1 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
2 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
3 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
4 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
5 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
6 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
7 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
8 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
9 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
10 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
11 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
13 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
14 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
16 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
17 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
18 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
19 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
20 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
21 the CAS operation was being performed.
23 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
24 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
25 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
26 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
28 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
29 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
30 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
31 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
32 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
33 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
34 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
35 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
36 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
37 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
38 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
39 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
40 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
41 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
42 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
44 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
45 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
46 the underlying file descriptor.
47 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
48 could cause buffer-overflows.
49 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
50 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
51 Slime debugger higlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
53 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
55 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
56 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
57 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
58 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
59 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
60 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
63 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
64 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
65 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
66 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
67 allows assining a global minimum value to optimization qualities
68 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
69 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
71 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
73 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
74 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
75 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
76 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
77 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
78 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
80 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
81 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
82 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
83 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
84 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
85 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
86 objects that can be seen by the GC.
87 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
88 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
89 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
91 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
92 as the property-list of a symbol.
93 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
94 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
95 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
98 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
99 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
100 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
101 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
102 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
103 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
104 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
105 debugging and introspective support.
106 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
107 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
108 has the owning thread as its value.
109 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
110 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
112 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
114 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
115 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
116 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
117 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
118 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
119 (depending on the bignum size.)
120 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
122 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
123 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
125 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
126 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
128 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
129 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
130 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
131 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
132 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
135 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
136 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
138 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
139 significantly faster.
140 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
141 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
142 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
143 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
144 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
145 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
146 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
147 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
148 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
149 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
150 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
152 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
154 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
155 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
156 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
157 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
158 that use the generational garbage collector
159 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
161 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
162 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
164 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
166 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
167 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
168 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
169 system running with GC inhibited.
170 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
171 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
172 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
173 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
174 (reported by Peter Graves)
176 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
177 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
178 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
180 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
181 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
182 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
183 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
184 documented as unsafe.
185 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
186 in multithreaded application code.
187 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
188 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
189 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
191 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
192 variants no longer cons.
193 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
194 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
195 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
196 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
197 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
198 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
199 are significantly faster.
200 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
201 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
202 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
203 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
204 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
205 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
206 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
207 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
208 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
209 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
210 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
212 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
213 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
214 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
215 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
216 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
217 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
218 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
219 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
220 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
221 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
222 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
223 line in a file is unlimited.
224 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
225 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disbled.
226 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
227 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
228 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
229 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
230 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
231 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
232 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
233 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
234 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
235 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
236 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
237 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
238 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
239 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
240 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
241 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
242 experimental until this is fixed.
243 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
244 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
245 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
246 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
247 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
249 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
250 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
251 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
252 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
253 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
254 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
256 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
257 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
258 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
259 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
260 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
261 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
262 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
263 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
264 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
266 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
267 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
268 (reported by Andras Simon)
269 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
270 bugs remain on x86-64.)
271 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
272 funcallable instances.
273 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
274 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
276 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
277 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
278 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
279 non-base strings as arguments
280 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
282 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
283 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
285 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
286 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
287 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
288 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
289 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
290 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
291 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
292 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
293 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
295 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
296 (thanks to Jon Buller)
297 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
298 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
301 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
302 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
303 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
305 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
306 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
307 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
308 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
309 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
311 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
312 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
313 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
314 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
315 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
316 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
317 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
318 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
319 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
320 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
321 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
322 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
323 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
324 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
325 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
326 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
327 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
328 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
329 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
330 stack frames from alien callbacks.
331 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
332 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
333 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
334 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
336 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
337 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
338 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
339 abount function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
340 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
341 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
342 sb-introspect contrib.
343 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
344 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
345 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
346 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
347 users and the general community)
348 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
349 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
350 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
351 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
352 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
353 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
354 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
355 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
356 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
357 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
358 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
359 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
360 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
361 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
362 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
363 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
365 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
366 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
367 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
368 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
369 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
370 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
371 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
373 * improvements to the Windows port:
374 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
375 to Alastair Bridgewater)
376 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
378 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
379 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
381 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
382 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
383 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
384 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
385 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
386 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
387 core, and restored on startup.
388 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
389 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
390 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
391 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
392 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
393 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
394 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
396 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
397 (thanks to Zach Beane)
398 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
400 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
401 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
402 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
404 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
405 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
406 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
407 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
408 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
409 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
411 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
412 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
413 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
414 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
415 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
416 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
417 (reported by Josip Gracin)
418 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
419 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
420 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
421 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
422 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
423 and don't cause extra consing
424 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
425 whose elements types have been declared.
426 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
427 ** Support for allocation profiling
428 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
429 * Improvements to the Windows port:
430 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
431 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
432 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
433 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
435 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
436 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
437 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
438 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
439 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
441 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
442 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
443 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
445 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
446 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
447 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
448 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
449 with non-variable places
450 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
451 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
452 code more stable against memory faults.
453 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
454 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
455 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
456 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
459 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
460 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
461 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
462 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
463 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
464 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
465 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
466 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
467 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
468 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
469 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
470 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
471 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
473 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
474 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
475 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
476 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
477 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
478 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
479 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
481 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
482 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
484 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
485 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
486 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
487 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
488 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
489 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
490 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
491 to the single-stepper REPL.
492 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
493 for a type now works.
494 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
496 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
497 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
498 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
499 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
500 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
501 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
502 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
503 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
505 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
506 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
507 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
508 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
509 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
510 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
511 whose bindings are modified
512 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
513 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
514 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
515 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
517 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
518 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
519 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
520 as specified by AMOP.
521 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
523 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
524 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
525 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
526 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
527 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
528 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
529 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
530 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
531 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
532 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
533 better type inference.
534 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
535 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
536 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
537 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
538 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
539 (reported by Bruno Haible)
540 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
541 initialization of methods can now be used to override
542 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
544 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
545 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
546 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
547 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
548 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
550 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
551 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
552 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
553 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
554 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
555 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
556 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
557 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
558 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
559 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
560 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
561 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
562 (reported by James Y Knight).
563 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
564 argument for shadowing by local functions.
565 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
567 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
568 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
570 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
572 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
573 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
574 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
576 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
577 * thread-safety improvements:
578 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
579 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
580 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
582 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
583 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
585 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
586 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
587 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
589 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
590 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
591 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
592 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
593 class became finalizeable.
594 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
595 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
596 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
597 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
599 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
600 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
601 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
602 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
603 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
604 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
605 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
606 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
607 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
608 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
609 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
610 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
611 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
612 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
613 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
614 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
615 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
616 * minor code generation optimizations:
617 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
618 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
619 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
620 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
621 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
622 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
623 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
626 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
627 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
629 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
631 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
632 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
633 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
634 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
635 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
636 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
637 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
638 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
639 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
640 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
641 the low-level debugger.
642 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
643 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
644 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
645 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
647 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
648 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
649 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
651 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
652 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
653 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
654 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
655 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
656 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
657 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
658 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
659 (reported by James Y Knight)
660 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
661 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
662 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
663 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
664 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
665 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
666 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
667 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
668 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
669 workaround for bug 403.)
670 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
671 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
672 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
673 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
675 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
676 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
677 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
679 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
680 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
681 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
682 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
683 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
685 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
687 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
688 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
689 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
692 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
693 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
694 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
695 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
696 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
697 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
698 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
699 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
700 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
701 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
702 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
703 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
704 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
705 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
706 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
707 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
708 documentation on package locks for details.
709 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
711 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
712 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
713 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
714 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
715 immediately available from the stream
716 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
717 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
718 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
719 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
721 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
722 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
723 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
725 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
726 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
727 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
729 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
730 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
731 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
732 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
734 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
735 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
736 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
737 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
738 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
739 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
740 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
741 ** sb-grovel supported
742 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
743 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
744 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
745 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
746 ** floating-point exception handling support
747 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
748 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
749 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
750 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
751 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
753 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
755 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
756 defaults for optional parameters.
757 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
758 function, which is already optimized.
760 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
761 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
762 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
763 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
764 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
765 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
766 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
767 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
768 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
769 this change is to make it easier to distribute
770 location-independent binaries.
771 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
772 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
774 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
775 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
776 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
777 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
778 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
779 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
780 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
781 Alastair Bridgewater)
782 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
783 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
784 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
785 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
786 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
787 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
788 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
789 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
790 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
791 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
792 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
793 (thanks to James Knight)
794 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
795 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
797 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
798 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
799 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
800 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
801 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
802 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
803 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
804 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
805 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
806 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
807 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
808 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
809 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
810 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
811 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
812 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
813 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
814 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
815 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
816 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
817 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
819 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
820 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
821 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
822 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
823 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
824 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
826 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
827 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
828 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
829 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
830 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
831 many others over the years)
832 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
833 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
834 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
836 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
837 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
838 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
839 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
840 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
841 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
843 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
845 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
846 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
847 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
848 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
849 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
850 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
851 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
852 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
853 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
854 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
855 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
856 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
857 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
858 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
860 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
861 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
862 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
863 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
864 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
865 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
866 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
867 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
868 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
869 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
870 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
871 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
872 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
873 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
874 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
875 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
876 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
877 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
878 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
879 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
881 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
882 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
883 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
884 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
885 index variables in LOOP
886 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
887 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
888 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
889 that don't have a docstring
891 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
892 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
893 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
894 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
895 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
896 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
897 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
898 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
899 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
900 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
901 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
902 Costanza's "Closer" project)
903 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
904 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
906 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
907 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
908 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
909 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
910 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
912 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
913 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
914 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
915 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
916 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
917 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
918 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
919 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
920 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
921 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
922 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
923 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
924 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
925 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
926 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
927 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
928 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
929 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
930 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
932 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
933 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
934 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
935 floating point index variable or a negative step.
937 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
938 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
939 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
940 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
941 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
942 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
943 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
944 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
945 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
946 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
947 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
948 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
949 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
950 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
951 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
952 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
953 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
954 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
955 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
956 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
957 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
958 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
959 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
960 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
961 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
962 and dump core on SIGQUIT
964 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
965 from their parents (see manual)
966 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
967 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
968 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
969 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
970 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
971 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
973 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
974 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
975 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
976 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
978 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
979 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
980 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
982 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
983 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
984 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
985 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
986 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
987 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
988 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
989 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
990 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
991 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
992 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
993 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
994 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
995 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
997 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
998 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
999 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
1001 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
1002 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
1004 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
1005 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1006 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
1007 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
1008 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
1009 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
1010 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
1011 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
1012 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
1014 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
1015 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
1016 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
1017 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
1018 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
1019 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
1021 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
1023 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
1024 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
1025 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
1026 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
1027 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
1028 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
1029 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
1030 classes; see the manual for more details;
1031 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
1032 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
1033 requested slot ordering.
1035 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
1037 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
1038 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
1040 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
1042 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
1043 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
1044 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
1045 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
1046 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1047 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
1048 the :method-class keyword argument.
1050 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
1051 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
1052 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
1053 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1054 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
1055 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1056 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
1057 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1058 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
1059 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
1060 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
1062 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
1063 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
1064 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
1065 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
1066 is switched on or off
1067 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
1068 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
1069 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
1071 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
1072 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1073 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
1074 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
1075 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1076 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
1077 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
1078 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
1079 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
1081 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
1082 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
1083 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
1084 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
1085 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
1086 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
1087 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
1089 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
1090 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
1091 not prevent gc from running
1092 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
1093 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
1094 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
1095 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
1096 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
1097 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
1098 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
1099 an inline 32-bit rotation.
1101 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
1102 there is only one thread in the session
1103 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
1104 written to in another
1105 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
1106 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
1108 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
1109 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
1111 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
1112 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1113 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
1114 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
1115 the orignal arguments.
1116 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
1118 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
1119 name a compiled function.
1120 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
1121 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
1122 derivation were fixed.
1123 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
1124 list-form FUNCTION type.
1125 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
1126 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
1127 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
1129 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
1130 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
1131 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
1132 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
1133 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
1134 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
1136 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
1137 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
1138 of a select system call
1139 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
1141 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
1142 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
1144 * various error reporting improvements.
1145 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
1146 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1147 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
1148 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
1149 code and foreign data with the same name.
1151 ** added x86-64 support
1152 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
1153 objects instead of thread ids
1154 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
1155 starting up or going down
1156 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
1157 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
1158 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
1159 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
1160 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
1161 an inappropriate moment
1162 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
1163 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
1164 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
1165 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1166 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
1167 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
1168 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
1170 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
1171 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
1172 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
1173 range before calling Unix time functions
1175 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
1176 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
1177 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1178 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
1179 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
1180 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
1181 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1182 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
1183 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
1184 for more information.
1185 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
1186 pathname is a directory pathname.
1187 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
1188 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
1190 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
1191 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
1192 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
1193 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
1194 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
1195 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
1197 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
1198 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
1199 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
1200 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
1201 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
1202 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
1203 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1204 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
1205 the PowerPC platform.
1206 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
1207 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
1209 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
1210 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
1211 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
1212 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
1213 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
1214 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1216 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
1217 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
1218 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
1219 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
1220 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
1221 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1222 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
1223 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
1224 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
1225 as the name of a type, or vice versa
1226 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
1227 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
1228 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
1229 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
1230 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
1231 FLET or MACROLET forms
1232 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
1234 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
1236 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
1239 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
1240 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
1241 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
1242 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
1243 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
1244 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
1245 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
1246 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
1247 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
1248 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
1249 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
1250 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
1251 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
1252 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
1253 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
1254 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1255 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
1256 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1257 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
1258 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
1259 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
1260 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
1262 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1263 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
1264 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
1265 a file has the stream as its datum.
1266 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
1267 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
1268 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
1269 a correct expected type
1270 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
1271 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
1272 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
1273 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
1274 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
1275 on broadcast streams.
1277 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
1278 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
1279 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
1280 --disable-debugger option instead.
1281 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
1283 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
1284 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
1285 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
1286 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
1287 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
1288 has been added to the manual.
1289 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
1290 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
1291 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
1292 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
1293 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1294 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
1295 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
1296 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
1297 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
1298 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
1300 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
1301 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
1302 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
1303 (reported by Rajat Datta).
1304 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1305 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1307 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1308 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1309 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1310 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1311 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1312 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1313 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1314 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1315 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1316 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1317 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1318 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1319 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1320 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1321 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1322 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1323 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1324 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1325 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1327 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1329 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1330 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1331 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1332 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1333 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1335 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1336 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1337 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1338 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1339 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1340 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1341 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1343 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1344 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1345 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1347 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1348 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
1349 types for complex arguments better.
1350 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
1352 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
1353 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
1355 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
1356 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
1357 resulting in GC crashes.
1358 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
1360 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
1363 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
1364 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
1365 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
1366 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
1367 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
1368 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
1369 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
1370 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
1371 returning to the top level.
1372 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
1373 global optimization policy.
1374 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
1375 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
1376 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
1378 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
1379 various incompatible changes.
1380 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
1381 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
1382 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
1383 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
1384 level local call to FOO".
1385 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
1386 now have more legible printed representation
1387 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
1388 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
1389 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
1390 explicitly requested.
1391 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1392 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1393 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1394 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1395 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1397 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1398 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1399 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1400 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1401 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1402 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1403 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1404 the specializer is now possible.
1405 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1406 face of package deletion.
1407 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1408 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1409 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1410 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1411 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1412 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1413 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1414 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1415 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1416 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1418 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1419 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1420 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1421 correctable errors to be signalled.
1422 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1423 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
1426 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
1427 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1428 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
1430 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
1431 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1432 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
1433 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
1434 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
1435 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
1436 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
1437 related to the ~@F format directive.
1438 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
1440 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
1441 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
1442 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
1443 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
1445 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
1447 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
1448 coerce function designators to functions.
1449 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
1450 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
1451 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
1452 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
1453 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
1454 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
1455 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1456 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
1457 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
1458 start of the buffer at the next read.
1459 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
1460 passing it through to OPEN.
1461 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1462 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
1463 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
1464 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
1465 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
1466 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1467 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
1468 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
1470 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
1471 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1472 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1473 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
1474 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1475 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
1477 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1478 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
1479 secondary constituent character trait.
1480 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
1482 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
1484 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
1485 works more reliably.
1486 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
1487 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
1488 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
1490 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
1491 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
1493 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
1494 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
1495 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
1496 and reloading shared object files.
1497 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1498 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
1500 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
1501 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
1502 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
1504 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
1505 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
1507 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
1509 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
1510 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
1511 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
1512 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1513 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
1514 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
1515 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
1517 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
1518 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
1520 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
1521 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
1522 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
1523 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
1524 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
1526 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
1527 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
1528 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1529 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
1530 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
1531 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1532 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
1533 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1534 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
1535 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
1536 lisp characters are not eight bits.
1537 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1538 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
1539 the correct number of arguments.
1540 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
1541 to displaced strings.
1542 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
1543 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
1545 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
1546 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
1547 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
1548 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
1549 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
1550 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
1551 available at runtime.
1552 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
1553 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
1554 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
1555 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1556 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
1557 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
1558 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
1559 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
1560 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
1561 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
1562 of lambda-list keywords.
1563 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
1564 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
1566 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
1567 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
1568 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1569 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
1570 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
1571 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
1572 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
1574 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
1575 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1576 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
1577 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
1578 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
1580 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1581 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
1582 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1583 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
1584 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
1585 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1586 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
1588 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
1589 parameters correctly.
1590 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
1591 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
1592 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
1594 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
1597 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
1598 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
1599 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
1600 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
1602 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
1603 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
1604 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
1605 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
1606 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
1607 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
1608 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
1609 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1610 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
1612 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
1613 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1615 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
1617 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
1618 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
1619 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1620 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
1622 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
1623 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1624 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
1625 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
1626 (reported by David Morse)
1627 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
1628 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1629 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
1630 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1631 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
1632 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1633 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
1634 now exists, an signals an error.
1635 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
1636 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
1637 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1638 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
1639 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1640 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
1641 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
1642 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1643 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
1644 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1645 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
1646 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
1648 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
1649 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
1650 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
1651 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
1652 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1653 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
1654 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
1655 specialized array element types.
1656 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
1657 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1658 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
1659 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1660 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
1661 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
1662 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
1663 Wragg for the simple test case)
1664 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1665 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
1667 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
1668 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
1669 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
1670 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
1671 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
1673 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
1675 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
1676 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
1677 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
1678 references to global functions.
1679 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
1681 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
1683 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
1684 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1685 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
1686 supported platforms.
1687 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
1688 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
1689 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1690 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
1691 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
1692 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1693 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
1694 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1695 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
1696 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
1697 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
1698 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
1699 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
1701 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
1702 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1703 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
1704 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
1705 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
1706 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
1708 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
1709 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
1711 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
1712 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
1713 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
1714 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1715 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
1716 returns the right answer.
1717 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
1719 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
1721 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
1722 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
1724 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
1725 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
1727 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
1728 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
1729 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
1730 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
1731 the supported interface.
1732 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
1733 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
1734 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1735 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
1736 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
1737 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
1738 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
1739 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1740 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
1741 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
1742 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
1743 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
1744 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1745 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
1746 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
1747 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
1748 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
1749 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
1750 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
1751 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
1752 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
1753 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
1754 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
1755 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
1756 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
1757 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
1758 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1759 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
1760 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
1762 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
1763 * incompatible change: the internal functions
1764 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
1765 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
1766 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
1767 instead of the old functions.
1768 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
1769 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
1771 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
1772 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
1774 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
1775 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
1776 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
1777 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
1779 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
1780 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1781 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
1782 (reported by Rick Taube)
1783 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
1784 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
1785 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
1786 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
1788 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
1789 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
1790 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
1791 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
1792 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1793 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
1794 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
1795 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
1796 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
1797 represented relative to default pathnames.
1798 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
1799 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
1800 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
1802 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
1803 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
1804 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
1806 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1807 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
1808 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
1809 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
1811 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
1813 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
1814 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
1815 conditional newlines.
1816 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
1817 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
1818 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
1820 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
1821 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
1823 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
1824 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
1825 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
1826 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
1827 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
1828 compiled in unconditionally.
1829 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
1830 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
1831 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
1832 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
1833 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
1835 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
1836 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
1837 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
1838 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
1839 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
1840 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
1841 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
1842 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
1843 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
1844 an implementation-internal package.
1845 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
1847 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
1848 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
1849 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
1850 bodies are now more legible.
1851 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
1852 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
1853 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
1854 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
1855 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1856 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
1857 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
1859 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
1860 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
1861 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
1862 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
1863 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
1864 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
1865 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
1866 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
1867 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
1868 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
1870 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
1871 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
1872 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
1873 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
1874 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
1875 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
1876 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
1877 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
1878 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
1879 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
1880 system even when most of them are idle
1881 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
1882 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1883 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
1885 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
1886 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
1887 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
1888 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
1889 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
1891 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
1892 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
1893 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
1894 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
1895 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
1896 string for information on the protocol.
1897 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
1898 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
1900 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
1901 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
1903 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
1904 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
1905 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
1906 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
1907 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
1908 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
1910 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
1911 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
1913 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
1914 move between its address being taken and the call to
1915 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
1916 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
1917 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
1918 instances corresponding to C structs.
1920 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
1921 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
1922 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
1923 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
1924 has implications for memory management of client code
1925 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
1926 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
1927 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
1928 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
1929 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
1930 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
1931 quality should be considered deprecated.
1932 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
1933 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
1934 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
1935 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
1936 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
1938 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
1939 designator as the defaults argument.
1940 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
1941 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
1942 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1943 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
1944 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
1946 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
1948 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
1949 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1950 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
1951 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
1952 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1953 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
1955 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
1956 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1957 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
1958 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
1959 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
1960 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
1961 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1962 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
1963 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
1964 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
1965 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
1966 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1967 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
1968 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
1969 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
1970 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
1971 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
1973 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
1974 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
1975 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
1977 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
1978 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1979 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
1980 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
1981 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
1982 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
1983 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1984 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
1985 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
1987 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
1988 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
1990 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
1991 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
1993 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
1994 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1995 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
1996 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
1998 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
1999 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
2000 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2001 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
2002 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
2003 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
2004 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
2005 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
2007 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
2008 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
2009 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
2011 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
2012 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
2014 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2015 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
2017 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
2018 from local to shared slots.
2019 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
2020 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
2021 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
2022 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
2024 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
2025 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
2026 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
2027 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
2028 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
2029 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
2030 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
2031 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
2032 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
2034 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
2036 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
2038 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
2039 print using #P"..." syntax.
2041 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
2042 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
2043 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
2044 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
2045 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
2046 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
2047 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
2048 * [placeholder for DX summary]
2049 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
2050 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
2051 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
2052 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
2053 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
2054 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
2055 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
2056 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
2057 the test case to Dave Roberts)
2058 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
2059 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
2060 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
2061 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2062 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
2063 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
2064 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
2065 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2066 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
2067 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
2068 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
2069 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
2070 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2071 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
2072 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
2075 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
2076 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
2077 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
2078 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
2079 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
2080 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
2081 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
2082 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
2083 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
2084 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2085 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
2086 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
2087 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
2089 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
2090 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
2092 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
2093 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
2094 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2095 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
2096 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2097 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
2099 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
2100 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
2101 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
2103 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
2105 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
2107 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
2108 their output stream on EOF from read.
2109 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
2110 have been read to end-of-file.
2111 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
2113 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
2114 description of determination of which consecutive characters
2116 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
2117 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
2118 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2119 less than 10 works correctly.
2120 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2121 more than 10 works correctly.
2122 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
2123 the readtable currently in effect.
2125 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
2126 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
2127 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
2128 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
2129 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
2130 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
2131 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
2132 should usually be replaced by
2133 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
2134 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
2135 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
2136 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
2137 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
2138 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
2139 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
2140 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
2142 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
2143 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
2144 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2145 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
2146 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
2147 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2148 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
2149 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
2150 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
2151 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
2152 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
2153 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
2154 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
2156 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
2157 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
2158 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
2159 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2160 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
2161 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
2162 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
2163 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2164 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
2165 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
2166 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
2167 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
2168 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
2169 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
2170 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2171 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
2172 non-local entry points.
2173 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
2175 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2176 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
2178 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
2179 host is already defined.
2180 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
2182 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
2183 or not a character is whitespace.
2184 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
2185 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
2186 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
2188 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
2189 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
2191 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
2193 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
2194 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
2195 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
2196 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
2197 designator argument does not designate a stream.
2198 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
2199 examining the synonym.
2200 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
2202 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
2203 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
2205 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
2206 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
2207 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
2208 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
2209 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
2210 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
2211 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
2212 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
2213 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
2214 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2215 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
2216 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
2218 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
2219 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
2220 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2221 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
2222 stream position information.
2223 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
2224 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
2225 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
2226 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
2227 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2228 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
2230 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
2231 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
2233 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2234 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2235 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
2236 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
2237 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
2238 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
2239 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
2241 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
2243 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
2244 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
2245 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
2246 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
2247 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
2248 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
2249 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
2250 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
2251 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
2252 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
2253 the "SYS" logical host.
2254 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
2255 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
2256 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
2257 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2258 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
2259 now each have their own history, command character, and other
2260 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2261 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2262 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
2264 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
2265 shift greater than 32.
2266 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
2267 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
2268 in some circumstances.
2270 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
2271 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
2272 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
2273 environments like SLIME.
2274 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
2275 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
2276 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
2277 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
2278 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
2279 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
2280 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
2281 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
2282 argument types for all arguments.
2283 * various threading fixes
2284 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
2285 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
2286 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
2287 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
2289 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
2290 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
2291 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
2292 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
2293 arguments to a full call.
2294 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
2295 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
2296 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
2297 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
2299 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
2300 inserts a space where necessary.
2301 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
2302 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
2303 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
2304 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2305 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2306 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2307 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2308 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2309 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2310 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2311 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2312 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2314 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2315 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2316 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2318 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2320 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2321 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2322 argument and negative second.
2323 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2324 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2325 interval, containing 0.
2326 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2328 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2329 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2331 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2332 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2333 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2334 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2335 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2336 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2337 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2338 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2339 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2340 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2341 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2342 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2343 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2344 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2345 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2346 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2347 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2348 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
2349 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
2350 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
2351 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
2352 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2353 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
2354 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
2355 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
2356 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
2357 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
2358 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
2359 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
2361 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
2362 platform now returns the right answer.
2363 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
2364 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
2365 precomputation is now tunable.
2366 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
2367 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
2368 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
2369 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
2370 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
2371 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
2372 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
2373 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
2374 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
2375 has been added for the alpha.
2376 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
2377 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
2378 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
2379 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
2380 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
2381 MEMBER-types to numeric.
2382 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
2384 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
2385 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
2386 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
2388 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
2389 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2390 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
2391 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2392 might be pseudo-atomic.
2393 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2394 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2396 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2398 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2400 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2401 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2402 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2403 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2404 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2405 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2407 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2408 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2409 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2410 small float arguments.
2411 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2413 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2414 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2415 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2416 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2417 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2418 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2420 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2422 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2423 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
2424 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
2425 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
2426 with negative last argument.
2427 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
2428 an error during type derivation.
2429 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
2431 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
2432 generates a 32-bit binary.
2433 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2434 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
2435 data structures referred to above).
2437 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
2438 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
2439 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
2440 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
2441 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
2442 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
2443 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
2444 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
2445 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
2446 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2447 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
2448 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
2450 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
2451 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
2453 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
2454 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
2455 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
2456 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
2457 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
2458 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
2459 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
2460 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
2461 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
2462 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
2463 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
2464 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2465 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
2466 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
2467 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
2468 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
2469 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
2470 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2471 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
2472 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
2473 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
2474 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
2475 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2476 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
2477 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
2478 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
2479 optimization quality.
2480 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
2481 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
2482 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
2483 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
2484 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2485 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2486 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
2487 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
2488 types form a lattice under type intersection.
2489 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
2490 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
2491 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
2492 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
2493 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
2494 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
2495 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
2496 calling the generic function.
2497 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
2498 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
2499 obscure ANSI requirements
2501 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
2502 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
2503 garbage, confusing the compiler.
2504 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
2505 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
2506 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
2507 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
2508 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
2509 circumstances could go off-by-one.
2510 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
2512 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
2513 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
2514 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
2515 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
2516 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
2517 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
2518 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
2519 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
2520 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
2521 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2522 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
2523 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
2524 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2525 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
2526 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2527 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
2528 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
2529 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
2530 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
2531 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
2533 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
2534 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
2535 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
2536 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
2538 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
2539 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
2540 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
2541 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
2542 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
2543 provide helpful disassembly notes.
2544 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
2545 the class in more cases than previously.
2546 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
2547 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2548 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
2549 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2550 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
2551 without lambda list.
2552 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
2553 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
2554 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2555 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
2556 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
2557 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
2559 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
2560 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
2561 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
2563 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
2564 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
2565 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
2566 were silently accepted).
2567 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
2568 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
2569 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
2570 to warn on static type mismatches and function
2571 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
2572 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
2573 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
2574 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
2575 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
2576 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
2577 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
2578 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
2579 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
2580 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
2582 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
2583 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
2584 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
2585 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
2586 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
2587 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
2589 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
2590 keywords or constants is permissible.
2591 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
2592 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
2593 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2594 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
2595 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
2596 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
2597 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
2598 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
2600 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
2601 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2602 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
2603 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
2604 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2605 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
2606 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
2608 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
2610 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
2611 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
2612 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
2613 respectively change and preserve the value.
2614 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
2615 is now better at handling symbol macros.
2616 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
2617 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
2618 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
2619 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
2620 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
2621 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
2622 their use properly signals an error now.
2623 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
2624 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
2625 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
2626 * fixed simple vector readable printing
2627 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
2628 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
2629 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
2630 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
2631 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
2632 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
2633 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2634 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
2635 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2636 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
2637 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
2638 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2639 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
2640 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
2641 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
2642 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
2643 causes a type error.
2644 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
2645 association between the name and a class.
2646 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
2647 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
2648 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2649 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
2650 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
2651 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
2653 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
2654 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
2655 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
2656 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
2658 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
2659 which its argument is a member.
2660 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
2661 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
2662 otherwise, it creates a new class.
2663 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
2664 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
2665 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
2666 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
2667 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2668 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
2670 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
2671 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
2672 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
2673 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
2674 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
2675 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
2676 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
2678 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
2679 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
2680 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
2681 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
2682 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
2683 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
2684 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
2685 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
2686 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
2687 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
2688 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
2689 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
2690 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2691 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
2693 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
2694 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
2695 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
2696 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
2697 superclasses are applied.
2698 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2699 no method was removed.
2700 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
2701 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
2702 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
2703 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
2705 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
2707 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
2708 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
2709 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
2710 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
2711 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
2712 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
2713 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
2714 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
2715 function lambda list.
2716 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
2718 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
2719 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
2720 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
2721 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
2723 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
2724 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
2725 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
2726 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
2727 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
2728 they look for GNU "make".
2730 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
2731 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
2732 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
2733 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
2735 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
2736 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
2737 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
2738 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
2739 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
2740 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
2741 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
2742 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
2743 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
2744 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
2746 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
2747 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
2748 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
2749 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
2750 libraries, and will know who they are.
2751 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
2752 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
2753 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
2754 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
2755 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
2756 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
2757 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
2758 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
2760 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
2761 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
2762 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2763 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
2764 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
2765 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
2766 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
2767 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
2768 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
2769 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
2770 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2771 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
2773 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
2774 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
2775 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
2776 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
2777 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2778 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
2779 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
2780 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
2781 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
2783 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
2784 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
2785 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
2786 this you were probably losing anyway.
2787 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
2788 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
2789 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
2790 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
2791 with names from the CL package.
2792 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
2793 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
2794 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
2795 documentation string.
2796 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2797 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
2799 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
2800 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
2801 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
2802 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
2804 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
2805 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
2807 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
2808 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2809 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
2811 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
2812 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
2813 arguments contain duplicated elements.
2814 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
2815 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
2816 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
2817 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
2818 in question is unbound.
2819 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
2820 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
2821 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
2822 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
2823 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
2825 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
2827 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
2828 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
2829 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
2830 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
2831 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
2832 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
2833 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
2834 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
2835 by Antonio Martinez)
2836 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
2837 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2838 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
2839 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
2840 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
2841 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
2842 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
2843 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2844 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
2845 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
2846 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
2847 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
2848 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
2849 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
2850 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
2851 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
2852 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
2853 on malformed property lists;
2855 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
2856 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
2857 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
2858 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
2859 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
2860 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
2861 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
2862 modules in this release include:
2863 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
2864 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
2865 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
2866 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2867 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
2869 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
2870 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
2871 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2872 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2873 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
2874 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
2875 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
2876 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
2878 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
2879 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
2880 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
2881 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
2882 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
2883 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
2884 the lexical environment.
2885 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
2886 unprintable packages can now be defined.
2887 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
2888 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2889 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
2890 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2891 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
2892 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
2893 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
2894 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
2895 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
2896 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
2897 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
2898 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
2899 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2900 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
2901 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2902 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
2903 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
2904 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
2905 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2906 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
2907 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
2908 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
2909 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
2911 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
2912 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
2913 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2914 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2915 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
2916 not just nonnegative fixnums;
2917 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
2918 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
2919 freshly-consed result bit-array);
2920 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
2922 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
2923 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
2925 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
2926 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
2927 cases are accurately computed;
2928 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
2929 if it is in the last clause;
2930 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
2932 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
2933 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
2934 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
2935 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
2937 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
2938 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
2939 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
2940 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
2941 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
2943 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
2944 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
2945 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
2946 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
2948 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2949 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
2950 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
2951 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
2952 not cause a type error;
2953 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
2955 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
2956 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
2957 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
2958 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
2959 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
2960 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
2961 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
2962 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
2964 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
2965 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
2966 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
2967 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
2968 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
2969 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
2971 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
2972 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
2974 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
2975 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
2976 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
2977 only for symbols in the CL package.
2978 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
2979 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2980 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
2981 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
2982 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
2984 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2985 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
2986 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
2987 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
2988 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
2989 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
2990 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
2991 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
2992 conditional loop clause;
2993 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
2994 signals a type error iff it should.
2995 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2996 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
2997 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
2998 argument) no longer signals an error;
2999 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
3000 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
3001 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
3003 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
3004 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
3005 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
3007 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
3008 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
3009 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
3010 functionality on said platforms verified.
3011 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
3012 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
3014 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
3015 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
3016 component indicating that directory.
3017 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
3018 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
3019 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
3020 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
3021 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3022 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
3024 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
3025 primary methods with no specializers;
3026 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
3028 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
3029 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
3030 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
3031 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
3033 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
3034 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
3035 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
3037 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
3038 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
3039 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
3040 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
3041 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
3042 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
3043 class STANDARD-CLASS;
3044 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
3045 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3046 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
3047 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
3049 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
3050 value producing form;
3051 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
3052 variables are bound and made to have no value;
3053 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
3055 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
3056 is not a valid sequence index;
3057 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
3058 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
3059 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3060 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
3062 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
3063 symbol-macro places;
3064 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
3065 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
3067 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
3069 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
3071 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
3072 invariant when deleting code.
3073 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
3074 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
3076 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
3077 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3078 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
3080 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
3081 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
3083 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
3084 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
3085 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3086 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
3088 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
3089 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3090 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
3091 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
3093 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
3094 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
3095 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
3096 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
3097 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3098 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
3099 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
3100 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
3101 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
3102 sbcl and .core files.)
3103 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
3104 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
3105 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
3106 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
3107 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
3108 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3109 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
3111 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
3112 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
3113 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
3114 argument precedence order.
3115 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
3116 derived types contradict their declared type.
3117 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
3118 so it can be non-toplevel.
3119 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
3120 implementation of DEFMACRO).
3121 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
3122 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
3123 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
3125 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
3126 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
3127 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
3128 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
3129 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
3130 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
3131 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
3132 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
3133 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
3134 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
3135 symbol macro only once
3136 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
3137 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
3138 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
3141 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
3142 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
3143 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
3144 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
3145 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
3146 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
3147 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
3148 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
3149 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
3150 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3151 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
3152 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
3154 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
3155 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
3156 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
3157 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
3158 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3159 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
3161 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
3163 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
3164 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
3165 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
3166 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
3167 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3168 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
3169 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
3170 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
3171 ways in different special cases
3172 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
3174 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
3175 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
3176 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
3177 are no longer optimized away.
3178 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
3179 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
3180 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
3181 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
3182 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
3183 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
3184 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
3185 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
3188 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
3189 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
3190 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
3191 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
3192 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
3193 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
3194 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
3196 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
3197 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
3198 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
3199 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
3200 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
3201 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
3202 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
3203 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
3204 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
3205 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
3206 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
3207 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
3208 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
3209 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
3210 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
3211 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
3212 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
3213 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3214 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
3215 that are names of constants or global variables.
3216 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
3217 alien routines with docstrings.
3218 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
3219 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
3221 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
3222 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3223 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
3224 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3225 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
3226 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3227 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
3228 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
3229 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
3230 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3231 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
3232 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
3233 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
3234 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
3235 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
3236 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
3237 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
3238 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
3239 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
3240 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
3241 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
3242 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
3243 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
3245 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
3246 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
3248 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
3249 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
3250 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
3251 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
3252 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
3253 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
3254 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
3255 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
3256 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
3257 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
3259 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
3260 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
3261 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
3262 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
3263 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
3264 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
3265 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
3266 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
3267 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
3268 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
3269 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
3270 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
3271 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
3272 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
3273 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
3274 is no longer a static symbol.)
3276 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
3277 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
3278 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
3279 bootstrapping under CLISP.
3280 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
3282 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
3283 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
3285 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
3286 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
3287 to David Lichteblau)
3288 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
3289 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
3290 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
3292 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
3293 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3294 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
3295 count as they should.
3296 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
3297 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3298 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
3299 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
3300 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
3301 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
3302 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
3303 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
3304 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3305 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3306 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3307 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3308 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3309 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3310 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3312 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3313 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3314 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3316 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3318 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3319 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3320 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3321 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3322 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3323 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3324 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3326 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3327 to Christophe Rhodes)
3328 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3329 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3330 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3331 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3332 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3333 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
3334 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3336 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3337 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3338 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3339 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3340 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3341 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3342 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3343 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3344 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3345 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3346 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3347 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3348 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
3350 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
3351 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
3352 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
3353 INFO database to support symbol macros.
3354 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
3355 (thanks to coreythomas)
3356 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
3357 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
3358 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
3359 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
3360 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
3362 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
3363 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
3364 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
3365 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
3366 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
3367 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
3368 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
3369 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
3370 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
3371 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3372 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
3373 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
3374 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
3376 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
3377 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
3380 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
3381 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
3382 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
3383 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
3384 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
3385 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
3386 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
3387 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
3388 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
3389 systems than the old 4M value was)
3390 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
3391 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3392 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3393 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3394 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3395 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3396 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3398 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3399 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3400 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3401 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3402 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3404 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3405 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3406 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3407 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3408 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3409 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3410 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3411 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3413 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3414 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3415 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3416 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3417 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3418 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3419 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3420 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3422 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3423 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3424 * several changes related to debugging:
3425 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
3426 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
3427 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
3428 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
3429 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3430 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
3431 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
3434 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
3436 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
3437 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
3438 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
3439 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
3440 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
3441 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
3442 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
3443 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
3445 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
3446 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
3447 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
3448 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3449 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
3450 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
3451 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
3452 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
3453 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
3454 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
3455 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
3456 file format number to change again.
3458 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
3459 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
3460 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
3461 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
3463 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
3464 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
3465 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
3466 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
3467 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
3468 FUNCALL on the result.
3469 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
3470 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
3471 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
3472 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
3473 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
3474 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
3475 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
3476 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
3478 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
3479 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
3480 the old compiler produced.
3481 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
3482 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
3483 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
3484 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
3485 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
3486 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
3487 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
3488 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
3489 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
3490 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
3491 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
3492 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
3493 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
3494 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
3495 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
3496 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
3497 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
3498 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
3499 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
3500 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
3501 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
3502 straightened out in some future version.)
3503 * minor incompatible changes:
3504 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
3505 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
3506 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
3507 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
3508 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
3509 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
3510 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
3511 implementation dependent:
3512 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
3513 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
3514 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
3515 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
3516 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
3517 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
3518 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
3519 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
3521 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
3523 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
3524 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
3525 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
3526 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
3527 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
3528 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
3529 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
3530 are no longer used for output.
3531 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
3532 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
3533 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
3534 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
3535 increasing it even more.)
3536 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
3537 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
3538 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
3540 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
3541 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
3542 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
3543 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
3544 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
3545 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
3546 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
3547 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
3548 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
3549 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
3550 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
3551 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
3552 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
3553 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
3554 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
3555 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
3556 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
3557 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
3558 compilation of code which calls such functions.
3559 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
3560 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
3561 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
3562 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
3563 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
3564 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
3565 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
3566 built into the system.
3567 * many other bug fixes
3568 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
3569 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
3570 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
3571 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
3572 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
3574 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
3575 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
3576 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
3577 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
3578 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
3579 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
3580 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
3581 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
3582 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
3583 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
3584 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
3586 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
3587 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
3588 and several other LOOP problems as well
3589 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
3590 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
3591 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
3592 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
3593 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
3594 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
3595 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
3596 *** a bug in APROPOS
3597 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
3598 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
3599 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
3600 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
3601 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
3602 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
3603 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
3604 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
3605 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
3606 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
3607 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
3608 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
3609 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
3610 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
3611 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
3613 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
3614 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
3615 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
3616 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
3617 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
3618 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
3619 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
3620 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
3621 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
3622 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
3623 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
3624 some of which are apparent above.
3626 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
3627 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
3628 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
3629 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
3630 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
3631 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
3632 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
3633 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
3634 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
3635 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
3636 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
3637 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
3638 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
3639 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
3640 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
3641 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
3642 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
3643 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
3644 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
3645 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
3646 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
3647 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
3648 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
3649 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
3650 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
3651 different return types.
3652 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
3653 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
3654 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
3655 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
3656 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
3657 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
3658 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
3659 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
3660 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
3661 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
3663 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
3664 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
3665 does the right thing.
3666 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
3667 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
3668 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3669 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
3670 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3671 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3672 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
3673 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
3674 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
3675 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
3676 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3677 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
3678 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3679 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
3680 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
3681 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
3682 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
3683 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
3684 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
3685 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
3686 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
3687 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
3688 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
3689 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
3690 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
3691 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
3692 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
3693 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
3694 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
3695 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
3696 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
3697 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
3698 since historically most system changes which required version
3699 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
3700 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
3703 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
3704 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
3705 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
3706 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
3707 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
3708 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
3709 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
3710 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
3711 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
3712 half a dozen others elsewhere
3713 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
3714 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
3715 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
3716 as flaky as they were.
3717 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
3718 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
3719 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
3720 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
3721 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
3722 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
3723 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
3724 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
3726 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
3727 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
3728 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
3729 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3730 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
3731 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
3732 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
3733 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
3734 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
3735 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
3736 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
3737 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
3738 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
3739 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
3740 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
3741 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
3742 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
3743 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
3744 more obscure bugs as well
3745 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
3746 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
3747 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
3748 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
3749 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
3750 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
3751 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
3752 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
3753 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
3754 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
3755 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
3757 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
3758 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
3760 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
3762 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3763 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
3764 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
3765 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
3766 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
3767 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
3768 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
3769 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
3770 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
3771 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
3772 are local in this sense.)
3773 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
3774 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
3775 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
3776 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
3777 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
3778 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
3779 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3780 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
3781 system's STREAM objects.
3782 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
3783 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3784 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
3785 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3786 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
3787 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
3788 environment from the original process instead of starting the
3789 new process in an empty environment.
3790 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
3791 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
3792 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
3793 for porting convenience.
3794 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
3795 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
3797 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
3799 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
3800 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
3801 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
3802 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
3803 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
3804 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
3805 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
3806 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
3807 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
3808 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
3809 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
3810 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3811 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
3812 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
3813 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
3814 many fewer weird special cases.
3815 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
3816 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
3817 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3818 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
3819 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
3820 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
3821 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
3822 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
3823 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
3824 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3825 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
3828 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
3830 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
3831 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
3832 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
3834 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
3835 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
3836 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
3837 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
3838 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
3839 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
3840 should be constructed the same way as before.
3841 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
3842 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
3843 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
3844 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
3845 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
3846 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
3847 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
3848 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
3849 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
3850 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
3851 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
3852 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
3853 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
3854 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
3855 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
3856 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
3857 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
3858 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
3859 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
3860 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
3861 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
3862 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
3864 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
3865 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
3866 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
3867 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
3868 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
3869 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
3870 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
3871 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
3873 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
3875 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
3876 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
3877 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
3878 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
3879 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
3881 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
3882 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
3883 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
3884 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
3885 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
3886 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
3887 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
3888 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
3889 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
3890 and Douglas Crosher.
3891 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
3892 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
3893 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
3895 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
3896 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
3897 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
3898 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
3899 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
3900 undefined function error.
3901 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
3902 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
3903 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
3904 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
3905 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
3906 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
3907 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
3908 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
3909 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
3910 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
3911 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
3912 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
3913 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
3915 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
3917 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
3918 CVS repository on my home machine).
3919 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
3920 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
3921 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
3922 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
3923 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
3924 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
3925 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
3926 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
3927 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
3928 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
3929 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
3930 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
3931 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
3932 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
3933 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
3934 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
3935 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
3936 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
3937 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
3938 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
3939 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
3940 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
3942 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
3943 FreeBSD have been added.
3944 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
3945 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
3946 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
3947 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
3948 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
3949 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
3951 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
3952 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
3953 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
3954 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
3955 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
3956 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
3957 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
3958 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
3960 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
3961 away by constant folding
3962 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
3963 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
3964 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
3965 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
3966 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
3967 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
3968 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
3969 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
3970 diff-related operations.
3971 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
3972 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
3974 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
3976 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
3977 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
3978 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
3979 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
3980 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
3981 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
3982 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
3983 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
3984 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
3985 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
3986 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
3987 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
3988 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
3989 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
3990 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
3991 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
3992 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
3993 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
3994 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
3995 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
3996 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
3997 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
3998 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
3999 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
4000 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
4001 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
4002 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
4003 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
4004 instead of (VALUES T T).
4005 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
4006 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
4007 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
4008 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
4009 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
4010 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
4011 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
4012 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
4013 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
4014 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
4015 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
4016 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
4017 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
4018 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
4019 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
4020 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
4021 type will be interpreted at runtime.
4022 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
4023 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
4024 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
4025 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
4026 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
4027 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
4028 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
4029 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
4030 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
4031 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
4032 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
4033 fasl files for cold load.
4034 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
4035 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
4036 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
4037 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
4038 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
4039 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
4040 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
4041 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
4042 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
4043 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
4044 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
4046 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
4047 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
4048 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
4049 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
4050 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
4051 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
4052 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
4053 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
4054 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
4055 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
4056 renamed some files to increase consistency.
4057 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
4058 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
4059 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
4060 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
4061 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
4062 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
4064 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
4066 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
4067 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
4068 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
4069 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
4070 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
4071 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
4072 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
4073 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
4074 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
4075 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
4076 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
4077 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
4078 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
4079 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
4080 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
4081 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
4082 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
4083 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
4085 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
4086 as required by ANSI.
4087 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
4088 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
4089 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
4090 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
4092 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
4093 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
4094 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
4095 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
4096 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
4097 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
4098 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
4099 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
4101 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
4102 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
4103 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
4104 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4106 is now basically equivalent to
4107 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4108 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
4110 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
4111 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
4112 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
4113 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
4114 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
4115 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
4116 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
4117 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
4118 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
4119 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
4120 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
4121 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
4122 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
4123 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
4124 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
4125 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4126 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
4127 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
4128 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
4129 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
4130 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
4131 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
4132 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
4134 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
4136 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
4137 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
4138 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
4139 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
4140 GNUMAKE environment variable.
4141 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
4142 can build without error under CMU CL.
4144 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
4146 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
4147 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
4148 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
4149 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
4150 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
4151 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
4152 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
4153 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
4154 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
4155 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
4156 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
4157 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
4158 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
4159 being initialized before the type system knew the final
4160 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
4161 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
4162 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
4163 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
4164 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
4165 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
4166 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
4167 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
4168 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
4169 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
4171 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
4172 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
4173 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
4174 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
4175 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
4176 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
4177 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
4178 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
4179 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
4180 it were currently supported.
4181 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
4182 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
4183 having to maintain patches.
4184 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
4185 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
4187 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
4189 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
4190 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
4191 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
4192 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
4193 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
4194 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
4195 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
4196 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
4197 * various new style warnings:
4198 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
4199 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
4200 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
4201 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
4202 as specified by ANSI.
4203 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
4204 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
4205 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
4206 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
4207 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
4208 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
4209 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
4210 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
4211 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
4212 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
4213 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
4214 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
4215 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
4216 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
4217 argument types can be determined at compile time.
4218 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
4219 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
4220 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
4221 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
4222 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
4223 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
4224 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
4227 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
4229 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
4230 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
4231 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
4232 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
4233 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
4234 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
4235 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
4236 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
4237 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
4239 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
4240 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
4241 the report form was printed.)
4242 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
4243 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
4244 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
4245 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
4246 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
4247 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
4248 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
4249 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
4250 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
4251 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
4252 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
4253 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
4254 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
4255 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
4256 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
4257 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
4258 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
4259 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
4260 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
4261 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
4262 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
4263 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
4264 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
4265 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
4266 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
4267 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
4268 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
4269 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
4270 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
4271 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
4272 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
4273 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
4274 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
4275 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
4276 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
4277 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
4278 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
4279 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
4280 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
4281 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
4282 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
4283 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
4284 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
4285 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
4286 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
4287 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
4288 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
4289 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
4290 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
4291 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
4292 know more about target types.
4293 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
4294 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
4295 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
4296 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
4297 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
4298 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
4300 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
4301 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
4302 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
4303 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
4304 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4305 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4306 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4307 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4308 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4309 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4310 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4311 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4312 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4314 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4317 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4319 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4320 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4321 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4322 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4323 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4324 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4325 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4326 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4327 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4328 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4329 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4330 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4331 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4332 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4333 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4334 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4335 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4336 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4337 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4338 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4339 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4340 invisible at the user level.)
4341 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4342 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4343 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4345 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4347 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4348 * tidied up system directory structure
4349 * better "clean.sh" behavior
4350 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
4351 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
4352 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
4353 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
4354 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
4355 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
4356 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
4357 * command line argument processing
4358 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
4359 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
4360 terminating SBCL on EOF
4361 * non-verbose GC by default
4362 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
4363 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
4364 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
4366 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
4367 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
4368 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
4369 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
4370 transformed along with everything else.
4371 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
4372 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
4373 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
4374 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
4375 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
4376 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
4377 debugging and testing purposes
4378 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
4379 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
4380 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
4381 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
4382 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
4383 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
4384 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
4386 * regularized formatting of source files
4387 * added an install.sh script
4388 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
4389 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
4390 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
4391 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4392 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4393 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4394 was not implemented)
4395 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4396 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4397 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4398 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4399 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4401 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4402 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4403 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4404 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4405 COMPILE-FILE command)
4406 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4407 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4408 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4409 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4410 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4411 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4412 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4413 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4414 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4415 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4416 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4417 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4418 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4419 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4420 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4422 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4423 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
4424 known to be able to handle the current sources
4425 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
4426 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
4427 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
4428 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
4429 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
4430 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
4431 * removed host-oops.lisp
4432 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
4433 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
4434 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
4435 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
4436 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
4437 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by