1 changes in sbcl-0.8.22 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
2 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
3 version 0.7.5. Please use the equivalent --disable-debugger
5 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
6 (reported by Rajat Datta).
7 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
8 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
9 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
10 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
12 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
13 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
14 types for complex arguments better.
15 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
17 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
18 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
21 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
22 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
23 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
24 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
25 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
26 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
27 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
28 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
29 returning to the top level.
30 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
31 global optimization policy.
32 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
33 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
34 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
36 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
37 various incompatible changes.
38 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
39 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
40 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
41 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
42 level local call to FOO".
43 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
44 now have more legible printed representation
45 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
46 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
47 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
49 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
50 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
51 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
52 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
53 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
55 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
56 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
57 (reported by Lutz Euler)
58 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
59 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
60 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
61 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
62 the specializer is now possible.
63 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
64 face of package deletion.
65 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
66 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
67 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
68 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
69 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
70 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
71 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
72 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
73 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
74 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
76 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
77 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
78 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
79 correctable errors to be signalled.
80 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
81 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
84 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
85 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
86 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
88 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
89 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
90 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
91 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
92 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
93 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
94 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
95 related to the ~@F format directive.
96 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
98 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
99 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
100 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
101 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
103 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
105 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
106 coerce function designators to functions.
107 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
108 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
109 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
110 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
111 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
112 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
113 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
114 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
115 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
116 start of the buffer at the next read.
117 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
118 passing it through to OPEN.
119 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
120 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
121 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
122 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
123 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
124 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
125 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
126 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
128 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
129 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
130 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
131 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
132 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
133 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
135 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
136 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
137 secondary constituent character trait.
138 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
140 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
142 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
144 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
145 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
146 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
148 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
149 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
151 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
152 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
153 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
154 and reloading shared object files.
155 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
156 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
158 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
159 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
160 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
162 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
163 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
165 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
167 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
168 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
169 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
170 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
171 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
172 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
173 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
175 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
176 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
178 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
179 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
180 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
181 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
182 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
184 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
185 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
186 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
187 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
188 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
189 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
190 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
191 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
192 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
193 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
194 lisp characters are not eight bits.
195 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
196 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
197 the correct number of arguments.
198 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
199 to displaced strings.
200 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
201 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
203 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
204 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
205 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
206 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
207 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
208 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
209 available at runtime.
210 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
211 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
212 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
213 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
214 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
215 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
216 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
217 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
218 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
219 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
220 of lambda-list keywords.
221 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
222 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
224 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
225 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
226 (reported by Paul Dietz)
227 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
228 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
229 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
230 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
232 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
233 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
234 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
235 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
236 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
238 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
239 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
240 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
241 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
242 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
243 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
244 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
246 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
247 parameters correctly.
248 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
249 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
250 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
252 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
255 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
256 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
257 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
258 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
260 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
261 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
262 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
263 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
264 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
265 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
266 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
267 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
268 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
270 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
271 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
273 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
275 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
276 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
277 (reported by Bruno Haible)
278 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
280 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
281 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
282 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
283 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
284 (reported by David Morse)
285 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
286 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
287 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
288 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
289 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
290 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
291 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
292 now exists, an signals an error.
293 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
294 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
295 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
296 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
297 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
298 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
299 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
300 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
301 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
302 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
303 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
304 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
306 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
307 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
308 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
309 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
310 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
311 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
312 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
313 specialized array element types.
314 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
315 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
316 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
317 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
318 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
319 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
320 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
321 Wragg for the simple test case)
322 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
323 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
325 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
326 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
327 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
328 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
329 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
331 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
333 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
334 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
335 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
336 references to global functions.
337 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
339 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
341 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
342 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
343 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
345 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
346 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
347 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
348 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
349 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
350 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
351 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
352 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
353 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
354 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
355 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
356 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
357 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
359 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
360 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
361 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
362 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
363 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
364 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
366 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
367 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
369 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
370 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
371 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
372 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
373 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
374 returns the right answer.
375 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
377 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
379 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
380 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
382 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
383 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
385 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
386 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
387 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
388 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
389 the supported interface.
390 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
391 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
392 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
393 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
394 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
395 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
396 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
397 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
398 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
399 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
400 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
401 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
402 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
403 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
404 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
405 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
406 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
407 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
408 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
409 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
410 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
411 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
412 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
413 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
414 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
415 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
416 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
417 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
418 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
420 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
421 * incompatible change: the internal functions
422 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
423 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
424 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
425 instead of the old functions.
426 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
427 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
429 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
430 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
432 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
433 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
434 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
435 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
437 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
438 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
439 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
440 (reported by Rick Taube)
441 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
442 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
443 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
444 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
446 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
447 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
448 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
449 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
450 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
451 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
452 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
453 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
454 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
455 represented relative to default pathnames.
456 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
457 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
458 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
460 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
461 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
462 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
464 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
465 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
466 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
467 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
469 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
471 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
472 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
473 conditional newlines.
474 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
475 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
476 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
478 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
479 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
481 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
482 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
483 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
484 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
485 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
486 compiled in unconditionally.
487 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
488 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
489 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
490 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
491 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
493 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
494 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
495 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
496 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
497 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
498 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
499 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
500 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
501 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
502 an implementation-internal package.
503 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
505 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
506 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
507 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
508 bodies are now more legible.
509 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
510 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
511 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
512 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
513 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
514 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
515 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
517 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
518 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
519 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
520 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
521 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
522 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
523 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
525 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
526 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
528 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
529 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
530 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
531 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
532 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
533 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
534 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
535 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
536 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
537 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
538 system even when most of them are idle
539 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
540 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
541 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
543 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
544 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
545 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
546 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
547 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
549 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
550 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
551 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
552 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
553 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
554 string for information on the protocol.
555 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
556 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
558 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
559 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
561 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
562 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
563 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
564 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
565 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
566 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
568 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
569 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
571 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
572 move between its address being taken and the call to
573 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
574 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
575 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
576 instances corresponding to C structs.
578 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
579 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
580 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
581 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
582 has implications for memory management of client code
583 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
584 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
585 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
586 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
587 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
588 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
589 quality should be considered deprecated.
590 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
591 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
592 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
593 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
594 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
596 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
597 designator as the defaults argument.
598 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
599 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
600 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
601 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
602 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
604 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
606 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
607 (thanks to Zach Beane)
608 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
609 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
610 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
611 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
613 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
614 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
615 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
616 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
617 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
618 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
619 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
620 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
621 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
622 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
623 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
624 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
625 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
626 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
627 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
628 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
629 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
631 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
632 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
633 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
635 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
636 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
637 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
638 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
639 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
640 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
641 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
642 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
643 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
645 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
646 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
648 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
649 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
651 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
652 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
653 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
654 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
656 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
657 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
658 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
659 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
660 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
661 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
662 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
663 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
665 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
666 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
667 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
669 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
670 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
672 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
673 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
675 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
676 from local to shared slots.
677 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
678 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
679 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
680 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
682 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
683 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
684 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
685 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
686 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
687 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
688 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
689 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
690 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
692 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
694 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
696 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
697 print using #P"..." syntax.
699 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
700 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
701 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
702 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
703 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
704 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
705 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
706 * [placeholder for DX summary]
707 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
708 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
709 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
710 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
711 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
712 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
713 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
714 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
715 the test case to Dave Roberts)
716 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
717 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
718 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
719 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
720 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
721 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
722 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
723 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
724 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
725 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
726 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
727 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
728 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
729 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
730 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
733 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
734 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
735 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
736 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
737 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
738 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
739 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
740 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
741 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
742 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
743 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
744 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
745 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
747 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
748 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
750 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
751 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
752 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
753 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
754 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
755 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
757 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
758 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
759 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
761 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
763 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
765 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
766 their output stream on EOF from read.
767 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
768 have been read to end-of-file.
769 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
771 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
772 description of determination of which consecutive characters
774 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
775 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
776 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
777 less than 10 works correctly.
778 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
779 more than 10 works correctly.
780 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
781 the readtable currently in effect.
783 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
784 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
785 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
786 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
787 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
788 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
789 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
790 should usually be replaced by
791 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
792 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
793 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
794 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
795 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
796 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
797 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
798 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
800 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
801 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
802 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
803 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
804 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
805 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
806 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
807 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
808 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
809 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
810 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
811 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
812 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
814 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
815 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
816 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
817 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
818 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
819 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
820 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
821 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
822 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
823 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
824 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
825 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
826 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
827 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
828 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
829 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
830 non-local entry points.
831 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
833 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
834 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
836 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
837 host is already defined.
838 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
840 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
841 or not a character is whitespace.
842 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
843 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
844 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
846 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
847 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
849 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
851 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
852 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
853 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
854 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
855 designator argument does not designate a stream.
856 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
857 examining the synonym.
858 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
860 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
861 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
863 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
864 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
865 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
866 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
867 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
868 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
869 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
870 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
871 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
872 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
873 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
874 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
876 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
877 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
878 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
879 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
880 stream position information.
881 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
882 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
883 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
884 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
885 (reported by Paul Dietz)
886 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
888 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
889 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
891 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
892 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
893 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
894 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
895 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
896 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
897 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
899 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
901 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
902 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
903 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
904 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
905 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
906 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
907 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
908 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
909 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
910 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
911 the "SYS" logical host.
912 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
913 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
914 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
915 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
916 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
917 now each have their own history, command character, and other
918 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
919 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
920 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
922 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
923 shift greater than 32.
924 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
925 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
926 in some circumstances.
928 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
929 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
930 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
931 environments like SLIME.
932 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
933 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
934 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
935 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
936 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
937 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
938 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
939 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
940 argument types for all arguments.
941 * various threading fixes
942 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
943 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
944 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
945 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
947 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
948 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
949 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
950 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
951 arguments to a full call.
952 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
953 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
954 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
955 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
957 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
958 inserts a space where necessary.
959 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
960 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
961 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
962 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
963 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
964 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
965 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
966 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
967 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
968 counter now raises a meaningful error.
969 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
970 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
972 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
973 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
974 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
976 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
978 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
979 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
980 argument and negative second.
981 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
982 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
983 interval, containing 0.
984 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
986 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
987 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
989 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
990 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
991 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
992 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
993 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
994 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
995 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
996 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
997 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
998 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
999 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
1000 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
1001 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
1002 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
1003 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
1004 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
1005 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
1006 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
1007 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
1008 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
1009 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
1010 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1011 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
1012 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
1013 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
1014 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
1015 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
1016 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
1017 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
1019 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
1020 platform now returns the right answer.
1021 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
1022 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
1023 precomputation is now tunable.
1024 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
1025 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
1026 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
1027 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
1028 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
1029 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
1030 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
1031 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
1032 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
1033 has been added for the alpha.
1034 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
1035 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
1036 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
1037 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
1038 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
1039 MEMBER-types to numeric.
1040 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
1042 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
1043 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
1044 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
1046 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
1047 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1048 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
1049 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
1050 might be pseudo-atomic.
1051 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
1052 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
1054 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
1056 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
1058 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
1059 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
1060 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
1061 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
1062 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
1063 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
1065 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1066 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
1067 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
1068 small float arguments.
1069 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
1071 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
1072 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
1073 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
1074 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
1075 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
1076 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
1078 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
1080 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
1081 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
1082 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
1083 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
1084 with negative last argument.
1085 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
1086 an error during type derivation.
1087 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
1089 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
1090 generates a 32-bit binary.
1091 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1092 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
1093 data structures referred to above).
1095 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
1096 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
1097 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
1098 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
1099 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
1100 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
1101 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
1102 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
1103 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
1104 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1105 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
1106 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
1108 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
1109 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
1111 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
1112 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
1113 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
1114 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
1115 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
1116 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
1117 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
1118 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
1119 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
1120 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
1121 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
1122 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1123 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
1124 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
1125 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
1126 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
1127 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
1128 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1129 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
1130 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
1131 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
1132 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
1133 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1134 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
1135 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
1136 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
1137 optimization quality.
1138 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
1139 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
1140 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
1141 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
1142 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1143 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1144 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
1145 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
1146 types form a lattice under type intersection.
1147 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
1148 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
1149 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
1150 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
1151 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
1152 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
1153 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
1154 calling the generic function.
1155 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
1156 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
1157 obscure ANSI requirements
1159 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
1160 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
1161 garbage, confusing the compiler.
1162 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
1163 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
1164 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
1165 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
1166 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
1167 circumstances could go off-by-one.
1168 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
1170 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
1171 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
1172 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
1173 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
1174 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
1175 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
1176 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
1177 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
1178 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
1179 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1180 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
1181 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
1182 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1183 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
1184 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1185 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
1186 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
1187 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
1188 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
1189 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
1191 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
1192 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
1193 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
1194 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
1196 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
1197 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
1198 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
1199 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
1200 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
1201 provide helpful disassembly notes.
1202 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
1203 the class in more cases than previously.
1204 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
1205 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1206 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
1207 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1208 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
1209 without lambda list.
1210 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
1211 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
1212 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1213 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
1214 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
1215 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
1217 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
1218 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
1219 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
1221 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
1222 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
1223 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
1224 were silently accepted).
1225 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
1226 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
1227 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
1228 to warn on static type mismatches and function
1229 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
1230 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
1231 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
1232 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
1233 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
1234 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
1235 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
1236 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
1237 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
1238 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
1240 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
1241 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
1242 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
1243 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
1244 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
1245 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
1247 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
1248 keywords or constants is permissible.
1249 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
1250 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
1251 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1252 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
1253 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
1254 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
1255 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
1256 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
1258 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
1259 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1260 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
1261 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
1262 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1263 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
1264 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
1266 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
1268 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
1269 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
1270 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
1271 respectively change and preserve the value.
1272 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
1273 is now better at handling symbol macros.
1274 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
1275 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
1276 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
1277 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
1278 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
1279 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
1280 their use properly signals an error now.
1281 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
1282 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
1283 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
1284 * fixed simple vector readable printing
1285 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
1286 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
1287 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
1288 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
1289 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
1290 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
1291 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1292 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
1293 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1294 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
1295 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
1296 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1297 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
1298 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
1299 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
1300 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
1301 causes a type error.
1302 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
1303 association between the name and a class.
1304 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
1305 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
1306 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1307 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
1308 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
1309 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
1311 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
1312 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
1313 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
1314 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
1316 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
1317 which its argument is a member.
1318 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
1319 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
1320 otherwise, it creates a new class.
1321 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
1322 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
1323 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
1324 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
1325 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1326 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
1328 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
1329 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
1330 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
1331 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
1332 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
1333 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
1334 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
1336 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
1337 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
1338 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
1339 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
1340 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
1341 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
1342 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
1343 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
1344 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
1345 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
1346 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
1347 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
1348 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1349 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
1351 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
1352 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
1353 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
1354 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
1355 superclasses are applied.
1356 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1357 no method was removed.
1358 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
1359 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
1360 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
1361 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
1363 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
1365 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
1366 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
1367 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
1368 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
1369 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
1370 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
1371 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
1372 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
1373 function lambda list.
1374 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
1376 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
1377 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
1378 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
1379 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
1381 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
1382 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
1383 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
1384 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
1385 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
1386 they look for GNU "make".
1388 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
1389 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
1390 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
1391 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
1393 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
1394 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
1395 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
1396 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
1397 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
1398 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
1399 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
1400 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
1401 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
1402 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
1404 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
1405 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
1406 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
1407 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
1408 libraries, and will know who they are.
1409 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
1410 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
1411 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
1412 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
1413 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
1414 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
1415 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
1416 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
1418 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
1419 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
1420 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1421 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
1422 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
1423 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
1424 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
1425 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
1426 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
1427 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
1428 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1429 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
1431 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
1432 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
1433 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
1434 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
1435 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1436 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
1437 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
1438 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
1439 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
1441 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
1442 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
1443 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
1444 this you were probably losing anyway.
1445 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
1446 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
1447 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
1448 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
1449 with names from the CL package.
1450 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
1451 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
1452 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
1453 documentation string.
1454 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1455 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
1457 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
1458 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
1459 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
1460 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
1462 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
1463 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
1465 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
1466 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1467 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
1469 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
1470 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
1471 arguments contain duplicated elements.
1472 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
1473 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
1474 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
1475 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
1476 in question is unbound.
1477 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
1478 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
1479 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
1480 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
1481 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
1483 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
1485 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
1486 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
1487 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
1488 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
1489 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
1490 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
1491 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
1492 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
1493 by Antonio Martinez)
1494 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
1495 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1496 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
1497 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
1498 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
1499 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
1500 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
1501 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1502 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
1503 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
1504 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
1505 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
1506 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
1507 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
1508 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
1509 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
1510 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
1511 on malformed property lists;
1513 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
1514 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
1515 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
1516 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
1517 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
1518 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
1519 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
1520 modules in this release include:
1521 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
1522 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
1523 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
1524 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1525 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
1527 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
1528 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
1529 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1530 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1531 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
1532 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
1533 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
1534 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
1536 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
1537 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
1538 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
1539 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
1540 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
1541 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
1542 the lexical environment.
1543 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
1544 unprintable packages can now be defined.
1545 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
1546 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1547 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
1548 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1549 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
1550 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
1551 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
1552 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
1553 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
1554 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
1555 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
1556 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
1557 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1558 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
1559 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1560 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
1561 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
1562 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
1563 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1564 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
1565 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
1566 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
1567 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
1569 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
1570 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
1571 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1572 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1573 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
1574 not just nonnegative fixnums;
1575 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
1576 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
1577 freshly-consed result bit-array);
1578 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
1580 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
1581 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
1583 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
1584 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
1585 cases are accurately computed;
1586 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
1587 if it is in the last clause;
1588 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
1590 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
1591 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
1592 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
1593 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
1595 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
1596 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
1597 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
1598 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
1599 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
1601 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
1602 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
1603 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
1604 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
1606 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1607 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
1608 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
1609 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
1610 not cause a type error;
1611 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
1613 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
1614 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
1615 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
1616 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
1617 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
1618 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
1619 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
1620 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
1622 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
1623 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
1624 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
1625 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
1626 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
1627 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
1629 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
1630 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
1632 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
1633 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
1634 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
1635 only for symbols in the CL package.
1636 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
1637 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1638 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
1639 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
1640 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
1642 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1643 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
1644 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
1645 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
1646 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
1647 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
1648 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
1649 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
1650 conditional loop clause;
1651 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
1652 signals a type error iff it should.
1653 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1654 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
1655 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
1656 argument) no longer signals an error;
1657 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
1658 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
1659 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
1661 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
1662 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
1663 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
1665 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
1666 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
1667 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
1668 functionality on said platforms verified.
1669 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
1670 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
1672 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
1673 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
1674 component indicating that directory.
1675 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
1676 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
1677 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
1678 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
1679 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1680 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
1682 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
1683 primary methods with no specializers;
1684 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
1686 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
1687 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
1688 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
1689 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
1691 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
1692 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
1693 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
1695 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
1696 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
1697 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
1698 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
1699 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
1700 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
1701 class STANDARD-CLASS;
1702 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
1703 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1704 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
1705 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
1707 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
1708 value producing form;
1709 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
1710 variables are bound and made to have no value;
1711 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
1713 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
1714 is not a valid sequence index;
1715 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
1716 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
1717 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1718 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
1720 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
1721 symbol-macro places;
1722 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
1723 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
1725 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
1727 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
1729 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
1730 invariant when deleting code.
1731 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
1732 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
1734 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
1735 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1736 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
1738 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
1739 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
1741 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
1742 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
1743 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1744 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
1746 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
1747 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1748 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
1749 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
1751 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
1752 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
1753 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
1754 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
1755 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
1756 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
1757 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
1758 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
1759 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
1760 sbcl and .core files.)
1761 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
1762 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
1763 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
1764 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
1765 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
1766 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1767 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
1769 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
1770 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
1771 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
1772 argument precedence order.
1773 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
1774 derived types contradict their declared type.
1775 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
1776 so it can be non-toplevel.
1777 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
1778 implementation of DEFMACRO).
1779 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
1780 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
1781 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
1783 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
1784 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
1785 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
1786 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
1787 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
1788 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
1789 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
1790 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
1791 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
1792 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
1793 symbol macro only once
1794 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
1795 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
1796 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
1799 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
1800 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
1801 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
1802 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
1803 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
1804 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
1805 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
1806 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
1807 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
1808 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1809 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
1810 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
1812 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
1813 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
1814 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
1815 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
1816 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1817 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
1819 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
1821 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
1822 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
1823 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
1824 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
1825 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1826 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
1827 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
1828 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
1829 ways in different special cases
1830 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
1832 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
1833 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
1834 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
1835 are no longer optimized away.
1836 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
1837 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
1838 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
1839 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
1840 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
1841 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
1842 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
1843 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
1846 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
1847 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
1848 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
1849 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
1850 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
1851 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
1852 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
1854 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
1855 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
1856 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
1857 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
1858 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
1859 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
1860 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
1861 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
1862 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
1863 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
1864 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
1865 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
1866 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
1867 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
1868 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
1869 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
1870 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
1871 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1872 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
1873 that are names of constants or global variables.
1874 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
1875 alien routines with docstrings.
1876 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
1877 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
1879 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
1880 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1881 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
1882 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1883 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
1884 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1885 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
1886 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
1887 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
1888 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1889 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
1890 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
1891 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
1892 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
1893 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
1894 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
1895 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
1896 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
1897 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
1898 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
1899 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
1900 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
1901 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
1903 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
1904 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
1906 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
1907 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
1908 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
1909 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
1910 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
1911 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
1912 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
1913 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
1914 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
1915 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
1917 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
1918 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
1919 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
1920 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
1921 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
1922 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
1923 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
1924 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
1925 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
1926 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
1927 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
1928 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
1929 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
1930 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
1931 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
1932 is no longer a static symbol.)
1934 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
1935 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
1936 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
1937 bootstrapping under CLISP.
1938 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
1940 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
1941 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
1943 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
1944 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
1945 to David Lichteblau)
1946 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
1947 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
1948 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
1950 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
1951 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1952 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
1953 count as they should.
1954 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
1955 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1956 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
1957 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
1958 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
1959 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
1960 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
1961 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
1962 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
1963 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
1964 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
1965 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
1966 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
1967 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
1968 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
1970 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
1971 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
1972 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
1974 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
1976 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
1977 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
1978 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
1979 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
1980 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
1981 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
1982 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
1984 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
1985 to Christophe Rhodes)
1986 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
1987 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
1988 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
1989 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
1990 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
1991 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
1992 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
1994 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
1995 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
1996 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
1997 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
1998 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
1999 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2000 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
2001 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
2002 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
2003 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
2004 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
2005 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
2006 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
2008 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
2009 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
2010 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
2011 INFO database to support symbol macros.
2012 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
2013 (thanks to coreythomas)
2014 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
2015 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
2016 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
2017 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
2018 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
2020 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
2021 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
2022 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
2023 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
2024 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
2025 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
2026 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
2027 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
2028 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
2029 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2030 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
2031 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
2032 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
2034 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
2035 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
2038 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
2039 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
2040 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
2041 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
2042 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
2043 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
2044 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
2045 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
2046 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
2047 systems than the old 4M value was)
2048 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
2049 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
2050 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
2051 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
2052 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
2053 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
2054 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
2056 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
2057 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
2058 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
2059 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
2060 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
2062 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
2063 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
2064 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
2065 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
2066 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
2067 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
2068 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
2069 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
2071 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
2072 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2073 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
2074 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2075 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
2076 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
2077 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
2078 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
2080 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2081 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2082 * several changes related to debugging:
2083 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
2084 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
2085 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
2086 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
2087 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
2088 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
2089 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
2092 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
2094 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
2095 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
2096 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
2097 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
2098 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
2099 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
2100 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
2101 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
2103 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
2104 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
2105 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
2106 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2107 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
2108 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
2109 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
2110 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
2111 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
2112 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
2113 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
2114 file format number to change again.
2116 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
2117 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
2118 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
2119 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
2121 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
2122 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
2123 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
2124 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
2125 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
2126 FUNCALL on the result.
2127 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
2128 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
2129 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
2130 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
2131 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
2132 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
2133 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
2134 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
2136 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
2137 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
2138 the old compiler produced.
2139 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
2140 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
2141 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
2142 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
2143 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
2144 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
2145 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
2146 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
2147 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
2148 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
2149 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
2150 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
2151 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
2152 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
2153 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
2154 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
2155 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
2156 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
2157 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
2158 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
2159 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
2160 straightened out in some future version.)
2161 * minor incompatible changes:
2162 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
2163 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
2164 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
2165 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
2166 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
2167 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
2168 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
2169 implementation dependent:
2170 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
2171 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
2172 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
2173 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
2174 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
2175 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
2176 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
2177 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
2179 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
2181 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
2182 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
2183 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
2184 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
2185 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
2186 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
2187 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
2188 are no longer used for output.
2189 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
2190 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
2191 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
2192 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
2193 increasing it even more.)
2194 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
2195 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
2196 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
2198 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
2199 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
2200 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
2201 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
2202 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
2203 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
2204 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
2205 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
2206 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
2207 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
2208 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
2209 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
2210 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
2211 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
2212 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
2213 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
2214 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
2215 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
2216 compilation of code which calls such functions.
2217 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
2218 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
2219 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
2220 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
2221 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
2222 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
2223 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
2224 built into the system.
2225 * many other bug fixes
2226 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
2227 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
2228 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
2229 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
2230 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
2232 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
2233 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
2234 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
2235 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
2236 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
2237 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
2238 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
2239 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
2240 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
2241 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
2242 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
2244 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
2245 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
2246 and several other LOOP problems as well
2247 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
2248 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
2249 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
2250 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
2251 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
2252 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
2253 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
2254 *** a bug in APROPOS
2255 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
2256 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
2257 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
2258 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
2259 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
2260 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
2261 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
2262 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
2263 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
2264 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
2265 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
2266 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
2267 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
2268 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
2269 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
2271 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
2272 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
2273 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
2274 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
2275 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
2276 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
2277 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
2278 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
2279 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
2280 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
2281 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
2282 some of which are apparent above.
2284 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
2285 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
2286 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
2287 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
2288 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
2289 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
2290 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
2291 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
2292 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
2293 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
2294 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
2295 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
2296 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
2297 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
2298 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
2299 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
2300 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
2301 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
2302 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
2303 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
2304 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
2305 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
2306 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
2307 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
2308 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
2309 different return types.
2310 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
2311 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
2312 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
2313 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
2314 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
2315 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
2316 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
2317 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
2318 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
2319 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
2321 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
2322 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
2323 does the right thing.
2324 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
2325 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
2326 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2327 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
2328 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2329 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2330 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
2331 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
2332 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
2333 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
2334 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2335 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
2336 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2337 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
2338 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
2339 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
2340 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
2341 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
2342 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
2343 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
2344 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
2345 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
2346 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
2347 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
2348 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
2349 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
2350 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
2351 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
2352 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
2353 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
2354 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
2355 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
2356 since historically most system changes which required version
2357 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
2358 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
2361 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
2362 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
2363 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
2364 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
2365 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
2366 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
2367 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
2368 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
2369 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
2370 half a dozen others elsewhere
2371 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
2372 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
2373 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
2374 as flaky as they were.
2375 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
2376 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
2377 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
2378 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
2379 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
2380 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
2381 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
2382 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
2384 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
2385 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
2386 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
2387 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2388 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
2389 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
2390 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
2391 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
2392 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
2393 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
2394 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
2395 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
2396 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
2397 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
2398 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
2399 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
2400 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
2401 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
2402 more obscure bugs as well
2403 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
2404 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
2405 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
2406 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
2407 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
2408 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
2409 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
2410 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
2411 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
2412 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
2413 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
2415 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
2416 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
2418 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
2420 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2421 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
2422 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
2423 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
2424 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
2425 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
2426 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
2427 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
2428 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
2429 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
2430 are local in this sense.)
2431 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
2432 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
2433 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
2434 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
2435 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
2436 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
2437 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2438 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
2439 system's STREAM objects.
2440 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
2441 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2442 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
2443 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2444 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
2445 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
2446 environment from the original process instead of starting the
2447 new process in an empty environment.
2448 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
2449 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
2450 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
2451 for porting convenience.
2452 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
2453 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
2455 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
2457 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
2458 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
2459 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
2460 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
2461 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
2462 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
2463 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
2464 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
2465 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
2466 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
2467 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
2468 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2469 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
2470 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
2471 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
2472 many fewer weird special cases.
2473 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
2474 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
2475 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2476 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
2477 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
2478 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
2479 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
2480 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
2481 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
2482 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2483 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
2486 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
2488 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
2489 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
2490 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
2492 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
2493 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
2494 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
2495 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
2496 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
2497 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
2498 should be constructed the same way as before.
2499 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
2500 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
2501 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
2502 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
2503 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
2504 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
2505 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
2506 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
2507 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
2508 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
2509 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
2510 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
2511 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
2512 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
2513 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
2514 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
2515 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
2516 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
2517 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
2518 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
2519 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
2520 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
2522 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
2523 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
2524 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
2525 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
2526 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
2527 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
2528 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
2529 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
2531 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
2533 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
2534 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
2535 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
2536 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
2537 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
2539 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
2540 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
2541 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
2542 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
2543 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
2544 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
2545 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
2546 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
2547 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
2548 and Douglas Crosher.
2549 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
2550 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
2551 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
2553 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
2554 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
2555 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
2556 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
2557 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
2558 undefined function error.
2559 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
2560 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
2561 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
2562 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
2563 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
2564 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
2565 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
2566 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
2567 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
2568 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
2569 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
2570 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
2571 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
2573 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
2575 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
2576 CVS repository on my home machine).
2577 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
2578 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
2579 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
2580 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
2581 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
2582 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
2583 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
2584 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
2585 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
2586 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
2587 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
2588 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
2589 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
2590 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
2591 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
2592 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
2593 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
2594 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
2595 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
2596 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
2597 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
2598 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
2600 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
2601 FreeBSD have been added.
2602 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
2603 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
2604 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
2605 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
2606 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
2607 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
2609 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
2610 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
2611 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
2612 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
2613 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
2614 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
2615 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
2616 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
2618 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
2619 away by constant folding
2620 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
2621 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
2622 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
2623 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
2624 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
2625 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
2626 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
2627 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
2628 diff-related operations.
2629 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
2630 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
2632 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
2634 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
2635 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
2636 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
2637 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
2638 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
2639 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
2640 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
2641 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
2642 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
2643 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
2644 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
2645 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
2646 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
2647 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
2648 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
2649 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
2650 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
2651 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
2652 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
2653 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
2654 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
2655 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
2656 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
2657 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
2658 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
2659 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
2660 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
2661 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
2662 instead of (VALUES T T).
2663 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
2664 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
2665 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
2666 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
2667 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
2668 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
2669 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
2670 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
2671 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
2672 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
2673 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
2674 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
2675 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
2676 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
2677 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
2678 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
2679 type will be interpreted at runtime.
2680 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
2681 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
2682 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
2683 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
2684 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
2685 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
2686 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
2687 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
2688 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
2689 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
2690 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
2691 fasl files for cold load.
2692 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
2693 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
2694 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
2695 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
2696 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
2697 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
2698 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
2699 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
2700 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
2701 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
2702 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
2704 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
2705 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
2706 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
2707 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
2708 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
2709 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
2710 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
2711 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
2712 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
2713 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
2714 renamed some files to increase consistency.
2715 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
2716 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
2717 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
2718 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
2719 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
2720 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
2722 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
2724 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
2725 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
2726 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
2727 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
2728 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
2729 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
2730 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
2731 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
2732 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
2733 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
2734 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
2735 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
2736 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
2737 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
2738 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
2739 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
2740 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
2741 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
2743 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
2744 as required by ANSI.
2745 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
2746 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
2747 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
2748 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
2750 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
2751 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
2752 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
2753 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
2754 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
2755 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
2756 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
2757 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
2759 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
2760 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
2761 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
2762 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2764 is now basically equivalent to
2765 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2766 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
2768 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
2769 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
2770 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
2771 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
2772 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
2773 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
2774 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
2775 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
2776 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
2777 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
2778 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
2779 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
2780 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
2781 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
2782 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
2783 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2784 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
2785 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
2786 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
2787 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
2788 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
2789 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
2790 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
2792 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
2794 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
2795 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
2796 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
2797 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
2798 GNUMAKE environment variable.
2799 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
2800 can build without error under CMU CL.
2802 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
2804 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
2805 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
2806 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
2807 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
2808 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
2809 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
2810 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
2811 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
2812 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
2813 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
2814 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
2815 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
2816 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
2817 being initialized before the type system knew the final
2818 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
2819 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
2820 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
2821 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
2822 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
2823 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
2824 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
2825 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
2826 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
2827 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
2829 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
2830 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
2831 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
2832 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
2833 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
2834 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
2835 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
2836 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
2837 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
2838 it were currently supported.
2839 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
2840 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
2841 having to maintain patches.
2842 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
2843 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
2845 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
2847 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
2848 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
2849 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
2850 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
2851 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
2852 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
2853 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
2854 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
2855 * various new style warnings:
2856 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
2857 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
2858 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
2859 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
2860 as specified by ANSI.
2861 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
2862 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
2863 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
2864 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
2865 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
2866 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
2867 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
2868 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
2869 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
2870 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
2871 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
2872 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
2873 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
2874 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
2875 argument types can be determined at compile time.
2876 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
2877 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
2878 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
2879 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
2880 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
2881 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
2882 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
2885 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
2887 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
2888 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
2889 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
2890 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
2891 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
2892 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
2893 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
2894 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
2895 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
2897 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
2898 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
2899 the report form was printed.)
2900 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
2901 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
2902 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
2903 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
2904 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
2905 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
2906 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
2907 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
2908 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
2909 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
2910 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
2911 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
2912 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
2913 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
2914 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
2915 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
2916 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
2917 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
2918 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
2919 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
2920 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
2921 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
2922 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
2923 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
2924 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
2925 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
2926 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
2927 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
2928 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
2929 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
2930 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
2931 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
2932 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
2933 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
2934 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
2935 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
2936 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
2937 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
2938 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
2939 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
2940 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
2941 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
2942 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
2943 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
2944 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
2945 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
2946 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
2947 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
2948 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
2949 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
2950 know more about target types.
2951 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
2952 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
2953 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
2954 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
2955 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
2956 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
2958 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
2959 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
2960 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
2961 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
2962 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
2963 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
2964 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
2965 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
2966 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
2967 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
2968 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
2969 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
2970 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
2972 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
2975 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
2977 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
2978 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
2979 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
2980 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
2981 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
2982 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
2983 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
2984 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
2985 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
2986 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
2987 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
2988 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
2989 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
2990 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
2991 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
2992 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
2993 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
2994 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
2995 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
2996 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
2997 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
2998 invisible at the user level.)
2999 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
3000 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
3001 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
3003 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
3005 * tidied up "make.sh" script
3006 * tidied up system directory structure
3007 * better "clean.sh" behavior
3008 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
3009 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
3010 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
3011 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
3012 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
3013 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
3014 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
3015 * command line argument processing
3016 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
3017 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
3018 terminating SBCL on EOF
3019 * non-verbose GC by default
3020 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
3021 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
3022 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
3024 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
3025 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
3026 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
3027 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
3028 transformed along with everything else.
3029 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
3030 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
3031 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
3032 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
3033 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
3034 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
3035 debugging and testing purposes
3036 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
3037 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
3038 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
3039 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
3040 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
3041 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
3042 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
3044 * regularized formatting of source files
3045 * added an install.sh script
3046 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
3047 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
3048 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
3049 builds nicely on my old laptop.
3050 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
3051 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
3052 was not implemented)
3053 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
3054 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
3055 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
3056 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
3057 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
3059 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
3060 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
3061 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
3062 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
3063 COMPILE-FILE command)
3064 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
3065 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
3066 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
3067 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
3068 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
3069 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
3070 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
3071 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
3072 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
3073 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
3074 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
3075 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
3076 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
3077 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
3078 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
3080 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
3081 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
3082 known to be able to handle the current sources
3083 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
3084 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
3085 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
3086 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
3087 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
3088 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
3089 * removed host-oops.lisp
3090 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
3091 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
3092 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
3093 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
3094 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
3095 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by