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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
3 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
4 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
5 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
7 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
8 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
9 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
10 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
11 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
13 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
14 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
15 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
16 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
17 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
18 addition member types.
19 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
20 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
21 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
22 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
23 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
25 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
26 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
27 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
29 * bug fix: interrupts arriving due to CL:OPEN caused an error.
30 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
31 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
32 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
33 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
34 * improvements to the Windows port:
35 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
36 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
37 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
39 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
40 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
41 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
42 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
43 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
44 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
46 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
47 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
48 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
49 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
50 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
51 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
52 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
53 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
54 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
55 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
56 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
57 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
58 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
59 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
60 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
61 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
62 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
63 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
65 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
66 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
67 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
68 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
71 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
72 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
73 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
74 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
75 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
76 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
77 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
78 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
80 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
82 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
83 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
84 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
86 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
87 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
88 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
89 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
90 thanks to Andrew Golding)
91 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
92 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
94 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
95 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
96 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
97 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
98 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
99 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
100 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
101 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
102 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
103 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
104 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
105 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
106 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
107 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
109 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
110 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
111 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
112 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
113 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
114 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
115 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
116 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
117 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
118 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
119 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
120 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
121 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
122 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
123 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
124 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
125 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
126 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
127 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
129 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
131 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
132 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
134 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
136 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
137 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
138 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
139 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
140 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
141 * optimization: The default implementation of
142 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
143 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
144 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
145 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
146 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
147 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
148 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
149 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
150 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
151 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
152 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
154 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
155 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
156 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
157 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
158 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
159 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
161 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
163 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
164 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
165 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
166 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
167 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
168 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
170 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
172 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
173 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
175 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
176 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
178 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
179 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
180 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
181 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
182 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
183 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
184 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
185 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
186 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
187 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
188 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
189 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
191 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
193 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
194 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
195 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
196 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
197 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
198 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
199 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
200 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
201 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
202 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
204 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
205 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
206 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
208 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
209 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
210 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
212 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
213 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
214 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
216 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
217 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
218 generic function call.
219 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
220 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
221 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
223 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
225 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
226 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
227 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
228 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
229 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
230 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
231 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
232 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
233 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
234 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
235 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
236 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
237 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
238 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
239 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
241 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
242 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
243 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
244 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
245 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
246 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
247 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
248 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
249 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
250 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
251 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
252 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
253 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
254 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
255 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
256 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
257 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
258 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
259 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
260 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
261 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
262 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
263 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
264 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
265 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
267 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
268 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
269 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
271 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
272 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
274 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
275 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
276 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
277 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
279 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
280 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
281 stack frame thrown from.
282 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
283 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
284 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
285 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
287 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
288 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
289 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
290 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
291 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
292 for accessing such arrays.
293 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
294 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
295 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
296 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
297 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
298 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
299 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
300 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
301 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
302 functions. (lp#524707)
303 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
304 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
305 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
306 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
307 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
308 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
309 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
310 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
311 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
312 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
313 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
314 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
315 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
316 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
318 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
319 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
320 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
321 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
322 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
324 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
325 declarations (lp#497321)
326 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
327 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
328 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
330 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
331 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
332 due to it, so that handlers can run.
333 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
335 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
336 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
337 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
338 expanded calls (lp#542174)
339 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
340 than just at toplevel form.
342 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
343 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
344 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
345 but work on type specifiers.
346 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
347 to name a type specifier.
348 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
349 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
350 second argument of TYPEP".
351 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
352 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
353 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
354 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
355 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
356 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
357 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
358 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
359 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
360 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
361 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
362 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
363 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
365 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
367 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
368 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
370 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
371 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
372 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
373 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
374 before reaching the erring stack frame.
375 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
376 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
377 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
378 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
379 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
380 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
381 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
382 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
384 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
385 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
386 is properly inlined when possible.
387 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
388 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
389 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
390 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
391 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
392 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
393 launchpad bug lp#508485)
394 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
395 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
396 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
397 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
398 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
399 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
401 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
402 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
404 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
406 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
407 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
408 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
409 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
410 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
411 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
412 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
414 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
415 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
416 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
417 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
418 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
419 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
420 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
421 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
422 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
423 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
424 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
425 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
426 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
427 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
429 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
432 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
433 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
434 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
435 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
436 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
437 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
438 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
439 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
441 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
442 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
443 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
444 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
446 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
447 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
448 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
449 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
450 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
451 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
453 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
454 errors for fd-stream external formats.
455 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
456 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
457 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
458 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
459 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
461 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
462 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
463 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
464 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
466 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
467 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
468 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
469 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
470 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
472 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
473 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
474 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
475 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
476 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
477 error is near the end of file.
478 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
479 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
480 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
481 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
482 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
483 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
484 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
485 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
486 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
487 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
488 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
489 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
490 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
491 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
492 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
493 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
494 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
495 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
496 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
497 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
498 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
499 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
500 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
501 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
503 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
504 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
505 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
506 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
507 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
508 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
509 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
510 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
511 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
513 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
514 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
515 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
516 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
518 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
519 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
520 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
522 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
524 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
525 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
527 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
528 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
529 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
530 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
531 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
532 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
533 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
534 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
535 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
536 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
537 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
538 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
539 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
541 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
542 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
543 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
544 open coded is now considered a bug.
545 * improvements related to Unicode:
546 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
547 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
548 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
550 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
552 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
553 (as well as for stream operations).
554 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
555 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
557 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
558 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
560 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
562 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
563 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
564 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
565 constant two has been optimized.
566 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
567 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
568 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
569 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
570 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
571 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
572 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
573 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
574 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
575 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
576 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
577 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
578 but assumed or declared function as well.
579 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
580 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
581 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
582 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
584 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
585 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
586 well as user defined declaration names.
587 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
588 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
590 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
591 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
592 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
593 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
594 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
596 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
598 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
600 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
601 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
602 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
603 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
604 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
605 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
606 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
607 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
608 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
610 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
611 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
612 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
613 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
614 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
615 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
617 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
618 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
619 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
620 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
621 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
622 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
623 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
624 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
626 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
627 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
628 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
629 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
630 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
631 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
632 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
633 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
634 values in other threads.
635 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
636 about object allocation.
637 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
638 with a specialised code sequence.
639 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
640 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
641 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
642 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
643 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
644 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
645 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
646 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
647 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
648 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
650 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
652 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
653 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
654 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
655 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
656 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
657 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
658 unboxed format on x86[-64].
659 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
660 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
661 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
662 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
663 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
665 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
666 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
667 contains more pertinent information.
668 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
669 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
670 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
671 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
672 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
673 types. (reported by "abhi")
674 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
675 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
676 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
677 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
678 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
679 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
680 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
681 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
682 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
683 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
684 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
685 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
686 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
687 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
688 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
689 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
690 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
691 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
693 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
694 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
695 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
696 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
697 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
698 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
699 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
701 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
702 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
703 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
704 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
705 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
706 (no subscription required.)
707 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
708 types are weakened less aggressively.
709 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
710 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
711 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
712 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
713 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
714 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
715 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
716 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
718 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
719 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
720 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
721 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
723 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
724 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
725 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
727 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
728 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
729 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
731 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
732 is known are 50% faster.
733 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
734 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
736 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
737 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
738 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
739 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
740 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
742 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
743 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
744 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
745 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
746 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
747 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
749 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
750 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
751 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
752 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
753 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
754 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
755 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
756 to Tobias Rittweiler)
757 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
758 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
759 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
760 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
761 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
762 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
763 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
764 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
765 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
766 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
767 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
769 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
770 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
771 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
772 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
774 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
775 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
776 result register (bug 316325).
777 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
778 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
779 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
780 generate incorrect code.
781 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
782 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
783 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
784 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
786 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
787 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
788 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
789 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
790 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
791 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
792 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
793 from :INITFORM, if any.
795 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
796 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
797 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
798 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
799 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
801 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
802 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
803 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
804 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
805 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
806 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
807 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
808 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
809 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
810 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
812 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
813 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
814 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
815 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
816 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
817 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
818 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
819 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
820 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
821 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
822 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
823 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
824 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
825 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
826 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
827 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
828 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
830 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
831 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
832 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
833 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
834 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
835 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
836 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
837 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
839 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
840 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
841 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
842 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
843 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
845 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
846 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
847 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
848 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
849 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
850 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
851 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
852 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
853 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
854 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
855 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
856 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
857 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
858 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
859 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
860 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
862 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
863 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
864 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
865 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
866 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
867 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
868 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
869 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
870 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
871 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
872 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
873 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
874 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
875 recursive errors or deadlock.
876 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
877 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
878 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
880 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
881 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
882 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
883 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
884 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
885 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
886 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
887 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
889 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
890 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
891 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
892 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
893 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
894 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
895 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
896 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
898 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
899 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
900 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
901 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
902 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
903 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
904 their constant arguments.
905 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
906 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
907 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
908 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
909 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
910 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
911 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
912 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
913 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
914 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
915 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
916 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
917 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
918 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
919 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
920 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
921 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
922 * improvements to the Windows port:
923 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
924 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
926 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
927 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
928 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
929 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
930 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
931 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
932 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
933 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
934 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
935 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
936 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
937 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
938 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
939 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
941 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
943 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
944 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
945 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
946 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
947 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
948 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
949 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
950 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
951 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
952 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
954 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
955 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
956 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
957 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
958 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
959 compile-time style-warning.
960 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
961 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
962 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
963 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
964 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
965 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
966 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
967 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
968 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
969 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
970 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
971 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
972 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
973 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
974 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
975 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
977 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
978 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
979 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
980 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
981 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
982 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
983 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
984 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
985 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
987 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
989 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
992 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
993 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
994 for the associated fast function is also produced.
995 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
997 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
998 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
999 special handling by the pretty printer.
1000 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
1001 now interact correctly with type declarations.
1002 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
1003 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1004 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
1005 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
1006 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
1007 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
1008 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
1009 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1011 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
1012 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
1013 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
1014 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
1015 object loading function as-it.
1016 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
1017 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
1019 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
1020 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
1022 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
1023 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
1024 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
1025 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1026 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
1027 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
1028 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
1029 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
1030 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
1032 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
1033 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
1034 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
1035 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
1036 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
1037 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
1038 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1039 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
1040 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1041 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
1042 file descriptors when there were none.
1043 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
1044 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
1045 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
1046 pathnames without a directory.
1047 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
1048 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
1049 not signal an error.
1050 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
1051 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
1052 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
1053 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
1054 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
1055 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
1056 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
1057 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
1059 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
1060 after alien stack frames.
1061 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
1063 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
1064 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
1065 generic function across method addition and removal.
1066 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
1067 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
1068 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
1069 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
1071 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
1072 non-local transfer of control.
1073 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
1074 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
1075 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
1076 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
1077 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
1078 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
1079 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
1081 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
1082 owned by other threads anymore.
1083 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
1084 subsequence. (reported by budden)
1085 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
1086 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
1087 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
1088 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
1090 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
1091 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
1092 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
1093 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
1094 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
1095 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
1096 added to the user manual.
1097 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
1098 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
1099 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
1100 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
1101 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
1102 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
1104 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
1106 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
1107 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
1108 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
1109 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
1110 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
1111 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
1112 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
1114 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
1115 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
1117 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
1118 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
1119 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
1120 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
1121 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
1122 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
1123 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
1125 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
1126 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
1128 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
1129 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1130 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1131 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
1132 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1133 type of a variable is made.
1134 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
1135 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
1137 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
1138 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1139 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
1140 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1141 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
1142 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1143 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
1144 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
1145 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
1147 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
1148 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
1149 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
1150 of the type that's the value of this variable.
1151 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
1153 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
1154 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
1155 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
1156 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
1157 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
1158 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
1159 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
1160 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
1161 * improvements to the Windows port:
1162 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
1163 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
1164 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1165 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
1166 to single-float coercions.
1167 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
1168 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
1169 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
1170 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
1171 containing invalid type specifiers.
1172 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
1173 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
1175 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
1176 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
1177 profiles only the current thread.
1178 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
1179 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
1180 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
1181 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
1182 has also additional sorting options.
1183 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
1185 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
1186 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
1187 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
1188 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
1189 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
1190 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
1192 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
1194 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
1195 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
1196 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
1197 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
1198 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
1199 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
1201 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
1202 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1203 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
1204 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
1205 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
1206 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1207 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
1208 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
1209 (thanks to James Knight)
1210 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
1211 (thanks to Travis Cross)
1212 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1213 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
1214 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
1215 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1216 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1217 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1218 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1220 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
1221 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
1222 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
1223 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
1224 use this feature in the meanwhile.
1225 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
1226 adjust thread default control stack size.
1227 * enhancement: improved TIME output
1228 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
1229 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
1230 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
1231 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
1232 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
1233 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
1234 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
1235 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
1237 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
1239 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
1240 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
1241 in normal SPEED policies.
1242 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
1243 in normal SPEED policies.
1244 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
1245 to Sidney Markowitz)
1246 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
1247 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1248 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
1249 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1250 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
1251 as the second argument.
1252 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
1253 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
1254 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
1256 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
1257 platform word lengths.
1258 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
1259 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
1260 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
1262 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
1263 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1265 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
1266 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
1267 signaling added in 1.0.14.
1268 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
1269 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
1270 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
1271 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
1272 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
1273 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1274 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
1275 on threaded platforms.
1276 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
1277 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
1278 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1279 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
1280 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
1281 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
1282 representation is available.
1283 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
1284 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
1285 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
1286 Francois-Rene Rideau)
1287 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1288 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1289 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
1290 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
1291 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
1292 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
1293 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
1294 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
1295 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
1297 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
1298 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
1299 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
1300 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
1301 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
1302 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
1303 traces SETF-functions as well.
1304 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
1305 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
1306 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
1307 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
1309 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
1310 is now more efficient.
1311 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
1312 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
1313 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
1314 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
1315 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
1316 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1317 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
1318 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
1319 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
1320 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
1321 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
1323 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
1324 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
1325 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
1326 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
1327 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
1328 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1329 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
1330 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
1331 * improvements to the Windows port:
1332 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
1333 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
1335 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
1336 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
1337 (see documentation for details.)
1338 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
1339 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
1340 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
1341 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
1342 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
1344 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
1345 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
1346 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
1347 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
1348 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1349 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
1350 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
1351 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
1352 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
1354 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
1355 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
1356 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
1357 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
1358 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
1359 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
1360 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
1362 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
1363 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
1364 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
1365 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
1366 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
1367 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
1368 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
1369 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
1371 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
1372 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
1373 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
1374 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
1375 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
1376 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
1377 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
1378 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
1379 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
1380 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1381 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
1382 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
1383 known at compile-time.
1384 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
1385 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
1386 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
1388 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
1389 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
1391 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
1392 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1393 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1394 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
1395 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
1396 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
1398 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
1400 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
1402 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
1405 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
1406 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
1407 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
1408 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
1409 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
1410 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
1411 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
1412 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
1413 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
1414 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
1415 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
1416 END is smaller then START.
1417 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
1418 calls to profiled functions.
1419 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
1420 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
1421 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
1422 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
1423 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
1424 hash-table usage have been fixed.
1425 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
1426 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
1427 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
1428 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
1429 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
1430 slime to work again.
1432 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
1433 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
1434 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
1435 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
1436 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
1437 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
1438 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
1439 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
1440 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
1441 and will signal an error at runtime.
1442 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
1443 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
1444 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
1446 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
1447 platforms providing stack allocation support.
1448 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
1449 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
1451 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
1452 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
1453 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
1454 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1455 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
1456 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
1458 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
1459 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
1461 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
1463 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
1464 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
1465 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
1466 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
1467 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
1468 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
1469 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1470 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
1471 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
1472 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1473 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
1474 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
1475 a specializer parameter for the method.
1476 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
1477 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
1478 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
1479 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
1480 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
1482 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
1483 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
1485 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
1486 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
1487 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1488 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
1489 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
1490 the CAS operation was being performed.
1491 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
1492 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
1493 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
1494 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
1497 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
1498 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
1499 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
1500 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
1502 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
1503 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
1504 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1505 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
1506 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
1507 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1508 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
1509 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
1510 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
1511 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
1512 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
1513 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
1514 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
1515 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
1516 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
1518 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
1519 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
1520 the underlying file descriptor.
1521 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
1522 could cause buffer-overflows.
1523 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
1524 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
1525 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
1527 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
1529 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
1530 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
1531 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
1532 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
1533 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
1534 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
1537 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
1538 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
1539 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
1540 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
1541 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
1542 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
1543 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
1545 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
1547 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
1548 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
1549 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
1550 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
1551 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
1552 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
1554 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
1555 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
1556 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
1557 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
1558 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
1559 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
1560 objects that can be seen by the GC.
1561 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
1562 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
1563 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
1565 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
1566 as the property-list of a symbol.
1567 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
1568 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
1569 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
1572 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
1573 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
1574 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
1575 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
1576 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
1577 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
1578 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
1579 debugging and introspective support.
1580 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
1581 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
1582 has the owning thread as its value.
1583 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
1584 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
1586 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
1587 "a constant string".
1588 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
1589 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
1590 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
1591 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1592 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
1593 (depending on the bignum size.)
1594 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
1596 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
1597 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
1599 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
1600 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
1602 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
1603 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
1604 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
1605 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
1606 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
1609 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
1610 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
1611 as a contrib module.
1612 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
1613 significantly faster.
1614 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1615 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
1616 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1617 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1618 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
1619 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
1620 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
1621 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
1622 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1623 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
1624 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
1626 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
1628 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
1629 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
1630 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
1631 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
1632 that use the generational garbage collector
1633 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
1635 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
1636 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
1638 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
1640 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
1641 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
1642 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
1643 system running with GC inhibited.
1644 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
1645 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
1646 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
1647 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
1648 (reported by Peter Graves)
1650 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
1651 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
1652 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
1654 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
1655 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
1656 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
1657 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
1658 documented as unsafe.
1659 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
1660 in multithreaded application code.
1661 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
1662 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
1663 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
1665 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
1666 variants no longer cons.
1667 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
1668 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
1669 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
1670 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
1671 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
1672 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
1673 are significantly faster.
1674 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
1675 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
1676 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
1677 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
1678 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
1679 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
1680 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
1681 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
1682 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
1683 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
1684 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
1686 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
1687 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
1688 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
1689 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1690 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
1691 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1692 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
1693 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
1694 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
1695 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
1696 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
1697 line in a file is unlimited.
1698 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
1699 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
1700 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
1701 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
1702 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
1703 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
1704 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
1705 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1706 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
1707 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
1708 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1709 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
1710 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
1711 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
1712 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
1713 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
1714 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
1715 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
1716 experimental until this is fixed.
1717 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
1718 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1719 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
1720 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
1721 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
1723 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
1724 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
1725 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
1726 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
1727 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
1728 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
1730 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
1731 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
1732 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1733 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
1734 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
1735 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
1736 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1737 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
1738 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
1740 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
1741 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
1742 (reported by Andras Simon)
1743 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
1744 bugs remain on x86-64.)
1745 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
1746 funcallable instances.
1747 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
1748 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
1750 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
1751 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1752 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
1753 non-base strings as arguments
1754 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
1756 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
1757 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
1759 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
1760 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
1761 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1762 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
1763 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1764 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1765 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
1766 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
1767 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
1769 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
1770 (thanks to Jon Buller)
1771 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
1772 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
1775 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
1776 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
1777 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
1779 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
1780 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
1781 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
1782 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
1783 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
1785 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
1786 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
1787 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
1788 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1789 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
1790 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1791 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
1792 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
1793 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
1794 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
1795 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1796 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
1797 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
1798 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
1799 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
1800 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
1801 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
1802 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
1803 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
1804 stack frames from alien callbacks.
1805 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1806 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
1807 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
1808 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1810 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
1811 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
1812 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
1813 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
1814 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
1815 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
1816 sb-introspect contrib.
1817 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
1818 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
1819 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
1820 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
1821 users and the general community)
1822 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
1823 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
1824 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
1825 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
1826 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1827 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
1828 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
1829 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1830 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
1831 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1832 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
1833 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
1834 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
1835 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
1836 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
1837 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
1839 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
1840 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
1841 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
1842 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
1843 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
1844 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
1845 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
1847 * improvements to the Windows port:
1848 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
1849 to Alastair Bridgewater)
1850 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
1852 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
1853 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1855 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
1856 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
1857 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1858 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
1859 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
1860 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
1861 core, and restored on startup.
1862 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
1863 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1864 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
1865 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
1866 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
1867 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
1868 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
1870 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
1871 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1872 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
1874 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
1875 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
1876 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
1878 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
1879 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
1880 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
1881 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
1882 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
1883 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
1885 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
1886 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
1887 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
1888 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
1889 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
1890 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
1891 (reported by Josip Gracin)
1892 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
1893 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
1894 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
1895 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
1896 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
1897 and don't cause extra consing
1898 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
1899 whose elements types have been declared.
1900 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
1901 ** Support for allocation profiling
1902 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
1903 * Improvements to the Windows port:
1904 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
1905 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
1906 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1907 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
1909 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
1910 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
1911 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
1912 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
1913 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
1915 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
1916 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
1917 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
1919 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
1920 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
1921 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
1922 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
1923 with non-variable places
1924 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
1925 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
1926 code more stable against memory faults.
1927 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
1928 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
1929 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
1930 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
1933 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
1934 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
1935 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
1936 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
1937 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
1938 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
1939 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
1940 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
1941 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1942 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1943 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
1944 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
1945 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
1947 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
1948 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
1949 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
1950 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
1951 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
1952 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
1953 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
1955 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
1956 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
1958 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
1959 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
1960 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
1961 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
1962 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
1963 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
1964 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
1965 to the single-stepper REPL.
1966 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
1967 for a type now works.
1968 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
1970 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
1971 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
1972 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
1973 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1974 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
1975 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
1976 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
1977 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
1979 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
1980 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
1981 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
1982 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
1983 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
1984 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
1985 whose bindings are modified
1986 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
1987 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
1988 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
1989 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
1991 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
1992 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
1993 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
1994 as specified by AMOP.
1995 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
1997 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
1998 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1999 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
2000 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
2001 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
2002 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
2003 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
2004 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
2005 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
2006 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
2007 better type inference.
2008 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
2009 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
2010 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
2011 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
2012 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
2013 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2014 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
2015 initialization of methods can now be used to override
2016 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
2018 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
2019 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
2020 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
2021 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
2022 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
2024 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
2025 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
2026 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
2027 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
2028 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
2029 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
2030 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
2031 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
2032 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
2033 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
2034 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
2035 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
2036 (reported by James Y Knight).
2037 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
2038 argument for shadowing by local functions.
2039 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
2041 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
2042 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
2043 with type-inference.
2044 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
2045 types in some cases.
2046 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
2047 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2048 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
2050 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
2051 * thread-safety improvements:
2052 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
2053 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
2054 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
2056 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
2057 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
2059 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
2060 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
2061 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
2063 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
2064 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
2065 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
2066 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
2067 class became finalizeable.
2068 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
2069 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
2070 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
2071 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
2073 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
2074 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
2075 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
2076 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
2077 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
2078 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
2079 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2080 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
2081 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
2082 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
2083 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
2084 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
2085 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
2086 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2087 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
2088 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
2089 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
2090 * minor code generation optimizations:
2091 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
2092 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
2093 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
2094 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
2095 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
2096 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2097 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
2098 return its argument.
2100 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
2101 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
2103 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
2105 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
2106 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
2107 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
2108 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
2109 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
2110 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
2111 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
2112 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
2113 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
2114 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
2115 the low-level debugger.
2116 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
2117 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
2118 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
2119 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
2121 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
2122 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
2123 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
2125 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
2126 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2127 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
2128 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
2129 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
2130 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
2131 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
2132 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
2133 (reported by James Y Knight)
2134 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
2135 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
2136 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
2137 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
2138 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
2139 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
2140 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
2141 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
2142 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
2143 workaround for bug 403.)
2144 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
2145 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2146 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2147 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
2149 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2150 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
2151 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
2153 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
2154 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
2155 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
2156 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
2157 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
2159 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
2161 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
2162 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
2163 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
2166 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
2167 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
2168 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
2169 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
2170 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
2171 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
2172 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
2173 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
2174 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
2175 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
2176 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
2177 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2178 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
2179 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2180 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
2181 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
2182 documentation on package locks for details.
2183 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
2185 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
2186 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
2187 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
2188 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
2189 immediately available from the stream
2190 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
2191 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
2192 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
2193 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
2195 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
2196 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
2197 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
2199 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
2200 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
2201 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
2203 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
2204 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
2205 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
2206 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
2208 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2209 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
2210 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
2211 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2212 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
2213 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
2214 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2215 ** sb-grovel supported
2216 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
2217 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
2218 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
2219 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
2220 ** floating-point exception handling support
2221 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
2222 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2223 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2224 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
2225 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
2226 structure accessors.
2227 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
2229 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
2230 defaults for optional parameters.
2231 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
2232 function, which is already optimized.
2234 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
2235 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
2236 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
2237 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
2238 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
2239 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
2240 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
2241 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
2242 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
2243 this change is to make it easier to distribute
2244 location-independent binaries.
2245 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
2246 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
2248 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
2249 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
2250 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
2251 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
2252 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
2253 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
2254 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
2255 Alastair Bridgewater)
2256 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
2257 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
2258 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2259 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
2260 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
2261 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
2262 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
2263 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
2264 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
2265 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
2266 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
2267 (thanks to James Knight)
2268 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
2269 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
2271 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
2272 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
2273 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
2274 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
2275 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
2276 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
2277 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
2278 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
2279 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
2280 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
2281 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
2282 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
2283 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
2284 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
2285 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
2286 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
2287 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
2288 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
2289 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
2290 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
2291 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
2293 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
2294 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
2295 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
2296 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2297 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
2298 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
2300 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
2301 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
2302 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
2303 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
2304 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
2305 many others over the years)
2306 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
2307 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
2308 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
2310 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
2311 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
2312 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2313 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
2314 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
2315 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
2317 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
2319 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
2320 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
2321 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
2322 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
2323 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
2324 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
2325 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
2326 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
2327 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
2328 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
2329 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
2330 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2331 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
2332 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2334 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
2335 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2336 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
2337 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
2338 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
2339 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
2340 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
2341 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
2342 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
2343 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2344 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
2345 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
2346 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
2347 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
2348 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
2349 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
2350 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
2351 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2352 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
2353 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
2355 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
2356 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2357 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
2358 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
2359 index variables in LOOP
2360 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
2361 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2362 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
2363 that don't have a docstring
2365 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
2366 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2367 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
2368 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
2369 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
2370 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
2371 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
2372 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
2373 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
2374 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
2375 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
2376 Costanza's "Closer" project)
2377 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
2378 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
2380 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
2381 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
2382 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
2383 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
2384 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
2385 and Pascal Costanza)
2386 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
2387 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
2388 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
2389 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
2390 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2391 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
2392 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
2393 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
2394 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2395 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
2396 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2397 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
2398 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2399 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
2400 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2401 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
2402 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
2403 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
2404 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
2406 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
2407 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2408 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
2409 floating point index variable or a negative step.
2411 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
2412 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
2413 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
2414 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
2415 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
2416 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2417 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
2418 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
2419 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
2420 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2421 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2422 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
2423 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
2424 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
2425 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2426 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
2427 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
2428 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
2429 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
2430 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
2431 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
2432 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2433 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
2434 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2435 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
2436 and dump core on SIGQUIT
2438 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
2439 from their parents (see manual)
2440 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
2441 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
2442 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
2443 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
2444 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
2445 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
2447 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2448 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
2449 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
2450 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
2452 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
2453 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
2454 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
2456 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
2457 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
2458 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
2459 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
2460 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
2461 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
2462 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
2463 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
2464 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
2465 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
2466 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
2467 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
2468 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
2469 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
2471 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
2472 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
2473 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
2475 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
2476 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
2478 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
2479 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2480 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
2481 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
2482 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
2483 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
2484 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
2485 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
2486 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
2488 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
2489 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
2490 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
2491 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
2492 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
2493 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
2495 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
2497 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
2498 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
2499 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
2500 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
2501 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
2502 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
2503 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
2504 classes; see the manual for more details;
2505 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
2506 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
2507 requested slot ordering.
2509 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
2511 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
2512 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
2514 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
2516 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
2517 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
2518 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
2519 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
2520 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2521 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
2522 the :method-class keyword argument.
2524 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
2525 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
2526 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
2527 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2528 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
2529 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2530 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
2531 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2532 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
2533 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
2534 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
2536 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
2537 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
2538 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
2539 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
2540 is switched on or off
2541 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
2542 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
2543 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
2545 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
2546 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2547 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
2548 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
2549 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2550 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
2551 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
2552 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
2553 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
2555 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
2556 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
2557 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
2558 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
2559 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
2560 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
2561 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
2563 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
2564 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
2565 not prevent gc from running
2566 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
2567 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
2568 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
2569 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
2570 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
2571 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
2572 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
2573 an inline 32-bit rotation.
2575 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
2576 there is only one thread in the session
2577 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
2578 written to in another
2579 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
2580 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
2582 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
2583 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
2585 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
2586 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2587 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
2588 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
2589 the orignal arguments.
2590 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
2592 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
2593 name a compiled function.
2594 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
2595 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
2596 derivation were fixed.
2597 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
2598 list-form FUNCTION type.
2599 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
2600 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
2601 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
2603 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
2604 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
2605 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
2606 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
2607 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
2608 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
2610 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
2611 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
2612 of a select system call
2613 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
2615 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
2616 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
2618 * various error reporting improvements.
2619 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
2620 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2621 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
2622 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
2623 code and foreign data with the same name.
2625 ** added x86-64 support
2626 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
2627 objects instead of thread ids
2628 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
2629 starting up or going down
2630 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
2631 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
2632 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
2633 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
2634 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
2635 an inappropriate moment
2636 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
2637 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
2638 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
2639 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2640 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
2641 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
2642 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
2644 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
2645 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
2646 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
2647 range before calling Unix time functions
2649 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
2650 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
2651 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2652 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
2653 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
2654 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
2655 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
2656 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
2657 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
2658 for more information.
2659 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
2660 pathname is a directory pathname.
2661 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
2662 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
2664 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
2665 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
2666 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
2667 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
2668 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
2669 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
2671 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
2672 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
2673 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
2674 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
2675 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
2676 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
2677 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2678 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
2679 the PowerPC platform.
2680 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
2681 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
2683 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
2684 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
2685 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
2686 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
2687 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
2688 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2690 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
2691 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
2692 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
2693 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
2694 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
2695 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2696 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
2697 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
2698 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
2699 as the name of a type, or vice versa
2700 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
2701 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
2702 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
2703 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
2704 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
2705 FLET or MACROLET forms
2706 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
2708 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
2710 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
2713 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
2714 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
2715 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
2716 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
2717 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
2718 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
2719 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
2720 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
2721 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
2722 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
2723 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
2724 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
2725 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
2726 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
2727 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
2728 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
2729 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
2730 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
2731 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
2732 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
2733 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
2734 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
2736 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2737 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
2738 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
2739 a file has the stream as its datum.
2740 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
2741 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
2742 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
2743 a correct expected type
2744 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
2745 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
2746 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
2747 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
2748 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
2749 on broadcast streams.
2751 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
2752 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
2753 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
2754 --disable-debugger option instead.
2755 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
2757 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
2758 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
2759 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
2760 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
2761 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
2762 has been added to the manual.
2763 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
2764 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
2765 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
2766 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
2767 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
2768 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
2769 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
2770 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
2771 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
2772 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
2774 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
2775 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
2776 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
2777 (reported by Rajat Datta).
2778 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
2779 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
2781 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
2782 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
2783 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
2784 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
2785 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
2786 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
2787 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
2788 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
2789 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
2790 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
2791 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2792 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
2793 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2794 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
2795 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
2796 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2797 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2798 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
2799 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
2801 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
2803 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
2804 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
2805 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
2806 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
2807 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
2809 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
2810 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
2811 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
2812 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
2813 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2814 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
2815 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
2817 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2818 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
2819 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
2821 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
2822 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
2823 types for complex arguments better.
2824 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
2826 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
2827 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
2829 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
2830 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
2831 resulting in GC crashes.
2832 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
2834 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
2837 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
2838 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
2839 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
2840 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
2841 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
2842 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
2843 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
2844 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
2845 returning to the top level.
2846 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
2847 global optimization policy.
2848 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
2849 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
2850 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
2852 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
2853 various incompatible changes.
2854 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
2855 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
2856 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
2857 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
2858 level local call to FOO".
2859 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
2860 now have more legible printed representation
2861 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
2862 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
2863 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
2864 explicitly requested.
2865 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
2866 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
2867 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
2868 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
2869 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
2871 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
2872 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
2873 (reported by Lutz Euler)
2874 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
2875 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2876 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
2877 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
2878 the specializer is now possible.
2879 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
2880 face of package deletion.
2881 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
2882 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
2883 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
2884 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
2885 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
2886 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
2887 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
2888 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
2889 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2890 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
2892 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2893 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
2894 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
2895 correctable errors to be signalled.
2896 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
2897 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
2900 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
2901 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2902 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
2904 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
2905 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2906 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
2907 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
2908 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
2909 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
2910 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
2911 related to the ~@F format directive.
2912 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
2914 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
2915 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
2916 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
2917 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
2919 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
2921 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
2922 coerce function designators to functions.
2923 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
2924 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
2925 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
2926 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
2927 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
2928 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
2929 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2930 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
2931 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
2932 start of the buffer at the next read.
2933 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
2934 passing it through to OPEN.
2935 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2936 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
2937 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
2938 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
2939 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
2940 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
2941 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
2942 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
2944 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
2945 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2946 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2947 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
2948 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2949 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
2951 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2952 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
2953 secondary constituent character trait.
2954 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
2956 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
2958 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
2959 works more reliably.
2960 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
2961 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
2962 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
2964 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
2965 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
2967 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
2968 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
2969 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
2970 and reloading shared object files.
2971 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2972 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
2974 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
2975 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
2976 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
2978 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
2979 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
2981 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
2983 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
2984 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
2985 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
2986 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2987 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
2988 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
2989 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
2991 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
2992 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
2994 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
2995 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
2996 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
2997 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
2998 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
3000 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
3001 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
3002 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3003 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
3004 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
3005 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3006 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
3007 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3008 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
3009 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
3010 lisp characters are not eight bits.
3011 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3012 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
3013 the correct number of arguments.
3014 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
3015 to displaced strings.
3016 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
3017 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
3019 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
3020 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
3021 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
3022 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
3023 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
3024 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
3025 available at runtime.
3026 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
3027 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
3028 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
3029 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3030 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
3031 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
3032 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
3033 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
3034 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
3035 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
3036 of lambda-list keywords.
3037 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
3038 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
3040 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
3041 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
3042 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3043 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
3044 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
3045 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
3046 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
3048 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
3049 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3050 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
3051 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
3052 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
3054 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3055 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
3056 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3057 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
3058 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
3059 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3060 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
3062 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
3063 parameters correctly.
3064 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
3065 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
3066 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
3068 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
3071 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
3072 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
3073 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
3074 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
3076 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
3077 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
3078 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
3079 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
3080 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
3081 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
3082 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
3083 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3084 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
3086 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
3087 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3089 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
3091 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
3092 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
3093 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3094 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
3096 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
3097 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3098 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
3099 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
3100 (reported by David Morse)
3101 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
3102 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3103 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
3104 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3105 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
3106 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3107 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
3108 now exists, an signals an error.
3109 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
3110 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
3111 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3112 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
3113 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3114 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
3115 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
3116 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3117 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
3118 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3119 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
3120 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
3122 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
3123 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
3124 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
3125 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
3126 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3127 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
3128 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
3129 specialized array element types.
3130 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
3131 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3132 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
3133 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3134 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
3135 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
3136 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
3137 Wragg for the simple test case)
3138 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3139 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
3141 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
3142 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
3143 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
3144 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
3145 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
3147 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
3149 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
3150 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
3151 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
3152 references to global functions.
3153 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
3155 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
3157 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
3158 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3159 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
3160 supported platforms.
3161 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
3162 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
3163 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3164 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
3165 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
3166 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3167 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
3168 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3169 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
3170 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
3171 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
3172 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
3173 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
3175 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
3176 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3177 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
3178 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
3179 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
3180 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
3182 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
3183 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
3185 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
3186 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
3187 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
3188 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3189 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
3190 returns the right answer.
3191 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
3193 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
3195 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
3196 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
3198 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
3199 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
3201 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
3202 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
3203 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
3204 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
3205 the supported interface.
3206 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
3207 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
3208 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3209 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
3210 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
3211 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
3212 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
3213 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3214 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
3215 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
3216 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
3217 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
3218 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3219 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
3220 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
3221 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
3222 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
3223 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
3224 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
3225 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
3226 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
3227 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
3228 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
3229 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
3230 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
3231 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
3232 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3233 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
3234 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
3236 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
3237 * incompatible change: the internal functions
3238 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
3239 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
3240 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
3241 instead of the old functions.
3242 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
3243 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
3245 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
3246 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
3248 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
3249 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
3250 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
3251 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
3253 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
3254 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3255 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
3256 (reported by Rick Taube)
3257 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
3258 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
3259 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
3260 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
3262 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
3263 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
3264 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
3265 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
3266 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3267 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
3268 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
3269 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
3270 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
3271 represented relative to default pathnames.
3272 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
3273 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
3274 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
3276 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
3277 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
3278 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
3280 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3281 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
3282 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
3283 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
3285 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
3287 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
3288 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
3289 conditional newlines.
3290 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
3291 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
3292 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
3294 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
3295 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
3297 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
3298 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
3299 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
3300 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
3301 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
3302 compiled in unconditionally.
3303 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
3304 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
3305 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
3306 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
3307 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
3309 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
3310 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
3311 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
3312 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
3313 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
3314 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
3315 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
3316 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
3317 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
3318 an implementation-internal package.
3319 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
3321 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
3322 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
3323 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
3324 bodies are now more legible.
3325 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
3326 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
3327 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
3328 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
3329 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3330 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
3331 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
3333 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
3334 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
3335 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
3336 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
3337 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
3338 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
3339 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
3340 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
3341 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
3342 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
3344 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
3345 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
3346 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
3347 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
3348 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
3349 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
3350 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
3351 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
3352 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
3353 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
3354 system even when most of them are idle
3355 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
3356 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3357 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
3359 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
3360 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
3361 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
3362 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
3363 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
3365 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
3366 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
3367 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
3368 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
3369 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
3370 string for information on the protocol.
3371 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
3372 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
3374 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
3375 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
3377 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
3378 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
3379 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
3380 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
3381 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
3382 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
3384 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
3385 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
3387 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
3388 move between its address being taken and the call to
3389 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
3390 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
3391 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
3392 instances corresponding to C structs.
3394 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
3395 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
3396 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
3397 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
3398 has implications for memory management of client code
3399 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
3400 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
3401 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
3402 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
3403 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
3404 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
3405 quality should be considered deprecated.
3406 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
3407 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
3408 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
3409 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
3410 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
3412 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
3413 designator as the defaults argument.
3414 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
3415 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
3416 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3417 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
3418 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
3420 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
3422 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
3423 (thanks to Zach Beane)
3424 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
3425 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
3426 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3427 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
3429 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
3430 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3431 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
3432 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
3433 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
3434 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
3435 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3436 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
3437 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
3438 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
3439 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
3440 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3441 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
3442 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
3443 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
3444 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
3445 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
3447 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
3448 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
3449 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
3451 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
3452 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3453 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
3454 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
3455 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
3456 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
3457 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3458 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
3459 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
3461 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
3462 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
3464 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
3465 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
3467 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
3468 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3469 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
3470 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
3472 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
3473 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
3474 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3475 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
3476 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
3477 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
3478 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
3479 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
3481 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
3482 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
3483 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
3485 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
3486 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
3488 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3489 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
3491 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
3492 from local to shared slots.
3493 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
3494 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
3495 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
3496 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
3498 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
3499 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
3500 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
3501 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
3502 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
3503 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
3504 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
3505 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
3506 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
3508 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
3510 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
3512 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
3513 print using #P"..." syntax.
3515 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
3516 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
3517 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
3518 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
3519 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
3520 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
3521 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
3522 * [placeholder for DX summary]
3523 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
3524 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
3525 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
3526 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
3527 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
3528 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
3529 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
3530 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
3531 the test case to Dave Roberts)
3532 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
3533 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
3534 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
3535 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
3536 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
3537 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
3538 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
3539 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3540 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
3541 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
3542 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
3543 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
3544 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3545 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
3546 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
3549 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
3550 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
3551 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
3552 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
3553 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
3554 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
3555 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
3556 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
3557 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
3558 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3559 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
3560 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
3561 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
3563 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
3564 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
3566 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
3567 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
3568 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3569 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
3570 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3571 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
3573 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
3574 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
3575 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
3577 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
3579 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
3581 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
3582 their output stream on EOF from read.
3583 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
3584 have been read to end-of-file.
3585 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
3587 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
3588 description of determination of which consecutive characters
3590 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
3591 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
3592 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3593 less than 10 works correctly.
3594 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3595 more than 10 works correctly.
3596 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
3597 the readtable currently in effect.
3599 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
3600 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
3601 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
3602 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
3603 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
3604 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
3605 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
3606 should usually be replaced by
3607 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
3608 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
3609 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
3610 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
3611 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
3612 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
3613 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
3614 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
3616 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
3617 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
3618 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
3619 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
3620 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
3621 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3622 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
3623 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
3624 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
3625 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
3626 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
3627 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
3628 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
3630 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
3631 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
3632 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
3633 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3634 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
3635 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
3636 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
3637 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3638 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
3639 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
3640 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
3641 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
3642 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
3643 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
3644 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3645 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
3646 non-local entry points.
3647 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
3649 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
3650 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
3652 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
3653 host is already defined.
3654 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
3656 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
3657 or not a character is whitespace.
3658 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
3659 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
3660 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
3662 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
3663 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
3665 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
3667 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
3668 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
3669 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
3670 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
3671 designator argument does not designate a stream.
3672 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
3673 examining the synonym.
3674 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
3676 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
3677 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
3679 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
3680 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
3681 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
3682 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
3683 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
3684 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
3685 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
3686 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
3687 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
3688 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3689 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
3690 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
3692 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
3693 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
3694 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3695 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
3696 stream position information.
3697 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
3698 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
3699 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
3700 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
3701 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3702 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
3704 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
3705 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
3707 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
3708 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3709 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
3710 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
3711 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
3712 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
3713 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
3715 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
3717 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
3718 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
3719 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
3720 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
3721 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
3722 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
3723 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
3724 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
3725 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
3726 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
3727 the "SYS" logical host.
3728 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
3729 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
3730 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
3731 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3732 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
3733 now each have their own history, command character, and other
3734 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3735 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3736 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
3738 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
3739 shift greater than 32.
3740 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
3741 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
3742 in some circumstances.
3744 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
3745 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
3746 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
3747 environments like SLIME.
3748 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
3749 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
3750 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
3751 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
3752 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
3753 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
3754 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
3755 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
3756 argument types for all arguments.
3757 * various threading fixes
3758 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
3759 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
3760 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
3761 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
3763 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
3764 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
3765 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
3766 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
3767 arguments to a full call.
3768 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
3769 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
3770 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
3771 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
3773 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
3774 inserts a space where necessary.
3775 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
3776 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
3777 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
3778 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
3779 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
3780 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
3781 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
3782 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
3783 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
3784 counter now raises a meaningful error.
3785 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
3786 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
3788 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
3789 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
3790 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
3792 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
3794 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3795 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
3796 argument and negative second.
3797 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
3798 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
3799 interval, containing 0.
3800 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
3802 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
3803 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
3805 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
3806 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
3807 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
3808 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
3809 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
3810 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
3811 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
3812 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
3813 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
3814 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
3815 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
3816 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
3817 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
3818 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
3819 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
3820 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
3821 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
3822 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
3823 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
3824 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
3825 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
3826 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3827 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
3828 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
3829 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
3830 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
3831 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
3832 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
3833 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
3835 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
3836 platform now returns the right answer.
3837 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
3838 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
3839 precomputation is now tunable.
3840 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
3841 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
3842 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
3843 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
3844 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
3845 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
3846 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
3847 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
3848 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
3849 has been added for the alpha.
3850 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
3851 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
3852 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
3853 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
3854 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
3855 MEMBER-types to numeric.
3856 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
3858 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
3859 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
3860 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
3862 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
3863 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3864 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
3865 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
3866 might be pseudo-atomic.
3867 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
3868 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
3870 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
3872 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
3874 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
3875 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
3876 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
3877 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
3878 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
3879 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
3881 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3882 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
3883 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
3884 small float arguments.
3885 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
3887 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
3888 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
3889 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
3890 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
3891 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
3892 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
3894 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
3896 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
3897 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
3898 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
3899 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
3900 with negative last argument.
3901 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
3902 an error during type derivation.
3903 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
3905 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
3906 generates a 32-bit binary.
3907 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3908 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
3909 data structures referred to above).
3911 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
3912 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
3913 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
3914 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
3915 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
3916 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
3917 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
3918 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
3919 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
3920 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3921 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
3922 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
3924 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
3925 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
3927 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
3928 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
3929 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
3930 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
3931 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
3932 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
3933 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
3934 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
3935 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
3936 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
3937 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
3938 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3939 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
3940 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
3941 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
3942 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
3943 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
3944 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3945 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
3946 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
3947 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
3948 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
3949 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3950 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
3951 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
3952 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
3953 optimization quality.
3954 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
3955 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
3956 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
3957 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
3958 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3959 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3960 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
3961 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
3962 types form a lattice under type intersection.
3963 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
3964 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
3965 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
3966 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
3967 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
3968 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
3969 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
3970 calling the generic function.
3971 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
3972 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
3973 obscure ANSI requirements
3975 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
3976 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
3977 garbage, confusing the compiler.
3978 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
3979 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
3980 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
3981 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
3982 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
3983 circumstances could go off-by-one.
3984 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
3986 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
3987 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
3988 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
3989 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
3990 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
3991 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
3992 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
3993 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
3994 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
3995 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3996 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
3997 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
3998 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
3999 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
4000 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
4001 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
4002 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
4003 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
4004 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
4005 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
4007 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
4008 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
4009 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
4010 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
4012 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
4013 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
4014 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
4015 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
4016 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
4017 provide helpful disassembly notes.
4018 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
4019 the class in more cases than previously.
4020 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
4021 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4022 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
4023 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4024 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
4025 without lambda list.
4026 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
4027 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
4028 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4029 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
4030 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
4031 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
4033 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
4034 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
4035 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
4037 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
4038 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
4039 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
4040 were silently accepted).
4041 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
4042 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
4043 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
4044 to warn on static type mismatches and function
4045 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
4046 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
4047 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
4048 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
4049 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
4050 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
4051 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
4052 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
4053 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
4054 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
4056 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
4057 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
4058 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
4059 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
4060 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
4061 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
4063 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
4064 keywords or constants is permissible.
4065 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
4066 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
4067 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4068 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
4069 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
4070 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
4071 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
4072 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
4074 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
4075 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4076 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
4077 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
4078 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4079 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
4080 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
4082 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
4084 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
4085 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
4086 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
4087 respectively change and preserve the value.
4088 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
4089 is now better at handling symbol macros.
4090 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
4091 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
4092 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
4093 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
4094 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
4095 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
4096 their use properly signals an error now.
4097 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
4098 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
4099 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
4100 * fixed simple vector readable printing
4101 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
4102 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
4103 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
4104 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
4105 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
4106 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
4107 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4108 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
4109 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4110 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
4111 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
4112 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4113 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
4114 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
4115 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
4116 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
4117 causes a type error.
4118 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
4119 association between the name and a class.
4120 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
4121 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
4122 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4123 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
4124 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
4125 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
4127 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
4128 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
4129 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
4130 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
4132 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
4133 which its argument is a member.
4134 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
4135 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
4136 otherwise, it creates a new class.
4137 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
4138 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
4139 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
4140 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
4141 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4142 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
4144 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
4145 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
4146 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
4147 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
4148 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
4149 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
4150 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
4152 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
4153 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
4154 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
4155 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
4156 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
4157 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
4158 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
4159 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
4160 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
4161 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
4162 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
4163 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
4164 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4165 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
4167 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
4168 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
4169 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
4170 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
4171 superclasses are applied.
4172 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
4173 no method was removed.
4174 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
4175 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
4176 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
4177 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
4179 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
4181 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
4182 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
4183 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
4184 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
4185 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
4186 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
4187 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
4188 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
4189 function lambda list.
4190 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
4192 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
4193 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
4194 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
4195 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
4197 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
4198 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
4199 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
4200 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
4201 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
4202 they look for GNU "make".
4204 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
4205 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
4206 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
4207 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
4209 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
4210 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
4211 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
4212 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
4213 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
4214 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
4215 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
4216 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
4217 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
4218 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
4220 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
4221 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
4222 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
4223 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
4224 libraries, and will know who they are.
4225 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
4226 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
4227 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
4228 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
4229 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
4230 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
4231 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
4232 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
4234 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
4235 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
4236 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4237 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
4238 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
4239 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
4240 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
4241 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
4242 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
4243 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
4244 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4245 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
4247 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
4248 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
4249 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
4250 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
4251 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4252 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
4253 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
4254 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
4255 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
4257 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
4258 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
4259 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
4260 this you were probably losing anyway.
4261 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
4262 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
4263 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
4264 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
4265 with names from the CL package.
4266 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
4267 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
4268 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
4269 documentation string.
4270 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4271 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
4273 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
4274 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
4275 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
4276 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
4278 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
4279 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
4281 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
4282 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4283 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
4285 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
4286 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
4287 arguments contain duplicated elements.
4288 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
4289 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
4290 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
4291 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
4292 in question is unbound.
4293 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
4294 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
4295 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
4296 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
4297 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
4299 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
4301 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
4302 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
4303 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
4304 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
4305 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
4306 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
4307 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
4308 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
4309 by Antonio Martinez)
4310 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
4311 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4312 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
4313 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
4314 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
4315 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
4316 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
4317 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4318 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
4319 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
4320 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
4321 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
4322 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
4323 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
4324 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
4325 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
4326 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
4327 on malformed property lists;
4329 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
4330 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
4331 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
4332 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
4333 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
4334 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
4335 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
4336 modules in this release include:
4337 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
4338 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
4339 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
4340 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4341 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
4343 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
4344 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
4345 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4346 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4347 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
4348 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
4349 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
4350 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
4352 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
4353 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
4354 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
4355 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
4356 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
4357 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
4358 the lexical environment.
4359 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
4360 unprintable packages can now be defined.
4361 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
4362 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4363 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
4364 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4365 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
4366 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
4367 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
4368 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
4369 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
4370 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
4371 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
4372 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
4373 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4374 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
4375 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4376 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
4377 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
4378 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
4379 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4380 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
4381 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
4382 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
4383 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
4385 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
4386 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
4387 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
4388 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4389 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
4390 not just nonnegative fixnums;
4391 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
4392 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
4393 freshly-consed result bit-array);
4394 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
4396 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
4397 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
4399 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
4400 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
4401 cases are accurately computed;
4402 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
4403 if it is in the last clause;
4404 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
4406 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
4407 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
4408 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
4409 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
4411 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
4412 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
4413 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
4414 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
4415 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
4417 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
4418 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
4419 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
4420 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
4422 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4423 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
4424 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
4425 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
4426 not cause a type error;
4427 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
4429 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
4430 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
4431 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
4432 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
4433 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
4434 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
4435 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
4436 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
4438 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
4439 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
4440 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
4441 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
4442 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
4443 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
4445 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
4446 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
4448 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
4449 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
4450 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
4451 only for symbols in the CL package.
4452 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
4453 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4454 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
4455 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
4456 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
4458 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4459 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
4460 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
4461 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
4462 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
4463 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
4464 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
4465 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
4466 conditional loop clause;
4467 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
4468 signals a type error iff it should.
4469 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4470 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
4471 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
4472 argument) no longer signals an error;
4473 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
4474 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
4475 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
4477 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
4478 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
4479 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
4481 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
4482 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
4483 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
4484 functionality on said platforms verified.
4485 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
4486 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
4488 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
4489 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
4490 component indicating that directory.
4491 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
4492 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
4493 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
4494 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
4495 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4496 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
4498 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
4499 primary methods with no specializers;
4500 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
4502 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
4503 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
4504 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
4505 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
4507 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
4508 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
4509 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
4511 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
4512 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
4513 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
4514 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
4515 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
4516 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
4517 class STANDARD-CLASS;
4518 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
4519 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4520 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
4521 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
4523 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
4524 value producing form;
4525 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
4526 variables are bound and made to have no value;
4527 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
4529 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
4530 is not a valid sequence index;
4531 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
4532 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
4533 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4534 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
4536 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
4537 symbol-macro places;
4538 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
4539 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
4541 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
4543 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
4545 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
4546 invariant when deleting code.
4547 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
4548 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
4550 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
4551 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4552 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
4554 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
4555 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
4557 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
4558 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
4559 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4560 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
4562 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
4563 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4564 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
4565 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
4567 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
4568 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
4569 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
4570 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
4571 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4572 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
4573 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
4574 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
4575 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
4576 sbcl and .core files.)
4577 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
4578 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
4579 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
4580 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
4581 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
4582 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4583 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
4585 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
4586 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
4587 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
4588 argument precedence order.
4589 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
4590 derived types contradict their declared type.
4591 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
4592 so it can be non-toplevel.
4593 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
4594 implementation of DEFMACRO).
4595 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
4596 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
4597 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
4599 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
4600 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
4601 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
4602 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
4603 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
4604 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
4605 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
4606 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
4607 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
4608 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
4609 symbol macro only once
4610 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
4611 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
4612 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
4615 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
4616 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
4617 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
4618 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
4619 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
4620 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
4621 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
4622 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
4623 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
4624 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4625 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
4626 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
4628 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
4629 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
4630 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
4631 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
4632 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4633 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
4635 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
4637 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
4638 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
4639 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
4640 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
4641 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4642 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
4643 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
4644 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
4645 ways in different special cases
4646 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
4648 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
4649 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
4650 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
4651 are no longer optimized away.
4652 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
4653 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
4654 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
4655 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
4656 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
4657 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
4658 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
4659 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
4662 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
4663 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
4664 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
4665 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
4666 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
4667 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
4668 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
4670 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
4671 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
4672 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
4673 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
4674 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
4675 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
4676 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
4677 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
4678 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
4679 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
4680 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
4681 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
4682 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
4683 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
4684 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
4685 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
4686 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
4687 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4688 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
4689 that are names of constants or global variables.
4690 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
4691 alien routines with docstrings.
4692 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
4693 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
4695 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
4696 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
4697 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
4698 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4699 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
4700 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4701 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
4702 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
4703 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
4704 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4705 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
4706 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
4707 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
4708 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
4709 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
4710 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
4711 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
4712 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
4713 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
4714 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
4715 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
4716 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
4717 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
4719 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
4720 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
4722 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
4723 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
4724 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
4725 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
4726 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
4727 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
4728 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
4729 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
4730 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
4731 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
4733 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
4734 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
4735 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
4736 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
4737 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
4738 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
4739 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
4740 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
4741 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
4742 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
4743 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
4744 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
4745 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
4746 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
4747 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
4748 is no longer a static symbol.)
4750 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
4751 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
4752 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
4753 bootstrapping under CLISP.
4754 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
4756 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
4757 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
4759 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
4760 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
4761 to David Lichteblau)
4762 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
4763 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
4764 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
4766 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
4767 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
4768 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
4769 count as they should.
4770 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
4771 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
4772 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
4773 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
4774 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
4775 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
4776 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
4777 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
4778 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
4779 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
4780 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
4781 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
4782 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
4783 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
4784 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
4786 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
4787 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
4788 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
4790 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
4792 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
4793 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
4794 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
4795 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
4796 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
4797 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
4798 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
4800 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
4801 to Christophe Rhodes)
4802 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
4803 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
4804 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
4805 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
4806 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
4807 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
4808 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
4810 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
4811 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
4812 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
4813 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
4814 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
4815 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4816 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
4817 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
4818 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
4819 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
4820 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
4821 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
4822 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
4824 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
4825 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
4826 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
4827 INFO database to support symbol macros.
4828 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
4829 (thanks to coreythomas)
4830 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
4831 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
4832 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
4833 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
4834 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
4836 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
4837 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
4838 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
4839 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
4840 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
4841 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
4842 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
4843 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
4844 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
4845 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4846 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
4847 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
4848 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
4850 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
4851 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
4854 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
4855 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
4856 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
4857 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
4858 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
4859 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
4860 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
4861 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
4862 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
4863 systems than the old 4M value was)
4864 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
4865 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
4866 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
4867 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
4868 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
4869 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
4870 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
4872 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
4873 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
4874 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
4875 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
4876 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
4878 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
4879 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
4880 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
4881 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
4882 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
4883 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
4884 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
4885 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
4887 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
4888 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
4889 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
4890 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4891 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
4892 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
4893 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
4894 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
4896 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
4897 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4898 * several changes related to debugging:
4899 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
4900 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
4901 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
4902 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
4903 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
4904 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
4905 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
4908 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
4910 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
4911 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
4912 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
4913 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
4914 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
4915 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
4916 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
4917 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
4919 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
4920 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
4921 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
4922 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4923 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
4924 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
4925 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
4926 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
4927 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
4928 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
4929 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
4930 file format number to change again.
4932 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
4933 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
4934 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
4935 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
4937 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
4938 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
4939 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
4940 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
4941 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
4942 FUNCALL on the result.
4943 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
4944 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
4945 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
4946 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
4947 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
4948 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
4949 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
4950 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
4952 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
4953 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
4954 the old compiler produced.
4955 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
4956 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
4957 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
4958 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
4959 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
4960 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
4961 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
4962 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
4963 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
4964 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
4965 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
4966 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
4967 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
4968 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
4969 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
4970 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
4971 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
4972 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
4973 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
4974 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
4975 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
4976 straightened out in some future version.)
4977 * minor incompatible changes:
4978 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
4979 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
4980 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
4981 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
4982 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
4983 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
4984 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
4985 implementation dependent:
4986 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
4987 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
4988 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
4989 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
4990 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
4991 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
4992 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
4993 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
4995 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
4997 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
4998 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
4999 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
5000 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
5001 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
5002 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
5003 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
5004 are no longer used for output.
5005 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
5006 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
5007 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
5008 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
5009 increasing it even more.)
5010 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
5011 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
5012 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
5014 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
5015 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
5016 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
5017 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
5018 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
5019 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
5020 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
5021 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
5022 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
5023 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
5024 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
5025 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
5026 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
5027 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
5028 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
5029 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
5030 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
5031 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
5032 compilation of code which calls such functions.
5033 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
5034 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
5035 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
5036 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
5037 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
5038 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
5039 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
5040 built into the system.
5041 * many other bug fixes
5042 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
5043 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
5044 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
5045 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
5046 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
5048 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
5049 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
5050 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
5051 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
5052 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
5053 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
5054 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
5055 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
5056 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
5057 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
5058 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
5060 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
5061 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
5062 and several other LOOP problems as well
5063 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
5064 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
5065 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
5066 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
5067 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
5068 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
5069 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
5070 *** a bug in APROPOS
5071 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
5072 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
5073 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
5074 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
5075 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
5076 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
5077 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
5078 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
5079 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
5080 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
5081 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
5082 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
5083 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
5084 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
5085 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
5087 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
5088 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
5089 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
5090 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
5091 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
5092 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
5093 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
5094 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
5095 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
5096 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
5097 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
5098 some of which are apparent above.
5100 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
5101 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
5102 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
5103 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
5104 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
5105 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
5106 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
5107 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
5108 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
5109 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
5110 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
5111 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
5112 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
5113 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
5114 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
5115 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
5116 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
5117 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
5118 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
5119 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
5120 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
5121 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
5122 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
5123 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
5124 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
5125 different return types.
5126 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
5127 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
5128 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
5129 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
5130 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
5131 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
5132 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
5133 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
5134 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
5135 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
5137 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
5138 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
5139 does the right thing.
5140 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
5141 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
5142 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5143 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
5144 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5145 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5146 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
5147 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
5148 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
5149 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
5150 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5151 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
5152 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5153 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
5154 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
5155 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
5156 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
5157 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
5158 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
5159 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
5160 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
5161 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
5162 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
5163 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
5164 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
5165 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
5166 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
5167 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
5168 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
5169 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
5170 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
5171 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
5172 since historically most system changes which required version
5173 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
5174 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
5177 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
5178 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
5179 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
5180 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
5181 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
5182 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
5183 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
5184 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
5185 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
5186 half a dozen others elsewhere
5187 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
5188 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
5189 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
5190 as flaky as they were.
5191 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
5192 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
5193 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
5194 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
5195 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
5196 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
5197 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
5198 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
5200 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
5201 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
5202 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
5203 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5204 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
5205 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
5206 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
5207 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
5208 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
5209 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
5210 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
5211 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
5212 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
5213 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
5214 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
5215 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
5216 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
5217 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
5218 more obscure bugs as well
5219 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
5220 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
5221 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
5222 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
5223 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
5224 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
5225 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
5226 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
5227 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
5228 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
5229 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
5231 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
5232 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
5234 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
5236 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5237 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
5238 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
5239 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
5240 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
5241 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
5242 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
5243 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
5244 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
5245 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
5246 are local in this sense.)
5247 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
5248 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
5249 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
5250 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
5251 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
5252 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
5253 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5254 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
5255 system's STREAM objects.
5256 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
5257 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5258 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
5259 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5260 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
5261 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
5262 environment from the original process instead of starting the
5263 new process in an empty environment.
5264 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
5265 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
5266 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
5267 for porting convenience.
5268 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
5269 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
5271 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
5273 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
5274 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
5275 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
5276 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
5277 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
5278 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
5279 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
5280 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
5281 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
5282 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
5283 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
5284 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5285 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
5286 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
5287 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
5288 many fewer weird special cases.
5289 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
5290 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
5291 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5292 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
5293 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
5294 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
5295 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
5296 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
5297 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
5298 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5299 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
5302 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
5304 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
5305 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
5306 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
5308 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
5309 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
5310 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
5311 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
5312 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
5313 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
5314 should be constructed the same way as before.
5315 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
5316 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
5317 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
5318 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
5319 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
5320 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
5321 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
5322 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
5323 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
5324 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
5325 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
5326 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
5327 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
5328 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
5329 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
5330 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
5331 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
5332 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
5333 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
5334 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
5335 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
5336 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
5338 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
5339 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
5340 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
5341 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
5342 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
5343 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
5344 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
5345 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
5347 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
5349 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
5350 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
5351 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
5352 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
5353 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
5355 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
5356 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
5357 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
5358 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
5359 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
5360 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
5361 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
5362 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
5363 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
5364 and Douglas Crosher.
5365 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
5366 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
5367 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
5369 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
5370 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
5371 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
5372 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
5373 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
5374 undefined function error.
5375 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
5376 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
5377 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
5378 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
5379 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
5380 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
5381 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
5382 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
5383 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
5384 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
5385 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
5386 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
5387 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
5389 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
5391 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
5392 CVS repository on my home machine).
5393 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
5394 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
5395 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
5396 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
5397 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
5398 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
5399 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
5400 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
5401 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
5402 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
5403 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
5404 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
5405 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
5406 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
5407 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
5408 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
5409 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
5410 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
5411 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
5412 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
5413 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
5414 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
5416 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
5417 FreeBSD have been added.
5418 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
5419 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
5420 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
5421 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
5422 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
5423 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
5425 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
5426 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
5427 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
5428 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
5429 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
5430 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
5431 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
5432 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
5434 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
5435 away by constant folding
5436 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
5437 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
5438 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
5439 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
5440 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
5441 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
5442 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
5443 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
5444 diff-related operations.
5445 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
5446 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
5448 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
5450 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
5451 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
5452 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
5453 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
5454 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
5455 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
5456 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
5457 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
5458 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
5459 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
5460 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
5461 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
5462 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
5463 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
5464 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
5465 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
5466 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
5467 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
5468 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
5469 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
5470 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
5471 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
5472 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
5473 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
5474 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
5475 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
5476 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
5477 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
5478 instead of (VALUES T T).
5479 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
5480 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
5481 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
5482 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
5483 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
5484 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
5485 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
5486 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
5487 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
5488 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
5489 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
5490 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
5491 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
5492 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
5493 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
5494 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
5495 type will be interpreted at runtime.
5496 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
5497 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
5498 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
5499 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
5500 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
5501 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
5502 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
5503 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
5504 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
5505 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
5506 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
5507 fasl files for cold load.
5508 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
5509 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
5510 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
5511 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
5512 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
5513 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
5514 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
5515 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
5516 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
5517 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
5518 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
5520 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
5521 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
5522 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
5523 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
5524 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
5525 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
5526 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
5527 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
5528 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
5529 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
5530 renamed some files to increase consistency.
5531 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
5532 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
5533 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
5534 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
5535 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
5536 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
5538 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
5540 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
5541 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
5542 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
5543 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
5544 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
5545 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
5546 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
5547 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
5548 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
5549 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
5550 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
5551 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
5552 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
5553 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
5554 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
5555 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
5556 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
5557 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
5559 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
5560 as required by ANSI.
5561 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
5562 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
5563 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
5564 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
5566 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
5567 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
5568 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
5569 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
5570 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
5571 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
5572 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
5573 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
5575 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
5576 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
5577 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
5578 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5580 is now basically equivalent to
5581 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5582 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
5584 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
5585 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
5586 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
5587 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
5588 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
5589 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
5590 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
5591 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
5592 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
5593 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
5594 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
5595 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
5596 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
5597 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
5598 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
5599 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5600 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
5601 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
5602 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
5603 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
5604 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
5605 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
5606 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
5608 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
5610 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
5611 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
5612 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
5613 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
5614 GNUMAKE environment variable.
5615 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
5616 can build without error under CMU CL.
5618 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
5620 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
5621 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
5622 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
5623 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
5624 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
5625 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
5626 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
5627 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
5628 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
5629 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
5630 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
5631 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
5632 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
5633 being initialized before the type system knew the final
5634 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
5635 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
5636 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
5637 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
5638 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
5639 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
5640 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
5641 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
5642 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
5643 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
5645 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
5646 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
5647 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
5648 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
5649 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
5650 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
5651 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
5652 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
5653 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
5654 it were currently supported.
5655 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
5656 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
5657 having to maintain patches.
5658 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
5659 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
5661 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
5663 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
5664 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
5665 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
5666 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
5667 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
5668 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
5669 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
5670 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
5671 * various new style warnings:
5672 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
5673 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
5674 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
5675 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
5676 as specified by ANSI.
5677 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
5678 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
5679 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
5680 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
5681 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
5682 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
5683 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
5684 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
5685 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
5686 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
5687 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
5688 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
5689 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
5690 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
5691 argument types can be determined at compile time.
5692 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
5693 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
5694 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
5695 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
5696 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
5697 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
5698 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
5701 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
5703 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
5704 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
5705 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
5706 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
5707 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
5708 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
5709 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
5710 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
5711 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
5713 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
5714 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
5715 the report form was printed.)
5716 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
5717 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
5718 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
5719 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
5720 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
5721 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
5722 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
5723 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
5724 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
5725 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
5726 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
5727 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
5728 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
5729 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
5730 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
5731 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
5732 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
5733 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
5734 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
5735 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
5736 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
5737 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
5738 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
5739 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
5740 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
5741 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
5742 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
5743 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
5744 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
5745 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
5746 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
5747 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
5748 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
5749 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
5750 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
5751 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
5752 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
5753 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
5754 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
5755 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
5756 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
5757 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
5758 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
5759 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
5760 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
5761 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
5762 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
5763 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
5764 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
5765 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
5766 know more about target types.
5767 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
5768 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
5769 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
5770 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
5771 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
5772 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
5774 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
5775 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
5776 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
5777 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
5778 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
5779 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
5780 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
5781 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
5782 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
5783 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
5784 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
5785 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
5786 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
5788 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
5791 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
5793 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
5794 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
5795 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
5796 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
5797 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
5798 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
5799 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
5800 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
5801 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
5802 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
5803 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
5804 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
5805 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
5806 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
5807 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
5808 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
5809 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
5810 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
5811 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
5812 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
5813 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
5814 invisible at the user level.)
5815 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
5816 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
5817 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
5819 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
5821 * tidied up "make.sh" script
5822 * tidied up system directory structure
5823 * better "clean.sh" behavior
5824 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
5825 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
5826 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
5827 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
5828 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
5829 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
5830 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
5831 * command line argument processing
5832 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
5833 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
5834 terminating SBCL on EOF
5835 * non-verbose GC by default
5836 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
5837 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
5838 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
5840 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
5841 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
5842 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
5843 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
5844 transformed along with everything else.
5845 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
5846 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
5847 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
5848 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
5849 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
5850 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
5851 debugging and testing purposes
5852 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
5853 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
5854 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
5855 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
5856 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
5857 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
5858 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
5860 * regularized formatting of source files
5861 * added an install.sh script
5862 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
5863 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
5864 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
5865 builds nicely on my old laptop.
5866 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
5867 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
5868 was not implemented)
5869 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
5870 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
5871 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
5872 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
5873 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
5875 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
5876 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
5877 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
5878 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
5879 COMPILE-FILE command)
5880 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
5881 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
5882 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
5883 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
5884 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
5885 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
5886 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
5887 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
5888 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
5889 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
5890 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
5891 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
5892 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
5893 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
5894 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
5896 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
5897 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
5898 known to be able to handle the current sources
5899 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
5900 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
5901 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
5902 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
5903 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
5904 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
5905 * removed host-oops.lisp
5906 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
5907 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
5908 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
5909 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
5910 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
5911 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by