1 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
2 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
3 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
4 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
5 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
6 use this feature in the meanwhile.
7 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
8 adjust thread default control stack size.
9 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
11 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
12 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
13 in normal SPEED policies.
14 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
15 in normal SPEED policies.
16 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
17 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
18 * bug fix: bogus errors when generating certain code sequences, due
19 to the compiler not accepting ANY-REG for primitive type T on x86
20 and x86-64. (reported by Stelian Ionescu.)
21 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
22 as the second argument.
23 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
24 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
25 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
27 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
28 platform word lengths.
29 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
30 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
31 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
34 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
35 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
36 signaling added in 1.0.14.
37 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
38 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
39 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
40 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
41 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
42 as well. (thanks to Tobian Ritterweiler)
43 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
44 on threaded platforms.
45 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
46 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
47 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
48 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
49 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
50 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
51 representation is available.
52 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
53 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
54 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
56 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
57 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
58 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
59 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
60 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
61 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
62 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
63 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
64 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
66 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
67 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
68 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
69 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
70 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
71 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
72 traces SETF-functions as well.
73 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
74 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
75 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
76 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
78 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
79 is now more efficient.
80 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
81 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
82 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
83 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
84 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
85 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
86 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
87 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
88 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
89 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
90 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
92 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
93 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
94 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
95 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
96 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
97 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
98 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
99 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
100 * improvements to the Windows port:
101 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
102 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
104 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
105 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
106 (see documentation for details.)
107 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
108 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
109 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
110 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
111 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
113 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
114 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
115 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
116 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
117 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
118 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
119 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
120 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
121 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
123 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
124 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
125 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
126 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
127 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
128 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
129 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
131 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
132 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
133 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
134 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
135 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
136 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
137 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
138 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
140 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
141 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
142 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
143 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
144 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
145 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
146 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
147 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
148 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
149 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
150 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
151 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
152 known at compile-time.
153 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
154 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
155 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
157 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
158 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
160 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
161 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
162 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
163 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
164 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
165 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
167 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
169 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
171 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
174 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
175 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
176 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
177 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
178 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
179 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
180 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
181 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
182 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
183 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
184 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
185 END is smaller then START.
186 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
187 calls to profiled functions.
188 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
189 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
190 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
191 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
192 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
193 hash-table usage have been fixed.
194 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
195 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
196 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
197 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
198 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
201 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
202 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
203 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
204 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
205 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
206 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
207 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
208 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
209 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
210 and will signal an error at runtime.
211 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
212 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
213 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
215 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
216 platforms providing stack allocation support.
217 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
218 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
220 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
221 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
222 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
223 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
224 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
225 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
227 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
228 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
230 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
232 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
233 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
234 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
235 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
236 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
237 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
238 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
239 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
240 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
241 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
242 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
243 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
244 a specializer parameter for the method.
245 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
246 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
247 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
248 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
249 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
251 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
252 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
254 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
255 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
256 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
257 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
258 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
259 the CAS operation was being performed.
260 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
261 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
262 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
263 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
266 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
267 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
268 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
269 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
271 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
272 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
273 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
274 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
275 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
276 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
277 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
278 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
279 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
280 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
281 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
282 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
283 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
284 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
285 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
287 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
288 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
289 the underlying file descriptor.
290 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
291 could cause buffer-overflows.
292 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
293 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
294 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
296 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
298 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
299 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
300 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
301 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
302 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
303 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
306 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
307 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
308 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
309 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
310 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
311 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
312 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
314 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
316 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
317 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
318 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
319 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
320 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
321 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
323 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
324 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
325 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
326 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
327 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
328 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
329 objects that can be seen by the GC.
330 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
331 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
332 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
334 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
335 as the property-list of a symbol.
336 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
337 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
338 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
341 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
342 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
343 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
344 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
345 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
346 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
347 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
348 debugging and introspective support.
349 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
350 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
351 has the owning thread as its value.
352 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
353 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
355 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
357 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
358 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
359 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
360 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
361 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
362 (depending on the bignum size.)
363 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
365 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
366 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
368 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
369 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
371 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
372 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
373 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
374 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
375 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
378 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
379 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
381 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
382 significantly faster.
383 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
384 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
385 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
386 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
387 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
388 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
389 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
390 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
391 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
392 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
393 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
395 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
397 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
398 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
399 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
400 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
401 that use the generational garbage collector
402 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
404 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
405 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
407 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
409 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
410 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
411 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
412 system running with GC inhibited.
413 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
414 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
415 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
416 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
417 (reported by Peter Graves)
419 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
420 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
421 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
423 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
424 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
425 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
426 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
427 documented as unsafe.
428 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
429 in multithreaded application code.
430 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
431 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
432 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
434 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
435 variants no longer cons.
436 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
437 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
438 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
439 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
440 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
441 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
442 are significantly faster.
443 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
444 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
445 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
446 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
447 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
448 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
449 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
450 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
451 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
452 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
453 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
455 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
456 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
457 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
458 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
459 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
460 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
461 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
462 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
463 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
464 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
465 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
466 line in a file is unlimited.
467 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
468 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
469 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
470 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
471 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
472 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
473 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
474 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
475 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
476 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
477 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
478 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
479 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
480 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
481 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
482 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
483 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
484 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
485 experimental until this is fixed.
486 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
487 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
488 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
489 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
490 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
492 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
493 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
494 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
495 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
496 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
497 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
499 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
500 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
501 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
502 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
503 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
504 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
505 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
506 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
507 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
509 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
510 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
511 (reported by Andras Simon)
512 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
513 bugs remain on x86-64.)
514 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
515 funcallable instances.
516 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
517 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
519 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
520 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
521 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
522 non-base strings as arguments
523 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
525 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
526 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
528 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
529 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
530 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
531 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
532 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
533 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
534 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
535 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
536 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
538 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
539 (thanks to Jon Buller)
540 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
541 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
544 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
545 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
546 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
548 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
549 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
550 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
551 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
552 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
554 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
555 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
556 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
557 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
558 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
559 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
560 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
561 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
562 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
563 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
564 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
565 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
566 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
567 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
568 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
569 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
570 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
571 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
572 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
573 stack frames from alien callbacks.
574 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
575 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
576 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
577 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
579 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
580 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
581 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
582 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
583 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
584 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
585 sb-introspect contrib.
586 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
587 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
588 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
589 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
590 users and the general community)
591 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
592 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
593 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
594 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
595 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
596 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
597 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
598 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
599 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
600 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
601 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
602 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
603 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
604 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
605 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
606 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
608 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
609 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
610 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
611 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
612 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
613 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
614 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
616 * improvements to the Windows port:
617 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
618 to Alastair Bridgewater)
619 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
621 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
622 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
624 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
625 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
626 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
627 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
628 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
629 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
630 core, and restored on startup.
631 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
632 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
633 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
634 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
635 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
636 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
637 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
639 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
640 (thanks to Zach Beane)
641 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
643 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
644 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
645 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
647 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
648 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
649 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
650 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
651 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
652 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
654 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
655 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
656 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
657 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
658 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
659 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
660 (reported by Josip Gracin)
661 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
662 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
663 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
664 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
665 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
666 and don't cause extra consing
667 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
668 whose elements types have been declared.
669 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
670 ** Support for allocation profiling
671 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
672 * Improvements to the Windows port:
673 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
674 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
675 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
676 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
678 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
679 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
680 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
681 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
682 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
684 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
685 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
686 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
688 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
689 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
690 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
691 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
692 with non-variable places
693 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
694 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
695 code more stable against memory faults.
696 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
697 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
698 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
699 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
702 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
703 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
704 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
705 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
706 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
707 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
708 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
709 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
710 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
711 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
712 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
713 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
714 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
716 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
717 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
718 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
719 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
720 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
721 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
722 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
724 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
725 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
727 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
728 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
729 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
730 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
731 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
732 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
733 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
734 to the single-stepper REPL.
735 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
736 for a type now works.
737 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
739 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
740 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
741 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
742 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
743 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
744 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
745 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
746 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
748 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
749 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
750 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
751 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
752 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
753 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
754 whose bindings are modified
755 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
756 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
757 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
758 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
760 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
761 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
762 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
763 as specified by AMOP.
764 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
766 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
767 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
768 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
769 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
770 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
771 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
772 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
773 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
774 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
775 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
776 better type inference.
777 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
778 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
779 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
780 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
781 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
782 (reported by Bruno Haible)
783 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
784 initialization of methods can now be used to override
785 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
787 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
788 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
789 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
790 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
791 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
793 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
794 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
795 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
796 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
797 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
798 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
799 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
800 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
801 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
802 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
803 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
804 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
805 (reported by James Y Knight).
806 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
807 argument for shadowing by local functions.
808 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
810 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
811 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
813 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
815 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
816 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
817 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
819 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
820 * thread-safety improvements:
821 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
822 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
823 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
825 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
826 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
828 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
829 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
830 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
832 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
833 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
834 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
835 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
836 class became finalizeable.
837 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
838 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
839 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
840 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
842 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
843 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
844 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
845 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
846 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
847 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
848 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
849 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
850 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
851 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
852 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
853 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
854 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
855 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
856 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
857 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
858 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
859 * minor code generation optimizations:
860 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
861 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
862 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
863 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
864 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
865 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
866 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
869 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
870 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
872 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
874 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
875 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
876 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
877 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
878 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
879 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
880 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
881 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
882 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
883 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
884 the low-level debugger.
885 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
886 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
887 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
888 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
890 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
891 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
892 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
894 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
895 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
896 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
897 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
898 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
899 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
900 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
901 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
902 (reported by James Y Knight)
903 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
904 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
905 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
906 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
907 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
908 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
909 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
910 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
911 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
912 workaround for bug 403.)
913 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
914 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
915 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
916 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
918 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
919 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
920 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
922 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
923 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
924 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
925 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
926 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
928 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
930 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
931 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
932 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
935 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
936 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
937 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
938 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
939 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
940 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
941 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
942 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
943 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
944 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
945 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
946 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
947 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
948 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
949 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
950 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
951 documentation on package locks for details.
952 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
954 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
955 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
956 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
957 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
958 immediately available from the stream
959 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
960 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
961 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
962 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
964 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
965 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
966 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
968 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
969 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
970 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
972 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
973 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
974 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
975 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
977 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
978 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
979 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
980 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
981 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
982 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
983 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
984 ** sb-grovel supported
985 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
986 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
987 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
988 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
989 ** floating-point exception handling support
990 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
991 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
992 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
993 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
994 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
996 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
998 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
999 defaults for optional parameters.
1000 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
1001 function, which is already optimized.
1003 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
1004 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
1005 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
1006 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
1007 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
1008 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
1009 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
1010 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
1011 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
1012 this change is to make it easier to distribute
1013 location-independent binaries.
1014 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
1015 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
1017 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
1018 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
1019 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
1020 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
1021 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
1022 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
1023 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
1024 Alastair Bridgewater)
1025 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
1026 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
1027 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1028 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
1029 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
1030 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
1031 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
1032 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
1033 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
1034 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
1035 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
1036 (thanks to James Knight)
1037 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
1038 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
1040 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
1041 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
1042 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
1043 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
1044 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
1045 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
1046 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
1047 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
1048 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
1049 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
1050 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
1051 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
1052 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
1053 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
1054 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
1055 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
1056 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
1057 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
1058 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
1059 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
1060 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
1062 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
1063 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
1064 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
1065 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1066 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
1067 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
1069 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
1070 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
1071 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
1072 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
1073 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
1074 many others over the years)
1075 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
1076 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
1077 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
1079 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
1080 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
1081 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1082 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
1083 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
1084 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
1086 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
1088 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
1089 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
1090 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
1091 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
1092 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
1093 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
1094 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
1095 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
1096 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
1097 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
1098 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
1099 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1100 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
1101 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1103 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
1104 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
1105 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
1106 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
1107 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
1108 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
1109 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
1110 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
1111 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
1112 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1113 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
1114 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
1115 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
1116 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
1117 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
1118 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
1119 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
1120 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1121 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
1122 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
1124 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
1125 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1126 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
1127 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
1128 index variables in LOOP
1129 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
1130 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1131 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
1132 that don't have a docstring
1134 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
1135 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
1136 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
1137 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
1138 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
1139 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
1140 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
1141 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
1142 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
1143 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
1144 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
1145 Costanza's "Closer" project)
1146 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
1147 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
1149 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
1150 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
1151 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
1152 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
1153 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
1154 and Pascal Costanza)
1155 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
1156 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
1157 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
1158 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
1159 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1160 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
1161 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
1162 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
1163 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1164 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
1165 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1166 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
1167 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1168 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
1169 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1170 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
1171 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
1172 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
1173 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
1175 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
1176 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1177 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
1178 floating point index variable or a negative step.
1180 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
1181 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
1182 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
1183 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
1184 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
1185 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1186 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
1187 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
1188 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
1189 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1190 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1191 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
1192 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
1193 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
1194 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1195 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
1196 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
1197 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
1198 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
1199 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
1200 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
1201 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1202 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
1203 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1204 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
1205 and dump core on SIGQUIT
1207 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
1208 from their parents (see manual)
1209 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
1210 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
1211 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
1212 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
1213 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
1214 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
1216 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1217 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
1218 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
1219 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
1221 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
1222 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
1223 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
1225 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
1226 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
1227 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
1228 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
1229 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
1230 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
1231 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
1232 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
1233 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
1234 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
1235 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
1236 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
1237 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
1238 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
1240 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
1241 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
1242 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
1244 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
1245 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
1247 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
1248 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1249 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
1250 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
1251 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
1252 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
1253 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
1254 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
1255 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
1257 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
1258 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
1259 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
1260 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
1261 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
1262 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
1264 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
1266 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
1267 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
1268 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
1269 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
1270 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
1271 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
1272 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
1273 classes; see the manual for more details;
1274 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
1275 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
1276 requested slot ordering.
1278 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
1280 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
1281 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
1283 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
1285 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
1286 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
1287 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
1288 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
1289 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1290 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
1291 the :method-class keyword argument.
1293 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
1294 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
1295 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
1296 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1297 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
1298 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1299 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
1300 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1301 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
1302 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
1303 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
1305 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
1306 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
1307 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
1308 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
1309 is switched on or off
1310 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
1311 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
1312 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
1314 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
1315 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1316 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
1317 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
1318 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1319 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
1320 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
1321 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
1322 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
1324 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
1325 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
1326 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
1327 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
1328 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
1329 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
1330 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
1332 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
1333 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
1334 not prevent gc from running
1335 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
1336 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
1337 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
1338 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
1339 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
1340 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
1341 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
1342 an inline 32-bit rotation.
1344 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
1345 there is only one thread in the session
1346 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
1347 written to in another
1348 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
1349 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
1351 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
1352 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
1354 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
1355 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1356 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
1357 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
1358 the orignal arguments.
1359 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
1361 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
1362 name a compiled function.
1363 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
1364 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
1365 derivation were fixed.
1366 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
1367 list-form FUNCTION type.
1368 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
1369 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
1370 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
1372 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
1373 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
1374 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
1375 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
1376 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
1377 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
1379 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
1380 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
1381 of a select system call
1382 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
1384 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
1385 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
1387 * various error reporting improvements.
1388 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
1389 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1390 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
1391 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
1392 code and foreign data with the same name.
1394 ** added x86-64 support
1395 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
1396 objects instead of thread ids
1397 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
1398 starting up or going down
1399 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
1400 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
1401 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
1402 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
1403 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
1404 an inappropriate moment
1405 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
1406 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
1407 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
1408 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1409 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
1410 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
1411 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
1413 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
1414 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
1415 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
1416 range before calling Unix time functions
1418 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
1419 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
1420 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1421 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
1422 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
1423 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
1424 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1425 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
1426 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
1427 for more information.
1428 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
1429 pathname is a directory pathname.
1430 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
1431 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
1433 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
1434 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
1435 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
1436 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
1437 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
1438 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
1440 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
1441 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
1442 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
1443 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
1444 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
1445 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
1446 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1447 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
1448 the PowerPC platform.
1449 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
1450 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
1452 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
1453 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
1454 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
1455 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
1456 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
1457 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1459 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
1460 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
1461 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
1462 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
1463 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
1464 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1465 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
1466 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
1467 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
1468 as the name of a type, or vice versa
1469 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
1470 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
1471 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
1472 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
1473 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
1474 FLET or MACROLET forms
1475 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
1477 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
1479 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
1482 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
1483 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
1484 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
1485 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
1486 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
1487 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
1488 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
1489 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
1490 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
1491 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
1492 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
1493 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
1494 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
1495 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
1496 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
1497 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1498 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
1499 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1500 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
1501 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
1502 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
1503 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
1505 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1506 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
1507 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
1508 a file has the stream as its datum.
1509 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
1510 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
1511 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
1512 a correct expected type
1513 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
1514 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
1515 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
1516 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
1517 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
1518 on broadcast streams.
1520 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
1521 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
1522 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
1523 --disable-debugger option instead.
1524 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
1526 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
1527 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
1528 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
1529 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
1530 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
1531 has been added to the manual.
1532 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
1533 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
1534 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
1535 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
1536 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1537 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
1538 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
1539 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
1540 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
1541 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
1543 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
1544 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
1545 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
1546 (reported by Rajat Datta).
1547 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1548 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1550 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1551 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1552 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1553 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1554 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1555 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1556 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1557 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1558 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1559 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1560 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1561 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1562 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1563 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1564 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1565 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1566 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1567 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1568 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1570 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1572 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1573 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1574 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1575 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1576 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1578 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1579 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1580 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1581 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1582 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1583 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1584 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1586 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1587 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1588 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1590 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1591 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
1592 types for complex arguments better.
1593 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
1595 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
1596 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
1598 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
1599 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
1600 resulting in GC crashes.
1601 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
1603 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
1606 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
1607 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
1608 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
1609 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
1610 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
1611 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
1612 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
1613 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
1614 returning to the top level.
1615 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
1616 global optimization policy.
1617 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
1618 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
1619 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
1621 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
1622 various incompatible changes.
1623 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
1624 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
1625 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
1626 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
1627 level local call to FOO".
1628 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
1629 now have more legible printed representation
1630 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
1631 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
1632 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
1633 explicitly requested.
1634 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1635 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1636 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1637 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1638 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1640 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1641 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1642 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1643 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1644 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1645 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1646 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1647 the specializer is now possible.
1648 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1649 face of package deletion.
1650 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1651 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1652 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1653 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1654 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1655 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1656 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1657 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1658 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1659 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1661 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1662 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1663 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1664 correctable errors to be signalled.
1665 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1666 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
1669 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
1670 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1671 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
1673 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
1674 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1675 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
1676 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
1677 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
1678 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
1679 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
1680 related to the ~@F format directive.
1681 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
1683 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
1684 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
1685 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
1686 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
1688 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
1690 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
1691 coerce function designators to functions.
1692 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
1693 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
1694 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
1695 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
1696 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
1697 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
1698 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1699 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
1700 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
1701 start of the buffer at the next read.
1702 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
1703 passing it through to OPEN.
1704 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1705 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
1706 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
1707 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
1708 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
1709 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1710 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
1711 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
1713 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
1714 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1715 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1716 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
1717 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1718 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
1720 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1721 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
1722 secondary constituent character trait.
1723 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
1725 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
1727 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
1728 works more reliably.
1729 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
1730 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
1731 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
1733 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
1734 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
1736 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
1737 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
1738 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
1739 and reloading shared object files.
1740 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1741 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
1743 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
1744 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
1745 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
1747 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
1748 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
1750 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
1752 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
1753 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
1754 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
1755 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1756 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
1757 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
1758 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
1760 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
1761 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
1763 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
1764 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
1765 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
1766 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
1767 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
1769 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
1770 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
1771 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1772 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
1773 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
1774 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1775 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
1776 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1777 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
1778 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
1779 lisp characters are not eight bits.
1780 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1781 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
1782 the correct number of arguments.
1783 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
1784 to displaced strings.
1785 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
1786 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
1788 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
1789 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
1790 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
1791 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
1792 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
1793 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
1794 available at runtime.
1795 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
1796 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
1797 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
1798 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1799 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
1800 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
1801 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
1802 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
1803 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
1804 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
1805 of lambda-list keywords.
1806 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
1807 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
1809 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
1810 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
1811 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1812 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
1813 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
1814 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
1815 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
1817 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
1818 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1819 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
1820 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
1821 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
1823 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1824 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
1825 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1826 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
1827 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
1828 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1829 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
1831 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
1832 parameters correctly.
1833 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
1834 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
1835 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
1837 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
1840 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
1841 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
1842 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
1843 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
1845 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
1846 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
1847 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
1848 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
1849 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
1850 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
1851 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
1852 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1853 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
1855 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
1856 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1858 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
1860 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
1861 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
1862 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1863 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
1865 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
1866 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1867 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
1868 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
1869 (reported by David Morse)
1870 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
1871 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1872 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
1873 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1874 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
1875 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1876 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
1877 now exists, an signals an error.
1878 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
1879 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
1880 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1881 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
1882 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1883 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
1884 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
1885 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1886 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
1887 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1888 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
1889 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
1891 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
1892 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
1893 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
1894 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
1895 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1896 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
1897 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
1898 specialized array element types.
1899 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
1900 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1901 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
1902 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1903 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
1904 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
1905 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
1906 Wragg for the simple test case)
1907 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1908 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
1910 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
1911 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
1912 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
1913 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
1914 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
1916 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
1918 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
1919 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
1920 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
1921 references to global functions.
1922 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
1924 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
1926 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
1927 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1928 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
1929 supported platforms.
1930 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
1931 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
1932 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1933 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
1934 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
1935 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1936 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
1937 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1938 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
1939 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
1940 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
1941 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
1942 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
1944 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
1945 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1946 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
1947 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
1948 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
1949 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
1951 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
1952 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
1954 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
1955 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
1956 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
1957 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1958 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
1959 returns the right answer.
1960 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
1962 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
1964 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
1965 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
1967 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
1968 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
1970 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
1971 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
1972 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
1973 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
1974 the supported interface.
1975 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
1976 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
1977 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1978 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
1979 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
1980 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
1981 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
1982 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1983 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
1984 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
1985 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
1986 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
1987 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1988 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
1989 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
1990 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
1991 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
1992 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
1993 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
1994 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
1995 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
1996 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
1997 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
1998 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
1999 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
2000 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
2001 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2002 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
2003 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
2005 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
2006 * incompatible change: the internal functions
2007 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
2008 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
2009 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
2010 instead of the old functions.
2011 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
2012 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
2014 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
2015 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
2017 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
2018 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
2019 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
2020 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
2022 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
2023 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2024 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
2025 (reported by Rick Taube)
2026 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
2027 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
2028 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
2029 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
2031 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
2032 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
2033 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
2034 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
2035 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
2036 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
2037 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
2038 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
2039 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
2040 represented relative to default pathnames.
2041 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
2042 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
2043 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
2045 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
2046 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
2047 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
2049 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2050 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
2051 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
2052 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
2054 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
2056 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
2057 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
2058 conditional newlines.
2059 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
2060 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
2061 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
2063 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
2064 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
2066 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
2067 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
2068 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
2069 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
2070 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
2071 compiled in unconditionally.
2072 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
2073 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
2074 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
2075 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
2076 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
2078 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
2079 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
2080 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
2081 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
2082 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
2083 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
2084 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
2085 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
2086 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
2087 an implementation-internal package.
2088 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
2090 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
2091 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
2092 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
2093 bodies are now more legible.
2094 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
2095 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
2096 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
2097 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
2098 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2099 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
2100 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
2102 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
2103 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
2104 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
2105 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
2106 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
2107 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
2108 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
2109 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
2110 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
2111 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
2113 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
2114 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
2115 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
2116 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
2117 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
2118 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
2119 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
2120 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
2121 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
2122 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
2123 system even when most of them are idle
2124 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
2125 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2126 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
2128 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
2129 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
2130 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
2131 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
2132 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
2134 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
2135 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
2136 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
2137 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
2138 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
2139 string for information on the protocol.
2140 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
2141 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
2143 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
2144 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
2146 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
2147 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
2148 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
2149 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
2150 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
2151 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
2153 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
2154 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
2156 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
2157 move between its address being taken and the call to
2158 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
2159 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
2160 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
2161 instances corresponding to C structs.
2163 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
2164 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
2165 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
2166 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
2167 has implications for memory management of client code
2168 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
2169 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
2170 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
2171 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
2172 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
2173 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
2174 quality should be considered deprecated.
2175 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
2176 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
2177 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
2178 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
2179 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
2181 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
2182 designator as the defaults argument.
2183 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
2184 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
2185 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2186 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
2187 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
2189 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
2191 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
2192 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2193 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
2194 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
2195 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2196 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
2198 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
2199 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2200 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
2201 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
2202 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
2203 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
2204 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2205 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
2206 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
2207 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
2208 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
2209 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2210 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
2211 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
2212 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
2213 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
2214 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
2216 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
2217 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
2218 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
2220 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
2221 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2222 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
2223 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
2224 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
2225 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
2226 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2227 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
2228 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
2230 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
2231 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
2233 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
2234 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
2236 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
2237 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2238 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
2239 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
2241 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
2242 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
2243 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2244 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
2245 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
2246 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
2247 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
2248 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
2250 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
2251 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
2252 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
2254 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
2255 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
2257 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2258 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
2260 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
2261 from local to shared slots.
2262 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
2263 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
2264 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
2265 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
2267 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
2268 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
2269 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
2270 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
2271 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
2272 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
2273 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
2274 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
2275 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
2277 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
2279 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
2281 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
2282 print using #P"..." syntax.
2284 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
2285 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
2286 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
2287 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
2288 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
2289 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
2290 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
2291 * [placeholder for DX summary]
2292 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
2293 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
2294 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
2295 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
2296 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
2297 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
2298 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
2299 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
2300 the test case to Dave Roberts)
2301 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
2302 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
2303 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
2304 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2305 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
2306 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
2307 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
2308 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2309 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
2310 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
2311 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
2312 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
2313 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2314 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
2315 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
2318 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
2319 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
2320 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
2321 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
2322 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
2323 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
2324 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
2325 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
2326 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
2327 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2328 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
2329 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
2330 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
2332 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
2333 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
2335 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
2336 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
2337 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2338 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
2339 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2340 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
2342 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
2343 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
2344 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
2346 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
2348 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
2350 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
2351 their output stream on EOF from read.
2352 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
2353 have been read to end-of-file.
2354 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
2356 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
2357 description of determination of which consecutive characters
2359 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
2360 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
2361 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2362 less than 10 works correctly.
2363 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2364 more than 10 works correctly.
2365 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
2366 the readtable currently in effect.
2368 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
2369 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
2370 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
2371 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
2372 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
2373 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
2374 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
2375 should usually be replaced by
2376 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
2377 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
2378 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
2379 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
2380 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
2381 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
2382 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
2383 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
2385 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
2386 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
2387 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2388 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
2389 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
2390 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2391 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
2392 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
2393 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
2394 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
2395 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
2396 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
2397 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
2399 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
2400 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
2401 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
2402 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2403 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
2404 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
2405 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
2406 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2407 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
2408 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
2409 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
2410 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
2411 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
2412 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
2413 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2414 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
2415 non-local entry points.
2416 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
2418 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2419 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
2421 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
2422 host is already defined.
2423 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
2425 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
2426 or not a character is whitespace.
2427 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
2428 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
2429 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
2431 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
2432 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
2434 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
2436 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
2437 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
2438 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
2439 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
2440 designator argument does not designate a stream.
2441 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
2442 examining the synonym.
2443 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
2445 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
2446 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
2448 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
2449 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
2450 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
2451 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
2452 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
2453 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
2454 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
2455 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
2456 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
2457 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2458 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
2459 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
2461 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
2462 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
2463 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2464 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
2465 stream position information.
2466 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
2467 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
2468 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
2469 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
2470 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2471 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
2473 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
2474 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
2476 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2477 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2478 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
2479 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
2480 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
2481 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
2482 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
2484 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
2486 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
2487 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
2488 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
2489 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
2490 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
2491 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
2492 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
2493 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
2494 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
2495 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
2496 the "SYS" logical host.
2497 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
2498 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
2499 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
2500 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2501 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
2502 now each have their own history, command character, and other
2503 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2504 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2505 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
2507 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
2508 shift greater than 32.
2509 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
2510 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
2511 in some circumstances.
2513 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
2514 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
2515 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
2516 environments like SLIME.
2517 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
2518 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
2519 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
2520 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
2521 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
2522 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
2523 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
2524 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
2525 argument types for all arguments.
2526 * various threading fixes
2527 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
2528 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
2529 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
2530 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
2532 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
2533 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
2534 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
2535 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
2536 arguments to a full call.
2537 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
2538 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
2539 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
2540 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
2542 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
2543 inserts a space where necessary.
2544 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
2545 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
2546 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
2547 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2548 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2549 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2550 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2551 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2552 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2553 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2554 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2555 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2557 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2558 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2559 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2561 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2563 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2564 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2565 argument and negative second.
2566 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2567 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2568 interval, containing 0.
2569 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2571 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2572 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2574 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2575 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2576 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2577 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2578 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2579 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2580 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2581 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2582 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2583 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2584 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2585 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2586 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2587 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2588 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2589 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2590 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2591 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
2592 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
2593 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
2594 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
2595 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2596 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
2597 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
2598 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
2599 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
2600 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
2601 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
2602 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
2604 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
2605 platform now returns the right answer.
2606 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
2607 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
2608 precomputation is now tunable.
2609 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
2610 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
2611 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
2612 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
2613 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
2614 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
2615 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
2616 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
2617 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
2618 has been added for the alpha.
2619 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
2620 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
2621 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
2622 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
2623 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
2624 MEMBER-types to numeric.
2625 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
2627 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
2628 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
2629 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
2631 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
2632 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2633 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
2634 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2635 might be pseudo-atomic.
2636 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2637 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2639 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2641 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2643 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2644 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2645 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2646 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2647 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2648 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2650 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2651 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2652 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2653 small float arguments.
2654 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2656 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2657 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2658 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2659 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2660 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2661 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2663 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2665 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2666 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
2667 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
2668 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
2669 with negative last argument.
2670 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
2671 an error during type derivation.
2672 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
2674 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
2675 generates a 32-bit binary.
2676 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2677 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
2678 data structures referred to above).
2680 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
2681 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
2682 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
2683 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
2684 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
2685 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
2686 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
2687 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
2688 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
2689 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2690 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
2691 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
2693 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
2694 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
2696 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
2697 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
2698 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
2699 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
2700 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
2701 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
2702 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
2703 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
2704 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
2705 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
2706 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
2707 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2708 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
2709 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
2710 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
2711 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
2712 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
2713 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2714 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
2715 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
2716 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
2717 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
2718 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2719 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
2720 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
2721 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
2722 optimization quality.
2723 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
2724 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
2725 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
2726 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
2727 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2728 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2729 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
2730 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
2731 types form a lattice under type intersection.
2732 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
2733 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
2734 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
2735 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
2736 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
2737 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
2738 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
2739 calling the generic function.
2740 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
2741 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
2742 obscure ANSI requirements
2744 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
2745 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
2746 garbage, confusing the compiler.
2747 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
2748 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
2749 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
2750 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
2751 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
2752 circumstances could go off-by-one.
2753 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
2755 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
2756 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
2757 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
2758 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
2759 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
2760 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
2761 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
2762 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
2763 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
2764 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2765 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
2766 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
2767 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2768 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
2769 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2770 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
2771 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
2772 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
2773 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
2774 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
2776 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
2777 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
2778 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
2779 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
2781 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
2782 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
2783 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
2784 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
2785 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
2786 provide helpful disassembly notes.
2787 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
2788 the class in more cases than previously.
2789 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
2790 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2791 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
2792 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2793 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
2794 without lambda list.
2795 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
2796 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
2797 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2798 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
2799 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
2800 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
2802 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
2803 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
2804 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
2806 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
2807 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
2808 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
2809 were silently accepted).
2810 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
2811 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
2812 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
2813 to warn on static type mismatches and function
2814 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
2815 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
2816 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
2817 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
2818 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
2819 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
2820 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
2821 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
2822 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
2823 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
2825 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
2826 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
2827 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
2828 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
2829 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
2830 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
2832 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
2833 keywords or constants is permissible.
2834 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
2835 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
2836 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2837 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
2838 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
2839 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
2840 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
2841 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
2843 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
2844 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2845 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
2846 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
2847 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2848 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
2849 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
2851 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
2853 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
2854 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
2855 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
2856 respectively change and preserve the value.
2857 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
2858 is now better at handling symbol macros.
2859 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
2860 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
2861 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
2862 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
2863 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
2864 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
2865 their use properly signals an error now.
2866 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
2867 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
2868 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
2869 * fixed simple vector readable printing
2870 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
2871 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
2872 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
2873 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
2874 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
2875 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
2876 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2877 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
2878 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2879 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
2880 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
2881 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2882 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
2883 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
2884 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
2885 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
2886 causes a type error.
2887 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
2888 association between the name and a class.
2889 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
2890 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
2891 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2892 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
2893 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
2894 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
2896 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
2897 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
2898 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
2899 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
2901 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
2902 which its argument is a member.
2903 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
2904 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
2905 otherwise, it creates a new class.
2906 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
2907 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
2908 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
2909 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
2910 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2911 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
2913 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
2914 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
2915 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
2916 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
2917 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
2918 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
2919 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
2921 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
2922 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
2923 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
2924 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
2925 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
2926 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
2927 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
2928 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
2929 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
2930 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
2931 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
2932 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
2933 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2934 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
2936 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
2937 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
2938 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
2939 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
2940 superclasses are applied.
2941 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2942 no method was removed.
2943 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
2944 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
2945 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
2946 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
2948 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
2950 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
2951 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
2952 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
2953 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
2954 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
2955 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
2956 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
2957 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
2958 function lambda list.
2959 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
2961 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
2962 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
2963 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
2964 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
2966 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
2967 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
2968 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
2969 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
2970 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
2971 they look for GNU "make".
2973 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
2974 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
2975 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
2976 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
2978 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
2979 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
2980 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
2981 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
2982 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
2983 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
2984 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
2985 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
2986 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
2987 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
2989 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
2990 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
2991 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
2992 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
2993 libraries, and will know who they are.
2994 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
2995 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
2996 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
2997 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
2998 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
2999 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
3000 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
3001 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
3003 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
3004 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
3005 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
3006 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
3007 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
3008 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
3009 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
3010 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
3011 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
3012 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
3013 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3014 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
3016 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
3017 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
3018 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
3019 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
3020 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
3021 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
3022 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
3023 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
3024 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
3026 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
3027 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
3028 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
3029 this you were probably losing anyway.
3030 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
3031 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
3032 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
3033 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
3034 with names from the CL package.
3035 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
3036 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
3037 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
3038 documentation string.
3039 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3040 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
3042 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
3043 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
3044 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
3045 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
3047 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
3048 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
3050 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
3051 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3052 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
3054 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
3055 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
3056 arguments contain duplicated elements.
3057 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
3058 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
3059 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
3060 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
3061 in question is unbound.
3062 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
3063 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
3064 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
3065 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
3066 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
3068 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
3070 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
3071 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
3072 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
3073 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
3074 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
3075 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
3076 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
3077 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
3078 by Antonio Martinez)
3079 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
3080 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3081 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
3082 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
3083 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
3084 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
3085 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
3086 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3087 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
3088 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
3089 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
3090 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
3091 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
3092 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
3093 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
3094 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
3095 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
3096 on malformed property lists;
3098 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
3099 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
3100 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
3101 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
3102 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
3103 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
3104 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
3105 modules in this release include:
3106 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
3107 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
3108 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
3109 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
3110 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
3112 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
3113 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
3114 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3115 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
3116 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
3117 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
3118 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
3119 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
3121 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
3122 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
3123 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
3124 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
3125 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
3126 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
3127 the lexical environment.
3128 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
3129 unprintable packages can now be defined.
3130 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
3131 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3132 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
3133 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3134 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
3135 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
3136 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
3137 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
3138 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
3139 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
3140 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
3141 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
3142 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3143 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
3144 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3145 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
3146 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
3147 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
3148 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
3149 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
3150 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
3151 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
3152 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
3154 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
3155 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
3156 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3157 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3158 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
3159 not just nonnegative fixnums;
3160 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
3161 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
3162 freshly-consed result bit-array);
3163 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
3165 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
3166 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
3168 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
3169 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
3170 cases are accurately computed;
3171 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
3172 if it is in the last clause;
3173 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
3175 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
3176 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
3177 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
3178 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
3180 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
3181 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
3182 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
3183 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
3184 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
3186 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
3187 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
3188 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
3189 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
3191 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3192 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
3193 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
3194 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
3195 not cause a type error;
3196 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
3198 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
3199 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
3200 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
3201 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
3202 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
3203 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
3204 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
3205 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
3207 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
3208 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
3209 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
3210 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
3211 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
3212 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
3214 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
3215 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
3217 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
3218 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
3219 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
3220 only for symbols in the CL package.
3221 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
3222 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3223 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
3224 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
3225 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
3227 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3228 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
3229 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
3230 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
3231 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
3232 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
3233 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
3234 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
3235 conditional loop clause;
3236 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
3237 signals a type error iff it should.
3238 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3239 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
3240 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
3241 argument) no longer signals an error;
3242 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
3243 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
3244 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
3246 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
3247 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
3248 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
3250 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
3251 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
3252 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
3253 functionality on said platforms verified.
3254 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
3255 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
3257 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
3258 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
3259 component indicating that directory.
3260 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
3261 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
3262 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
3263 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
3264 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3265 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
3267 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
3268 primary methods with no specializers;
3269 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
3271 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
3272 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
3273 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
3274 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
3276 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
3277 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
3278 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
3280 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
3281 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
3282 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
3283 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
3284 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
3285 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
3286 class STANDARD-CLASS;
3287 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
3288 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3289 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
3290 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
3292 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
3293 value producing form;
3294 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
3295 variables are bound and made to have no value;
3296 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
3298 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
3299 is not a valid sequence index;
3300 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
3301 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
3302 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3303 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
3305 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
3306 symbol-macro places;
3307 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
3308 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
3310 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
3312 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
3314 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
3315 invariant when deleting code.
3316 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
3317 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
3319 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
3320 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3321 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
3323 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
3324 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
3326 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
3327 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
3328 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3329 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
3331 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
3332 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3333 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
3334 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
3336 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
3337 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
3338 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
3339 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
3340 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3341 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
3342 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
3343 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
3344 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
3345 sbcl and .core files.)
3346 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
3347 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
3348 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
3349 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
3350 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
3351 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3352 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
3354 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
3355 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
3356 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
3357 argument precedence order.
3358 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
3359 derived types contradict their declared type.
3360 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
3361 so it can be non-toplevel.
3362 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
3363 implementation of DEFMACRO).
3364 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
3365 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
3366 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
3368 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
3369 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
3370 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
3371 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
3372 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
3373 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
3374 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
3375 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
3376 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
3377 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
3378 symbol macro only once
3379 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
3380 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
3381 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
3384 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
3385 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
3386 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
3387 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
3388 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
3389 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
3390 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
3391 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
3392 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
3393 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3394 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
3395 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
3397 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
3398 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
3399 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
3400 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
3401 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3402 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
3404 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
3406 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
3407 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
3408 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
3409 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
3410 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3411 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
3412 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
3413 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
3414 ways in different special cases
3415 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
3417 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
3418 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
3419 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
3420 are no longer optimized away.
3421 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
3422 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
3423 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
3424 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
3425 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
3426 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
3427 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
3428 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
3431 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
3432 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
3433 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
3434 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
3435 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
3436 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
3437 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
3439 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
3440 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
3441 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
3442 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
3443 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
3444 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
3445 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
3446 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
3447 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
3448 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
3449 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
3450 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
3451 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
3452 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
3453 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
3454 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
3455 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
3456 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3457 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
3458 that are names of constants or global variables.
3459 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
3460 alien routines with docstrings.
3461 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
3462 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
3464 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
3465 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3466 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
3467 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3468 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
3469 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3470 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
3471 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
3472 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
3473 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3474 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
3475 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
3476 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
3477 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
3478 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
3479 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
3480 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
3481 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
3482 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
3483 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
3484 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
3485 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
3486 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
3488 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
3489 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
3491 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
3492 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
3493 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
3494 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
3495 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
3496 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
3497 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
3498 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
3499 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
3500 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
3502 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
3503 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
3504 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
3505 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
3506 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
3507 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
3508 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
3509 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
3510 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
3511 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
3512 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
3513 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
3514 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
3515 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
3516 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
3517 is no longer a static symbol.)
3519 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
3520 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
3521 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
3522 bootstrapping under CLISP.
3523 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
3525 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
3526 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
3528 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
3529 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
3530 to David Lichteblau)
3531 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
3532 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
3533 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
3535 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
3536 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3537 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
3538 count as they should.
3539 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
3540 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3541 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
3542 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
3543 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
3544 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
3545 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
3546 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
3547 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3548 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3549 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3550 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3551 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3552 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3553 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3555 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3556 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3557 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3559 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3561 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3562 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3563 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3564 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3565 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3566 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3567 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3569 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3570 to Christophe Rhodes)
3571 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3572 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3573 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3574 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3575 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3576 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
3577 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3579 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3580 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3581 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3582 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3583 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3584 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3585 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3586 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3587 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3588 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3589 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3590 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3591 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
3593 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
3594 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
3595 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
3596 INFO database to support symbol macros.
3597 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
3598 (thanks to coreythomas)
3599 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
3600 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
3601 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
3602 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
3603 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
3605 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
3606 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
3607 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
3608 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
3609 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
3610 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
3611 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
3612 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
3613 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
3614 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3615 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
3616 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
3617 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
3619 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
3620 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
3623 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
3624 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
3625 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
3626 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
3627 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
3628 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
3629 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
3630 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
3631 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
3632 systems than the old 4M value was)
3633 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
3634 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3635 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3636 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3637 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3638 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3639 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3641 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3642 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3643 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3644 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3645 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3647 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3648 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3649 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3650 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3651 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3652 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3653 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3654 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3656 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3657 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3658 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3659 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3660 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3661 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3662 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3663 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3665 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3666 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3667 * several changes related to debugging:
3668 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
3669 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
3670 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
3671 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
3672 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3673 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
3674 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
3677 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
3679 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
3680 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
3681 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
3682 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
3683 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
3684 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
3685 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
3686 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
3688 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
3689 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
3690 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
3691 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3692 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
3693 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
3694 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
3695 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
3696 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
3697 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
3698 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
3699 file format number to change again.
3701 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
3702 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
3703 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
3704 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
3706 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
3707 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
3708 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
3709 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
3710 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
3711 FUNCALL on the result.
3712 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
3713 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
3714 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
3715 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
3716 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
3717 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
3718 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
3719 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
3721 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
3722 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
3723 the old compiler produced.
3724 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
3725 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
3726 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
3727 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
3728 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
3729 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
3730 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
3731 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
3732 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
3733 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
3734 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
3735 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
3736 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
3737 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
3738 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
3739 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
3740 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
3741 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
3742 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
3743 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
3744 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
3745 straightened out in some future version.)
3746 * minor incompatible changes:
3747 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
3748 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
3749 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
3750 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
3751 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
3752 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
3753 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
3754 implementation dependent:
3755 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
3756 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
3757 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
3758 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
3759 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
3760 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
3761 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
3762 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
3764 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
3766 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
3767 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
3768 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
3769 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
3770 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
3771 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
3772 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
3773 are no longer used for output.
3774 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
3775 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
3776 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
3777 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
3778 increasing it even more.)
3779 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
3780 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
3781 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
3783 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
3784 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
3785 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
3786 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
3787 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
3788 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
3789 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
3790 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
3791 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
3792 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
3793 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
3794 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
3795 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
3796 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
3797 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
3798 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
3799 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
3800 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
3801 compilation of code which calls such functions.
3802 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
3803 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
3804 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
3805 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
3806 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
3807 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
3808 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
3809 built into the system.
3810 * many other bug fixes
3811 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
3812 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
3813 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
3814 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
3815 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
3817 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
3818 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
3819 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
3820 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
3821 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
3822 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
3823 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
3824 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
3825 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
3826 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
3827 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
3829 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
3830 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
3831 and several other LOOP problems as well
3832 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
3833 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
3834 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
3835 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
3836 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
3837 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
3838 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
3839 *** a bug in APROPOS
3840 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
3841 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
3842 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
3843 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
3844 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
3845 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
3846 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
3847 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
3848 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
3849 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
3850 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
3851 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
3852 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
3853 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
3854 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
3856 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
3857 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
3858 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
3859 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
3860 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
3861 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
3862 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
3863 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
3864 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
3865 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
3866 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
3867 some of which are apparent above.
3869 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
3870 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
3871 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
3872 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
3873 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
3874 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
3875 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
3876 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
3877 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
3878 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
3879 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
3880 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
3881 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
3882 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
3883 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
3884 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
3885 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
3886 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
3887 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
3888 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
3889 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
3890 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
3891 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
3892 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
3893 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
3894 different return types.
3895 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
3896 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
3897 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
3898 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
3899 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
3900 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
3901 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
3902 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
3903 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
3904 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
3906 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
3907 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
3908 does the right thing.
3909 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
3910 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
3911 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3912 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
3913 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3914 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3915 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
3916 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
3917 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
3918 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
3919 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3920 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
3921 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3922 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
3923 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
3924 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
3925 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
3926 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
3927 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
3928 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
3929 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
3930 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
3931 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
3932 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
3933 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
3934 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
3935 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
3936 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
3937 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
3938 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
3939 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
3940 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
3941 since historically most system changes which required version
3942 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
3943 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
3946 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
3947 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
3948 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
3949 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
3950 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
3951 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
3952 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
3953 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
3954 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
3955 half a dozen others elsewhere
3956 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
3957 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
3958 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
3959 as flaky as they were.
3960 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
3961 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
3962 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
3963 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
3964 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
3965 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
3966 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
3967 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
3969 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
3970 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
3971 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
3972 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3973 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
3974 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
3975 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
3976 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
3977 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
3978 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
3979 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
3980 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
3981 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
3982 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
3983 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
3984 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
3985 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
3986 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
3987 more obscure bugs as well
3988 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
3989 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
3990 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
3991 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
3992 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
3993 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
3994 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
3995 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
3996 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
3997 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
3998 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
4000 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
4001 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
4003 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
4005 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
4006 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
4007 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
4008 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
4009 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
4010 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
4011 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
4012 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
4013 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
4014 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
4015 are local in this sense.)
4016 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
4017 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
4018 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
4019 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
4020 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
4021 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
4022 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
4023 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
4024 system's STREAM objects.
4025 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
4026 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4027 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
4028 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4029 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
4030 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
4031 environment from the original process instead of starting the
4032 new process in an empty environment.
4033 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
4034 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
4035 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
4036 for porting convenience.
4037 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
4038 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
4040 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
4042 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
4043 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
4044 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
4045 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
4046 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
4047 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
4048 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
4049 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
4050 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
4051 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
4052 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
4053 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
4054 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
4055 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
4056 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
4057 many fewer weird special cases.
4058 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
4059 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
4060 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4061 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
4062 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
4063 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
4064 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
4065 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
4066 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
4067 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
4068 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
4071 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
4073 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
4074 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
4075 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
4077 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
4078 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
4079 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
4080 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
4081 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
4082 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
4083 should be constructed the same way as before.
4084 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
4085 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
4086 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
4087 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
4088 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
4089 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
4090 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
4091 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
4092 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
4093 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
4094 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
4095 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
4096 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
4097 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
4098 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
4099 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
4100 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
4101 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
4102 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
4103 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
4104 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
4105 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
4107 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
4108 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
4109 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
4110 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
4111 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
4112 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
4113 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
4114 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
4116 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
4118 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
4119 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
4120 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
4121 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
4122 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
4124 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
4125 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
4126 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
4127 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
4128 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
4129 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
4130 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
4131 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
4132 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
4133 and Douglas Crosher.
4134 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
4135 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
4136 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
4138 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
4139 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
4140 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
4141 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
4142 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
4143 undefined function error.
4144 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
4145 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
4146 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
4147 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
4148 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
4149 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
4150 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
4151 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
4152 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
4153 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
4154 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
4155 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
4156 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
4158 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
4160 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
4161 CVS repository on my home machine).
4162 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
4163 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
4164 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
4165 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
4166 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
4167 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
4168 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
4169 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
4170 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
4171 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
4172 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
4173 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
4174 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
4175 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
4176 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
4177 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
4178 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
4179 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
4180 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
4181 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
4182 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
4183 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
4185 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
4186 FreeBSD have been added.
4187 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
4188 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
4189 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
4190 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
4191 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
4192 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
4194 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
4195 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
4196 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
4197 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
4198 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
4199 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
4200 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
4201 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
4203 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
4204 away by constant folding
4205 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
4206 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
4207 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
4208 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
4209 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
4210 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
4211 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
4212 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
4213 diff-related operations.
4214 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
4215 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
4217 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
4219 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
4220 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
4221 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
4222 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
4223 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
4224 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
4225 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
4226 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
4227 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
4228 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
4229 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
4230 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
4231 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
4232 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
4233 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
4234 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
4235 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
4236 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
4237 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
4238 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
4239 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
4240 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
4241 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
4242 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
4243 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
4244 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
4245 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
4246 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
4247 instead of (VALUES T T).
4248 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
4249 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
4250 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
4251 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
4252 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
4253 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
4254 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
4255 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
4256 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
4257 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
4258 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
4259 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
4260 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
4261 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
4262 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
4263 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
4264 type will be interpreted at runtime.
4265 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
4266 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
4267 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
4268 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
4269 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
4270 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
4271 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
4272 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
4273 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
4274 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
4275 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
4276 fasl files for cold load.
4277 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
4278 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
4279 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
4280 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
4281 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
4282 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
4283 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
4284 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
4285 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
4286 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
4287 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
4289 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
4290 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
4291 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
4292 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
4293 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
4294 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
4295 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
4296 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
4297 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
4298 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
4299 renamed some files to increase consistency.
4300 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
4301 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
4302 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
4303 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
4304 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
4305 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
4307 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
4309 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
4310 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
4311 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
4312 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
4313 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
4314 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
4315 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
4316 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
4317 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
4318 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
4319 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
4320 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
4321 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
4322 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
4323 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
4324 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
4325 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
4326 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
4328 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
4329 as required by ANSI.
4330 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
4331 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
4332 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
4333 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
4335 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
4336 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
4337 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
4338 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
4339 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
4340 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
4341 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
4342 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
4344 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
4345 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
4346 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
4347 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4349 is now basically equivalent to
4350 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4351 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
4353 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
4354 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
4355 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
4356 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
4357 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
4358 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
4359 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
4360 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
4361 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
4362 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
4363 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
4364 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
4365 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
4366 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
4367 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
4368 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4369 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
4370 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
4371 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
4372 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
4373 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
4374 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
4375 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
4377 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
4379 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
4380 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
4381 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
4382 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
4383 GNUMAKE environment variable.
4384 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
4385 can build without error under CMU CL.
4387 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
4389 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
4390 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
4391 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
4392 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
4393 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
4394 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
4395 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
4396 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
4397 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
4398 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
4399 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
4400 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
4401 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
4402 being initialized before the type system knew the final
4403 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
4404 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
4405 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
4406 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
4407 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
4408 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
4409 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
4410 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
4411 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
4412 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
4414 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
4415 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
4416 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
4417 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
4418 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
4419 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
4420 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
4421 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
4422 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
4423 it were currently supported.
4424 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
4425 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
4426 having to maintain patches.
4427 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
4428 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
4430 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
4432 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
4433 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
4434 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
4435 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
4436 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
4437 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
4438 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
4439 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
4440 * various new style warnings:
4441 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
4442 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
4443 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
4444 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
4445 as specified by ANSI.
4446 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
4447 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
4448 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
4449 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
4450 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
4451 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
4452 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
4453 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
4454 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
4455 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
4456 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
4457 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
4458 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
4459 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
4460 argument types can be determined at compile time.
4461 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
4462 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
4463 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
4464 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
4465 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
4466 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
4467 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
4470 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
4472 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
4473 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
4474 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
4475 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
4476 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
4477 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
4478 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
4479 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
4480 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
4482 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
4483 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
4484 the report form was printed.)
4485 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
4486 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
4487 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
4488 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
4489 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
4490 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
4491 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
4492 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
4493 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
4494 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
4495 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
4496 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
4497 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
4498 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
4499 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
4500 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
4501 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
4502 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
4503 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
4504 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
4505 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
4506 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
4507 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
4508 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
4509 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
4510 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
4511 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
4512 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
4513 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
4514 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
4515 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
4516 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
4517 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
4518 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
4519 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
4520 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
4521 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
4522 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
4523 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
4524 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
4525 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
4526 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
4527 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
4528 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
4529 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
4530 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
4531 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
4532 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
4533 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
4534 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
4535 know more about target types.
4536 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
4537 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
4538 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
4539 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
4540 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
4541 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
4543 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
4544 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
4545 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
4546 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
4547 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4548 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4549 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4550 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4551 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4552 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4553 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4554 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4555 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4557 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4560 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4562 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4563 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4564 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4565 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4566 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4567 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4568 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4569 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4570 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4571 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4572 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4573 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4574 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4575 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4576 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4577 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4578 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4579 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4580 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4581 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4582 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4583 invisible at the user level.)
4584 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4585 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4586 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4588 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4590 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4591 * tidied up system directory structure
4592 * better "clean.sh" behavior
4593 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
4594 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
4595 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
4596 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
4597 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
4598 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
4599 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
4600 * command line argument processing
4601 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
4602 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
4603 terminating SBCL on EOF
4604 * non-verbose GC by default
4605 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
4606 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
4607 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
4609 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
4610 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
4611 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
4612 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
4613 transformed along with everything else.
4614 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
4615 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
4616 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
4617 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
4618 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
4619 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
4620 debugging and testing purposes
4621 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
4622 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
4623 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
4624 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
4625 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
4626 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
4627 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
4629 * regularized formatting of source files
4630 * added an install.sh script
4631 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
4632 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
4633 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
4634 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4635 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4636 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4637 was not implemented)
4638 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4639 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4640 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4641 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4642 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4644 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4645 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4646 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4647 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4648 COMPILE-FILE command)
4649 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4650 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4651 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4652 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4653 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4654 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4655 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4656 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4657 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4658 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4659 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4660 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4661 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4662 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4663 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4665 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4666 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
4667 known to be able to handle the current sources
4668 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
4669 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
4670 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
4671 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
4672 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
4673 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
4674 * removed host-oops.lisp
4675 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
4676 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
4677 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
4678 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
4679 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
4680 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by