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
70 added to the user manual.
71 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
72 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
74 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
75 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
76 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
78 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
80 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
81 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
82 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
83 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
84 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
85 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
86 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
88 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
89 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
91 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
92 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
93 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
94 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
95 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
96 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
97 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
99 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
100 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
102 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
103 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
104 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
105 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
106 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
107 type of a variable is made.
108 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
109 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
111 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
112 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
113 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
114 (thanks to Michael Weber)
115 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
116 (thanks to Michael Weber)
117 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
118 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
119 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
121 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
122 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
123 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
124 of the type that's the value of this variable.
125 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
127 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
128 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
129 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
130 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
131 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
132 presense of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
133 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
134 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
135 * improvements to the Windows port:
136 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
137 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
138 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
139 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
140 to single-float coercions.
141 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
142 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
143 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
144 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
145 containing invalid type specifiers.
146 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
147 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
149 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
150 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
151 profiles only the current thread.
152 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
153 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
154 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
155 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
156 has also additional sorting options.
157 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
159 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
160 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
161 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
162 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
163 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
164 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
166 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
168 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
169 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
170 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
171 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
172 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
173 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
175 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
176 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
177 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
178 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
179 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
180 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
181 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
182 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
183 (thanks to James Knight)
184 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
185 (thanks to Travis Cross)
186 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
187 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
188 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
189 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
190 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
191 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
192 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
194 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
195 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
196 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
197 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
198 use this feature in the meanwhile.
199 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
200 adjust thread default control stack size.
201 * enhancement: improved TIME output
202 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
203 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
204 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
205 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
206 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
207 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
208 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
209 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
211 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
213 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
214 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
215 in normal SPEED policies.
216 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
217 in normal SPEED policies.
218 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
220 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
221 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
222 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
223 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
224 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
225 as the second argument.
226 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
227 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
228 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
230 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
231 platform word lengths.
232 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
233 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
234 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
236 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
237 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
239 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
240 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
241 signaling added in 1.0.14.
242 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
243 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
244 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
245 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
246 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
247 as well. (thanks to Tobian Ritterweiler)
248 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
249 on threaded platforms.
250 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
251 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
252 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
253 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
254 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
255 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
256 representation is available.
257 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
258 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
259 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
260 Francois-Rene Rideau)
261 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
262 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
263 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
264 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
265 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
266 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
267 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
268 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
269 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
271 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
272 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
273 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
274 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
275 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
276 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
277 traces SETF-functions as well.
278 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
279 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
280 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
281 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
283 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
284 is now more efficient.
285 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
286 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
287 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
288 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
289 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
290 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
291 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
292 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
293 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
294 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
295 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
297 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
298 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
299 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
300 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
301 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
302 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
303 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
304 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
305 * improvements to the Windows port:
306 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
307 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
309 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
310 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
311 (see documentation for details.)
312 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
313 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
314 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
315 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
316 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
318 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
319 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
320 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
321 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
322 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
323 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
324 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
325 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
326 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
328 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
329 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
330 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
331 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
332 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
333 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
334 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
336 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
337 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
338 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
339 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
340 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
341 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
342 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
343 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
345 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
346 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
347 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
348 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
349 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
350 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
351 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
352 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
353 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
354 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
355 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
356 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
357 known at compile-time.
358 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
359 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
360 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
362 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
363 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
365 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
366 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
367 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
368 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
369 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
370 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
372 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
374 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
376 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
379 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
380 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
381 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
382 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
383 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
384 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
385 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
386 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
387 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
388 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
389 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
390 END is smaller then START.
391 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
392 calls to profiled functions.
393 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
394 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
395 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
396 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
397 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
398 hash-table usage have been fixed.
399 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
400 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
401 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
402 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
403 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
406 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
407 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
408 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
409 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
410 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
411 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
412 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
413 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
414 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
415 and will signal an error at runtime.
416 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
417 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
418 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
420 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
421 platforms providing stack allocation support.
422 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
423 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
425 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
426 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
427 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
428 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
429 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
430 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
432 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
433 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
435 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
437 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
438 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
439 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
440 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
441 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
442 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
443 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
444 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
445 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
446 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
447 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
448 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
449 a specializer parameter for the method.
450 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
451 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
452 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
453 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
454 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
456 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
457 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
459 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
460 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
461 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
462 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
463 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
464 the CAS operation was being performed.
465 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
466 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
467 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
468 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
471 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
472 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
473 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
474 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
476 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
477 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
478 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
479 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
480 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
481 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
482 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
483 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
484 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
485 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
486 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
487 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
488 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
489 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
490 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
492 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
493 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
494 the underlying file descriptor.
495 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
496 could cause buffer-overflows.
497 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
498 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
499 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
501 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
503 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
504 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
505 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
506 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
507 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
508 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
511 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
512 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
513 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
514 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
515 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
516 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
517 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
519 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
521 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
522 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
523 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
524 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
525 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
526 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
528 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
529 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
530 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
531 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
532 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
533 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
534 objects that can be seen by the GC.
535 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
536 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
537 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
539 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
540 as the property-list of a symbol.
541 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
542 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
543 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
546 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
547 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
548 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
549 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
550 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
551 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
552 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
553 debugging and introspective support.
554 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
555 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
556 has the owning thread as its value.
557 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
558 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
560 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
562 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
563 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
564 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
565 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
566 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
567 (depending on the bignum size.)
568 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
570 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
571 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
573 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
574 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
576 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
577 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
578 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
579 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
580 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
583 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
584 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
586 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
587 significantly faster.
588 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
589 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
590 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
591 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
592 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
593 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
594 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
595 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
596 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
597 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
598 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
600 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
602 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
603 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
604 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
605 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
606 that use the generational garbage collector
607 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
609 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
610 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
612 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
614 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
615 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
616 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
617 system running with GC inhibited.
618 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
619 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
620 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
621 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
622 (reported by Peter Graves)
624 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
625 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
626 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
628 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
629 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
630 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
631 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
632 documented as unsafe.
633 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
634 in multithreaded application code.
635 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
636 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
637 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
639 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
640 variants no longer cons.
641 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
642 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
643 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
644 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
645 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
646 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
647 are significantly faster.
648 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
649 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
650 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
651 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
652 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
653 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
654 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
655 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
656 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
657 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
658 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
660 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
661 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
662 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
663 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
664 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
665 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
666 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
667 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
668 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
669 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
670 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
671 line in a file is unlimited.
672 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
673 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
674 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
675 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
676 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
677 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
678 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
679 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
680 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
681 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
682 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
683 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
684 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
685 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
686 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
687 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
688 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
689 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
690 experimental until this is fixed.
691 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
692 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
693 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
694 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
695 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
697 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
698 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
699 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
700 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
701 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
702 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
704 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
705 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
706 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
707 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
708 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
709 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
710 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
711 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
712 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
714 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
715 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
716 (reported by Andras Simon)
717 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
718 bugs remain on x86-64.)
719 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
720 funcallable instances.
721 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
722 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
724 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
725 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
726 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
727 non-base strings as arguments
728 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
730 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
731 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
733 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
734 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
735 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
736 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
737 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
738 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
739 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
740 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
741 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
743 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
744 (thanks to Jon Buller)
745 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
746 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
749 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
750 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
751 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
753 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
754 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
755 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
756 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
757 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
759 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
760 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
761 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
762 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
763 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
764 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
765 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
766 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
767 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
768 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
769 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
770 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
771 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
772 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
773 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
774 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
775 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
776 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
777 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
778 stack frames from alien callbacks.
779 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
780 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
781 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
782 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
784 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
785 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
786 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
787 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
788 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
789 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
790 sb-introspect contrib.
791 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
792 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
793 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
794 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
795 users and the general community)
796 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
797 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
798 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
799 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
800 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
801 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
802 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
803 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
804 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
805 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
806 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
807 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
808 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
809 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
810 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
811 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
813 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
814 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
815 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
816 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
817 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
818 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
819 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
821 * improvements to the Windows port:
822 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
823 to Alastair Bridgewater)
824 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
826 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
827 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
829 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
830 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
831 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
832 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
833 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
834 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
835 core, and restored on startup.
836 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
837 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
838 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
839 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
840 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
841 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
842 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
844 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
845 (thanks to Zach Beane)
846 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
848 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
849 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
850 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
852 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
853 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
854 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
855 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
856 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
857 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
859 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
860 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
861 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
862 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
863 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
864 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
865 (reported by Josip Gracin)
866 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
867 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
868 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
869 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
870 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
871 and don't cause extra consing
872 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
873 whose elements types have been declared.
874 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
875 ** Support for allocation profiling
876 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
877 * Improvements to the Windows port:
878 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
879 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
880 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
881 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
883 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
884 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
885 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
886 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
887 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
889 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
890 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
891 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
893 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
894 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
895 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
896 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
897 with non-variable places
898 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
899 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
900 code more stable against memory faults.
901 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
902 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
903 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
904 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
907 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
908 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
909 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
910 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
911 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
912 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
913 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
914 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
915 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
916 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
917 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
918 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
919 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
921 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
922 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
923 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
924 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
925 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
926 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
927 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
929 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
930 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
932 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
933 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
934 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
935 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
936 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
937 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
938 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
939 to the single-stepper REPL.
940 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
941 for a type now works.
942 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
944 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
945 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
946 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
947 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
948 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
949 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
950 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
951 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
953 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
954 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
955 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
956 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
957 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
958 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
959 whose bindings are modified
960 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
961 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
962 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
963 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
965 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
966 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
967 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
968 as specified by AMOP.
969 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
971 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
972 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
973 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
974 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
975 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
976 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
977 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
978 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
979 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
980 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
981 better type inference.
982 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
983 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
984 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
985 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
986 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
987 (reported by Bruno Haible)
988 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
989 initialization of methods can now be used to override
990 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
992 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
993 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
994 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
995 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
996 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
998 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
999 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
1000 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
1001 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
1002 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
1003 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
1004 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
1005 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
1006 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
1007 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
1008 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
1009 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
1010 (reported by James Y Knight).
1011 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
1012 argument for shadowing by local functions.
1013 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
1015 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
1016 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
1017 with type-inference.
1018 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
1019 types in some cases.
1020 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
1021 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1022 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
1024 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
1025 * thread-safety improvements:
1026 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
1027 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
1028 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
1030 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
1031 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
1033 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
1034 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
1035 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
1037 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
1038 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
1039 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
1040 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
1041 class became finalizeable.
1042 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
1043 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
1044 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
1045 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
1047 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
1048 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
1049 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
1050 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
1051 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
1052 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
1053 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1054 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
1055 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
1056 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
1057 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
1058 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
1059 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
1060 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1061 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
1062 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
1063 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
1064 * minor code generation optimizations:
1065 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
1066 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
1067 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
1068 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
1069 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
1070 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1071 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
1072 return its argument.
1074 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
1075 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
1077 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
1079 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
1080 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
1081 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
1082 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
1083 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
1084 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
1085 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
1086 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
1087 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
1088 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
1089 the low-level debugger.
1090 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
1091 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
1092 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
1093 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
1095 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
1096 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
1097 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
1099 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
1100 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1101 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
1102 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
1103 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
1104 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
1105 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
1106 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
1107 (reported by James Y Knight)
1108 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
1109 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
1110 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
1111 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
1112 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
1113 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
1114 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
1115 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
1116 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
1117 workaround for bug 403.)
1118 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
1119 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1120 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1121 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
1123 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
1124 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
1125 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
1127 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
1128 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
1129 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
1130 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
1131 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
1133 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
1135 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
1136 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
1137 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
1140 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
1141 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
1142 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
1143 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
1144 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
1145 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
1146 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
1147 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
1148 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
1149 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
1150 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
1151 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
1152 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
1153 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
1154 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
1155 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
1156 documentation on package locks for details.
1157 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
1159 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
1160 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
1161 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
1162 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
1163 immediately available from the stream
1164 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
1165 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
1166 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
1167 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
1169 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
1170 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
1171 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
1173 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
1174 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
1175 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
1177 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
1178 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
1179 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
1180 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
1182 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
1183 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
1184 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
1185 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1186 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
1187 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
1188 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1189 ** sb-grovel supported
1190 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
1191 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
1192 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
1193 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
1194 ** floating-point exception handling support
1195 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
1196 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1197 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1198 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
1199 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
1200 structure accessors.
1201 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
1203 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
1204 defaults for optional parameters.
1205 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
1206 function, which is already optimized.
1208 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
1209 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
1210 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
1211 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
1212 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
1213 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
1214 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
1215 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
1216 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
1217 this change is to make it easier to distribute
1218 location-independent binaries.
1219 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
1220 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
1222 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
1223 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
1224 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
1225 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
1226 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
1227 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
1228 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
1229 Alastair Bridgewater)
1230 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
1231 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
1232 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1233 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
1234 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
1235 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
1236 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
1237 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
1238 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
1239 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
1240 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
1241 (thanks to James Knight)
1242 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
1243 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
1245 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
1246 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
1247 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
1248 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
1249 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
1250 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
1251 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
1252 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
1253 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
1254 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
1255 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
1256 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
1257 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
1258 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
1259 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
1260 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
1261 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
1262 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
1263 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
1264 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
1265 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
1267 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
1268 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
1269 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
1270 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1271 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
1272 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
1274 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
1275 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
1276 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
1277 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
1278 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
1279 many others over the years)
1280 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
1281 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
1282 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
1284 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
1285 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
1286 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1287 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
1288 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
1289 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
1291 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
1293 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
1294 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
1295 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
1296 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
1297 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
1298 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
1299 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
1300 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
1301 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
1302 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
1303 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
1304 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1305 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
1306 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1308 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
1309 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
1310 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
1311 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
1312 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
1313 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
1314 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
1315 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
1316 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
1317 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1318 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
1319 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
1320 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
1321 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
1322 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
1323 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
1324 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
1325 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1326 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
1327 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
1329 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
1330 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1331 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
1332 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
1333 index variables in LOOP
1334 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
1335 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1336 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
1337 that don't have a docstring
1339 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
1340 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
1341 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
1342 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
1343 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
1344 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
1345 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
1346 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
1347 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
1348 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
1349 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
1350 Costanza's "Closer" project)
1351 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
1352 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
1354 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
1355 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
1356 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
1357 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
1358 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
1359 and Pascal Costanza)
1360 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
1361 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
1362 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
1363 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
1364 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1365 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
1366 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
1367 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
1368 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1369 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
1370 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1371 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
1372 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1373 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
1374 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1375 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
1376 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
1377 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
1378 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
1380 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
1381 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1382 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
1383 floating point index variable or a negative step.
1385 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
1386 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
1387 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
1388 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
1389 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
1390 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1391 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
1392 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
1393 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
1394 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1395 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1396 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
1397 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
1398 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
1399 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1400 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
1401 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
1402 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
1403 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
1404 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
1405 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
1406 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1407 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
1408 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1409 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
1410 and dump core on SIGQUIT
1412 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
1413 from their parents (see manual)
1414 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
1415 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
1416 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
1417 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
1418 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
1419 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
1421 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1422 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
1423 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
1424 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
1426 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
1427 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
1428 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
1430 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
1431 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
1432 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
1433 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
1434 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
1435 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
1436 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
1437 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
1438 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
1439 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
1440 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
1441 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
1442 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
1443 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
1445 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
1446 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
1447 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
1449 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
1450 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
1452 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
1453 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1454 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
1455 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
1456 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
1457 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
1458 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
1459 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
1460 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
1462 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
1463 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
1464 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
1465 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
1466 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
1467 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
1469 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
1471 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
1472 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
1473 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
1474 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
1475 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
1476 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
1477 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
1478 classes; see the manual for more details;
1479 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
1480 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
1481 requested slot ordering.
1483 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
1485 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
1486 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
1488 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
1490 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
1491 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
1492 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
1493 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
1494 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1495 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
1496 the :method-class keyword argument.
1498 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
1499 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
1500 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
1501 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1502 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
1503 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1504 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
1505 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1506 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
1507 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
1508 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
1510 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
1511 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
1512 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
1513 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
1514 is switched on or off
1515 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
1516 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
1517 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
1519 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
1520 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1521 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
1522 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
1523 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1524 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
1525 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
1526 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
1527 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
1529 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
1530 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
1531 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
1532 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
1533 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
1534 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
1535 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
1537 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
1538 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
1539 not prevent gc from running
1540 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
1541 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
1542 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
1543 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
1544 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
1545 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
1546 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
1547 an inline 32-bit rotation.
1549 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
1550 there is only one thread in the session
1551 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
1552 written to in another
1553 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
1554 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
1556 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
1557 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
1559 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
1560 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1561 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
1562 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
1563 the orignal arguments.
1564 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
1566 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
1567 name a compiled function.
1568 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
1569 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
1570 derivation were fixed.
1571 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
1572 list-form FUNCTION type.
1573 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
1574 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
1575 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
1577 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
1578 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
1579 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
1580 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
1581 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
1582 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
1584 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
1585 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
1586 of a select system call
1587 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
1589 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
1590 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
1592 * various error reporting improvements.
1593 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
1594 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1595 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
1596 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
1597 code and foreign data with the same name.
1599 ** added x86-64 support
1600 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
1601 objects instead of thread ids
1602 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
1603 starting up or going down
1604 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
1605 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
1606 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
1607 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
1608 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
1609 an inappropriate moment
1610 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
1611 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
1612 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
1613 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1614 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
1615 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
1616 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
1618 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
1619 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
1620 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
1621 range before calling Unix time functions
1623 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
1624 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
1625 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1626 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
1627 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
1628 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
1629 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1630 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
1631 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
1632 for more information.
1633 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
1634 pathname is a directory pathname.
1635 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
1636 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
1638 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
1639 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
1640 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
1641 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
1642 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
1643 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
1645 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
1646 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
1647 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
1648 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
1649 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
1650 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
1651 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1652 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
1653 the PowerPC platform.
1654 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
1655 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
1657 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
1658 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
1659 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
1660 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
1661 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
1662 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1664 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
1665 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
1666 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
1667 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
1668 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
1669 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1670 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
1671 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
1672 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
1673 as the name of a type, or vice versa
1674 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
1675 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
1676 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
1677 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
1678 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
1679 FLET or MACROLET forms
1680 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
1682 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
1684 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
1687 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
1688 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
1689 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
1690 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
1691 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
1692 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
1693 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
1694 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
1695 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
1696 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
1697 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
1698 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
1699 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
1700 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
1701 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
1702 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1703 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
1704 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1705 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
1706 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
1707 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
1708 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
1710 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1711 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
1712 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
1713 a file has the stream as its datum.
1714 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
1715 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
1716 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
1717 a correct expected type
1718 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
1719 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
1720 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
1721 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
1722 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
1723 on broadcast streams.
1725 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
1726 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
1727 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
1728 --disable-debugger option instead.
1729 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
1731 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
1732 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
1733 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
1734 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
1735 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
1736 has been added to the manual.
1737 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
1738 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
1739 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
1740 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
1741 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1742 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
1743 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
1744 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
1745 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
1746 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
1748 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
1749 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
1750 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
1751 (reported by Rajat Datta).
1752 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1753 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1755 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1756 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1757 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1758 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1759 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1760 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1761 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1762 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1763 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1764 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1765 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1766 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1767 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1768 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1769 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1770 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1771 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1772 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1773 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1775 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1777 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1778 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1779 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1780 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1781 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1783 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1784 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1785 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1786 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1787 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1788 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1789 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1791 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1792 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1793 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1795 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1796 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
1797 types for complex arguments better.
1798 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
1800 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
1801 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
1803 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
1804 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
1805 resulting in GC crashes.
1806 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
1808 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
1811 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
1812 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
1813 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
1814 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
1815 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
1816 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
1817 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
1818 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
1819 returning to the top level.
1820 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
1821 global optimization policy.
1822 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
1823 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
1824 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
1826 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
1827 various incompatible changes.
1828 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
1829 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
1830 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
1831 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
1832 level local call to FOO".
1833 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
1834 now have more legible printed representation
1835 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
1836 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
1837 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
1838 explicitly requested.
1839 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1840 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1841 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1842 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1843 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1845 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1846 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1847 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1848 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1849 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1850 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1851 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1852 the specializer is now possible.
1853 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1854 face of package deletion.
1855 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1856 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1857 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1858 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1859 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1860 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1861 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1862 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1863 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1864 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1866 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1867 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1868 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1869 correctable errors to be signalled.
1870 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1871 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
1874 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
1875 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1876 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
1878 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
1879 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1880 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
1881 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
1882 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
1883 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
1884 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
1885 related to the ~@F format directive.
1886 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
1888 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
1889 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
1890 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
1891 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
1893 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
1895 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
1896 coerce function designators to functions.
1897 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
1898 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
1899 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
1900 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
1901 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
1902 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
1903 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1904 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
1905 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
1906 start of the buffer at the next read.
1907 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
1908 passing it through to OPEN.
1909 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1910 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
1911 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
1912 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
1913 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
1914 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1915 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
1916 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
1918 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
1919 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1920 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1921 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
1922 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1923 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
1925 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1926 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
1927 secondary constituent character trait.
1928 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
1930 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
1932 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
1933 works more reliably.
1934 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
1935 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
1936 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
1938 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
1939 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
1941 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
1942 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
1943 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
1944 and reloading shared object files.
1945 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1946 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
1948 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
1949 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
1950 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
1952 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
1953 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
1955 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
1957 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
1958 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
1959 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
1960 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1961 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
1962 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
1963 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
1965 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
1966 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
1968 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
1969 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
1970 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
1971 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
1972 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
1974 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
1975 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
1976 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1977 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
1978 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
1979 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1980 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
1981 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1982 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
1983 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
1984 lisp characters are not eight bits.
1985 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1986 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
1987 the correct number of arguments.
1988 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
1989 to displaced strings.
1990 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
1991 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
1993 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
1994 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
1995 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
1996 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
1997 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
1998 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
1999 available at runtime.
2000 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
2001 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
2002 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
2003 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2004 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
2005 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
2006 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
2007 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
2008 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
2009 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
2010 of lambda-list keywords.
2011 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
2012 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
2014 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
2015 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
2016 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2017 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
2018 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
2019 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
2020 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
2022 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
2023 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2024 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
2025 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
2026 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
2028 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2029 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
2030 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
2031 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
2032 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
2033 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2034 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
2036 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
2037 parameters correctly.
2038 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
2039 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
2040 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
2042 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
2045 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
2046 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
2047 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
2048 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
2050 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
2051 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
2052 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
2053 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
2054 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
2055 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
2056 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
2057 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
2058 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
2060 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
2061 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
2063 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
2065 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
2066 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
2067 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2068 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
2070 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
2071 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2072 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
2073 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
2074 (reported by David Morse)
2075 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
2076 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2077 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
2078 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2079 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
2080 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2081 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
2082 now exists, an signals an error.
2083 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
2084 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
2085 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2086 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
2087 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2088 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
2089 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
2090 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2091 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
2092 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2093 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
2094 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
2096 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
2097 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
2098 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
2099 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
2100 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2101 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
2102 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
2103 specialized array element types.
2104 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
2105 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2106 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
2107 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2108 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
2109 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
2110 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
2111 Wragg for the simple test case)
2112 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2113 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
2115 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
2116 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
2117 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
2118 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
2119 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
2121 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
2123 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
2124 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
2125 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
2126 references to global functions.
2127 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
2129 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
2131 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
2132 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2133 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
2134 supported platforms.
2135 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
2136 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
2137 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
2138 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
2139 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
2140 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2141 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
2142 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2143 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
2144 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
2145 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
2146 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
2147 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
2149 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
2150 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2151 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
2152 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
2153 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
2154 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
2156 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
2157 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
2159 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
2160 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
2161 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
2162 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2163 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
2164 returns the right answer.
2165 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
2167 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
2169 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
2170 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
2172 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
2173 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
2175 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
2176 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
2177 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
2178 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
2179 the supported interface.
2180 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
2181 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
2182 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2183 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
2184 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
2185 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
2186 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
2187 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
2188 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
2189 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
2190 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
2191 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
2192 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
2193 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
2194 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
2195 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
2196 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
2197 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
2198 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
2199 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
2200 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
2201 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
2202 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
2203 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
2204 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
2205 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
2206 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2207 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
2208 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
2210 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
2211 * incompatible change: the internal functions
2212 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
2213 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
2214 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
2215 instead of the old functions.
2216 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
2217 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
2219 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
2220 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
2222 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
2223 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
2224 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
2225 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
2227 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
2228 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2229 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
2230 (reported by Rick Taube)
2231 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
2232 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
2233 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
2234 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
2236 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
2237 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
2238 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
2239 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
2240 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
2241 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
2242 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
2243 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
2244 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
2245 represented relative to default pathnames.
2246 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
2247 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
2248 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
2250 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
2251 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
2252 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
2254 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2255 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
2256 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
2257 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
2259 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
2261 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
2262 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
2263 conditional newlines.
2264 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
2265 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
2266 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
2268 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
2269 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
2271 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
2272 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
2273 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
2274 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
2275 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
2276 compiled in unconditionally.
2277 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
2278 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
2279 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
2280 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
2281 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
2283 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
2284 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
2285 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
2286 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
2287 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
2288 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
2289 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
2290 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
2291 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
2292 an implementation-internal package.
2293 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
2295 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
2296 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
2297 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
2298 bodies are now more legible.
2299 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
2300 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
2301 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
2302 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
2303 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2304 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
2305 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
2307 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
2308 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
2309 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
2310 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
2311 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
2312 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
2313 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
2314 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
2315 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
2316 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
2318 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
2319 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
2320 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
2321 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
2322 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
2323 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
2324 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
2325 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
2326 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
2327 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
2328 system even when most of them are idle
2329 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
2330 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2331 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
2333 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
2334 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
2335 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
2336 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
2337 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
2339 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
2340 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
2341 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
2342 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
2343 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
2344 string for information on the protocol.
2345 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
2346 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
2348 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
2349 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
2351 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
2352 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
2353 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
2354 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
2355 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
2356 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
2358 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
2359 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
2361 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
2362 move between its address being taken and the call to
2363 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
2364 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
2365 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
2366 instances corresponding to C structs.
2368 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
2369 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
2370 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
2371 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
2372 has implications for memory management of client code
2373 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
2374 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
2375 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
2376 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
2377 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
2378 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
2379 quality should be considered deprecated.
2380 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
2381 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
2382 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
2383 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
2384 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
2386 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
2387 designator as the defaults argument.
2388 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
2389 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
2390 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2391 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
2392 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
2394 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
2396 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
2397 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2398 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
2399 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
2400 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2401 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
2403 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
2404 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2405 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
2406 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
2407 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
2408 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
2409 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2410 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
2411 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
2412 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
2413 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
2414 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2415 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
2416 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
2417 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
2418 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
2419 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
2421 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
2422 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
2423 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
2425 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
2426 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2427 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
2428 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
2429 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
2430 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
2431 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2432 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
2433 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
2435 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
2436 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
2438 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
2439 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
2441 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
2442 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2443 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
2444 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
2446 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
2447 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
2448 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2449 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
2450 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
2451 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
2452 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
2453 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
2455 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
2456 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
2457 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
2459 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
2460 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
2462 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2463 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
2465 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
2466 from local to shared slots.
2467 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
2468 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
2469 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
2470 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
2472 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
2473 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
2474 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
2475 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
2476 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
2477 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
2478 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
2479 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
2480 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
2482 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
2484 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
2486 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
2487 print using #P"..." syntax.
2489 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
2490 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
2491 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
2492 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
2493 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
2494 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
2495 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
2496 * [placeholder for DX summary]
2497 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
2498 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
2499 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
2500 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
2501 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
2502 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
2503 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
2504 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
2505 the test case to Dave Roberts)
2506 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
2507 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
2508 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
2509 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2510 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
2511 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
2512 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
2513 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2514 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
2515 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
2516 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
2517 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
2518 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2519 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
2520 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
2523 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
2524 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
2525 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
2526 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
2527 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
2528 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
2529 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
2530 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
2531 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
2532 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2533 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
2534 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
2535 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
2537 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
2538 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
2540 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
2541 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
2542 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2543 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
2544 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2545 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
2547 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
2548 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
2549 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
2551 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
2553 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
2555 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
2556 their output stream on EOF from read.
2557 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
2558 have been read to end-of-file.
2559 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
2561 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
2562 description of determination of which consecutive characters
2564 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
2565 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
2566 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2567 less than 10 works correctly.
2568 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2569 more than 10 works correctly.
2570 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
2571 the readtable currently in effect.
2573 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
2574 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
2575 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
2576 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
2577 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
2578 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
2579 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
2580 should usually be replaced by
2581 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
2582 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
2583 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
2584 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
2585 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
2586 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
2587 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
2588 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
2590 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
2591 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
2592 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2593 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
2594 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
2595 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2596 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
2597 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
2598 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
2599 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
2600 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
2601 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
2602 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
2604 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
2605 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
2606 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
2607 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2608 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
2609 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
2610 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
2611 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2612 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
2613 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
2614 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
2615 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
2616 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
2617 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
2618 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2619 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
2620 non-local entry points.
2621 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
2623 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2624 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
2626 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
2627 host is already defined.
2628 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
2630 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
2631 or not a character is whitespace.
2632 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
2633 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
2634 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
2636 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
2637 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
2639 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
2641 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
2642 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
2643 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
2644 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
2645 designator argument does not designate a stream.
2646 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
2647 examining the synonym.
2648 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
2650 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
2651 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
2653 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
2654 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
2655 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
2656 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
2657 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
2658 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
2659 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
2660 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
2661 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
2662 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2663 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
2664 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
2666 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
2667 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
2668 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2669 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
2670 stream position information.
2671 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
2672 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
2673 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
2674 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
2675 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2676 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
2678 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
2679 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
2681 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2682 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2683 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
2684 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
2685 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
2686 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
2687 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
2689 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
2691 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
2692 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
2693 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
2694 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
2695 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
2696 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
2697 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
2698 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
2699 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
2700 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
2701 the "SYS" logical host.
2702 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
2703 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
2704 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
2705 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2706 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
2707 now each have their own history, command character, and other
2708 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2709 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2710 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
2712 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
2713 shift greater than 32.
2714 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
2715 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
2716 in some circumstances.
2718 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
2719 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
2720 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
2721 environments like SLIME.
2722 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
2723 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
2724 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
2725 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
2726 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
2727 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
2728 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
2729 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
2730 argument types for all arguments.
2731 * various threading fixes
2732 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
2733 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
2734 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
2735 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
2737 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
2738 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
2739 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
2740 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
2741 arguments to a full call.
2742 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
2743 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
2744 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
2745 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
2747 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
2748 inserts a space where necessary.
2749 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
2750 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
2751 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
2752 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2753 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2754 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2755 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2756 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2757 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2758 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2759 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2760 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2762 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2763 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2764 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2766 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2768 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2769 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2770 argument and negative second.
2771 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2772 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2773 interval, containing 0.
2774 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2776 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2777 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2779 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2780 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2781 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2782 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2783 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2784 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2785 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2786 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2787 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2788 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2789 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2790 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2791 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2792 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2793 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2794 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2795 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2796 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
2797 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
2798 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
2799 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
2800 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2801 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
2802 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
2803 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
2804 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
2805 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
2806 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
2807 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
2809 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
2810 platform now returns the right answer.
2811 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
2812 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
2813 precomputation is now tunable.
2814 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
2815 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
2816 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
2817 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
2818 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
2819 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
2820 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
2821 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
2822 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
2823 has been added for the alpha.
2824 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
2825 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
2826 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
2827 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
2828 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
2829 MEMBER-types to numeric.
2830 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
2832 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
2833 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
2834 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
2836 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
2837 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2838 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
2839 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2840 might be pseudo-atomic.
2841 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2842 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2844 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2846 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2848 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2849 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2850 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2851 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2852 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2853 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2855 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2856 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2857 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2858 small float arguments.
2859 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2861 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2862 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2863 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2864 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2865 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2866 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2868 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2870 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2871 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
2872 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
2873 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
2874 with negative last argument.
2875 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
2876 an error during type derivation.
2877 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
2879 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
2880 generates a 32-bit binary.
2881 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2882 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
2883 data structures referred to above).
2885 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
2886 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
2887 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
2888 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
2889 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
2890 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
2891 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
2892 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
2893 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
2894 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2895 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
2896 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
2898 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
2899 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
2901 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
2902 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
2903 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
2904 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
2905 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
2906 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
2907 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
2908 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
2909 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
2910 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
2911 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
2912 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2913 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
2914 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
2915 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
2916 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
2917 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
2918 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2919 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
2920 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
2921 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
2922 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
2923 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2924 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
2925 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
2926 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
2927 optimization quality.
2928 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
2929 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
2930 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
2931 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
2932 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2933 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2934 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
2935 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
2936 types form a lattice under type intersection.
2937 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
2938 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
2939 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
2940 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
2941 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
2942 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
2943 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
2944 calling the generic function.
2945 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
2946 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
2947 obscure ANSI requirements
2949 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
2950 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
2951 garbage, confusing the compiler.
2952 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
2953 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
2954 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
2955 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
2956 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
2957 circumstances could go off-by-one.
2958 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
2960 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
2961 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
2962 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
2963 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
2964 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
2965 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
2966 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
2967 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
2968 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
2969 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2970 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
2971 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
2972 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2973 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
2974 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2975 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
2976 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
2977 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
2978 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
2979 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
2981 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
2982 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
2983 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
2984 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
2986 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
2987 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
2988 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
2989 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
2990 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
2991 provide helpful disassembly notes.
2992 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
2993 the class in more cases than previously.
2994 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
2995 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2996 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
2997 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2998 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
2999 without lambda list.
3000 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
3001 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
3002 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3003 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
3004 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
3005 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
3007 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
3008 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
3009 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
3011 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
3012 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
3013 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
3014 were silently accepted).
3015 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
3016 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
3017 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
3018 to warn on static type mismatches and function
3019 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
3020 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
3021 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
3022 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
3023 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
3024 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
3025 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
3026 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
3027 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
3028 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
3030 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
3031 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
3032 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
3033 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
3034 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
3035 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
3037 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
3038 keywords or constants is permissible.
3039 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
3040 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
3041 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
3042 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
3043 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
3044 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
3045 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
3046 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
3048 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
3049 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3050 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
3051 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
3052 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3053 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
3054 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
3056 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
3058 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
3059 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
3060 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
3061 respectively change and preserve the value.
3062 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
3063 is now better at handling symbol macros.
3064 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
3065 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
3066 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
3067 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
3068 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
3069 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
3070 their use properly signals an error now.
3071 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
3072 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
3073 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
3074 * fixed simple vector readable printing
3075 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
3076 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
3077 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
3078 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
3079 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
3080 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
3081 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3082 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
3083 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3084 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
3085 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
3086 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3087 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
3088 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
3089 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
3090 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
3091 causes a type error.
3092 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
3093 association between the name and a class.
3094 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
3095 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
3096 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3097 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
3098 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
3099 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
3101 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
3102 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
3103 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
3104 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
3106 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
3107 which its argument is a member.
3108 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
3109 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
3110 otherwise, it creates a new class.
3111 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
3112 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
3113 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
3114 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
3115 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
3116 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
3118 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
3119 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
3120 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
3121 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
3122 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
3123 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
3124 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
3126 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
3127 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
3128 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
3129 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
3130 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
3131 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
3132 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
3133 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
3134 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
3135 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
3136 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
3137 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
3138 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3139 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
3141 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
3142 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
3143 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
3144 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
3145 superclasses are applied.
3146 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
3147 no method was removed.
3148 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
3149 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
3150 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
3151 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
3153 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
3155 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
3156 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
3157 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
3158 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
3159 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
3160 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
3161 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
3162 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
3163 function lambda list.
3164 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
3166 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
3167 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
3168 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
3169 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
3171 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
3172 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
3173 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
3174 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
3175 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
3176 they look for GNU "make".
3178 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
3179 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
3180 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
3181 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
3183 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
3184 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
3185 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
3186 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
3187 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
3188 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
3189 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
3190 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
3191 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
3192 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
3194 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
3195 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
3196 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
3197 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
3198 libraries, and will know who they are.
3199 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
3200 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
3201 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
3202 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
3203 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
3204 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
3205 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
3206 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
3208 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
3209 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
3210 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
3211 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
3212 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
3213 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
3214 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
3215 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
3216 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
3217 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
3218 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3219 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
3221 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
3222 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
3223 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
3224 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
3225 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
3226 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
3227 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
3228 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
3229 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
3231 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
3232 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
3233 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
3234 this you were probably losing anyway.
3235 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
3236 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
3237 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
3238 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
3239 with names from the CL package.
3240 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
3241 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
3242 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
3243 documentation string.
3244 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3245 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
3247 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
3248 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
3249 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
3250 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
3252 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
3253 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
3255 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
3256 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3257 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
3259 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
3260 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
3261 arguments contain duplicated elements.
3262 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
3263 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
3264 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
3265 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
3266 in question is unbound.
3267 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
3268 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
3269 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
3270 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
3271 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
3273 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
3275 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
3276 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
3277 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
3278 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
3279 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
3280 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
3281 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
3282 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
3283 by Antonio Martinez)
3284 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
3285 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3286 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
3287 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
3288 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
3289 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
3290 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
3291 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3292 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
3293 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
3294 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
3295 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
3296 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
3297 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
3298 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
3299 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
3300 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
3301 on malformed property lists;
3303 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
3304 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
3305 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
3306 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
3307 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
3308 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
3309 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
3310 modules in this release include:
3311 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
3312 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
3313 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
3314 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
3315 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
3317 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
3318 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
3319 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3320 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
3321 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
3322 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
3323 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
3324 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
3326 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
3327 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
3328 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
3329 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
3330 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
3331 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
3332 the lexical environment.
3333 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
3334 unprintable packages can now be defined.
3335 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
3336 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3337 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
3338 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3339 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
3340 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
3341 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
3342 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
3343 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
3344 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
3345 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
3346 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
3347 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3348 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
3349 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3350 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
3351 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
3352 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
3353 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
3354 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
3355 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
3356 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
3357 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
3359 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
3360 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
3361 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3362 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3363 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
3364 not just nonnegative fixnums;
3365 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
3366 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
3367 freshly-consed result bit-array);
3368 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
3370 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
3371 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
3373 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
3374 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
3375 cases are accurately computed;
3376 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
3377 if it is in the last clause;
3378 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
3380 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
3381 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
3382 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
3383 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
3385 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
3386 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
3387 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
3388 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
3389 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
3391 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
3392 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
3393 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
3394 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
3396 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3397 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
3398 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
3399 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
3400 not cause a type error;
3401 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
3403 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
3404 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
3405 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
3406 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
3407 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
3408 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
3409 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
3410 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
3412 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
3413 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
3414 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
3415 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
3416 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
3417 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
3419 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
3420 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
3422 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
3423 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
3424 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
3425 only for symbols in the CL package.
3426 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
3427 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3428 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
3429 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
3430 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
3432 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3433 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
3434 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
3435 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
3436 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
3437 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
3438 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
3439 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
3440 conditional loop clause;
3441 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
3442 signals a type error iff it should.
3443 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3444 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
3445 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
3446 argument) no longer signals an error;
3447 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
3448 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
3449 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
3451 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
3452 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
3453 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
3455 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
3456 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
3457 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
3458 functionality on said platforms verified.
3459 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
3460 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
3462 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
3463 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
3464 component indicating that directory.
3465 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
3466 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
3467 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
3468 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
3469 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3470 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
3472 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
3473 primary methods with no specializers;
3474 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
3476 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
3477 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
3478 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
3479 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
3481 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
3482 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
3483 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
3485 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
3486 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
3487 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
3488 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
3489 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
3490 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
3491 class STANDARD-CLASS;
3492 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
3493 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3494 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
3495 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
3497 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
3498 value producing form;
3499 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
3500 variables are bound and made to have no value;
3501 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
3503 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
3504 is not a valid sequence index;
3505 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
3506 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
3507 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3508 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
3510 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
3511 symbol-macro places;
3512 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
3513 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
3515 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
3517 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
3519 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
3520 invariant when deleting code.
3521 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
3522 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
3524 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
3525 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3526 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
3528 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
3529 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
3531 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
3532 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
3533 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3534 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
3536 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
3537 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3538 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
3539 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
3541 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
3542 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
3543 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
3544 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
3545 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3546 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
3547 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
3548 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
3549 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
3550 sbcl and .core files.)
3551 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
3552 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
3553 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
3554 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
3555 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
3556 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3557 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
3559 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
3560 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
3561 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
3562 argument precedence order.
3563 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
3564 derived types contradict their declared type.
3565 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
3566 so it can be non-toplevel.
3567 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
3568 implementation of DEFMACRO).
3569 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
3570 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
3571 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
3573 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
3574 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
3575 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
3576 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
3577 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
3578 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
3579 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
3580 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
3581 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
3582 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
3583 symbol macro only once
3584 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
3585 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
3586 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
3589 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
3590 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
3591 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
3592 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
3593 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
3594 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
3595 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
3596 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
3597 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
3598 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3599 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
3600 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
3602 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
3603 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
3604 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
3605 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
3606 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3607 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
3609 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
3611 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
3612 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
3613 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
3614 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
3615 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3616 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
3617 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
3618 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
3619 ways in different special cases
3620 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
3622 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
3623 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
3624 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
3625 are no longer optimized away.
3626 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
3627 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
3628 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
3629 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
3630 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
3631 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
3632 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
3633 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
3636 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
3637 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
3638 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
3639 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
3640 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
3641 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
3642 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
3644 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
3645 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
3646 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
3647 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
3648 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
3649 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
3650 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
3651 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
3652 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
3653 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
3654 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
3655 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
3656 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
3657 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
3658 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
3659 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
3660 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
3661 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3662 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
3663 that are names of constants or global variables.
3664 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
3665 alien routines with docstrings.
3666 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
3667 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
3669 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
3670 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3671 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
3672 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3673 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
3674 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3675 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
3676 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
3677 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
3678 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3679 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
3680 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
3681 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
3682 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
3683 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
3684 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
3685 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
3686 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
3687 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
3688 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
3689 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
3690 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
3691 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
3693 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
3694 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
3696 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
3697 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
3698 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
3699 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
3700 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
3701 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
3702 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
3703 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
3704 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
3705 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
3707 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
3708 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
3709 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
3710 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
3711 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
3712 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
3713 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
3714 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
3715 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
3716 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
3717 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
3718 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
3719 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
3720 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
3721 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
3722 is no longer a static symbol.)
3724 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
3725 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
3726 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
3727 bootstrapping under CLISP.
3728 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
3730 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
3731 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
3733 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
3734 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
3735 to David Lichteblau)
3736 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
3737 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
3738 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
3740 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
3741 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3742 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
3743 count as they should.
3744 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
3745 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3746 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
3747 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
3748 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
3749 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
3750 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
3751 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
3752 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3753 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3754 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3755 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3756 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3757 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3758 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3760 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3761 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3762 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3764 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3766 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3767 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3768 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3769 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3770 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3771 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3772 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3774 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3775 to Christophe Rhodes)
3776 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3777 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3778 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3779 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3780 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3781 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
3782 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3784 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3785 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3786 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3787 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3788 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3789 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3790 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3791 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3792 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3793 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3794 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3795 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3796 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
3798 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
3799 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
3800 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
3801 INFO database to support symbol macros.
3802 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
3803 (thanks to coreythomas)
3804 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
3805 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
3806 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
3807 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
3808 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
3810 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
3811 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
3812 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
3813 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
3814 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
3815 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
3816 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
3817 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
3818 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
3819 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3820 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
3821 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
3822 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
3824 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
3825 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
3828 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
3829 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
3830 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
3831 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
3832 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
3833 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
3834 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
3835 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
3836 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
3837 systems than the old 4M value was)
3838 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
3839 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3840 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3841 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3842 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3843 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3844 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3846 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3847 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3848 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3849 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3850 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3852 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3853 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3854 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3855 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3856 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3857 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3858 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3859 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3861 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3862 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3863 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3864 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3865 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3866 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3867 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3868 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3870 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3871 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3872 * several changes related to debugging:
3873 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
3874 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
3875 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
3876 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
3877 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3878 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
3879 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
3882 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
3884 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
3885 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
3886 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
3887 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
3888 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
3889 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
3890 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
3891 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
3893 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
3894 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
3895 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
3896 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3897 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
3898 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
3899 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
3900 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
3901 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
3902 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
3903 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
3904 file format number to change again.
3906 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
3907 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
3908 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
3909 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
3911 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
3912 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
3913 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
3914 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
3915 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
3916 FUNCALL on the result.
3917 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
3918 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
3919 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
3920 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
3921 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
3922 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
3923 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
3924 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
3926 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
3927 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
3928 the old compiler produced.
3929 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
3930 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
3931 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
3932 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
3933 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
3934 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
3935 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
3936 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
3937 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
3938 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
3939 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
3940 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
3941 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
3942 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
3943 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
3944 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
3945 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
3946 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
3947 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
3948 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
3949 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
3950 straightened out in some future version.)
3951 * minor incompatible changes:
3952 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
3953 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
3954 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
3955 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
3956 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
3957 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
3958 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
3959 implementation dependent:
3960 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
3961 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
3962 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
3963 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
3964 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
3965 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
3966 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
3967 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
3969 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
3971 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
3972 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
3973 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
3974 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
3975 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
3976 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
3977 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
3978 are no longer used for output.
3979 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
3980 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
3981 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
3982 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
3983 increasing it even more.)
3984 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
3985 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
3986 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
3988 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
3989 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
3990 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
3991 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
3992 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
3993 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
3994 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
3995 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
3996 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
3997 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
3998 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
3999 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
4000 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
4001 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
4002 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
4003 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
4004 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
4005 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
4006 compilation of code which calls such functions.
4007 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
4008 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
4009 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
4010 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
4011 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
4012 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
4013 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
4014 built into the system.
4015 * many other bug fixes
4016 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
4017 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
4018 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
4019 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
4020 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
4022 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
4023 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
4024 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
4025 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
4026 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
4027 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
4028 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
4029 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
4030 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
4031 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
4032 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
4034 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
4035 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
4036 and several other LOOP problems as well
4037 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
4038 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
4039 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
4040 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
4041 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
4042 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
4043 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
4044 *** a bug in APROPOS
4045 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
4046 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
4047 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
4048 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
4049 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
4050 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
4051 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
4052 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
4053 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
4054 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
4055 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
4056 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
4057 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
4058 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
4059 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
4061 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
4062 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
4063 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
4064 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
4065 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
4066 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
4067 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
4068 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
4069 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
4070 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
4071 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
4072 some of which are apparent above.
4074 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
4075 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
4076 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
4077 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
4078 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
4079 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
4080 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
4081 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
4082 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
4083 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
4084 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
4085 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
4086 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
4087 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
4088 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
4089 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
4090 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
4091 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
4092 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
4093 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
4094 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
4095 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
4096 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
4097 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
4098 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
4099 different return types.
4100 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
4101 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
4102 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
4103 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
4104 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
4105 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
4106 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
4107 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
4108 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
4109 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
4111 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
4112 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
4113 does the right thing.
4114 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
4115 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
4116 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
4117 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
4118 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
4119 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
4120 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
4121 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
4122 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
4123 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
4124 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
4125 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
4126 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
4127 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
4128 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
4129 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
4130 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
4131 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
4132 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
4133 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
4134 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
4135 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
4136 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
4137 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
4138 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
4139 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
4140 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
4141 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
4142 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
4143 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
4144 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
4145 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
4146 since historically most system changes which required version
4147 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
4148 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
4151 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
4152 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
4153 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
4154 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
4155 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
4156 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
4157 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
4158 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
4159 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
4160 half a dozen others elsewhere
4161 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
4162 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
4163 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
4164 as flaky as they were.
4165 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
4166 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
4167 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
4168 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
4169 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
4170 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
4171 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
4172 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
4174 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
4175 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
4176 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
4177 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
4178 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
4179 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
4180 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
4181 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
4182 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
4183 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
4184 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
4185 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
4186 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
4187 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
4188 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
4189 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
4190 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
4191 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
4192 more obscure bugs as well
4193 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
4194 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
4195 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
4196 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
4197 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
4198 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
4199 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
4200 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
4201 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
4202 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
4203 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
4205 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
4206 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
4208 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
4210 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
4211 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
4212 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
4213 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
4214 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
4215 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
4216 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
4217 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
4218 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
4219 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
4220 are local in this sense.)
4221 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
4222 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
4223 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
4224 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
4225 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
4226 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
4227 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
4228 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
4229 system's STREAM objects.
4230 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
4231 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4232 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
4233 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4234 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
4235 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
4236 environment from the original process instead of starting the
4237 new process in an empty environment.
4238 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
4239 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
4240 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
4241 for porting convenience.
4242 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
4243 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
4245 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
4247 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
4248 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
4249 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
4250 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
4251 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
4252 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
4253 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
4254 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
4255 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
4256 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
4257 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
4258 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
4259 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
4260 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
4261 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
4262 many fewer weird special cases.
4263 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
4264 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
4265 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4266 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
4267 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
4268 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
4269 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
4270 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
4271 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
4272 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
4273 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
4276 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
4278 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
4279 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
4280 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
4282 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
4283 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
4284 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
4285 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
4286 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
4287 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
4288 should be constructed the same way as before.
4289 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
4290 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
4291 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
4292 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
4293 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
4294 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
4295 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
4296 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
4297 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
4298 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
4299 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
4300 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
4301 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
4302 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
4303 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
4304 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
4305 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
4306 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
4307 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
4308 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
4309 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
4310 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
4312 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
4313 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
4314 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
4315 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
4316 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
4317 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
4318 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
4319 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
4321 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
4323 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
4324 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
4325 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
4326 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
4327 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
4329 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
4330 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
4331 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
4332 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
4333 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
4334 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
4335 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
4336 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
4337 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
4338 and Douglas Crosher.
4339 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
4340 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
4341 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
4343 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
4344 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
4345 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
4346 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
4347 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
4348 undefined function error.
4349 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
4350 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
4351 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
4352 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
4353 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
4354 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
4355 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
4356 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
4357 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
4358 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
4359 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
4360 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
4361 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
4363 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
4365 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
4366 CVS repository on my home machine).
4367 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
4368 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
4369 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
4370 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
4371 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
4372 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
4373 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
4374 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
4375 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
4376 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
4377 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
4378 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
4379 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
4380 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
4381 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
4382 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
4383 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
4384 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
4385 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
4386 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
4387 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
4388 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
4390 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
4391 FreeBSD have been added.
4392 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
4393 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
4394 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
4395 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
4396 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
4397 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
4399 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
4400 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
4401 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
4402 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
4403 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
4404 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
4405 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
4406 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
4408 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
4409 away by constant folding
4410 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
4411 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
4412 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
4413 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
4414 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
4415 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
4416 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
4417 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
4418 diff-related operations.
4419 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
4420 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
4422 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
4424 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
4425 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
4426 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
4427 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
4428 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
4429 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
4430 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
4431 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
4432 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
4433 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
4434 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
4435 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
4436 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
4437 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
4438 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
4439 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
4440 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
4441 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
4442 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
4443 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
4444 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
4445 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
4446 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
4447 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
4448 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
4449 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
4450 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
4451 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
4452 instead of (VALUES T T).
4453 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
4454 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
4455 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
4456 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
4457 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
4458 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
4459 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
4460 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
4461 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
4462 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
4463 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
4464 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
4465 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
4466 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
4467 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
4468 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
4469 type will be interpreted at runtime.
4470 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
4471 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
4472 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
4473 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
4474 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
4475 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
4476 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
4477 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
4478 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
4479 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
4480 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
4481 fasl files for cold load.
4482 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
4483 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
4484 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
4485 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
4486 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
4487 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
4488 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
4489 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
4490 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
4491 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
4492 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
4494 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
4495 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
4496 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
4497 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
4498 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
4499 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
4500 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
4501 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
4502 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
4503 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
4504 renamed some files to increase consistency.
4505 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
4506 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
4507 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
4508 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
4509 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
4510 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
4512 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
4514 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
4515 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
4516 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
4517 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
4518 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
4519 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
4520 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
4521 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
4522 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
4523 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
4524 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
4525 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
4526 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
4527 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
4528 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
4529 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
4530 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
4531 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
4533 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
4534 as required by ANSI.
4535 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
4536 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
4537 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
4538 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
4540 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
4541 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
4542 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
4543 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
4544 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
4545 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
4546 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
4547 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
4549 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
4550 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
4551 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
4552 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4554 is now basically equivalent to
4555 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4556 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
4558 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
4559 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
4560 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
4561 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
4562 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
4563 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
4564 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
4565 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
4566 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
4567 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
4568 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
4569 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
4570 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
4571 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
4572 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
4573 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4574 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
4575 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
4576 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
4577 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
4578 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
4579 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
4580 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
4582 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
4584 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
4585 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
4586 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
4587 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
4588 GNUMAKE environment variable.
4589 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
4590 can build without error under CMU CL.
4592 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
4594 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
4595 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
4596 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
4597 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
4598 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
4599 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
4600 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
4601 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
4602 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
4603 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
4604 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
4605 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
4606 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
4607 being initialized before the type system knew the final
4608 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
4609 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
4610 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
4611 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
4612 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
4613 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
4614 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
4615 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
4616 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
4617 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
4619 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
4620 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
4621 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
4622 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
4623 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
4624 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
4625 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
4626 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
4627 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
4628 it were currently supported.
4629 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
4630 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
4631 having to maintain patches.
4632 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
4633 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
4635 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
4637 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
4638 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
4639 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
4640 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
4641 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
4642 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
4643 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
4644 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
4645 * various new style warnings:
4646 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
4647 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
4648 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
4649 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
4650 as specified by ANSI.
4651 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
4652 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
4653 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
4654 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
4655 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
4656 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
4657 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
4658 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
4659 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
4660 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
4661 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
4662 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
4663 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
4664 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
4665 argument types can be determined at compile time.
4666 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
4667 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
4668 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
4669 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
4670 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
4671 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
4672 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
4675 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
4677 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
4678 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
4679 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
4680 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
4681 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
4682 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
4683 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
4684 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
4685 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
4687 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
4688 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
4689 the report form was printed.)
4690 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
4691 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
4692 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
4693 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
4694 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
4695 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
4696 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
4697 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
4698 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
4699 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
4700 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
4701 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
4702 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
4703 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
4704 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
4705 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
4706 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
4707 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
4708 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
4709 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
4710 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
4711 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
4712 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
4713 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
4714 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
4715 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
4716 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
4717 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
4718 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
4719 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
4720 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
4721 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
4722 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
4723 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
4724 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
4725 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
4726 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
4727 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
4728 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
4729 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
4730 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
4731 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
4732 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
4733 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
4734 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
4735 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
4736 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
4737 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
4738 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
4739 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
4740 know more about target types.
4741 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
4742 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
4743 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
4744 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
4745 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
4746 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
4748 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
4749 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
4750 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
4751 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
4752 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4753 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4754 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4755 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4756 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4757 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4758 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4759 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4760 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4762 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4765 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4767 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4768 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4769 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4770 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4771 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4772 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4773 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4774 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4775 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4776 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4777 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4778 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4779 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4780 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4781 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4782 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4783 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4784 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4785 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4786 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4787 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4788 invisible at the user level.)
4789 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4790 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4791 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4793 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4795 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4796 * tidied up system directory structure
4797 * better "clean.sh" behavior
4798 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
4799 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
4800 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
4801 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
4802 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
4803 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
4804 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
4805 * command line argument processing
4806 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
4807 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
4808 terminating SBCL on EOF
4809 * non-verbose GC by default
4810 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
4811 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
4812 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
4814 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
4815 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
4816 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
4817 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
4818 transformed along with everything else.
4819 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
4820 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
4821 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
4822 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
4823 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
4824 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
4825 debugging and testing purposes
4826 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
4827 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
4828 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
4829 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
4830 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
4831 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
4832 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
4834 * regularized formatting of source files
4835 * added an install.sh script
4836 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
4837 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
4838 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
4839 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4840 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4841 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4842 was not implemented)
4843 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4844 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4845 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4846 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4847 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4849 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4850 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4851 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4852 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4853 COMPILE-FILE command)
4854 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4855 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4856 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4857 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4858 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4859 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4860 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4861 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4862 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4863 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4864 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4865 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4866 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4867 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4868 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4870 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4871 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
4872 known to be able to handle the current sources
4873 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
4874 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
4875 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
4876 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
4877 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
4878 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
4879 * removed host-oops.lisp
4880 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
4881 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
4882 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
4883 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
4884 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
4885 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by