1 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
2 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
3 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
4 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
5 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
6 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
7 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
8 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
9 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
11 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
12 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
13 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
14 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
15 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
16 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
17 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
18 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
19 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
20 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
21 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
22 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
23 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
24 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
26 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
27 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
28 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
30 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
31 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
33 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
34 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
35 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
36 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
37 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
38 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
39 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
40 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
41 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
43 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
44 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
45 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
46 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
47 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
48 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
50 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
52 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
53 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
54 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
55 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
56 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
57 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
58 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
59 classes; see the manual for more details;
60 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
61 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
62 requested slot ordering.
64 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
66 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
67 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
69 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
71 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
72 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
73 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
74 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
75 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
76 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
77 the :method-class keyword argument.
79 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
80 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
81 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
82 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
83 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
84 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
85 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
86 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
87 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
88 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
89 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
91 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
92 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
93 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
94 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
96 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
97 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
98 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
100 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
101 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
102 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
103 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
104 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
105 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
106 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
107 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
108 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
110 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
111 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
112 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
113 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
114 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
115 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
116 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
118 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
119 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
120 not prevent gc from running
121 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
122 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
123 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
124 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
125 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
126 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
127 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
128 an inline 32-bit rotation.
130 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
131 there is only one thread in the session
132 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
133 written to in another
134 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
135 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
137 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
138 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
140 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
141 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
142 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
143 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
144 the orignal arguments.
145 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
147 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
148 name a compiled function.
149 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
150 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
151 derivation were fixed.
152 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
153 list-form FUNCTION type.
154 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
155 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
156 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
158 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
159 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
160 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
161 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
162 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
163 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
165 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
166 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
167 of a select system call
168 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
170 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
171 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
173 * various error reporting improvements.
174 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
175 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
176 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
177 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
178 code and foreign data with the same name.
180 ** added x86-64 support
181 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
182 objects instead of thread ids
183 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
184 starting up or going down
185 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
186 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
187 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
188 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
189 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
190 an inappropriate moment
191 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
192 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
193 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
194 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
195 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
196 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
197 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
199 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
200 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
201 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
202 range before calling Unix time functions
204 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
205 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
206 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
207 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
208 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
209 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
210 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
211 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
212 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
213 for more information.
214 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
215 pathname is a directory pathname.
216 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
217 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
219 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
220 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
221 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
222 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
223 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
224 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
226 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
227 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
228 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
229 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
230 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
231 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
232 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
233 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
234 the PowerPC platform.
235 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
236 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
238 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
239 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
240 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
241 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
242 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
243 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
245 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
246 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
247 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
248 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
249 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
250 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
251 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
253 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
254 as the name of a type, or vice versa
255 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
256 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
257 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
258 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
259 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
260 FLET or MACROLET forms
261 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
263 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
265 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
268 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
269 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
270 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
271 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
272 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
273 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
274 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
275 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
276 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
277 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
278 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
279 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
280 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
281 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
282 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
283 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
284 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
285 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
286 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
287 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
288 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
289 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
291 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
292 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
293 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
294 a file has the stream as its datum.
295 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
296 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
297 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
298 a correct expected type
299 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
300 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
301 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
302 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
303 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
304 on broadcast streams.
306 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
307 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
308 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
309 --disable-debugger option instead.
310 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
312 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
313 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
314 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
315 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
316 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
317 has been added to the manual.
318 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
319 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
320 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
321 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
322 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
323 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
324 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
325 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
326 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
327 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
329 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
330 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
331 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
332 (reported by Rajat Datta).
333 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
334 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
336 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
337 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
338 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
339 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
340 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
341 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
342 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
343 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
344 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
345 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
346 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
347 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
348 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
349 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
350 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
351 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
352 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
353 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
354 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
356 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
358 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
359 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
360 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
361 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
362 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
364 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
365 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
366 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
367 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
368 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
369 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
370 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
372 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
373 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
374 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
376 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
377 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
378 types for complex arguments better.
379 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
381 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
382 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
384 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
385 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
386 resulting in GC crashes.
387 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
389 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
392 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
393 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
394 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
395 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
396 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
397 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
398 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
399 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
400 returning to the top level.
401 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
402 global optimization policy.
403 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
404 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
405 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
407 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
408 various incompatible changes.
409 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
410 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
411 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
412 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
413 level local call to FOO".
414 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
415 now have more legible printed representation
416 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
417 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
418 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
419 explicitly requested.
420 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
421 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
422 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
423 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
424 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
426 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
427 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
428 (reported by Lutz Euler)
429 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
430 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
431 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
432 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
433 the specializer is now possible.
434 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
435 face of package deletion.
436 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
437 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
438 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
439 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
440 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
441 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
442 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
443 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
444 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
445 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
447 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
448 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
449 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
450 correctable errors to be signalled.
451 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
452 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
455 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
456 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
457 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
459 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
460 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
461 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
462 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
463 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
464 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
465 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
466 related to the ~@F format directive.
467 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
469 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
470 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
471 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
472 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
474 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
476 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
477 coerce function designators to functions.
478 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
479 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
480 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
481 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
482 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
483 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
484 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
485 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
486 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
487 start of the buffer at the next read.
488 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
489 passing it through to OPEN.
490 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
491 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
492 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
493 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
494 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
495 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
496 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
497 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
499 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
500 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
501 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
502 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
503 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
504 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
506 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
507 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
508 secondary constituent character trait.
509 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
511 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
513 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
515 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
516 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
517 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
519 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
520 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
522 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
523 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
524 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
525 and reloading shared object files.
526 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
527 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
529 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
530 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
531 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
533 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
534 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
536 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
538 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
539 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
540 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
541 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
542 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
543 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
544 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
546 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
547 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
549 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
550 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
551 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
552 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
553 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
555 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
556 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
557 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
558 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
559 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
560 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
561 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
562 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
563 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
564 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
565 lisp characters are not eight bits.
566 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
567 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
568 the correct number of arguments.
569 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
570 to displaced strings.
571 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
572 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
574 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
575 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
576 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
577 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
578 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
579 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
580 available at runtime.
581 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
582 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
583 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
584 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
585 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
586 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
587 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
588 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
589 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
590 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
591 of lambda-list keywords.
592 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
593 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
595 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
596 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
597 (reported by Paul Dietz)
598 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
599 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
600 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
601 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
603 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
604 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
605 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
606 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
607 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
609 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
610 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
611 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
612 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
613 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
614 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
615 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
617 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
618 parameters correctly.
619 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
620 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
621 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
623 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
626 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
627 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
628 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
629 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
631 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
632 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
633 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
634 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
635 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
636 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
637 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
638 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
639 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
641 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
642 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
644 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
646 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
647 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
648 (reported by Bruno Haible)
649 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
651 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
652 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
653 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
654 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
655 (reported by David Morse)
656 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
657 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
658 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
659 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
660 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
661 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
662 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
663 now exists, an signals an error.
664 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
665 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
666 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
667 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
668 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
669 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
670 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
671 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
672 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
673 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
674 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
675 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
677 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
678 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
679 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
680 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
681 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
682 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
683 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
684 specialized array element types.
685 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
686 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
687 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
688 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
689 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
690 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
691 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
692 Wragg for the simple test case)
693 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
694 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
696 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
697 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
698 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
699 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
700 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
702 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
704 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
705 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
706 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
707 references to global functions.
708 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
710 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
712 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
713 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
714 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
716 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
717 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
718 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
719 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
720 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
721 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
722 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
723 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
724 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
725 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
726 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
727 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
728 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
730 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
731 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
732 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
733 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
734 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
735 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
737 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
738 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
740 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
741 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
742 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
743 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
744 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
745 returns the right answer.
746 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
748 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
750 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
751 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
753 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
754 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
756 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
757 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
758 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
759 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
760 the supported interface.
761 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
762 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
763 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
764 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
765 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
766 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
767 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
768 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
769 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
770 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
771 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
772 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
773 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
774 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
775 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
776 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
777 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
778 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
779 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
780 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
781 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
782 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
783 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
784 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
785 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
786 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
787 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
788 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
789 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
791 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
792 * incompatible change: the internal functions
793 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
794 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
795 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
796 instead of the old functions.
797 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
798 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
800 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
801 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
803 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
804 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
805 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
806 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
808 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
809 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
810 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
811 (reported by Rick Taube)
812 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
813 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
814 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
815 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
817 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
818 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
819 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
820 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
821 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
822 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
823 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
824 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
825 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
826 represented relative to default pathnames.
827 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
828 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
829 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
831 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
832 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
833 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
835 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
836 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
837 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
838 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
840 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
842 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
843 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
844 conditional newlines.
845 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
846 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
847 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
849 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
850 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
852 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
853 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
854 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
855 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
856 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
857 compiled in unconditionally.
858 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
859 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
860 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
861 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
862 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
864 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
865 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
866 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
867 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
868 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
869 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
870 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
871 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
872 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
873 an implementation-internal package.
874 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
876 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
877 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
878 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
879 bodies are now more legible.
880 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
881 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
882 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
883 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
884 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
885 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
886 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
888 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
889 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
890 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
891 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
892 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
893 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
894 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
896 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
897 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
899 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
900 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
901 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
902 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
903 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
904 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
905 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
906 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
907 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
908 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
909 system even when most of them are idle
910 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
911 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
912 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
914 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
915 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
916 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
917 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
918 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
920 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
921 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
922 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
923 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
924 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
925 string for information on the protocol.
926 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
927 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
929 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
930 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
932 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
933 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
934 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
935 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
936 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
937 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
939 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
940 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
942 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
943 move between its address being taken and the call to
944 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
945 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
946 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
947 instances corresponding to C structs.
949 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
950 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
951 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
952 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
953 has implications for memory management of client code
954 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
955 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
956 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
957 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
958 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
959 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
960 quality should be considered deprecated.
961 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
962 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
963 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
964 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
965 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
967 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
968 designator as the defaults argument.
969 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
970 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
971 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
972 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
973 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
975 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
977 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
978 (thanks to Zach Beane)
979 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
980 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
981 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
982 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
984 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
985 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
986 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
987 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
988 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
989 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
990 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
991 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
992 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
993 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
994 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
995 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
996 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
997 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
998 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
999 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
1000 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
1002 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
1003 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
1004 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
1006 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
1007 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1008 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
1009 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
1010 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
1011 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
1012 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1013 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
1014 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
1016 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
1017 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
1019 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
1020 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
1022 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
1023 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1024 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
1025 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
1027 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
1028 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
1029 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1030 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
1031 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
1032 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
1033 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
1034 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
1036 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
1037 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
1038 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
1040 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
1041 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
1043 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1044 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
1046 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
1047 from local to shared slots.
1048 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
1049 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
1050 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
1051 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
1053 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
1054 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
1055 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
1056 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
1057 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
1058 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
1059 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
1060 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
1061 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
1063 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
1065 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
1067 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
1068 print using #P"..." syntax.
1070 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
1071 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
1072 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
1073 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
1074 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
1075 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
1076 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
1077 * [placeholder for DX summary]
1078 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
1079 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
1080 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
1081 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
1082 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
1083 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
1084 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
1085 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
1086 the test case to Dave Roberts)
1087 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
1088 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
1089 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
1090 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1091 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
1092 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
1093 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
1094 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1095 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
1096 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
1097 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
1098 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
1099 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1100 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
1101 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
1104 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
1105 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
1106 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
1107 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
1108 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
1109 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
1110 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
1111 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
1112 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
1113 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1114 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
1115 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
1116 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
1118 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
1119 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
1121 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
1122 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
1123 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1124 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
1125 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1126 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
1128 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
1129 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
1130 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
1132 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
1134 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
1136 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
1137 their output stream on EOF from read.
1138 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
1139 have been read to end-of-file.
1140 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
1142 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
1143 description of determination of which consecutive characters
1145 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
1146 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
1147 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1148 less than 10 works correctly.
1149 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1150 more than 10 works correctly.
1151 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
1152 the readtable currently in effect.
1154 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
1155 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
1156 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
1157 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
1158 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
1159 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
1160 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
1161 should usually be replaced by
1162 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
1163 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
1164 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
1165 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
1166 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
1167 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
1168 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
1169 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
1171 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
1172 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
1173 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
1174 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
1175 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
1176 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1177 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
1178 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
1179 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
1180 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
1181 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
1182 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
1183 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
1185 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
1186 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
1187 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
1188 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1189 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
1190 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
1191 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
1192 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1193 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
1194 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
1195 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
1196 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
1197 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
1198 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
1199 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1200 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
1201 non-local entry points.
1202 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
1204 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1205 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
1207 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
1208 host is already defined.
1209 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
1211 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
1212 or not a character is whitespace.
1213 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
1214 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
1215 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
1217 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
1218 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
1220 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
1222 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
1223 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
1224 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
1225 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
1226 designator argument does not designate a stream.
1227 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
1228 examining the synonym.
1229 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
1231 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
1232 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
1234 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
1235 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
1236 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
1237 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
1238 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
1239 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
1240 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
1241 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
1242 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
1243 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1244 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
1245 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
1247 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
1248 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
1249 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1250 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
1251 stream position information.
1252 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
1253 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
1254 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
1255 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
1256 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1257 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
1259 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
1260 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
1262 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
1263 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1264 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
1265 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
1266 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
1267 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
1268 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
1270 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
1272 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
1273 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
1274 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
1275 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
1276 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
1277 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
1278 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
1279 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
1280 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
1281 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
1282 the "SYS" logical host.
1283 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
1284 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
1285 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
1286 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1287 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
1288 now each have their own history, command character, and other
1289 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1290 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1291 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
1293 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
1294 shift greater than 32.
1295 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
1296 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
1297 in some circumstances.
1299 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
1300 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
1301 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
1302 environments like SLIME.
1303 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
1304 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
1305 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
1306 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
1307 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
1308 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
1309 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
1310 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
1311 argument types for all arguments.
1312 * various threading fixes
1313 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
1314 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
1315 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
1316 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
1318 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
1319 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
1320 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
1321 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
1322 arguments to a full call.
1323 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
1324 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
1325 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
1326 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
1328 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
1329 inserts a space where necessary.
1330 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
1331 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
1332 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
1333 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
1334 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
1335 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
1336 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
1337 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
1338 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
1339 counter now raises a meaningful error.
1340 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
1341 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
1343 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
1344 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
1345 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
1347 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
1349 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1350 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
1351 argument and negative second.
1352 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
1353 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
1354 interval, containing 0.
1355 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
1357 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
1358 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
1360 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
1361 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
1362 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
1363 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
1364 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
1365 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
1366 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
1367 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
1368 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
1369 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
1370 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
1371 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
1372 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
1373 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
1374 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
1375 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
1376 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
1377 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
1378 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
1379 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
1380 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
1381 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1382 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
1383 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
1384 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
1385 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
1386 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
1387 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
1388 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
1390 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
1391 platform now returns the right answer.
1392 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
1393 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
1394 precomputation is now tunable.
1395 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
1396 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
1397 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
1398 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
1399 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
1400 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
1401 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
1402 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
1403 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
1404 has been added for the alpha.
1405 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
1406 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
1407 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
1408 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
1409 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
1410 MEMBER-types to numeric.
1411 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
1413 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
1414 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
1415 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
1417 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
1418 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1419 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
1420 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
1421 might be pseudo-atomic.
1422 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
1423 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
1425 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
1427 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
1429 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
1430 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
1431 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
1432 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
1433 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
1434 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
1436 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1437 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
1438 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
1439 small float arguments.
1440 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
1442 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
1443 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
1444 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
1445 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
1446 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
1447 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
1449 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
1451 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
1452 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
1453 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
1454 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
1455 with negative last argument.
1456 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
1457 an error during type derivation.
1458 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
1460 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
1461 generates a 32-bit binary.
1462 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1463 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
1464 data structures referred to above).
1466 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
1467 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
1468 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
1469 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
1470 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
1471 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
1472 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
1473 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
1474 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
1475 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1476 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
1477 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
1479 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
1480 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
1482 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
1483 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
1484 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
1485 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
1486 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
1487 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
1488 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
1489 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
1490 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
1491 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
1492 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
1493 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1494 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
1495 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
1496 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
1497 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
1498 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
1499 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1500 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
1501 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
1502 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
1503 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
1504 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1505 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
1506 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
1507 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
1508 optimization quality.
1509 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
1510 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
1511 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
1512 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
1513 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1514 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1515 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
1516 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
1517 types form a lattice under type intersection.
1518 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
1519 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
1520 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
1521 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
1522 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
1523 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
1524 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
1525 calling the generic function.
1526 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
1527 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
1528 obscure ANSI requirements
1530 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
1531 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
1532 garbage, confusing the compiler.
1533 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
1534 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
1535 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
1536 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
1537 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
1538 circumstances could go off-by-one.
1539 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
1541 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
1542 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
1543 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
1544 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
1545 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
1546 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
1547 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
1548 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
1549 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
1550 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1551 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
1552 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
1553 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1554 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
1555 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1556 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
1557 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
1558 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
1559 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
1560 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
1562 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
1563 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
1564 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
1565 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
1567 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
1568 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
1569 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
1570 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
1571 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
1572 provide helpful disassembly notes.
1573 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
1574 the class in more cases than previously.
1575 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
1576 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1577 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
1578 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1579 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
1580 without lambda list.
1581 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
1582 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
1583 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1584 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
1585 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
1586 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
1588 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
1589 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
1590 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
1592 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
1593 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
1594 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
1595 were silently accepted).
1596 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
1597 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
1598 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
1599 to warn on static type mismatches and function
1600 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
1601 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
1602 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
1603 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
1604 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
1605 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
1606 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
1607 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
1608 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
1609 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
1611 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
1612 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
1613 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
1614 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
1615 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
1616 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
1618 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
1619 keywords or constants is permissible.
1620 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
1621 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
1622 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1623 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
1624 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
1625 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
1626 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
1627 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
1629 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
1630 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1631 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
1632 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
1633 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1634 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
1635 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
1637 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
1639 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
1640 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
1641 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
1642 respectively change and preserve the value.
1643 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
1644 is now better at handling symbol macros.
1645 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
1646 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
1647 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
1648 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
1649 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
1650 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
1651 their use properly signals an error now.
1652 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
1653 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
1654 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
1655 * fixed simple vector readable printing
1656 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
1657 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
1658 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
1659 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
1660 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
1661 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
1662 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1663 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
1664 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1665 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
1666 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
1667 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1668 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
1669 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
1670 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
1671 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
1672 causes a type error.
1673 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
1674 association between the name and a class.
1675 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
1676 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
1677 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1678 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
1679 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
1680 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
1682 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
1683 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
1684 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
1685 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
1687 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
1688 which its argument is a member.
1689 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
1690 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
1691 otherwise, it creates a new class.
1692 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
1693 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
1694 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
1695 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
1696 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1697 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
1699 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
1700 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
1701 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
1702 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
1703 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
1704 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
1705 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
1707 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
1708 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
1709 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
1710 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
1711 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
1712 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
1713 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
1714 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
1715 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
1716 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
1717 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
1718 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
1719 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1720 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
1722 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
1723 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
1724 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
1725 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
1726 superclasses are applied.
1727 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1728 no method was removed.
1729 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
1730 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
1731 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
1732 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
1734 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
1736 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
1737 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
1738 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
1739 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
1740 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
1741 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
1742 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
1743 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
1744 function lambda list.
1745 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
1747 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
1748 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
1749 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
1750 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
1752 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
1753 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
1754 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
1755 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
1756 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
1757 they look for GNU "make".
1759 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
1760 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
1761 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
1762 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
1764 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
1765 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
1766 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
1767 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
1768 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
1769 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
1770 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
1771 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
1772 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
1773 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
1775 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
1776 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
1777 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
1778 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
1779 libraries, and will know who they are.
1780 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
1781 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
1782 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
1783 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
1784 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
1785 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
1786 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
1787 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
1789 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
1790 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
1791 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1792 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
1793 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
1794 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
1795 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
1796 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
1797 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
1798 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
1799 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1800 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
1802 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
1803 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
1804 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
1805 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
1806 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1807 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
1808 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
1809 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
1810 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
1812 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
1813 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
1814 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
1815 this you were probably losing anyway.
1816 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
1817 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
1818 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
1819 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
1820 with names from the CL package.
1821 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
1822 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
1823 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
1824 documentation string.
1825 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1826 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
1828 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
1829 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
1830 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
1831 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
1833 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
1834 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
1836 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
1837 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1838 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
1840 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
1841 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
1842 arguments contain duplicated elements.
1843 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
1844 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
1845 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
1846 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
1847 in question is unbound.
1848 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
1849 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
1850 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
1851 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
1852 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
1854 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
1856 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
1857 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
1858 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
1859 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
1860 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
1861 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
1862 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
1863 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
1864 by Antonio Martinez)
1865 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
1866 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1867 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
1868 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
1869 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
1870 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
1871 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
1872 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1873 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
1874 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
1875 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
1876 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
1877 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
1878 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
1879 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
1880 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
1881 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
1882 on malformed property lists;
1884 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
1885 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
1886 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
1887 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
1888 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
1889 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
1890 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
1891 modules in this release include:
1892 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
1893 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
1894 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
1895 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1896 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
1898 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
1899 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
1900 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1901 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1902 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
1903 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
1904 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
1905 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
1907 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
1908 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
1909 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
1910 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
1911 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
1912 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
1913 the lexical environment.
1914 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
1915 unprintable packages can now be defined.
1916 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
1917 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1918 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
1919 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1920 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
1921 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
1922 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
1923 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
1924 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
1925 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
1926 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
1927 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
1928 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1929 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
1930 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1931 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
1932 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
1933 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
1934 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1935 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
1936 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
1937 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
1938 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
1940 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
1941 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
1942 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1943 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1944 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
1945 not just nonnegative fixnums;
1946 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
1947 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
1948 freshly-consed result bit-array);
1949 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
1951 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
1952 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
1954 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
1955 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
1956 cases are accurately computed;
1957 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
1958 if it is in the last clause;
1959 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
1961 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
1962 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
1963 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
1964 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
1966 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
1967 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
1968 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
1969 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
1970 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
1972 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
1973 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
1974 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
1975 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
1977 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1978 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
1979 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
1980 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
1981 not cause a type error;
1982 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
1984 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
1985 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
1986 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
1987 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
1988 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
1989 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
1990 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
1991 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
1993 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
1994 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
1995 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
1996 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
1997 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
1998 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
2000 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
2001 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
2003 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
2004 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
2005 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
2006 only for symbols in the CL package.
2007 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
2008 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2009 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
2010 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
2011 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
2013 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2014 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
2015 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
2016 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
2017 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
2018 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
2019 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
2020 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
2021 conditional loop clause;
2022 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
2023 signals a type error iff it should.
2024 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2025 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
2026 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
2027 argument) no longer signals an error;
2028 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
2029 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
2030 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
2032 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
2033 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
2034 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
2036 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
2037 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
2038 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
2039 functionality on said platforms verified.
2040 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
2041 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
2043 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
2044 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
2045 component indicating that directory.
2046 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
2047 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
2048 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
2049 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
2050 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2051 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
2053 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
2054 primary methods with no specializers;
2055 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
2057 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
2058 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
2059 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
2060 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
2062 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
2063 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
2064 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
2066 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
2067 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
2068 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
2069 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
2070 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
2071 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
2072 class STANDARD-CLASS;
2073 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
2074 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2075 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
2076 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
2078 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
2079 value producing form;
2080 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
2081 variables are bound and made to have no value;
2082 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
2084 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
2085 is not a valid sequence index;
2086 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
2087 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
2088 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2089 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
2091 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
2092 symbol-macro places;
2093 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
2094 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
2096 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
2098 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
2100 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
2101 invariant when deleting code.
2102 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
2103 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
2105 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
2106 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2107 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
2109 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
2110 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
2112 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
2113 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
2114 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2115 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
2117 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
2118 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2119 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
2120 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
2122 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
2123 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
2124 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
2125 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
2126 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2127 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
2128 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
2129 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
2130 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
2131 sbcl and .core files.)
2132 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
2133 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
2134 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
2135 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
2136 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
2137 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2138 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
2140 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
2141 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
2142 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
2143 argument precedence order.
2144 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
2145 derived types contradict their declared type.
2146 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
2147 so it can be non-toplevel.
2148 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
2149 implementation of DEFMACRO).
2150 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
2151 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
2152 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
2154 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
2155 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
2156 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
2157 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
2158 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
2159 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
2160 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
2161 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
2162 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
2163 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
2164 symbol macro only once
2165 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
2166 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
2167 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
2170 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
2171 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
2172 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
2173 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
2174 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
2175 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
2176 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
2177 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
2178 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
2179 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2180 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
2181 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
2183 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
2184 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
2185 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
2186 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
2187 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2188 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
2190 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
2192 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
2193 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
2194 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
2195 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
2196 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2197 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
2198 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
2199 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
2200 ways in different special cases
2201 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
2203 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
2204 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
2205 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
2206 are no longer optimized away.
2207 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
2208 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
2209 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
2210 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
2211 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
2212 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
2213 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
2214 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
2217 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
2218 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
2219 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
2220 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
2221 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
2222 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
2223 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
2225 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
2226 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
2227 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
2228 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
2229 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
2230 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
2231 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
2232 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
2233 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
2234 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
2235 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
2236 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
2237 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
2238 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
2239 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
2240 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
2241 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
2242 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2243 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
2244 that are names of constants or global variables.
2245 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
2246 alien routines with docstrings.
2247 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
2248 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
2250 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
2251 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2252 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
2253 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2254 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
2255 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2256 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
2257 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
2258 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
2259 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2260 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
2261 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
2262 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
2263 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
2264 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
2265 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
2266 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
2267 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
2268 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
2269 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
2270 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
2271 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
2272 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
2274 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
2275 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
2277 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
2278 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
2279 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
2280 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
2281 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
2282 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
2283 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
2284 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
2285 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
2286 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
2288 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
2289 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
2290 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
2291 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
2292 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
2293 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
2294 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
2295 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
2296 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
2297 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
2298 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
2299 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
2300 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
2301 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
2302 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
2303 is no longer a static symbol.)
2305 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
2306 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
2307 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
2308 bootstrapping under CLISP.
2309 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
2311 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
2312 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
2314 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
2315 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
2316 to David Lichteblau)
2317 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
2318 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
2319 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
2321 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
2322 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2323 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
2324 count as they should.
2325 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
2326 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2327 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
2328 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
2329 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
2330 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
2331 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
2332 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
2333 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
2334 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
2335 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
2336 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
2337 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
2338 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
2339 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
2341 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
2342 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
2343 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
2345 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
2347 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
2348 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
2349 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
2350 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
2351 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
2352 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
2353 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
2355 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
2356 to Christophe Rhodes)
2357 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
2358 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
2359 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
2360 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
2361 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
2362 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
2363 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
2365 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
2366 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
2367 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
2368 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
2369 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
2370 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2371 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
2372 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
2373 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
2374 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
2375 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
2376 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
2377 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
2379 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
2380 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
2381 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
2382 INFO database to support symbol macros.
2383 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
2384 (thanks to coreythomas)
2385 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
2386 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
2387 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
2388 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
2389 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
2391 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
2392 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
2393 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
2394 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
2395 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
2396 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
2397 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
2398 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
2399 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
2400 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2401 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
2402 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
2403 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
2405 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
2406 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
2409 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
2410 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
2411 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
2412 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
2413 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
2414 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
2415 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
2416 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
2417 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
2418 systems than the old 4M value was)
2419 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
2420 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
2421 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
2422 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
2423 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
2424 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
2425 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
2427 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
2428 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
2429 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
2430 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
2431 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
2433 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
2434 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
2435 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
2436 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
2437 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
2438 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
2439 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
2440 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
2442 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
2443 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2444 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
2445 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2446 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
2447 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
2448 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
2449 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
2451 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2452 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2453 * several changes related to debugging:
2454 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
2455 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
2456 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
2457 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
2458 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
2459 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
2460 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
2463 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
2465 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
2466 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
2467 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
2468 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
2469 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
2470 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
2471 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
2472 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
2474 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
2475 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
2476 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
2477 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2478 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
2479 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
2480 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
2481 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
2482 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
2483 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
2484 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
2485 file format number to change again.
2487 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
2488 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
2489 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
2490 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
2492 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
2493 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
2494 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
2495 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
2496 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
2497 FUNCALL on the result.
2498 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
2499 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
2500 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
2501 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
2502 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
2503 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
2504 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
2505 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
2507 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
2508 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
2509 the old compiler produced.
2510 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
2511 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
2512 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
2513 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
2514 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
2515 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
2516 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
2517 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
2518 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
2519 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
2520 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
2521 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
2522 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
2523 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
2524 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
2525 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
2526 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
2527 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
2528 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
2529 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
2530 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
2531 straightened out in some future version.)
2532 * minor incompatible changes:
2533 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
2534 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
2535 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
2536 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
2537 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
2538 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
2539 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
2540 implementation dependent:
2541 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
2542 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
2543 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
2544 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
2545 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
2546 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
2547 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
2548 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
2550 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
2552 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
2553 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
2554 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
2555 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
2556 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
2557 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
2558 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
2559 are no longer used for output.
2560 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
2561 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
2562 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
2563 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
2564 increasing it even more.)
2565 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
2566 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
2567 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
2569 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
2570 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
2571 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
2572 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
2573 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
2574 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
2575 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
2576 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
2577 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
2578 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
2579 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
2580 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
2581 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
2582 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
2583 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
2584 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
2585 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
2586 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
2587 compilation of code which calls such functions.
2588 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
2589 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
2590 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
2591 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
2592 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
2593 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
2594 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
2595 built into the system.
2596 * many other bug fixes
2597 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
2598 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
2599 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
2600 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
2601 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
2603 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
2604 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
2605 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
2606 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
2607 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
2608 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
2609 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
2610 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
2611 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
2612 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
2613 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
2615 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
2616 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
2617 and several other LOOP problems as well
2618 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
2619 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
2620 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
2621 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
2622 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
2623 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
2624 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
2625 *** a bug in APROPOS
2626 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
2627 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
2628 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
2629 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
2630 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
2631 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
2632 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
2633 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
2634 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
2635 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
2636 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
2637 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
2638 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
2639 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
2640 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
2642 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
2643 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
2644 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
2645 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
2646 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
2647 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
2648 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
2649 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
2650 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
2651 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
2652 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
2653 some of which are apparent above.
2655 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
2656 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
2657 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
2658 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
2659 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
2660 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
2661 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
2662 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
2663 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
2664 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
2665 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
2666 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
2667 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
2668 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
2669 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
2670 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
2671 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
2672 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
2673 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
2674 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
2675 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
2676 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
2677 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
2678 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
2679 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
2680 different return types.
2681 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
2682 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
2683 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
2684 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
2685 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
2686 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
2687 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
2688 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
2689 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
2690 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
2692 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
2693 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
2694 does the right thing.
2695 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
2696 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
2697 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2698 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
2699 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2700 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2701 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
2702 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
2703 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
2704 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
2705 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2706 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
2707 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2708 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
2709 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
2710 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
2711 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
2712 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
2713 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
2714 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
2715 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
2716 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
2717 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
2718 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
2719 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
2720 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
2721 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
2722 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
2723 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
2724 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
2725 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
2726 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
2727 since historically most system changes which required version
2728 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
2729 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
2732 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
2733 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
2734 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
2735 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
2736 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
2737 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
2738 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
2739 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
2740 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
2741 half a dozen others elsewhere
2742 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
2743 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
2744 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
2745 as flaky as they were.
2746 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
2747 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
2748 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
2749 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
2750 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
2751 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
2752 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
2753 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
2755 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
2756 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
2757 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
2758 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2759 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
2760 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
2761 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
2762 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
2763 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
2764 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
2765 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
2766 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
2767 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
2768 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
2769 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
2770 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
2771 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
2772 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
2773 more obscure bugs as well
2774 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
2775 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
2776 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
2777 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
2778 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
2779 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
2780 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
2781 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
2782 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
2783 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
2784 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
2786 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
2787 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
2789 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
2791 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2792 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
2793 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
2794 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
2795 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
2796 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
2797 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
2798 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
2799 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
2800 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
2801 are local in this sense.)
2802 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
2803 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
2804 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
2805 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
2806 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
2807 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
2808 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2809 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
2810 system's STREAM objects.
2811 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
2812 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2813 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
2814 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2815 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
2816 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
2817 environment from the original process instead of starting the
2818 new process in an empty environment.
2819 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
2820 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
2821 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
2822 for porting convenience.
2823 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
2824 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
2826 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
2828 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
2829 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
2830 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
2831 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
2832 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
2833 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
2834 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
2835 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
2836 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
2837 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
2838 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
2839 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2840 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
2841 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
2842 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
2843 many fewer weird special cases.
2844 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
2845 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
2846 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2847 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
2848 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
2849 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
2850 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
2851 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
2852 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
2853 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2854 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
2857 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
2859 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
2860 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
2861 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
2863 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
2864 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
2865 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
2866 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
2867 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
2868 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
2869 should be constructed the same way as before.
2870 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
2871 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
2872 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
2873 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
2874 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
2875 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
2876 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
2877 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
2878 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
2879 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
2880 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
2881 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
2882 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
2883 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
2884 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
2885 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
2886 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
2887 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
2888 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
2889 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
2890 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
2891 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
2893 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
2894 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
2895 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
2896 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
2897 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
2898 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
2899 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
2900 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
2902 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
2904 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
2905 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
2906 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
2907 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
2908 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
2910 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
2911 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
2912 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
2913 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
2914 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
2915 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
2916 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
2917 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
2918 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
2919 and Douglas Crosher.
2920 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
2921 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
2922 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
2924 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
2925 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
2926 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
2927 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
2928 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
2929 undefined function error.
2930 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
2931 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
2932 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
2933 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
2934 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
2935 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
2936 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
2937 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
2938 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
2939 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
2940 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
2941 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
2942 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
2944 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
2946 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
2947 CVS repository on my home machine).
2948 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
2949 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
2950 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
2951 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
2952 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
2953 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
2954 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
2955 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
2956 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
2957 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
2958 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
2959 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
2960 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
2961 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
2962 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
2963 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
2964 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
2965 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
2966 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
2967 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
2968 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
2969 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
2971 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
2972 FreeBSD have been added.
2973 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
2974 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
2975 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
2976 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
2977 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
2978 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
2980 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
2981 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
2982 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
2983 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
2984 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
2985 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
2986 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
2987 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
2989 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
2990 away by constant folding
2991 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
2992 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
2993 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
2994 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
2995 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
2996 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
2997 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
2998 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
2999 diff-related operations.
3000 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
3001 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
3003 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
3005 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
3006 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
3007 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
3008 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
3009 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
3010 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
3011 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
3012 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
3013 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
3014 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
3015 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
3016 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
3017 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
3018 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
3019 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
3020 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
3021 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
3022 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
3023 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
3024 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
3025 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
3026 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
3027 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
3028 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
3029 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
3030 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
3031 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
3032 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
3033 instead of (VALUES T T).
3034 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
3035 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
3036 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
3037 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
3038 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
3039 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
3040 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
3041 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
3042 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
3043 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
3044 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
3045 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
3046 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
3047 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
3048 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
3049 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
3050 type will be interpreted at runtime.
3051 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
3052 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
3053 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
3054 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
3055 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
3056 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
3057 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
3058 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
3059 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
3060 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
3061 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
3062 fasl files for cold load.
3063 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
3064 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
3065 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
3066 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
3067 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
3068 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
3069 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
3070 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
3071 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
3072 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
3073 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
3075 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
3076 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
3077 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
3078 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
3079 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
3080 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
3081 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
3082 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
3083 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
3084 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
3085 renamed some files to increase consistency.
3086 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
3087 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
3088 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
3089 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
3090 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
3091 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
3093 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
3095 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
3096 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
3097 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
3098 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
3099 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
3100 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
3101 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
3102 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
3103 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
3104 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
3105 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
3106 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
3107 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
3108 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
3109 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
3110 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
3111 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
3112 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
3114 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
3115 as required by ANSI.
3116 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
3117 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
3118 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
3119 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
3121 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
3122 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
3123 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
3124 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
3125 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
3126 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
3127 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
3128 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
3130 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
3131 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
3132 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
3133 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3135 is now basically equivalent to
3136 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3137 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
3139 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
3140 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
3141 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
3142 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
3143 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
3144 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
3145 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
3146 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
3147 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
3148 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
3149 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
3150 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
3151 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
3152 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
3153 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
3154 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3155 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
3156 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
3157 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
3158 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
3159 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
3160 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
3161 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
3163 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
3165 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
3166 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
3167 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
3168 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
3169 GNUMAKE environment variable.
3170 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
3171 can build without error under CMU CL.
3173 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
3175 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
3176 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
3177 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
3178 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
3179 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
3180 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
3181 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
3182 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
3183 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
3184 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
3185 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
3186 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
3187 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
3188 being initialized before the type system knew the final
3189 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
3190 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
3191 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
3192 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
3193 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
3194 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
3195 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
3196 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
3197 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
3198 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
3200 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
3201 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
3202 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
3203 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
3204 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
3205 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
3206 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
3207 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
3208 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
3209 it were currently supported.
3210 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
3211 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
3212 having to maintain patches.
3213 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
3214 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
3216 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
3218 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
3219 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
3220 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
3221 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
3222 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
3223 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
3224 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
3225 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
3226 * various new style warnings:
3227 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
3228 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
3229 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
3230 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
3231 as specified by ANSI.
3232 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
3233 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
3234 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
3235 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
3236 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
3237 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
3238 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
3239 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
3240 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
3241 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
3242 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
3243 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
3244 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
3245 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
3246 argument types can be determined at compile time.
3247 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
3248 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
3249 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
3250 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
3251 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
3252 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
3253 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
3256 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
3258 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
3259 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
3260 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
3261 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
3262 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
3263 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
3264 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
3265 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
3266 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
3268 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
3269 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
3270 the report form was printed.)
3271 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
3272 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
3273 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
3274 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
3275 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
3276 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
3277 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
3278 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
3279 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
3280 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
3281 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
3282 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
3283 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
3284 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
3285 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
3286 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
3287 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
3288 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
3289 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
3290 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
3291 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
3292 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
3293 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
3294 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
3295 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
3296 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
3297 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
3298 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
3299 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
3300 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
3301 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
3302 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
3303 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
3304 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
3305 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
3306 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
3307 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
3308 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
3309 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
3310 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
3311 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
3312 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
3313 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
3314 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
3315 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
3316 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
3317 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
3318 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
3319 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
3320 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
3321 know more about target types.
3322 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
3323 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
3324 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
3325 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
3326 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
3327 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
3329 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
3330 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
3331 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
3332 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
3333 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
3334 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
3335 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
3336 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
3337 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
3338 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
3339 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
3340 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
3341 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
3343 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
3346 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
3348 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
3349 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
3350 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
3351 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
3352 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
3353 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
3354 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
3355 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
3356 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
3357 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
3358 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
3359 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
3360 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
3361 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
3362 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
3363 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
3364 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
3365 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
3366 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
3367 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
3368 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
3369 invisible at the user level.)
3370 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
3371 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
3372 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
3374 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
3376 * tidied up "make.sh" script
3377 * tidied up system directory structure
3378 * better "clean.sh" behavior
3379 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
3380 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
3381 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
3382 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
3383 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
3384 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
3385 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
3386 * command line argument processing
3387 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
3388 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
3389 terminating SBCL on EOF
3390 * non-verbose GC by default
3391 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
3392 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
3393 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
3395 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
3396 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
3397 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
3398 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
3399 transformed along with everything else.
3400 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
3401 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
3402 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
3403 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
3404 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
3405 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
3406 debugging and testing purposes
3407 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
3408 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
3409 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
3410 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
3411 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
3412 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
3413 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
3415 * regularized formatting of source files
3416 * added an install.sh script
3417 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
3418 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
3419 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
3420 builds nicely on my old laptop.
3421 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
3422 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
3423 was not implemented)
3424 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
3425 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
3426 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
3427 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
3428 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
3430 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
3431 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
3432 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
3433 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
3434 COMPILE-FILE command)
3435 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
3436 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
3437 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
3438 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
3439 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
3440 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
3441 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
3442 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
3443 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
3444 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
3445 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
3446 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
3447 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
3448 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
3449 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
3451 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
3452 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
3453 known to be able to handle the current sources
3454 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
3455 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
3456 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
3457 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
3458 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
3459 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
3460 * removed host-oops.lisp
3461 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
3462 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
3463 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
3464 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
3465 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
3466 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by
projects / sbcl.git / blob