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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
3 * INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
4 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
5 * DEPRECATION: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
6 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
7 * DEPRECATION: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
9 * new contrib: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to contain
10 additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming; at the
11 moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
13 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
14 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
15 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
17 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
18 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
19 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
21 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
22 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
23 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
25 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
26 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
27 generic function call.
28 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
29 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
30 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
32 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
34 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
35 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
36 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
37 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
38 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
39 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
40 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
41 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
42 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
43 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
44 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
45 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
46 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
47 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
48 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
50 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
51 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
52 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
53 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
54 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
55 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
56 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
57 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
58 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
59 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
60 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
61 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
62 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
63 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
64 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
65 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
66 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
67 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
68 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
69 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
70 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
71 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
72 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
74 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
75 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
76 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
78 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
79 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
81 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
82 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
83 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
84 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
86 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
87 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
88 stack frame thrown from.
89 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
90 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
91 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
92 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
94 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
95 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
96 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
97 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
98 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
99 for accessing such arrays.
100 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
101 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
102 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
103 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
104 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
105 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
106 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
107 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
108 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
109 functions. (lp#524707)
110 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
111 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
112 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
113 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
114 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
115 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
116 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
117 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
118 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
119 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
120 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
121 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
122 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
123 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
125 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
126 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
127 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
128 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
129 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
131 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
132 declarations (lp#497321)
133 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
134 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
135 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
137 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
138 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
139 due to it, so that handlers can run.
140 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
142 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
143 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
144 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
145 expanded calls (lp#542174)
146 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
147 than just at toplevel form.
149 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
150 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
151 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
152 but work on type specifiers.
153 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
154 to name a type specifier.
155 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
156 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
157 second argument of TYPEP".
158 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
159 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
160 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
161 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
162 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
163 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
164 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
165 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
166 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
167 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
168 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
169 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
170 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
172 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
174 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
175 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
177 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
178 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
179 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
180 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
181 before reaching the erring stack frame.
182 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
183 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
184 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
185 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
186 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
187 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
188 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
189 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
191 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
192 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
193 is properly inlined when possible.
194 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
195 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
196 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
197 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
198 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
199 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
200 launchpad bug lp#508485)
201 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
202 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
203 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
204 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
205 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
206 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
208 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
209 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
211 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
213 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
214 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
215 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
216 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
217 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
218 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
219 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
221 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
222 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
223 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
224 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
225 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
226 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
227 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
228 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
229 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
230 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
231 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
232 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
233 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
234 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
236 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
239 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
240 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
241 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
242 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
243 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
244 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
245 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
246 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
248 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
249 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
250 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
251 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
253 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
254 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
255 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
256 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
257 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
258 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
260 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
261 errors for fd-stream external formats.
262 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
263 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
264 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
265 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
266 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
268 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
269 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
270 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
271 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
273 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
274 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
275 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
276 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
277 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
279 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
280 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
281 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
282 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
283 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
284 error is near the end of file.
285 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
286 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
287 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
288 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
289 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
290 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
291 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
292 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
293 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
294 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
295 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
296 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
297 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
298 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
299 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
300 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
301 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
302 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
303 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
304 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
305 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
306 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
307 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
308 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
310 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
311 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
312 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
313 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
314 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
315 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
316 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
317 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
318 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
320 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
321 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
322 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
323 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
325 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
326 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
327 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
329 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
331 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
332 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
334 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
335 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
336 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
337 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
338 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
339 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
340 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
341 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
342 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
343 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
344 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
345 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
346 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
348 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
349 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
350 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
351 open coded is now considered a bug.
352 * improvements related to Unicode:
353 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
354 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
355 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
357 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
359 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
360 (as well as for stream operations).
361 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
362 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
364 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
365 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
367 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
369 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
370 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
371 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
372 constant two has been optimized.
373 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
374 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
375 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
376 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
377 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
378 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
379 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
380 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
381 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
382 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
383 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
384 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
385 but assumed or declared function as well.
386 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
387 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
388 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
389 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
391 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
392 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
393 well as user defined declaration names.
394 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
395 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
397 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
398 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
399 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
400 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
401 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
403 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
405 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
407 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
408 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
409 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
410 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
411 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
412 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
413 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
414 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
415 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
417 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
418 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
419 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
420 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
421 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
422 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
424 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
425 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
426 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
427 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
428 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
429 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
430 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
431 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
433 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
434 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
435 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
436 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
437 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
438 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
439 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
440 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
441 values in other threads.
442 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
443 about object allocation.
444 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
445 with a specialised code sequence.
446 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
447 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
448 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
449 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
450 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
451 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
452 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
453 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
454 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
455 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
457 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
459 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
460 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
461 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
462 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
463 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
464 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
465 unboxed format on x86[-64].
466 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
467 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
468 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
469 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
470 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
472 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
473 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
474 contains more pertinent information.
475 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
476 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
477 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
478 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
479 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
480 types. (reported by "abhi")
481 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
482 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
483 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
484 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
485 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
486 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
487 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
488 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
489 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
490 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
491 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
492 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
493 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
494 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
495 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
496 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
497 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
498 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
500 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
501 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
502 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
503 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
504 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
505 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
506 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
508 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
509 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
510 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
511 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
512 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
513 (no subscription required.)
514 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
515 types are weakened less aggressively.
516 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
517 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
518 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
519 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
520 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
521 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
522 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
523 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
525 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
526 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
527 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
528 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
530 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
531 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
532 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
534 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
535 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
536 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
538 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
539 is known are 50% faster.
540 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
541 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
543 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
544 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
545 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
546 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
547 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
549 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
550 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
551 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
552 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
553 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
554 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
556 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
557 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
558 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
559 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
560 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
561 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
562 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
563 to Tobias Rittweiler)
564 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
565 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
566 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
567 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
568 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
569 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
570 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
571 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
572 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
573 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
574 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
576 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
577 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
578 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
579 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
581 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
582 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
583 result register (bug 316325).
584 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
585 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
586 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
587 generate incorrect code.
588 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
589 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
590 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
591 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
593 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
594 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
595 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
596 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
597 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
598 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
599 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
600 from :INITFORM, if any.
602 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
603 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
604 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
605 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
606 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
608 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
609 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
610 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
611 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
612 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
613 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
614 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
615 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
616 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
617 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
619 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
620 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
621 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
622 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
623 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
624 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
625 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
626 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
627 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
628 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
629 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
630 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
631 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
632 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
633 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
634 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
635 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
637 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
638 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
639 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
640 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
641 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
642 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
643 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
644 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
646 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
647 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
648 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
649 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
650 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
652 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
653 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
654 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
655 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
656 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
657 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
658 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
659 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
660 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
661 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
662 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
663 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
664 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
665 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
666 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
667 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
669 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
670 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
671 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
672 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
673 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
674 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
675 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
676 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
677 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
678 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
679 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
680 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
681 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
682 recursive errors or deadlock.
683 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
684 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
685 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
687 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
688 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
689 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
690 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
691 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
692 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
693 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
694 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
696 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
697 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
698 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
699 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
700 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
701 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
702 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
703 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
705 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
706 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
707 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
708 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
709 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
710 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
711 their constant arguments.
712 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
713 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
714 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
715 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
716 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
717 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
718 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
719 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
720 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
721 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
722 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
723 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
724 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
725 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
726 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
727 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
728 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
729 * improvements to the Windows port:
730 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
731 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
733 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
734 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
735 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
736 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
737 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
738 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
739 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
740 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
741 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
742 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
743 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
744 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
745 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
746 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
748 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
750 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
751 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
752 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
753 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
754 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
755 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
756 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
757 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
758 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
759 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
761 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
762 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
763 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
764 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
765 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
766 compile-time style-warning.
767 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
768 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
769 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
770 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
771 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
772 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
773 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
774 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
775 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
776 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
777 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
778 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
779 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
780 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
781 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
782 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
784 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
785 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
786 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
787 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
788 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
789 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
790 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
791 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
792 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
794 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
796 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
799 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
800 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
801 for the associated fast function is also produced.
802 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
804 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
805 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
806 special handling by the pretty printer.
807 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
808 now interact correctly with type declarations.
809 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
810 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
811 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
812 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
813 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
814 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
815 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
816 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
818 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
819 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
820 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
821 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
822 object loading function as-it.
823 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
824 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
826 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
827 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
829 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
830 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
831 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
832 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
833 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
834 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
835 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
836 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
837 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
839 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
840 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
841 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
842 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
843 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
844 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
845 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
846 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
847 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
848 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
849 file descriptors when there were none.
850 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
851 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
852 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
853 pathnames without a directory.
854 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
855 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
857 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
858 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
859 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
860 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
861 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
862 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
863 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
864 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
866 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
867 after alien stack frames.
868 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
870 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
871 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
872 generic function across method addition and removal.
873 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
874 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
875 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
876 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
878 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
879 non-local transfer of control.
880 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
881 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
882 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
883 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
884 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
885 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
886 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
888 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
889 owned by other threads anymore.
890 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
891 subsequence. (reported by budden)
892 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
893 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
894 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
895 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
897 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
898 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
899 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
900 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
901 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
902 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
903 added to the user manual.
904 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
905 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
906 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
907 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
908 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
909 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
911 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
913 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
914 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
915 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
916 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
917 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
918 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
919 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
921 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
922 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
924 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
925 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
926 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
927 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
928 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
929 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
930 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
932 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
933 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
935 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
936 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
937 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
938 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
939 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
940 type of a variable is made.
941 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
942 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
944 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
945 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
946 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
947 (thanks to Michael Weber)
948 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
949 (thanks to Michael Weber)
950 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
951 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
952 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
954 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
955 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
956 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
957 of the type that's the value of this variable.
958 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
960 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
961 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
962 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
963 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
964 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
965 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
966 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
967 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
968 * improvements to the Windows port:
969 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
970 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
971 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
972 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
973 to single-float coercions.
974 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
975 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
976 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
977 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
978 containing invalid type specifiers.
979 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
980 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
982 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
983 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
984 profiles only the current thread.
985 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
986 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
987 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
988 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
989 has also additional sorting options.
990 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
992 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
993 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
994 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
995 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
996 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
997 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
999 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
1001 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
1002 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
1003 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
1004 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
1005 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
1006 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
1008 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
1009 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1010 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
1011 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
1012 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
1013 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1014 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
1015 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
1016 (thanks to James Knight)
1017 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
1018 (thanks to Travis Cross)
1019 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1020 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
1021 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
1022 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1023 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1024 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1025 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1027 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
1028 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
1029 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
1030 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
1031 use this feature in the meanwhile.
1032 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
1033 adjust thread default control stack size.
1034 * enhancement: improved TIME output
1035 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
1036 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
1037 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
1038 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
1039 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
1040 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
1041 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
1042 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
1044 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
1046 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
1047 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
1048 in normal SPEED policies.
1049 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
1050 in normal SPEED policies.
1051 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
1052 to Sidney Markowitz)
1053 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
1054 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1055 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
1056 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1057 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
1058 as the second argument.
1059 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
1060 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
1061 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
1063 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
1064 platform word lengths.
1065 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
1066 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
1067 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
1069 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
1070 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1072 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
1073 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
1074 signaling added in 1.0.14.
1075 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
1076 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
1077 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
1078 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
1079 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
1080 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1081 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
1082 on threaded platforms.
1083 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
1084 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
1085 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1086 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
1087 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
1088 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
1089 representation is available.
1090 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
1091 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
1092 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
1093 Francois-Rene Rideau)
1094 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1095 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1096 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
1097 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
1098 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
1099 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
1100 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
1101 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
1102 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
1104 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
1105 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
1106 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
1107 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
1108 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
1109 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
1110 traces SETF-functions as well.
1111 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
1112 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
1113 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
1114 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
1116 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
1117 is now more efficient.
1118 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
1119 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
1120 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
1121 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
1122 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
1123 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1124 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
1125 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
1126 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
1127 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
1128 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
1130 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
1131 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
1132 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
1133 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
1134 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
1135 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1136 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
1137 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
1138 * improvements to the Windows port:
1139 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
1140 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
1142 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
1143 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
1144 (see documentation for details.)
1145 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
1146 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
1147 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
1148 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
1149 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
1151 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
1152 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
1153 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
1154 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
1155 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1156 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
1157 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
1158 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
1159 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
1161 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
1162 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
1163 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
1164 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
1165 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
1166 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
1167 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
1169 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
1170 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
1171 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
1172 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
1173 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
1174 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
1175 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
1176 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
1178 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
1179 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
1180 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
1181 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
1182 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
1183 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
1184 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
1185 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
1186 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
1187 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1188 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
1189 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
1190 known at compile-time.
1191 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
1192 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
1193 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
1195 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
1196 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
1198 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
1199 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1200 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1201 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
1202 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
1203 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
1205 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
1207 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
1209 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
1212 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
1213 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
1214 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
1215 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
1216 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
1217 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
1218 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
1219 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
1220 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
1221 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
1222 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
1223 END is smaller then START.
1224 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
1225 calls to profiled functions.
1226 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
1227 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
1228 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
1229 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
1230 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
1231 hash-table usage have been fixed.
1232 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
1233 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
1234 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
1235 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
1236 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
1237 slime to work again.
1239 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
1240 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
1241 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
1242 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
1243 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
1244 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
1245 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
1246 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
1247 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
1248 and will signal an error at runtime.
1249 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
1250 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
1251 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
1253 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
1254 platforms providing stack allocation support.
1255 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
1256 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
1258 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
1259 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
1260 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
1261 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1262 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
1263 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
1265 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
1266 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
1268 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
1270 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
1271 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
1272 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
1273 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
1274 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
1275 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
1276 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1277 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
1278 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
1279 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1280 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
1281 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
1282 a specializer parameter for the method.
1283 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
1284 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
1285 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
1286 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
1287 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
1289 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
1290 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
1292 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
1293 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
1294 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1295 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
1296 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
1297 the CAS operation was being performed.
1298 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
1299 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
1300 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
1301 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
1304 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
1305 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
1306 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
1307 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
1309 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
1310 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
1311 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1312 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
1313 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
1314 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1315 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
1316 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
1317 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
1318 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
1319 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
1320 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
1321 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
1322 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
1323 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
1325 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
1326 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
1327 the underlying file descriptor.
1328 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
1329 could cause buffer-overflows.
1330 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
1331 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
1332 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
1334 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
1336 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
1337 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
1338 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
1339 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
1340 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
1341 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
1344 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
1345 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
1346 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
1347 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
1348 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
1349 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
1350 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
1352 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
1354 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
1355 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
1356 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
1357 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
1358 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
1359 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
1361 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
1362 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
1363 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
1364 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
1365 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
1366 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
1367 objects that can be seen by the GC.
1368 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
1369 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
1370 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
1372 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
1373 as the property-list of a symbol.
1374 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
1375 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
1376 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
1379 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
1380 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
1381 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
1382 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
1383 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
1384 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
1385 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
1386 debugging and introspective support.
1387 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
1388 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
1389 has the owning thread as its value.
1390 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
1391 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
1393 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
1394 "a constant string".
1395 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
1396 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
1397 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
1398 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1399 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
1400 (depending on the bignum size.)
1401 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
1403 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
1404 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
1406 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
1407 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
1409 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
1410 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
1411 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
1412 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
1413 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
1416 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
1417 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
1418 as a contrib module.
1419 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
1420 significantly faster.
1421 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1422 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
1423 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1424 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1425 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
1426 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
1427 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
1428 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
1429 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1430 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
1431 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
1433 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
1435 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
1436 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
1437 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
1438 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
1439 that use the generational garbage collector
1440 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
1442 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
1443 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
1445 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
1447 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
1448 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
1449 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
1450 system running with GC inhibited.
1451 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
1452 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
1453 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
1454 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
1455 (reported by Peter Graves)
1457 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
1458 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
1459 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
1461 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
1462 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
1463 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
1464 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
1465 documented as unsafe.
1466 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
1467 in multithreaded application code.
1468 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
1469 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
1470 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
1472 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
1473 variants no longer cons.
1474 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
1475 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
1476 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
1477 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
1478 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
1479 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
1480 are significantly faster.
1481 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
1482 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
1483 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
1484 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
1485 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
1486 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
1487 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
1488 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
1489 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
1490 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
1491 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
1493 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
1494 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
1495 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
1496 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1497 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
1498 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1499 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
1500 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
1501 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
1502 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
1503 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
1504 line in a file is unlimited.
1505 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
1506 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
1507 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
1508 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
1509 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
1510 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
1511 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
1512 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1513 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
1514 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
1515 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1516 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
1517 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
1518 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
1519 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
1520 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
1521 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
1522 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
1523 experimental until this is fixed.
1524 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
1525 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1526 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
1527 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
1528 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
1530 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
1531 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
1532 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
1533 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
1534 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
1535 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
1537 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
1538 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
1539 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1540 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
1541 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
1542 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
1543 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1544 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
1545 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
1547 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
1548 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
1549 (reported by Andras Simon)
1550 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
1551 bugs remain on x86-64.)
1552 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
1553 funcallable instances.
1554 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
1555 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
1557 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
1558 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1559 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
1560 non-base strings as arguments
1561 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
1563 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
1564 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
1566 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
1567 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
1568 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1569 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
1570 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1571 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1572 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
1573 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
1574 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
1576 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
1577 (thanks to Jon Buller)
1578 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
1579 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
1582 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
1583 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
1584 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
1586 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
1587 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
1588 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
1589 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
1590 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
1592 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
1593 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
1594 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
1595 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1596 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
1597 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1598 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
1599 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
1600 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
1601 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
1602 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1603 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
1604 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
1605 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
1606 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
1607 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
1608 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
1609 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
1610 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
1611 stack frames from alien callbacks.
1612 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1613 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
1614 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
1615 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1617 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
1618 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
1619 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
1620 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
1621 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
1622 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
1623 sb-introspect contrib.
1624 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
1625 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
1626 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
1627 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
1628 users and the general community)
1629 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
1630 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
1631 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
1632 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
1633 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1634 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
1635 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
1636 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1637 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
1638 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1639 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
1640 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
1641 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
1642 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
1643 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
1644 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
1646 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
1647 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
1648 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
1649 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
1650 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
1651 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
1652 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
1654 * improvements to the Windows port:
1655 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
1656 to Alastair Bridgewater)
1657 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
1659 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
1660 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1662 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
1663 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
1664 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1665 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
1666 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
1667 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
1668 core, and restored on startup.
1669 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
1670 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1671 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
1672 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
1673 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
1674 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
1675 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
1677 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
1678 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1679 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
1681 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
1682 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
1683 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
1685 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
1686 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
1687 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
1688 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
1689 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
1690 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
1692 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
1693 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
1694 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
1695 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
1696 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
1697 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
1698 (reported by Josip Gracin)
1699 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
1700 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
1701 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
1702 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
1703 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
1704 and don't cause extra consing
1705 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
1706 whose elements types have been declared.
1707 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
1708 ** Support for allocation profiling
1709 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
1710 * Improvements to the Windows port:
1711 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
1712 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
1713 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1714 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
1716 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
1717 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
1718 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
1719 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
1720 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
1722 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
1723 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
1724 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
1726 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
1727 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
1728 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
1729 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
1730 with non-variable places
1731 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
1732 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
1733 code more stable against memory faults.
1734 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
1735 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
1736 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
1737 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
1740 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
1741 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
1742 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
1743 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
1744 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
1745 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
1746 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
1747 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
1748 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1749 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1750 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
1751 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
1752 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
1754 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
1755 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
1756 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
1757 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
1758 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
1759 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
1760 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
1762 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
1763 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
1765 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
1766 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
1767 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
1768 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
1769 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
1770 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
1771 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
1772 to the single-stepper REPL.
1773 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
1774 for a type now works.
1775 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
1777 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
1778 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
1779 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
1780 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1781 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
1782 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
1783 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
1784 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
1786 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
1787 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
1788 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
1789 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
1790 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
1791 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
1792 whose bindings are modified
1793 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
1794 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
1795 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
1796 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
1798 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
1799 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
1800 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
1801 as specified by AMOP.
1802 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
1804 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
1805 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1806 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
1807 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
1808 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
1809 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
1810 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
1811 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
1812 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
1813 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
1814 better type inference.
1815 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
1816 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
1817 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
1818 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
1819 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
1820 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1821 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
1822 initialization of methods can now be used to override
1823 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
1825 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
1826 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
1827 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
1828 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
1829 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
1831 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
1832 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
1833 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
1834 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
1835 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
1836 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
1837 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
1838 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
1839 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
1840 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
1841 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
1842 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
1843 (reported by James Y Knight).
1844 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
1845 argument for shadowing by local functions.
1846 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
1848 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
1849 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
1850 with type-inference.
1851 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
1852 types in some cases.
1853 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
1854 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1855 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
1857 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
1858 * thread-safety improvements:
1859 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
1860 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
1861 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
1863 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
1864 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
1866 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
1867 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
1868 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
1870 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
1871 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
1872 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
1873 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
1874 class became finalizeable.
1875 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
1876 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
1877 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
1878 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
1880 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
1881 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
1882 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
1883 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
1884 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
1885 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
1886 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1887 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
1888 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
1889 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
1890 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
1891 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
1892 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
1893 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1894 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
1895 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
1896 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
1897 * minor code generation optimizations:
1898 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
1899 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
1900 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
1901 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
1902 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
1903 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1904 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
1905 return its argument.
1907 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
1908 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
1910 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
1912 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
1913 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
1914 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
1915 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
1916 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
1917 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
1918 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
1919 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
1920 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
1921 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
1922 the low-level debugger.
1923 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
1924 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
1925 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
1926 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
1928 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
1929 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
1930 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
1932 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
1933 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1934 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
1935 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
1936 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
1937 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
1938 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
1939 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
1940 (reported by James Y Knight)
1941 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
1942 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
1943 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
1944 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
1945 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
1946 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
1947 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
1948 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
1949 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
1950 workaround for bug 403.)
1951 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
1952 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1953 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1954 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
1956 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
1957 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
1958 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
1960 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
1961 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
1962 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
1963 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
1964 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
1966 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
1968 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
1969 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
1970 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
1973 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
1974 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
1975 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
1976 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
1977 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
1978 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
1979 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
1980 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
1981 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
1982 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
1983 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
1984 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
1985 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
1986 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
1987 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
1988 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
1989 documentation on package locks for details.
1990 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
1992 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
1993 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
1994 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
1995 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
1996 immediately available from the stream
1997 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
1998 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
1999 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
2000 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
2002 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
2003 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
2004 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
2006 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
2007 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
2008 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
2010 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
2011 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
2012 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
2013 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
2015 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2016 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
2017 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
2018 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2019 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
2020 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
2021 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2022 ** sb-grovel supported
2023 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
2024 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
2025 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
2026 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
2027 ** floating-point exception handling support
2028 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
2029 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2030 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2031 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
2032 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
2033 structure accessors.
2034 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
2036 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
2037 defaults for optional parameters.
2038 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
2039 function, which is already optimized.
2041 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
2042 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
2043 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
2044 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
2045 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
2046 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
2047 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
2048 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
2049 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
2050 this change is to make it easier to distribute
2051 location-independent binaries.
2052 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
2053 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
2055 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
2056 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
2057 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
2058 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
2059 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
2060 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
2061 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
2062 Alastair Bridgewater)
2063 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
2064 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
2065 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2066 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
2067 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
2068 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
2069 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
2070 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
2071 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
2072 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
2073 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
2074 (thanks to James Knight)
2075 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
2076 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
2078 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
2079 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
2080 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
2081 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
2082 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
2083 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
2084 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
2085 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
2086 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
2087 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
2088 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
2089 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
2090 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
2091 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
2092 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
2093 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
2094 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
2095 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
2096 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
2097 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
2098 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
2100 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
2101 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
2102 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
2103 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2104 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
2105 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
2107 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
2108 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
2109 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
2110 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
2111 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
2112 many others over the years)
2113 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
2114 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
2115 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
2117 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
2118 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
2119 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2120 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
2121 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
2122 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
2124 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
2126 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
2127 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
2128 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
2129 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
2130 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
2131 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
2132 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
2133 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
2134 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
2135 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
2136 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
2137 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2138 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
2139 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2141 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
2142 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2143 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
2144 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
2145 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
2146 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
2147 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
2148 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
2149 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
2150 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2151 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
2152 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
2153 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
2154 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
2155 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
2156 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
2157 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
2158 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2159 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
2160 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
2162 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
2163 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2164 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
2165 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
2166 index variables in LOOP
2167 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
2168 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2169 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
2170 that don't have a docstring
2172 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
2173 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2174 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
2175 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
2176 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
2177 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
2178 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
2179 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
2180 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
2181 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
2182 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
2183 Costanza's "Closer" project)
2184 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
2185 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
2187 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
2188 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
2189 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
2190 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
2191 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
2192 and Pascal Costanza)
2193 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
2194 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
2195 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
2196 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
2197 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2198 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
2199 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
2200 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
2201 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2202 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
2203 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2204 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
2205 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2206 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
2207 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2208 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
2209 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
2210 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
2211 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
2213 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
2214 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2215 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
2216 floating point index variable or a negative step.
2218 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
2219 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
2220 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
2221 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
2222 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
2223 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2224 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
2225 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
2226 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
2227 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2228 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2229 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
2230 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
2231 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
2232 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2233 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
2234 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
2235 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
2236 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
2237 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
2238 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
2239 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2240 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
2241 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2242 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
2243 and dump core on SIGQUIT
2245 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
2246 from their parents (see manual)
2247 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
2248 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
2249 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
2250 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
2251 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
2252 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
2254 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2255 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
2256 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
2257 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
2259 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
2260 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
2261 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
2263 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
2264 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
2265 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
2266 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
2267 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
2268 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
2269 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
2270 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
2271 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
2272 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
2273 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
2274 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
2275 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
2276 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
2278 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
2279 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
2280 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
2282 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
2283 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
2285 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
2286 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2287 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
2288 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
2289 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
2290 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
2291 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
2292 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
2293 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
2295 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
2296 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
2297 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
2298 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
2299 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
2300 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
2302 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
2304 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
2305 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
2306 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
2307 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
2308 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
2309 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
2310 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
2311 classes; see the manual for more details;
2312 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
2313 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
2314 requested slot ordering.
2316 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
2318 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
2319 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
2321 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
2323 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
2324 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
2325 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
2326 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
2327 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2328 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
2329 the :method-class keyword argument.
2331 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
2332 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
2333 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
2334 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2335 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
2336 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2337 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
2338 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2339 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
2340 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
2341 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
2343 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
2344 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
2345 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
2346 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
2347 is switched on or off
2348 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
2349 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
2350 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
2352 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
2353 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2354 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
2355 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
2356 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2357 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
2358 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
2359 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
2360 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
2362 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
2363 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
2364 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
2365 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
2366 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
2367 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
2368 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
2370 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
2371 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
2372 not prevent gc from running
2373 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
2374 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
2375 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
2376 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
2377 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
2378 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
2379 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
2380 an inline 32-bit rotation.
2382 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
2383 there is only one thread in the session
2384 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
2385 written to in another
2386 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
2387 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
2389 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
2390 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
2392 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
2393 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2394 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
2395 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
2396 the orignal arguments.
2397 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
2399 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
2400 name a compiled function.
2401 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
2402 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
2403 derivation were fixed.
2404 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
2405 list-form FUNCTION type.
2406 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
2407 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
2408 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
2410 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
2411 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
2412 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
2413 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
2414 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
2415 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
2417 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
2418 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
2419 of a select system call
2420 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
2422 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
2423 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
2425 * various error reporting improvements.
2426 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
2427 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2428 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
2429 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
2430 code and foreign data with the same name.
2432 ** added x86-64 support
2433 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
2434 objects instead of thread ids
2435 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
2436 starting up or going down
2437 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
2438 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
2439 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
2440 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
2441 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
2442 an inappropriate moment
2443 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
2444 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
2445 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
2446 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2447 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
2448 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
2449 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
2451 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
2452 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
2453 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
2454 range before calling Unix time functions
2456 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
2457 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
2458 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2459 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
2460 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
2461 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
2462 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
2463 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
2464 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
2465 for more information.
2466 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
2467 pathname is a directory pathname.
2468 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
2469 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
2471 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
2472 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
2473 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
2474 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
2475 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
2476 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
2478 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
2479 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
2480 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
2481 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
2482 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
2483 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
2484 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2485 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
2486 the PowerPC platform.
2487 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
2488 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
2490 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
2491 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
2492 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
2493 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
2494 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
2495 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2497 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
2498 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
2499 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
2500 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
2501 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
2502 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2503 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
2504 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
2505 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
2506 as the name of a type, or vice versa
2507 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
2508 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
2509 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
2510 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
2511 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
2512 FLET or MACROLET forms
2513 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
2515 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
2517 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
2520 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
2521 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
2522 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
2523 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
2524 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
2525 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
2526 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
2527 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
2528 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
2529 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
2530 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
2531 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
2532 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
2533 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
2534 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
2535 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
2536 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
2537 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
2538 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
2539 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
2540 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
2541 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
2543 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2544 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
2545 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
2546 a file has the stream as its datum.
2547 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
2548 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
2549 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
2550 a correct expected type
2551 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
2552 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
2553 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
2554 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
2555 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
2556 on broadcast streams.
2558 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
2559 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
2560 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
2561 --disable-debugger option instead.
2562 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
2564 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
2565 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
2566 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
2567 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
2568 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
2569 has been added to the manual.
2570 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
2571 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
2572 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
2573 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
2574 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
2575 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
2576 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
2577 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
2578 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
2579 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
2581 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
2582 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
2583 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
2584 (reported by Rajat Datta).
2585 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
2586 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
2588 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
2589 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
2590 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
2591 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
2592 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
2593 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
2594 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
2595 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
2596 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
2597 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
2598 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2599 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
2600 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2601 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
2602 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
2603 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2604 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2605 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
2606 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
2608 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
2610 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
2611 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
2612 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
2613 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
2614 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
2616 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
2617 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
2618 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
2619 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
2620 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2621 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
2622 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
2624 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2625 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
2626 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
2628 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
2629 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
2630 types for complex arguments better.
2631 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
2633 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
2634 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
2636 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
2637 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
2638 resulting in GC crashes.
2639 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
2641 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
2644 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
2645 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
2646 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
2647 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
2648 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
2649 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
2650 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
2651 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
2652 returning to the top level.
2653 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
2654 global optimization policy.
2655 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
2656 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
2657 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
2659 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
2660 various incompatible changes.
2661 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
2662 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
2663 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
2664 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
2665 level local call to FOO".
2666 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
2667 now have more legible printed representation
2668 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
2669 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
2670 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
2671 explicitly requested.
2672 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
2673 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
2674 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
2675 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
2676 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
2678 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
2679 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
2680 (reported by Lutz Euler)
2681 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
2682 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2683 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
2684 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
2685 the specializer is now possible.
2686 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
2687 face of package deletion.
2688 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
2689 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
2690 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
2691 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
2692 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
2693 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
2694 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
2695 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
2696 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2697 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
2699 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2700 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
2701 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
2702 correctable errors to be signalled.
2703 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
2704 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
2707 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
2708 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2709 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
2711 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
2712 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2713 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
2714 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
2715 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
2716 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
2717 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
2718 related to the ~@F format directive.
2719 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
2721 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
2722 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
2723 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
2724 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
2726 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
2728 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
2729 coerce function designators to functions.
2730 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
2731 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
2732 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
2733 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
2734 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
2735 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
2736 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2737 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
2738 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
2739 start of the buffer at the next read.
2740 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
2741 passing it through to OPEN.
2742 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2743 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
2744 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
2745 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
2746 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
2747 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
2748 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
2749 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
2751 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
2752 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2753 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2754 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
2755 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2756 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
2758 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2759 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
2760 secondary constituent character trait.
2761 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
2763 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
2765 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
2766 works more reliably.
2767 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
2768 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
2769 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
2771 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
2772 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
2774 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
2775 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
2776 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
2777 and reloading shared object files.
2778 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2779 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
2781 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
2782 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
2783 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
2785 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
2786 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
2788 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
2790 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
2791 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
2792 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
2793 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2794 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
2795 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
2796 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
2798 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
2799 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
2801 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
2802 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
2803 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
2804 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
2805 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
2807 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
2808 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
2809 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2810 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
2811 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
2812 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
2813 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
2814 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2815 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
2816 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
2817 lisp characters are not eight bits.
2818 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2819 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
2820 the correct number of arguments.
2821 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
2822 to displaced strings.
2823 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
2824 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
2826 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
2827 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
2828 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
2829 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
2830 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
2831 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
2832 available at runtime.
2833 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
2834 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
2835 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
2836 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2837 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
2838 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
2839 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
2840 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
2841 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
2842 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
2843 of lambda-list keywords.
2844 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
2845 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
2847 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
2848 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
2849 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2850 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
2851 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
2852 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
2853 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
2855 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
2856 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2857 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
2858 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
2859 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
2861 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2862 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
2863 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
2864 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
2865 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
2866 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2867 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
2869 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
2870 parameters correctly.
2871 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
2872 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
2873 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
2875 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
2878 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
2879 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
2880 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
2881 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
2883 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
2884 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
2885 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
2886 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
2887 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
2888 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
2889 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
2890 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
2891 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
2893 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
2894 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
2896 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
2898 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
2899 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
2900 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2901 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
2903 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
2904 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2905 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
2906 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
2907 (reported by David Morse)
2908 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
2909 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2910 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
2911 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2912 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
2913 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2914 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
2915 now exists, an signals an error.
2916 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
2917 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
2918 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2919 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
2920 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2921 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
2922 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
2923 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2924 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
2925 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2926 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
2927 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
2929 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
2930 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
2931 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
2932 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
2933 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2934 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
2935 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
2936 specialized array element types.
2937 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
2938 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2939 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
2940 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2941 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
2942 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
2943 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
2944 Wragg for the simple test case)
2945 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2946 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
2948 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
2949 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
2950 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
2951 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
2952 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
2954 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
2956 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
2957 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
2958 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
2959 references to global functions.
2960 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
2962 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
2964 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
2965 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2966 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
2967 supported platforms.
2968 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
2969 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
2970 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
2971 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
2972 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
2973 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2974 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
2975 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2976 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
2977 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
2978 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
2979 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
2980 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
2982 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
2983 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2984 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
2985 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
2986 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
2987 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
2989 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
2990 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
2992 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
2993 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
2994 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
2995 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2996 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
2997 returns the right answer.
2998 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
3000 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
3002 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
3003 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
3005 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
3006 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
3008 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
3009 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
3010 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
3011 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
3012 the supported interface.
3013 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
3014 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
3015 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3016 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
3017 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
3018 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
3019 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
3020 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3021 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
3022 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
3023 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
3024 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
3025 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3026 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
3027 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
3028 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
3029 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
3030 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
3031 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
3032 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
3033 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
3034 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
3035 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
3036 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
3037 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
3038 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
3039 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3040 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
3041 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
3043 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
3044 * incompatible change: the internal functions
3045 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
3046 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
3047 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
3048 instead of the old functions.
3049 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
3050 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
3052 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
3053 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
3055 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
3056 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
3057 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
3058 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
3060 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
3061 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3062 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
3063 (reported by Rick Taube)
3064 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
3065 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
3066 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
3067 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
3069 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
3070 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
3071 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
3072 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
3073 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3074 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
3075 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
3076 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
3077 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
3078 represented relative to default pathnames.
3079 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
3080 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
3081 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
3083 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
3084 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
3085 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
3087 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3088 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
3089 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
3090 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
3092 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
3094 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
3095 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
3096 conditional newlines.
3097 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
3098 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
3099 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
3101 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
3102 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
3104 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
3105 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
3106 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
3107 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
3108 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
3109 compiled in unconditionally.
3110 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
3111 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
3112 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
3113 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
3114 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
3116 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
3117 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
3118 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
3119 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
3120 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
3121 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
3122 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
3123 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
3124 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
3125 an implementation-internal package.
3126 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
3128 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
3129 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
3130 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
3131 bodies are now more legible.
3132 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
3133 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
3134 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
3135 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
3136 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3137 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
3138 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
3140 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
3141 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
3142 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
3143 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
3144 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
3145 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
3146 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
3147 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
3148 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
3149 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
3151 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
3152 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
3153 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
3154 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
3155 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
3156 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
3157 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
3158 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
3159 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
3160 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
3161 system even when most of them are idle
3162 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
3163 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3164 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
3166 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
3167 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
3168 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
3169 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
3170 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
3172 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
3173 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
3174 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
3175 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
3176 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
3177 string for information on the protocol.
3178 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
3179 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
3181 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
3182 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
3184 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
3185 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
3186 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
3187 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
3188 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
3189 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
3191 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
3192 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
3194 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
3195 move between its address being taken and the call to
3196 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
3197 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
3198 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
3199 instances corresponding to C structs.
3201 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
3202 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
3203 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
3204 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
3205 has implications for memory management of client code
3206 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
3207 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
3208 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
3209 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
3210 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
3211 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
3212 quality should be considered deprecated.
3213 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
3214 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
3215 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
3216 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
3217 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
3219 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
3220 designator as the defaults argument.
3221 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
3222 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
3223 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3224 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
3225 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
3227 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
3229 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
3230 (thanks to Zach Beane)
3231 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
3232 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
3233 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3234 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
3236 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
3237 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3238 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
3239 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
3240 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
3241 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
3242 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3243 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
3244 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
3245 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
3246 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
3247 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3248 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
3249 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
3250 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
3251 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
3252 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
3254 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
3255 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
3256 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
3258 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
3259 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3260 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
3261 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
3262 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
3263 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
3264 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3265 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
3266 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
3268 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
3269 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
3271 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
3272 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
3274 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
3275 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3276 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
3277 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
3279 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
3280 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
3281 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3282 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
3283 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
3284 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
3285 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
3286 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
3288 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
3289 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
3290 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
3292 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
3293 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
3295 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3296 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
3298 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
3299 from local to shared slots.
3300 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
3301 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
3302 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
3303 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
3305 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
3306 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
3307 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
3308 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
3309 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
3310 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
3311 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
3312 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
3313 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
3315 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
3317 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
3319 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
3320 print using #P"..." syntax.
3322 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
3323 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
3324 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
3325 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
3326 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
3327 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
3328 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
3329 * [placeholder for DX summary]
3330 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
3331 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
3332 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
3333 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
3334 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
3335 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
3336 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
3337 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
3338 the test case to Dave Roberts)
3339 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
3340 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
3341 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
3342 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
3343 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
3344 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
3345 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
3346 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3347 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
3348 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
3349 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
3350 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
3351 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3352 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
3353 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
3356 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
3357 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
3358 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
3359 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
3360 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
3361 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
3362 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
3363 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
3364 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
3365 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3366 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
3367 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
3368 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
3370 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
3371 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
3373 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
3374 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
3375 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3376 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
3377 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3378 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
3380 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
3381 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
3382 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
3384 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
3386 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
3388 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
3389 their output stream on EOF from read.
3390 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
3391 have been read to end-of-file.
3392 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
3394 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
3395 description of determination of which consecutive characters
3397 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
3398 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
3399 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3400 less than 10 works correctly.
3401 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3402 more than 10 works correctly.
3403 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
3404 the readtable currently in effect.
3406 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
3407 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
3408 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
3409 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
3410 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
3411 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
3412 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
3413 should usually be replaced by
3414 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
3415 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
3416 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
3417 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
3418 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
3419 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
3420 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
3421 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
3423 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
3424 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
3425 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
3426 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
3427 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
3428 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3429 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
3430 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
3431 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
3432 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
3433 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
3434 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
3435 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
3437 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
3438 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
3439 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
3440 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3441 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
3442 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
3443 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
3444 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3445 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
3446 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
3447 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
3448 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
3449 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
3450 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
3451 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3452 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
3453 non-local entry points.
3454 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
3456 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
3457 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
3459 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
3460 host is already defined.
3461 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
3463 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
3464 or not a character is whitespace.
3465 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
3466 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
3467 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
3469 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
3470 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
3472 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
3474 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
3475 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
3476 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
3477 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
3478 designator argument does not designate a stream.
3479 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
3480 examining the synonym.
3481 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
3483 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
3484 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
3486 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
3487 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
3488 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
3489 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
3490 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
3491 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
3492 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
3493 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
3494 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
3495 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3496 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
3497 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
3499 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
3500 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
3501 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3502 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
3503 stream position information.
3504 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
3505 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
3506 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
3507 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
3508 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3509 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
3511 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
3512 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
3514 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
3515 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3516 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
3517 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
3518 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
3519 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
3520 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
3522 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
3524 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
3525 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
3526 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
3527 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
3528 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
3529 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
3530 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
3531 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
3532 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
3533 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
3534 the "SYS" logical host.
3535 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
3536 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
3537 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
3538 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3539 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
3540 now each have their own history, command character, and other
3541 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3542 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3543 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
3545 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
3546 shift greater than 32.
3547 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
3548 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
3549 in some circumstances.
3551 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
3552 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
3553 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
3554 environments like SLIME.
3555 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
3556 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
3557 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
3558 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
3559 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
3560 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
3561 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
3562 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
3563 argument types for all arguments.
3564 * various threading fixes
3565 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
3566 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
3567 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
3568 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
3570 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
3571 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
3572 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
3573 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
3574 arguments to a full call.
3575 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
3576 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
3577 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
3578 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
3580 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
3581 inserts a space where necessary.
3582 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
3583 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
3584 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
3585 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
3586 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
3587 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
3588 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
3589 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
3590 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
3591 counter now raises a meaningful error.
3592 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
3593 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
3595 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
3596 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
3597 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
3599 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
3601 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3602 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
3603 argument and negative second.
3604 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
3605 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
3606 interval, containing 0.
3607 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
3609 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
3610 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
3612 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
3613 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
3614 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
3615 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
3616 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
3617 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
3618 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
3619 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
3620 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
3621 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
3622 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
3623 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
3624 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
3625 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
3626 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
3627 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
3628 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
3629 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
3630 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
3631 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
3632 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
3633 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3634 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
3635 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
3636 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
3637 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
3638 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
3639 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
3640 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
3642 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
3643 platform now returns the right answer.
3644 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
3645 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
3646 precomputation is now tunable.
3647 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
3648 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
3649 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
3650 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
3651 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
3652 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
3653 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
3654 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
3655 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
3656 has been added for the alpha.
3657 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
3658 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
3659 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
3660 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
3661 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
3662 MEMBER-types to numeric.
3663 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
3665 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
3666 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
3667 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
3669 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
3670 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3671 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
3672 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
3673 might be pseudo-atomic.
3674 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
3675 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
3677 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
3679 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
3681 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
3682 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
3683 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
3684 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
3685 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
3686 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
3688 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3689 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
3690 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
3691 small float arguments.
3692 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
3694 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
3695 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
3696 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
3697 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
3698 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
3699 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
3701 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
3703 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
3704 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
3705 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
3706 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
3707 with negative last argument.
3708 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
3709 an error during type derivation.
3710 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
3712 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
3713 generates a 32-bit binary.
3714 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3715 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
3716 data structures referred to above).
3718 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
3719 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
3720 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
3721 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
3722 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
3723 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
3724 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
3725 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
3726 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
3727 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3728 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
3729 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
3731 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
3732 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
3734 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
3735 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
3736 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
3737 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
3738 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
3739 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
3740 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
3741 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
3742 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
3743 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
3744 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
3745 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3746 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
3747 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
3748 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
3749 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
3750 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
3751 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3752 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
3753 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
3754 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
3755 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
3756 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3757 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
3758 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
3759 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
3760 optimization quality.
3761 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
3762 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
3763 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
3764 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
3765 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3766 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3767 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
3768 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
3769 types form a lattice under type intersection.
3770 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
3771 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
3772 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
3773 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
3774 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
3775 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
3776 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
3777 calling the generic function.
3778 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
3779 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
3780 obscure ANSI requirements
3782 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
3783 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
3784 garbage, confusing the compiler.
3785 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
3786 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
3787 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
3788 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
3789 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
3790 circumstances could go off-by-one.
3791 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
3793 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
3794 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
3795 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
3796 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
3797 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
3798 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
3799 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
3800 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
3801 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
3802 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3803 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
3804 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
3805 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
3806 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
3807 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
3808 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
3809 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
3810 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
3811 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
3812 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
3814 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
3815 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
3816 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
3817 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
3819 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
3820 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
3821 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
3822 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
3823 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
3824 provide helpful disassembly notes.
3825 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
3826 the class in more cases than previously.
3827 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
3828 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3829 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
3830 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3831 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
3832 without lambda list.
3833 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
3834 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
3835 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3836 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
3837 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
3838 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
3840 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
3841 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
3842 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
3844 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
3845 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
3846 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
3847 were silently accepted).
3848 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
3849 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
3850 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
3851 to warn on static type mismatches and function
3852 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
3853 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
3854 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
3855 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
3856 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
3857 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
3858 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
3859 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
3860 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
3861 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
3863 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
3864 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
3865 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
3866 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
3867 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
3868 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
3870 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
3871 keywords or constants is permissible.
3872 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
3873 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
3874 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
3875 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
3876 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
3877 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
3878 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
3879 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
3881 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
3882 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3883 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
3884 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
3885 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3886 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
3887 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
3889 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
3891 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
3892 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
3893 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
3894 respectively change and preserve the value.
3895 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
3896 is now better at handling symbol macros.
3897 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
3898 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
3899 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
3900 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
3901 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
3902 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
3903 their use properly signals an error now.
3904 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
3905 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
3906 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
3907 * fixed simple vector readable printing
3908 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
3909 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
3910 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
3911 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
3912 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
3913 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
3914 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3915 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
3916 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3917 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
3918 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
3919 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3920 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
3921 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
3922 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
3923 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
3924 causes a type error.
3925 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
3926 association between the name and a class.
3927 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
3928 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
3929 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3930 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
3931 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
3932 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
3934 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
3935 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
3936 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
3937 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
3939 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
3940 which its argument is a member.
3941 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
3942 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
3943 otherwise, it creates a new class.
3944 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
3945 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
3946 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
3947 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
3948 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
3949 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
3951 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
3952 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
3953 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
3954 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
3955 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
3956 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
3957 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
3959 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
3960 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
3961 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
3962 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
3963 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
3964 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
3965 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
3966 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
3967 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
3968 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
3969 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
3970 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
3971 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3972 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
3974 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
3975 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
3976 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
3977 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
3978 superclasses are applied.
3979 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
3980 no method was removed.
3981 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
3982 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
3983 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
3984 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
3986 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
3988 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
3989 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
3990 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
3991 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
3992 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
3993 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
3994 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
3995 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
3996 function lambda list.
3997 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
3999 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
4000 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
4001 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
4002 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
4004 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
4005 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
4006 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
4007 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
4008 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
4009 they look for GNU "make".
4011 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
4012 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
4013 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
4014 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
4016 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
4017 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
4018 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
4019 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
4020 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
4021 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
4022 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
4023 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
4024 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
4025 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
4027 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
4028 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
4029 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
4030 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
4031 libraries, and will know who they are.
4032 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
4033 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
4034 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
4035 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
4036 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
4037 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
4038 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
4039 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
4041 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
4042 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
4043 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4044 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
4045 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
4046 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
4047 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
4048 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
4049 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
4050 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
4051 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4052 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
4054 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
4055 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
4056 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
4057 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
4058 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4059 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
4060 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
4061 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
4062 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
4064 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
4065 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
4066 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
4067 this you were probably losing anyway.
4068 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
4069 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
4070 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
4071 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
4072 with names from the CL package.
4073 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
4074 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
4075 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
4076 documentation string.
4077 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4078 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
4080 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
4081 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
4082 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
4083 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
4085 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
4086 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
4088 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
4089 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4090 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
4092 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
4093 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
4094 arguments contain duplicated elements.
4095 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
4096 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
4097 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
4098 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
4099 in question is unbound.
4100 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
4101 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
4102 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
4103 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
4104 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
4106 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
4108 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
4109 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
4110 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
4111 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
4112 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
4113 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
4114 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
4115 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
4116 by Antonio Martinez)
4117 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
4118 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4119 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
4120 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
4121 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
4122 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
4123 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
4124 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4125 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
4126 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
4127 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
4128 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
4129 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
4130 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
4131 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
4132 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
4133 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
4134 on malformed property lists;
4136 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
4137 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
4138 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
4139 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
4140 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
4141 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
4142 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
4143 modules in this release include:
4144 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
4145 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
4146 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
4147 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4148 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
4150 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
4151 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
4152 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4153 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4154 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
4155 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
4156 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
4157 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
4159 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
4160 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
4161 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
4162 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
4163 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
4164 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
4165 the lexical environment.
4166 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
4167 unprintable packages can now be defined.
4168 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
4169 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4170 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
4171 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4172 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
4173 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
4174 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
4175 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
4176 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
4177 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
4178 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
4179 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
4180 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4181 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
4182 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4183 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
4184 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
4185 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
4186 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4187 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
4188 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
4189 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
4190 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
4192 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
4193 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
4194 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
4195 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4196 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
4197 not just nonnegative fixnums;
4198 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
4199 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
4200 freshly-consed result bit-array);
4201 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
4203 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
4204 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
4206 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
4207 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
4208 cases are accurately computed;
4209 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
4210 if it is in the last clause;
4211 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
4213 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
4214 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
4215 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
4216 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
4218 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
4219 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
4220 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
4221 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
4222 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
4224 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
4225 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
4226 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
4227 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
4229 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4230 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
4231 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
4232 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
4233 not cause a type error;
4234 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
4236 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
4237 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
4238 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
4239 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
4240 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
4241 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
4242 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
4243 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
4245 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
4246 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
4247 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
4248 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
4249 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
4250 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
4252 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
4253 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
4255 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
4256 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
4257 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
4258 only for symbols in the CL package.
4259 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
4260 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4261 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
4262 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
4263 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
4265 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4266 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
4267 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
4268 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
4269 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
4270 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
4271 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
4272 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
4273 conditional loop clause;
4274 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
4275 signals a type error iff it should.
4276 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4277 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
4278 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
4279 argument) no longer signals an error;
4280 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
4281 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
4282 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
4284 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
4285 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
4286 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
4288 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
4289 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
4290 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
4291 functionality on said platforms verified.
4292 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
4293 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
4295 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
4296 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
4297 component indicating that directory.
4298 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
4299 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
4300 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
4301 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
4302 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4303 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
4305 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
4306 primary methods with no specializers;
4307 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
4309 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
4310 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
4311 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
4312 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
4314 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
4315 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
4316 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
4318 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
4319 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
4320 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
4321 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
4322 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
4323 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
4324 class STANDARD-CLASS;
4325 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
4326 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4327 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
4328 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
4330 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
4331 value producing form;
4332 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
4333 variables are bound and made to have no value;
4334 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
4336 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
4337 is not a valid sequence index;
4338 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
4339 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
4340 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4341 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
4343 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
4344 symbol-macro places;
4345 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
4346 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
4348 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
4350 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
4352 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
4353 invariant when deleting code.
4354 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
4355 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
4357 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
4358 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4359 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
4361 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
4362 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
4364 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
4365 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
4366 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4367 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
4369 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
4370 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4371 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
4372 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
4374 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
4375 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
4376 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
4377 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
4378 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4379 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
4380 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
4381 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
4382 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
4383 sbcl and .core files.)
4384 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
4385 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
4386 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
4387 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
4388 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
4389 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4390 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
4392 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
4393 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
4394 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
4395 argument precedence order.
4396 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
4397 derived types contradict their declared type.
4398 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
4399 so it can be non-toplevel.
4400 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
4401 implementation of DEFMACRO).
4402 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
4403 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
4404 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
4406 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
4407 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
4408 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
4409 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
4410 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
4411 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
4412 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
4413 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
4414 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
4415 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
4416 symbol macro only once
4417 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
4418 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
4419 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
4422 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
4423 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
4424 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
4425 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
4426 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
4427 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
4428 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
4429 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
4430 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
4431 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4432 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
4433 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
4435 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
4436 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
4437 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
4438 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
4439 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4440 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
4442 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
4444 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
4445 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
4446 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
4447 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
4448 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4449 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
4450 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
4451 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
4452 ways in different special cases
4453 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
4455 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
4456 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
4457 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
4458 are no longer optimized away.
4459 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
4460 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
4461 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
4462 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
4463 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
4464 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
4465 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
4466 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
4469 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
4470 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
4471 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
4472 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
4473 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
4474 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
4475 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
4477 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
4478 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
4479 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
4480 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
4481 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
4482 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
4483 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
4484 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
4485 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
4486 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
4487 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
4488 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
4489 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
4490 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
4491 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
4492 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
4493 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
4494 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4495 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
4496 that are names of constants or global variables.
4497 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
4498 alien routines with docstrings.
4499 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
4500 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
4502 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
4503 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
4504 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
4505 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4506 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
4507 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4508 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
4509 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
4510 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
4511 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4512 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
4513 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
4514 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
4515 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
4516 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
4517 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
4518 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
4519 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
4520 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
4521 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
4522 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
4523 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
4524 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
4526 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
4527 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
4529 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
4530 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
4531 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
4532 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
4533 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
4534 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
4535 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
4536 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
4537 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
4538 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
4540 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
4541 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
4542 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
4543 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
4544 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
4545 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
4546 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
4547 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
4548 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
4549 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
4550 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
4551 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
4552 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
4553 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
4554 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
4555 is no longer a static symbol.)
4557 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
4558 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
4559 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
4560 bootstrapping under CLISP.
4561 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
4563 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
4564 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
4566 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
4567 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
4568 to David Lichteblau)
4569 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
4570 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
4571 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
4573 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
4574 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
4575 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
4576 count as they should.
4577 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
4578 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
4579 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
4580 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
4581 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
4582 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
4583 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
4584 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
4585 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
4586 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
4587 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
4588 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
4589 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
4590 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
4591 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
4593 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
4594 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
4595 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
4597 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
4599 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
4600 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
4601 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
4602 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
4603 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
4604 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
4605 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
4607 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
4608 to Christophe Rhodes)
4609 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
4610 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
4611 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
4612 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
4613 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
4614 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
4615 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
4617 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
4618 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
4619 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
4620 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
4621 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
4622 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4623 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
4624 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
4625 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
4626 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
4627 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
4628 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
4629 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
4631 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
4632 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
4633 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
4634 INFO database to support symbol macros.
4635 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
4636 (thanks to coreythomas)
4637 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
4638 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
4639 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
4640 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
4641 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
4643 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
4644 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
4645 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
4646 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
4647 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
4648 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
4649 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
4650 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
4651 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
4652 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4653 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
4654 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
4655 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
4657 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
4658 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
4661 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
4662 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
4663 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
4664 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
4665 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
4666 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
4667 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
4668 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
4669 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
4670 systems than the old 4M value was)
4671 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
4672 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
4673 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
4674 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
4675 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
4676 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
4677 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
4679 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
4680 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
4681 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
4682 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
4683 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
4685 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
4686 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
4687 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
4688 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
4689 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
4690 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
4691 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
4692 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
4694 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
4695 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
4696 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
4697 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4698 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
4699 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
4700 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
4701 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
4703 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
4704 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4705 * several changes related to debugging:
4706 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
4707 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
4708 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
4709 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
4710 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
4711 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
4712 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
4715 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
4717 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
4718 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
4719 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
4720 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
4721 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
4722 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
4723 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
4724 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
4726 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
4727 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
4728 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
4729 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4730 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
4731 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
4732 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
4733 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
4734 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
4735 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
4736 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
4737 file format number to change again.
4739 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
4740 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
4741 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
4742 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
4744 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
4745 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
4746 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
4747 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
4748 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
4749 FUNCALL on the result.
4750 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
4751 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
4752 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
4753 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
4754 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
4755 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
4756 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
4757 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
4759 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
4760 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
4761 the old compiler produced.
4762 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
4763 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
4764 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
4765 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
4766 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
4767 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
4768 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
4769 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
4770 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
4771 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
4772 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
4773 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
4774 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
4775 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
4776 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
4777 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
4778 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
4779 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
4780 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
4781 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
4782 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
4783 straightened out in some future version.)
4784 * minor incompatible changes:
4785 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
4786 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
4787 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
4788 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
4789 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
4790 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
4791 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
4792 implementation dependent:
4793 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
4794 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
4795 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
4796 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
4797 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
4798 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
4799 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
4800 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
4802 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
4804 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
4805 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
4806 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
4807 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
4808 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
4809 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
4810 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
4811 are no longer used for output.
4812 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
4813 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
4814 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
4815 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
4816 increasing it even more.)
4817 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
4818 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
4819 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
4821 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
4822 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
4823 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
4824 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
4825 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
4826 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
4827 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
4828 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
4829 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
4830 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
4831 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
4832 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
4833 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
4834 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
4835 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
4836 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
4837 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
4838 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
4839 compilation of code which calls such functions.
4840 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
4841 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
4842 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
4843 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
4844 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
4845 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
4846 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
4847 built into the system.
4848 * many other bug fixes
4849 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
4850 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
4851 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
4852 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
4853 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
4855 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
4856 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
4857 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
4858 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
4859 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
4860 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
4861 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
4862 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
4863 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
4864 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
4865 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
4867 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
4868 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
4869 and several other LOOP problems as well
4870 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
4871 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
4872 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
4873 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
4874 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
4875 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
4876 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
4877 *** a bug in APROPOS
4878 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
4879 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
4880 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
4881 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
4882 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
4883 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
4884 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
4885 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
4886 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
4887 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
4888 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
4889 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
4890 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
4891 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
4892 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
4894 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
4895 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
4896 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
4897 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
4898 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
4899 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
4900 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
4901 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
4902 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
4903 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
4904 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
4905 some of which are apparent above.
4907 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
4908 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
4909 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
4910 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
4911 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
4912 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
4913 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
4914 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
4915 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
4916 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
4917 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
4918 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
4919 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
4920 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
4921 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
4922 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
4923 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
4924 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
4925 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
4926 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
4927 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
4928 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
4929 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
4930 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
4931 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
4932 different return types.
4933 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
4934 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
4935 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
4936 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
4937 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
4938 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
4939 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
4940 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
4941 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
4942 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
4944 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
4945 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
4946 does the right thing.
4947 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
4948 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
4949 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
4950 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
4951 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
4952 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
4953 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
4954 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
4955 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
4956 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
4957 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
4958 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
4959 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
4960 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
4961 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
4962 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
4963 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
4964 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
4965 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
4966 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
4967 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
4968 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
4969 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
4970 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
4971 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
4972 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
4973 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
4974 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
4975 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
4976 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
4977 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
4978 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
4979 since historically most system changes which required version
4980 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
4981 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
4984 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
4985 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
4986 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
4987 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
4988 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
4989 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
4990 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
4991 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
4992 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
4993 half a dozen others elsewhere
4994 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
4995 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
4996 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
4997 as flaky as they were.
4998 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
4999 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
5000 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
5001 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
5002 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
5003 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
5004 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
5005 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
5007 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
5008 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
5009 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
5010 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5011 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
5012 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
5013 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
5014 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
5015 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
5016 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
5017 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
5018 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
5019 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
5020 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
5021 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
5022 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
5023 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
5024 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
5025 more obscure bugs as well
5026 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
5027 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
5028 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
5029 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
5030 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
5031 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
5032 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
5033 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
5034 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
5035 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
5036 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
5038 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
5039 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
5041 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
5043 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5044 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
5045 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
5046 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
5047 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
5048 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
5049 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
5050 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
5051 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
5052 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
5053 are local in this sense.)
5054 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
5055 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
5056 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
5057 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
5058 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
5059 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
5060 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5061 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
5062 system's STREAM objects.
5063 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
5064 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5065 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
5066 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5067 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
5068 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
5069 environment from the original process instead of starting the
5070 new process in an empty environment.
5071 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
5072 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
5073 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
5074 for porting convenience.
5075 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
5076 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
5078 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
5080 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
5081 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
5082 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
5083 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
5084 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
5085 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
5086 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
5087 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
5088 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
5089 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
5090 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
5091 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5092 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
5093 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
5094 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
5095 many fewer weird special cases.
5096 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
5097 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
5098 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5099 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
5100 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
5101 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
5102 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
5103 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
5104 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
5105 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5106 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
5109 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
5111 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
5112 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
5113 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
5115 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
5116 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
5117 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
5118 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
5119 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
5120 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
5121 should be constructed the same way as before.
5122 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
5123 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
5124 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
5125 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
5126 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
5127 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
5128 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
5129 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
5130 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
5131 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
5132 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
5133 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
5134 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
5135 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
5136 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
5137 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
5138 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
5139 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
5140 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
5141 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
5142 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
5143 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
5145 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
5146 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
5147 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
5148 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
5149 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
5150 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
5151 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
5152 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
5154 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
5156 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
5157 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
5158 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
5159 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
5160 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
5162 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
5163 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
5164 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
5165 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
5166 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
5167 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
5168 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
5169 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
5170 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
5171 and Douglas Crosher.
5172 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
5173 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
5174 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
5176 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
5177 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
5178 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
5179 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
5180 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
5181 undefined function error.
5182 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
5183 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
5184 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
5185 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
5186 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
5187 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
5188 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
5189 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
5190 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
5191 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
5192 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
5193 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
5194 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
5196 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
5198 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
5199 CVS repository on my home machine).
5200 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
5201 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
5202 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
5203 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
5204 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
5205 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
5206 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
5207 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
5208 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
5209 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
5210 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
5211 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
5212 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
5213 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
5214 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
5215 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
5216 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
5217 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
5218 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
5219 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
5220 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
5221 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
5223 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
5224 FreeBSD have been added.
5225 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
5226 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
5227 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
5228 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
5229 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
5230 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
5232 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
5233 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
5234 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
5235 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
5236 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
5237 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
5238 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
5239 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
5241 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
5242 away by constant folding
5243 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
5244 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
5245 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
5246 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
5247 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
5248 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
5249 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
5250 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
5251 diff-related operations.
5252 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
5253 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
5255 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
5257 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
5258 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
5259 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
5260 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
5261 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
5262 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
5263 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
5264 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
5265 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
5266 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
5267 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
5268 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
5269 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
5270 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
5271 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
5272 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
5273 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
5274 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
5275 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
5276 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
5277 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
5278 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
5279 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
5280 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
5281 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
5282 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
5283 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
5284 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
5285 instead of (VALUES T T).
5286 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
5287 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
5288 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
5289 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
5290 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
5291 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
5292 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
5293 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
5294 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
5295 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
5296 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
5297 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
5298 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
5299 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
5300 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
5301 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
5302 type will be interpreted at runtime.
5303 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
5304 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
5305 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
5306 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
5307 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
5308 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
5309 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
5310 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
5311 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
5312 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
5313 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
5314 fasl files for cold load.
5315 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
5316 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
5317 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
5318 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
5319 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
5320 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
5321 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
5322 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
5323 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
5324 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
5325 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
5327 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
5328 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
5329 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
5330 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
5331 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
5332 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
5333 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
5334 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
5335 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
5336 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
5337 renamed some files to increase consistency.
5338 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
5339 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
5340 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
5341 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
5342 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
5343 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
5345 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
5347 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
5348 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
5349 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
5350 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
5351 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
5352 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
5353 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
5354 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
5355 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
5356 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
5357 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
5358 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
5359 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
5360 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
5361 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
5362 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
5363 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
5364 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
5366 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
5367 as required by ANSI.
5368 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
5369 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
5370 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
5371 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
5373 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
5374 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
5375 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
5376 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
5377 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
5378 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
5379 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
5380 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
5382 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
5383 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
5384 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
5385 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5387 is now basically equivalent to
5388 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5389 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
5391 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
5392 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
5393 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
5394 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
5395 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
5396 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
5397 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
5398 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
5399 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
5400 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
5401 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
5402 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
5403 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
5404 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
5405 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
5406 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5407 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
5408 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
5409 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
5410 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
5411 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
5412 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
5413 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
5415 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
5417 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
5418 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
5419 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
5420 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
5421 GNUMAKE environment variable.
5422 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
5423 can build without error under CMU CL.
5425 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
5427 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
5428 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
5429 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
5430 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
5431 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
5432 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
5433 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
5434 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
5435 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
5436 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
5437 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
5438 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
5439 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
5440 being initialized before the type system knew the final
5441 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
5442 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
5443 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
5444 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
5445 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
5446 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
5447 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
5448 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
5449 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
5450 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
5452 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
5453 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
5454 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
5455 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
5456 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
5457 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
5458 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
5459 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
5460 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
5461 it were currently supported.
5462 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
5463 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
5464 having to maintain patches.
5465 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
5466 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
5468 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
5470 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
5471 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
5472 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
5473 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
5474 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
5475 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
5476 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
5477 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
5478 * various new style warnings:
5479 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
5480 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
5481 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
5482 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
5483 as specified by ANSI.
5484 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
5485 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
5486 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
5487 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
5488 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
5489 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
5490 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
5491 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
5492 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
5493 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
5494 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
5495 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
5496 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
5497 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
5498 argument types can be determined at compile time.
5499 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
5500 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
5501 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
5502 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
5503 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
5504 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
5505 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
5508 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
5510 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
5511 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
5512 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
5513 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
5514 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
5515 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
5516 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
5517 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
5518 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
5520 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
5521 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
5522 the report form was printed.)
5523 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
5524 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
5525 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
5526 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
5527 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
5528 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
5529 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
5530 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
5531 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
5532 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
5533 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
5534 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
5535 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
5536 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
5537 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
5538 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
5539 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
5540 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
5541 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
5542 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
5543 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
5544 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
5545 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
5546 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
5547 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
5548 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
5549 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
5550 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
5551 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
5552 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
5553 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
5554 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
5555 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
5556 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
5557 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
5558 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
5559 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
5560 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
5561 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
5562 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
5563 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
5564 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
5565 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
5566 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
5567 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
5568 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
5569 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
5570 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
5571 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
5572 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
5573 know more about target types.
5574 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
5575 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
5576 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
5577 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
5578 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
5579 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
5581 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
5582 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
5583 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
5584 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
5585 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
5586 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
5587 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
5588 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
5589 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
5590 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
5591 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
5592 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
5593 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
5595 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
5598 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
5600 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
5601 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
5602 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
5603 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
5604 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
5605 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
5606 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
5607 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
5608 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
5609 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
5610 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
5611 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
5612 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
5613 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
5614 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
5615 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
5616 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
5617 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
5618 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
5619 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
5620 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
5621 invisible at the user level.)
5622 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
5623 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
5624 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
5626 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
5628 * tidied up "make.sh" script
5629 * tidied up system directory structure
5630 * better "clean.sh" behavior
5631 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
5632 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
5633 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
5634 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
5635 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
5636 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
5637 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
5638 * command line argument processing
5639 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
5640 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
5641 terminating SBCL on EOF
5642 * non-verbose GC by default
5643 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
5644 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
5645 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
5647 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
5648 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
5649 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
5650 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
5651 transformed along with everything else.
5652 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
5653 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
5654 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
5655 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
5656 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
5657 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
5658 debugging and testing purposes
5659 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
5660 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
5661 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
5662 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
5663 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
5664 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
5665 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
5667 * regularized formatting of source files
5668 * added an install.sh script
5669 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
5670 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
5671 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
5672 builds nicely on my old laptop.
5673 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
5674 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
5675 was not implemented)
5676 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
5677 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
5678 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
5679 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
5680 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
5682 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
5683 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
5684 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
5685 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
5686 COMPILE-FILE command)
5687 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
5688 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
5689 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
5690 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
5691 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
5692 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
5693 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
5694 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
5695 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
5696 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
5697 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
5698 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
5699 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
5700 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
5701 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
5703 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
5704 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
5705 known to be able to handle the current sources
5706 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
5707 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
5708 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
5709 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
5710 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
5711 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
5712 * removed host-oops.lisp
5713 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
5714 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
5715 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
5716 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
5717 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
5718 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by