1 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
2 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
3 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
4 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
5 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
6 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
8 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
10 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
11 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
13 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
15 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
16 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
18 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
19 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
20 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
22 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
23 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
24 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
25 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
27 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
28 in multithreaded application code.
29 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
30 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
31 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
33 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
34 variants no longer cons.
35 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
36 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
37 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
38 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
39 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
40 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
41 are significantly faster.
42 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
43 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
44 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
45 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
46 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
47 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
48 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
49 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
50 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
51 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
52 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
54 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
55 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
56 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
57 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
58 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
59 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
60 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
61 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
62 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
63 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
64 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
65 line in a file is unlimited.
66 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
67 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disbled.
68 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
69 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
70 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
71 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
72 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
73 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
74 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
75 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
76 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
77 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
78 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
79 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
80 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
81 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
82 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
83 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
84 experimental until this is fixed.
85 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
86 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
87 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
88 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
89 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
91 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
92 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
93 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
94 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
95 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
96 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
98 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
99 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
100 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
101 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
102 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
103 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
104 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
105 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
106 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
108 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
109 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
110 (reported by Andras Simon)
111 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
112 bugs remain on x86-64.)
113 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
114 funcallable instances.
115 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
116 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
118 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
119 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
120 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
121 non-base strings as arguments
122 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
124 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
125 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
127 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
128 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
129 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
130 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
131 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
132 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
133 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
134 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
135 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
137 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
138 (thanks to Jon Buller)
139 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
140 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
143 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
144 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
145 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
147 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
148 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
149 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
150 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
151 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
153 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
154 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
155 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
156 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
157 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
158 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
159 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
160 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
161 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
162 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
163 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
164 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
165 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
166 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
167 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
168 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
169 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
170 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
171 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
172 stack frames from alien callbacks.
173 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
174 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
175 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
176 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
178 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
179 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
180 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
181 abount function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
182 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
183 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
184 sb-introspect contrib.
185 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
186 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
187 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
188 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
189 users and the general community)
190 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
191 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
192 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
193 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
194 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
195 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
196 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
197 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
198 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
199 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
200 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
201 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
202 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
203 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
204 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
205 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
207 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
208 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
209 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
210 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
211 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
212 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
213 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
215 * improvements to the Windows port:
216 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
217 to Alastair Bridgewater)
218 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
220 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
221 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
223 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
224 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
225 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
226 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
227 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
228 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
229 core, and restored on startup.
230 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
231 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
232 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
233 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
234 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
235 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
236 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
238 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
239 (thanks to Zach Beane)
240 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
242 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
243 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
244 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
246 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
247 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
248 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
249 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
250 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
251 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
253 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
254 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
255 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
256 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
257 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
258 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
259 (reported by Josip Gracin)
260 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
261 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
262 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
263 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
264 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
265 and don't cause extra consing
266 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
267 whose elements types have been declared.
268 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
269 ** Support for allocation profiling
270 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
271 * Improvements to the Windows port:
272 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
273 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
274 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
275 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
277 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
278 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
279 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
280 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
281 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
283 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
284 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
285 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
287 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
288 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
289 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
290 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
291 with non-variable places
292 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
293 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
294 code more stable against memory faults.
295 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
296 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
297 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
298 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
301 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
302 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
303 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
304 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
305 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
306 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
307 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
308 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
309 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
310 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
311 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
312 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
313 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
315 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
316 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
317 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
318 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
319 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
320 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
321 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
323 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
324 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
326 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
327 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
328 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
329 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
330 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
331 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
332 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
333 to the single-stepper REPL.
334 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
335 for a type now works.
336 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
338 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
339 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
340 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
341 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
342 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
343 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
344 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
345 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
347 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
348 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
349 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
350 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
351 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
352 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
353 whose bindings are modified
354 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
355 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
356 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
357 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
359 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
360 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
361 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
362 as specified by AMOP.
363 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
365 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
366 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
367 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
368 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
369 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
370 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
371 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
372 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
373 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
374 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
375 better type inference.
376 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
377 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
378 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
379 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
380 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
381 (reported by Bruno Haible)
382 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
383 initialization of methods can now be used to override
384 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
386 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
387 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
388 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
389 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
390 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
392 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
393 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
394 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
395 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
396 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
397 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
398 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
399 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
400 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
401 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
402 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
403 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
404 (reported by James Y Knight).
405 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
406 argument for shadowing by local functions.
407 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
409 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
410 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
412 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
414 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
415 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
416 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
418 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
419 * thread-safety improvements:
420 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
421 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
422 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
424 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
425 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
427 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
428 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
429 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
431 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
432 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
433 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
434 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
435 class became finalizeable.
436 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
437 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
438 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
439 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
441 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
442 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
443 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
444 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
445 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
446 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
447 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
448 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
449 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
450 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
451 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
452 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
453 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
454 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
455 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
456 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
457 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
458 * minor code generation optimizations:
459 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
460 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
461 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
462 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
463 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
464 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
465 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
468 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
469 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
471 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
473 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
474 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
475 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
476 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
477 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
478 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
479 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
480 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
481 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
482 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
483 the low-level debugger.
484 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
485 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
486 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
487 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
489 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
490 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
491 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
493 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
494 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
495 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
496 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
497 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
498 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
499 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
500 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
501 (reported by James Y Knight)
502 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
503 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
504 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
505 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
506 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
507 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
508 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
509 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
510 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
511 workaround for bug 403.)
512 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
513 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
514 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
515 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
517 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
518 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
519 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
521 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
522 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
523 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
524 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
525 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
527 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
529 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
530 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
531 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
534 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
535 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
536 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
537 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
538 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
539 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
540 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
541 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
542 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
543 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
544 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
545 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
546 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
547 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
548 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
549 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
550 documentation on package locks for details.
551 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
553 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
554 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
555 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
556 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
557 immediately available from the stream
558 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
559 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
560 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
561 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
563 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
564 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
565 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
567 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
568 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
569 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
571 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
572 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
573 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
574 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
576 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
577 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
578 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
579 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
580 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
581 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
582 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
583 ** sb-grovel supported
584 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
585 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
586 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
587 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
588 ** floating-point exception handling support
589 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
590 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
591 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
592 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
593 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
595 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
597 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
598 defaults for optional parameters.
599 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
600 function, which is already optimized.
602 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
603 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
604 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
605 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
606 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
607 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
608 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
609 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
610 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
611 this change is to make it easier to distribute
612 location-independent binaries.
613 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
614 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
616 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
617 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
618 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
619 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
620 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
621 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
622 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
623 Alastair Bridgewater)
624 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
625 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
626 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
627 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
628 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
629 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
630 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
631 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
632 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
633 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
634 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
635 (thanks to James Knight)
636 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
637 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
639 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
640 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
641 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
642 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
643 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
644 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
645 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
646 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
647 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
648 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
649 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
650 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
651 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
652 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
653 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
654 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
655 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
656 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
657 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
658 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
659 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
661 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
662 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
663 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
664 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
665 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
666 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
668 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
669 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
670 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
671 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
672 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
673 many others over the years)
674 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
675 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
676 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
678 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
679 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
680 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
681 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
682 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
683 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
685 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
687 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
688 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
689 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
690 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
691 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
692 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
693 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
694 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
695 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
696 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
697 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
698 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
699 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
700 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
702 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
703 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
704 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
705 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
706 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
707 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
708 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
709 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
710 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
711 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
712 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
713 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
714 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
715 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
716 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
717 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
718 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
719 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
720 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
721 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
723 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
724 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
725 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
726 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
727 index variables in LOOP
728 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
729 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
730 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
731 that don't have a docstring
733 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
734 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
735 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
736 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
737 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
738 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
739 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
740 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
741 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
742 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
743 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
744 Costanza's "Closer" project)
745 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
746 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
748 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
749 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
750 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
751 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
752 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
754 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
755 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
756 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
757 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
758 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
759 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
760 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
761 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
762 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
763 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
764 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
765 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
766 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
767 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
768 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
769 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
770 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
771 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
772 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
774 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
775 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
776 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
777 floating point index variable or a negative step.
779 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
780 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
781 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
782 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
783 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
784 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
785 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
786 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
787 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
788 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
789 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
790 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
791 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
792 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
793 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
794 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
795 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
796 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
797 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
798 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
799 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
800 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
801 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
802 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
803 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
804 and dump core on SIGQUIT
806 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
807 from their parents (see manual)
808 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
809 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
810 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
811 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
812 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
813 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
815 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
816 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
817 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
818 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
820 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
821 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
822 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
824 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
825 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
826 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
827 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
828 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
829 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
830 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
831 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
832 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
833 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
834 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
835 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
836 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
837 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
839 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
840 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
841 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
843 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
844 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
846 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
847 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
848 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
849 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
850 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
851 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
852 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
853 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
854 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
856 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
857 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
858 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
859 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
860 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
861 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
863 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
865 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
866 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
867 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
868 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
869 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
870 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
871 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
872 classes; see the manual for more details;
873 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
874 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
875 requested slot ordering.
877 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
879 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
880 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
882 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
884 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
885 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
886 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
887 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
888 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
889 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
890 the :method-class keyword argument.
892 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
893 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
894 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
895 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
896 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
897 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
898 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
899 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
900 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
901 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
902 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
904 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
905 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
906 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
907 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
908 is switched on or off
909 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
910 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
911 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
913 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
914 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
915 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
916 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
917 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
918 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
919 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
920 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
921 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
923 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
924 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
925 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
926 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
927 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
928 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
929 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
931 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
932 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
933 not prevent gc from running
934 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
935 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
936 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
937 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
938 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
939 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
940 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
941 an inline 32-bit rotation.
943 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
944 there is only one thread in the session
945 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
946 written to in another
947 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
948 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
950 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
951 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
953 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
954 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
955 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
956 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
957 the orignal arguments.
958 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
960 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
961 name a compiled function.
962 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
963 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
964 derivation were fixed.
965 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
966 list-form FUNCTION type.
967 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
968 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
969 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
971 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
972 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
973 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
974 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
975 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
976 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
978 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
979 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
980 of a select system call
981 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
983 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
984 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
986 * various error reporting improvements.
987 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
988 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
989 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
990 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
991 code and foreign data with the same name.
993 ** added x86-64 support
994 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
995 objects instead of thread ids
996 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
997 starting up or going down
998 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
999 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
1000 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
1001 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
1002 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
1003 an inappropriate moment
1004 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
1005 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
1006 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
1007 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1008 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
1009 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
1010 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
1012 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
1013 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
1014 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
1015 range before calling Unix time functions
1017 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
1018 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
1019 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1020 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
1021 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
1022 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
1023 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1024 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
1025 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
1026 for more information.
1027 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
1028 pathname is a directory pathname.
1029 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
1030 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
1032 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
1033 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
1034 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
1035 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
1036 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
1037 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
1039 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
1040 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
1041 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
1042 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
1043 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
1044 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
1045 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1046 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
1047 the PowerPC platform.
1048 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
1049 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
1051 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
1052 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
1053 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
1054 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
1055 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
1056 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1058 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
1059 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
1060 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
1061 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
1062 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
1063 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1064 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
1065 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
1066 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
1067 as the name of a type, or vice versa
1068 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
1069 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
1070 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
1071 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
1072 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
1073 FLET or MACROLET forms
1074 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
1076 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
1078 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
1081 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
1082 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
1083 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
1084 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
1085 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
1086 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
1087 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
1088 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
1089 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
1090 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
1091 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
1092 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
1093 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
1094 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
1095 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
1096 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1097 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
1098 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1099 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
1100 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
1101 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
1102 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
1104 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1105 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
1106 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
1107 a file has the stream as its datum.
1108 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
1109 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
1110 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
1111 a correct expected type
1112 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
1113 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
1114 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
1115 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
1116 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
1117 on broadcast streams.
1119 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
1120 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
1121 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
1122 --disable-debugger option instead.
1123 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
1125 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
1126 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
1127 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
1128 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
1129 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
1130 has been added to the manual.
1131 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
1132 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
1133 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
1134 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
1135 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1136 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
1137 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
1138 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
1139 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
1140 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
1142 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
1143 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
1144 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
1145 (reported by Rajat Datta).
1146 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1147 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1149 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1150 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1151 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1152 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1153 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1154 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1155 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1156 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1157 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1158 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1159 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1160 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1161 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1162 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1163 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1164 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1165 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1166 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1167 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1169 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1171 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1172 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1173 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1174 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1175 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1177 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1178 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1179 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1180 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1181 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1182 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1183 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1185 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1186 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1187 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1189 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1190 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
1191 types for complex arguments better.
1192 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
1194 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
1195 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
1197 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
1198 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
1199 resulting in GC crashes.
1200 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
1202 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
1205 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
1206 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
1207 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
1208 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
1209 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
1210 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
1211 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
1212 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
1213 returning to the top level.
1214 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
1215 global optimization policy.
1216 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
1217 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
1218 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
1220 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
1221 various incompatible changes.
1222 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
1223 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
1224 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
1225 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
1226 level local call to FOO".
1227 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
1228 now have more legible printed representation
1229 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
1230 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
1231 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
1232 explicitly requested.
1233 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1234 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1235 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1236 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1237 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1239 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1240 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1241 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1242 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1243 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1244 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1245 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1246 the specializer is now possible.
1247 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1248 face of package deletion.
1249 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1250 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1251 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1252 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1253 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1254 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1255 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1256 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1257 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1258 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1260 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1261 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1262 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1263 correctable errors to be signalled.
1264 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1265 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
1268 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
1269 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1270 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
1272 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
1273 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1274 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
1275 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
1276 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
1277 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
1278 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
1279 related to the ~@F format directive.
1280 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
1282 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
1283 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
1284 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
1285 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
1287 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
1289 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
1290 coerce function designators to functions.
1291 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
1292 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
1293 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
1294 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
1295 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
1296 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
1297 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1298 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
1299 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
1300 start of the buffer at the next read.
1301 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
1302 passing it through to OPEN.
1303 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1304 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
1305 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
1306 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
1307 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
1308 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1309 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
1310 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
1312 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
1313 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1314 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1315 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
1316 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1317 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
1319 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1320 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
1321 secondary constituent character trait.
1322 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
1324 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
1326 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
1327 works more reliably.
1328 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
1329 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
1330 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
1332 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
1333 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
1335 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
1336 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
1337 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
1338 and reloading shared object files.
1339 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1340 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
1342 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
1343 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
1344 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
1346 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
1347 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
1349 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
1351 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
1352 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
1353 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
1354 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1355 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
1356 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
1357 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
1359 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
1360 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
1362 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
1363 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
1364 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
1365 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
1366 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
1368 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
1369 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
1370 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1371 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
1372 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
1373 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1374 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
1375 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1376 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
1377 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
1378 lisp characters are not eight bits.
1379 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1380 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
1381 the correct number of arguments.
1382 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
1383 to displaced strings.
1384 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
1385 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
1387 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
1388 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
1389 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
1390 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
1391 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
1392 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
1393 available at runtime.
1394 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
1395 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
1396 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
1397 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1398 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
1399 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
1400 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
1401 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
1402 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
1403 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
1404 of lambda-list keywords.
1405 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
1406 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
1408 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
1409 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
1410 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1411 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
1412 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
1413 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
1414 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
1416 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
1417 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1418 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
1419 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
1420 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
1422 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1423 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
1424 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1425 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
1426 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
1427 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1428 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
1430 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
1431 parameters correctly.
1432 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
1433 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
1434 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
1436 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
1439 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
1440 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
1441 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
1442 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
1444 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
1445 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
1446 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
1447 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
1448 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
1449 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
1450 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
1451 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1452 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
1454 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
1455 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1457 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
1459 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
1460 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
1461 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1462 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
1464 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
1465 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1466 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
1467 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
1468 (reported by David Morse)
1469 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
1470 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1471 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
1472 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1473 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
1474 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1475 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
1476 now exists, an signals an error.
1477 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
1478 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
1479 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1480 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
1481 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1482 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
1483 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
1484 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1485 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
1486 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1487 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
1488 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
1490 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
1491 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
1492 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
1493 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
1494 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1495 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
1496 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
1497 specialized array element types.
1498 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
1499 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1500 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
1501 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1502 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
1503 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
1504 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
1505 Wragg for the simple test case)
1506 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1507 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
1509 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
1510 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
1511 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
1512 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
1513 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
1515 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
1517 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
1518 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
1519 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
1520 references to global functions.
1521 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
1523 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
1525 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
1526 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1527 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
1528 supported platforms.
1529 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
1530 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
1531 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1532 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
1533 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
1534 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1535 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
1536 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1537 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
1538 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
1539 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
1540 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
1541 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
1543 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
1544 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1545 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
1546 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
1547 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
1548 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
1550 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
1551 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
1553 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
1554 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
1555 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
1556 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1557 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
1558 returns the right answer.
1559 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
1561 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
1563 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
1564 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
1566 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
1567 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
1569 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
1570 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
1571 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
1572 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
1573 the supported interface.
1574 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
1575 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
1576 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1577 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
1578 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
1579 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
1580 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
1581 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1582 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
1583 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
1584 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
1585 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
1586 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1587 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
1588 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
1589 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
1590 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
1591 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
1592 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
1593 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
1594 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
1595 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
1596 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
1597 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
1598 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
1599 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
1600 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1601 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
1602 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
1604 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
1605 * incompatible change: the internal functions
1606 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
1607 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
1608 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
1609 instead of the old functions.
1610 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
1611 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
1613 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
1614 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
1616 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
1617 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
1618 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
1619 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
1621 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
1622 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1623 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
1624 (reported by Rick Taube)
1625 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
1626 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
1627 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
1628 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
1630 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
1631 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
1632 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
1633 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
1634 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1635 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
1636 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
1637 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
1638 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
1639 represented relative to default pathnames.
1640 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
1641 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
1642 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
1644 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
1645 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
1646 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
1648 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1649 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
1650 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
1651 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
1653 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
1655 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
1656 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
1657 conditional newlines.
1658 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
1659 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
1660 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
1662 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
1663 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
1665 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
1666 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
1667 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
1668 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
1669 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
1670 compiled in unconditionally.
1671 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
1672 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
1673 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
1674 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
1675 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
1677 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
1678 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
1679 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
1680 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
1681 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
1682 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
1683 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
1684 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
1685 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
1686 an implementation-internal package.
1687 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
1689 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
1690 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
1691 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
1692 bodies are now more legible.
1693 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
1694 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
1695 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
1696 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
1697 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1698 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
1699 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
1701 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
1702 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
1703 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
1704 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
1705 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
1706 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
1707 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
1708 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
1709 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
1710 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
1712 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
1713 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
1714 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
1715 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
1716 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
1717 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
1718 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
1719 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
1720 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
1721 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
1722 system even when most of them are idle
1723 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
1724 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1725 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
1727 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
1728 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
1729 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
1730 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
1731 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
1733 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
1734 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
1735 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
1736 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
1737 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
1738 string for information on the protocol.
1739 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
1740 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
1742 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
1743 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
1745 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
1746 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
1747 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
1748 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
1749 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
1750 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
1752 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
1753 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
1755 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
1756 move between its address being taken and the call to
1757 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
1758 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
1759 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
1760 instances corresponding to C structs.
1762 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
1763 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
1764 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
1765 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
1766 has implications for memory management of client code
1767 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
1768 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
1769 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
1770 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
1771 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
1772 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
1773 quality should be considered deprecated.
1774 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
1775 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
1776 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
1777 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
1778 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
1780 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
1781 designator as the defaults argument.
1782 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
1783 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
1784 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1785 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
1786 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
1788 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
1790 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
1791 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1792 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
1793 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
1794 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1795 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
1797 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
1798 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1799 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
1800 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
1801 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
1802 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
1803 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1804 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
1805 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
1806 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
1807 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
1808 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1809 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
1810 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
1811 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
1812 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
1813 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
1815 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
1816 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
1817 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
1819 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
1820 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1821 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
1822 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
1823 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
1824 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
1825 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1826 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
1827 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
1829 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
1830 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
1832 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
1833 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
1835 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
1836 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1837 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
1838 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
1840 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
1841 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
1842 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1843 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
1844 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
1845 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
1846 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
1847 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
1849 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
1850 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
1851 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
1853 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
1854 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
1856 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1857 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
1859 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
1860 from local to shared slots.
1861 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
1862 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
1863 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
1864 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
1866 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
1867 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
1868 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
1869 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
1870 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
1871 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
1872 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
1873 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
1874 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
1876 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
1878 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
1880 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
1881 print using #P"..." syntax.
1883 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
1884 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
1885 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
1886 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
1887 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
1888 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
1889 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
1890 * [placeholder for DX summary]
1891 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
1892 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
1893 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
1894 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
1895 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
1896 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
1897 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
1898 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
1899 the test case to Dave Roberts)
1900 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
1901 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
1902 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
1903 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1904 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
1905 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
1906 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
1907 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1908 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
1909 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
1910 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
1911 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
1912 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1913 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
1914 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
1917 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
1918 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
1919 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
1920 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
1921 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
1922 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
1923 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
1924 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
1925 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
1926 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1927 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
1928 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
1929 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
1931 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
1932 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
1934 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
1935 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
1936 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1937 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
1938 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1939 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
1941 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
1942 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
1943 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
1945 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
1947 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
1949 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
1950 their output stream on EOF from read.
1951 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
1952 have been read to end-of-file.
1953 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
1955 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
1956 description of determination of which consecutive characters
1958 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
1959 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
1960 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1961 less than 10 works correctly.
1962 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1963 more than 10 works correctly.
1964 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
1965 the readtable currently in effect.
1967 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
1968 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
1969 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
1970 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
1971 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
1972 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
1973 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
1974 should usually be replaced by
1975 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
1976 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
1977 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
1978 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
1979 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
1980 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
1981 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
1982 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
1984 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
1985 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
1986 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
1987 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
1988 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
1989 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1990 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
1991 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
1992 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
1993 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
1994 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
1995 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
1996 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
1998 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
1999 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
2000 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
2001 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2002 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
2003 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
2004 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
2005 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2006 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
2007 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
2008 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
2009 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
2010 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
2011 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
2012 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2013 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
2014 non-local entry points.
2015 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
2017 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2018 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
2020 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
2021 host is already defined.
2022 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
2024 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
2025 or not a character is whitespace.
2026 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
2027 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
2028 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
2030 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
2031 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
2033 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
2035 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
2036 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
2037 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
2038 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
2039 designator argument does not designate a stream.
2040 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
2041 examining the synonym.
2042 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
2044 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
2045 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
2047 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
2048 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
2049 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
2050 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
2051 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
2052 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
2053 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
2054 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
2055 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
2056 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2057 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
2058 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
2060 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
2061 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
2062 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2063 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
2064 stream position information.
2065 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
2066 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
2067 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
2068 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
2069 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2070 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
2072 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
2073 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
2075 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2076 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2077 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
2078 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
2079 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
2080 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
2081 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
2083 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
2085 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
2086 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
2087 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
2088 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
2089 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
2090 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
2091 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
2092 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
2093 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
2094 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
2095 the "SYS" logical host.
2096 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
2097 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
2098 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
2099 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2100 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
2101 now each have their own history, command character, and other
2102 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2103 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2104 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
2106 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
2107 shift greater than 32.
2108 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
2109 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
2110 in some circumstances.
2112 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
2113 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
2114 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
2115 environments like SLIME.
2116 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
2117 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
2118 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
2119 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
2120 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
2121 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
2122 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
2123 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
2124 argument types for all arguments.
2125 * various threading fixes
2126 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
2127 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
2128 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
2129 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
2131 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
2132 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
2133 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
2134 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
2135 arguments to a full call.
2136 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
2137 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
2138 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
2139 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
2141 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
2142 inserts a space where necessary.
2143 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
2144 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
2145 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
2146 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2147 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2148 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2149 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2150 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2151 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2152 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2153 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2154 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2156 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2157 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2158 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2160 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2162 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2163 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2164 argument and negative second.
2165 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2166 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2167 interval, containing 0.
2168 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2170 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2171 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2173 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2174 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2175 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2176 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2177 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2178 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2179 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2180 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2181 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2182 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2183 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2184 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2185 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2186 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2187 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2188 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2189 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2190 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
2191 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
2192 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
2193 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
2194 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2195 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
2196 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
2197 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
2198 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
2199 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
2200 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
2201 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
2203 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
2204 platform now returns the right answer.
2205 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
2206 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
2207 precomputation is now tunable.
2208 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
2209 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
2210 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
2211 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
2212 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
2213 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
2214 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
2215 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
2216 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
2217 has been added for the alpha.
2218 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
2219 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
2220 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
2221 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
2222 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
2223 MEMBER-types to numeric.
2224 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
2226 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
2227 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
2228 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
2230 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
2231 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2232 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
2233 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2234 might be pseudo-atomic.
2235 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2236 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2238 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2240 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2242 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2243 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2244 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2245 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2246 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2247 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2249 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2250 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2251 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2252 small float arguments.
2253 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2255 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2256 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2257 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2258 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2259 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2260 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2262 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2264 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2265 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
2266 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
2267 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
2268 with negative last argument.
2269 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
2270 an error during type derivation.
2271 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
2273 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
2274 generates a 32-bit binary.
2275 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2276 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
2277 data structures referred to above).
2279 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
2280 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
2281 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
2282 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
2283 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
2284 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
2285 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
2286 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
2287 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
2288 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2289 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
2290 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
2292 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
2293 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
2295 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
2296 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
2297 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
2298 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
2299 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
2300 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
2301 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
2302 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
2303 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
2304 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
2305 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
2306 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2307 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
2308 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
2309 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
2310 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
2311 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
2312 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2313 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
2314 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
2315 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
2316 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
2317 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2318 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
2319 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
2320 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
2321 optimization quality.
2322 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
2323 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
2324 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
2325 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
2326 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2327 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2328 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
2329 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
2330 types form a lattice under type intersection.
2331 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
2332 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
2333 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
2334 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
2335 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
2336 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
2337 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
2338 calling the generic function.
2339 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
2340 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
2341 obscure ANSI requirements
2343 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
2344 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
2345 garbage, confusing the compiler.
2346 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
2347 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
2348 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
2349 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
2350 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
2351 circumstances could go off-by-one.
2352 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
2354 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
2355 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
2356 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
2357 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
2358 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
2359 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
2360 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
2361 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
2362 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
2363 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2364 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
2365 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
2366 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2367 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
2368 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2369 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
2370 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
2371 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
2372 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
2373 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
2375 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
2376 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
2377 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
2378 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
2380 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
2381 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
2382 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
2383 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
2384 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
2385 provide helpful disassembly notes.
2386 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
2387 the class in more cases than previously.
2388 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
2389 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2390 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
2391 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2392 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
2393 without lambda list.
2394 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
2395 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
2396 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2397 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
2398 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
2399 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
2401 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
2402 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
2403 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
2405 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
2406 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
2407 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
2408 were silently accepted).
2409 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
2410 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
2411 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
2412 to warn on static type mismatches and function
2413 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
2414 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
2415 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
2416 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
2417 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
2418 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
2419 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
2420 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
2421 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
2422 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
2424 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
2425 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
2426 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
2427 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
2428 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
2429 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
2431 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
2432 keywords or constants is permissible.
2433 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
2434 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
2435 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2436 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
2437 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
2438 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
2439 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
2440 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
2442 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
2443 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2444 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
2445 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
2446 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2447 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
2448 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
2450 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
2452 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
2453 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
2454 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
2455 respectively change and preserve the value.
2456 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
2457 is now better at handling symbol macros.
2458 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
2459 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
2460 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
2461 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
2462 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
2463 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
2464 their use properly signals an error now.
2465 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
2466 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
2467 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
2468 * fixed simple vector readable printing
2469 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
2470 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
2471 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
2472 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
2473 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
2474 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
2475 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2476 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
2477 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2478 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
2479 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
2480 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2481 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
2482 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
2483 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
2484 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
2485 causes a type error.
2486 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
2487 association between the name and a class.
2488 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
2489 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
2490 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2491 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
2492 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
2493 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
2495 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
2496 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
2497 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
2498 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
2500 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
2501 which its argument is a member.
2502 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
2503 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
2504 otherwise, it creates a new class.
2505 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
2506 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
2507 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
2508 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
2509 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2510 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
2512 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
2513 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
2514 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
2515 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
2516 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
2517 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
2518 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
2520 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
2521 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
2522 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
2523 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
2524 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
2525 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
2526 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
2527 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
2528 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
2529 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
2530 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
2531 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
2532 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2533 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
2535 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
2536 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
2537 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
2538 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
2539 superclasses are applied.
2540 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2541 no method was removed.
2542 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
2543 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
2544 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
2545 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
2547 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
2549 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
2550 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
2551 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
2552 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
2553 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
2554 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
2555 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
2556 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
2557 function lambda list.
2558 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
2560 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
2561 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
2562 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
2563 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
2565 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
2566 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
2567 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
2568 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
2569 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
2570 they look for GNU "make".
2572 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
2573 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
2574 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
2575 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
2577 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
2578 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
2579 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
2580 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
2581 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
2582 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
2583 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
2584 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
2585 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
2586 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
2588 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
2589 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
2590 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
2591 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
2592 libraries, and will know who they are.
2593 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
2594 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
2595 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
2596 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
2597 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
2598 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
2599 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
2600 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
2602 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
2603 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
2604 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2605 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
2606 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
2607 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
2608 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
2609 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
2610 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
2611 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
2612 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2613 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
2615 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
2616 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
2617 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
2618 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
2619 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2620 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
2621 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
2622 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
2623 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
2625 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
2626 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
2627 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
2628 this you were probably losing anyway.
2629 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
2630 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
2631 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
2632 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
2633 with names from the CL package.
2634 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
2635 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
2636 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
2637 documentation string.
2638 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2639 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
2641 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
2642 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
2643 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
2644 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
2646 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
2647 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
2649 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
2650 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2651 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
2653 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
2654 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
2655 arguments contain duplicated elements.
2656 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
2657 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
2658 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
2659 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
2660 in question is unbound.
2661 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
2662 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
2663 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
2664 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
2665 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
2667 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
2669 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
2670 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
2671 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
2672 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
2673 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
2674 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
2675 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
2676 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
2677 by Antonio Martinez)
2678 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
2679 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2680 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
2681 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
2682 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
2683 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
2684 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
2685 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2686 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
2687 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
2688 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
2689 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
2690 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
2691 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
2692 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
2693 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
2694 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
2695 on malformed property lists;
2697 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
2698 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
2699 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
2700 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
2701 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
2702 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
2703 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
2704 modules in this release include:
2705 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
2706 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
2707 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
2708 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2709 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
2711 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
2712 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
2713 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2714 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2715 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
2716 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
2717 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
2718 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
2720 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
2721 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
2722 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
2723 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
2724 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
2725 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
2726 the lexical environment.
2727 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
2728 unprintable packages can now be defined.
2729 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
2730 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2731 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
2732 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2733 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
2734 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
2735 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
2736 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
2737 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
2738 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
2739 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
2740 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
2741 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2742 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
2743 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2744 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
2745 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
2746 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
2747 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2748 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
2749 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
2750 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
2751 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
2753 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
2754 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
2755 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2756 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2757 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
2758 not just nonnegative fixnums;
2759 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
2760 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
2761 freshly-consed result bit-array);
2762 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
2764 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
2765 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
2767 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
2768 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
2769 cases are accurately computed;
2770 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
2771 if it is in the last clause;
2772 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
2774 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
2775 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
2776 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
2777 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
2779 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
2780 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
2781 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
2782 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
2783 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
2785 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
2786 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
2787 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
2788 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
2790 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2791 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
2792 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
2793 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
2794 not cause a type error;
2795 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
2797 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
2798 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
2799 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
2800 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
2801 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
2802 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
2803 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
2804 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
2806 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
2807 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
2808 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
2809 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
2810 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
2811 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
2813 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
2814 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
2816 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
2817 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
2818 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
2819 only for symbols in the CL package.
2820 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
2821 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2822 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
2823 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
2824 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
2826 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2827 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
2828 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
2829 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
2830 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
2831 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
2832 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
2833 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
2834 conditional loop clause;
2835 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
2836 signals a type error iff it should.
2837 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2838 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
2839 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
2840 argument) no longer signals an error;
2841 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
2842 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
2843 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
2845 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
2846 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
2847 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
2849 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
2850 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
2851 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
2852 functionality on said platforms verified.
2853 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
2854 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
2856 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
2857 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
2858 component indicating that directory.
2859 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
2860 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
2861 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
2862 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
2863 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2864 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
2866 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
2867 primary methods with no specializers;
2868 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
2870 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
2871 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
2872 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
2873 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
2875 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
2876 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
2877 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
2879 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
2880 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
2881 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
2882 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
2883 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
2884 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
2885 class STANDARD-CLASS;
2886 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
2887 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2888 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
2889 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
2891 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
2892 value producing form;
2893 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
2894 variables are bound and made to have no value;
2895 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
2897 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
2898 is not a valid sequence index;
2899 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
2900 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
2901 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2902 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
2904 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
2905 symbol-macro places;
2906 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
2907 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
2909 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
2911 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
2913 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
2914 invariant when deleting code.
2915 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
2916 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
2918 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
2919 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2920 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
2922 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
2923 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
2925 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
2926 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
2927 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2928 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
2930 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
2931 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2932 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
2933 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
2935 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
2936 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
2937 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
2938 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
2939 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2940 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
2941 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
2942 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
2943 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
2944 sbcl and .core files.)
2945 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
2946 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
2947 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
2948 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
2949 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
2950 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2951 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
2953 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
2954 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
2955 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
2956 argument precedence order.
2957 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
2958 derived types contradict their declared type.
2959 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
2960 so it can be non-toplevel.
2961 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
2962 implementation of DEFMACRO).
2963 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
2964 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
2965 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
2967 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
2968 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
2969 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
2970 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
2971 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
2972 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
2973 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
2974 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
2975 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
2976 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
2977 symbol macro only once
2978 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
2979 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
2980 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
2983 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
2984 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
2985 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
2986 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
2987 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
2988 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
2989 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
2990 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
2991 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
2992 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2993 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
2994 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
2996 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
2997 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
2998 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
2999 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
3000 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3001 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
3003 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
3005 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
3006 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
3007 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
3008 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
3009 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3010 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
3011 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
3012 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
3013 ways in different special cases
3014 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
3016 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
3017 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
3018 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
3019 are no longer optimized away.
3020 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
3021 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
3022 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
3023 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
3024 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
3025 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
3026 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
3027 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
3030 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
3031 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
3032 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
3033 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
3034 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
3035 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
3036 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
3038 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
3039 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
3040 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
3041 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
3042 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
3043 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
3044 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
3045 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
3046 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
3047 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
3048 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
3049 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
3050 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
3051 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
3052 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
3053 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
3054 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
3055 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3056 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
3057 that are names of constants or global variables.
3058 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
3059 alien routines with docstrings.
3060 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
3061 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
3063 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
3064 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3065 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
3066 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3067 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
3068 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3069 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
3070 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
3071 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
3072 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3073 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
3074 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
3075 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
3076 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
3077 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
3078 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
3079 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
3080 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
3081 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
3082 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
3083 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
3084 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
3085 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
3087 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
3088 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
3090 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
3091 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
3092 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
3093 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
3094 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
3095 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
3096 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
3097 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
3098 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
3099 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
3101 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
3102 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
3103 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
3104 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
3105 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
3106 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
3107 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
3108 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
3109 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
3110 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
3111 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
3112 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
3113 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
3114 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
3115 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
3116 is no longer a static symbol.)
3118 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
3119 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
3120 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
3121 bootstrapping under CLISP.
3122 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
3124 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
3125 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
3127 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
3128 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
3129 to David Lichteblau)
3130 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
3131 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
3132 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
3134 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
3135 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3136 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
3137 count as they should.
3138 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
3139 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3140 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
3141 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
3142 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
3143 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
3144 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
3145 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
3146 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3147 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3148 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3149 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3150 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3151 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3152 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3154 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3155 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3156 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3158 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3160 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3161 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3162 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3163 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3164 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3165 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3166 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3168 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3169 to Christophe Rhodes)
3170 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3171 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3172 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3173 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3174 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3175 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
3176 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3178 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3179 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3180 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3181 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3182 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3183 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3184 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3185 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3186 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3187 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3188 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3189 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3190 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
3192 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
3193 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
3194 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
3195 INFO database to support symbol macros.
3196 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
3197 (thanks to coreythomas)
3198 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
3199 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
3200 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
3201 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
3202 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
3204 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
3205 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
3206 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
3207 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
3208 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
3209 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
3210 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
3211 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
3212 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
3213 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3214 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
3215 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
3216 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
3218 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
3219 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
3222 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
3223 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
3224 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
3225 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
3226 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
3227 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
3228 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
3229 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
3230 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
3231 systems than the old 4M value was)
3232 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
3233 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3234 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3235 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3236 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3237 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3238 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3240 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3241 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3242 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3243 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3244 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3246 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3247 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3248 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3249 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3250 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3251 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3252 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3253 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3255 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3256 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3257 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3258 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3259 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3260 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3261 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3262 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3264 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3265 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3266 * several changes related to debugging:
3267 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
3268 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
3269 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
3270 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
3271 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3272 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
3273 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
3276 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
3278 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
3279 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
3280 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
3281 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
3282 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
3283 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
3284 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
3285 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
3287 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
3288 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
3289 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
3290 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3291 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
3292 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
3293 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
3294 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
3295 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
3296 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
3297 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
3298 file format number to change again.
3300 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
3301 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
3302 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
3303 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
3305 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
3306 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
3307 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
3308 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
3309 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
3310 FUNCALL on the result.
3311 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
3312 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
3313 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
3314 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
3315 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
3316 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
3317 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
3318 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
3320 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
3321 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
3322 the old compiler produced.
3323 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
3324 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
3325 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
3326 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
3327 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
3328 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
3329 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
3330 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
3331 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
3332 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
3333 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
3334 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
3335 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
3336 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
3337 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
3338 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
3339 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
3340 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
3341 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
3342 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
3343 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
3344 straightened out in some future version.)
3345 * minor incompatible changes:
3346 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
3347 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
3348 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
3349 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
3350 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
3351 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
3352 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
3353 implementation dependent:
3354 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
3355 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
3356 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
3357 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
3358 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
3359 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
3360 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
3361 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
3363 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
3365 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
3366 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
3367 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
3368 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
3369 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
3370 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
3371 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
3372 are no longer used for output.
3373 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
3374 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
3375 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
3376 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
3377 increasing it even more.)
3378 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
3379 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
3380 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
3382 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
3383 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
3384 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
3385 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
3386 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
3387 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
3388 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
3389 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
3390 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
3391 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
3392 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
3393 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
3394 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
3395 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
3396 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
3397 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
3398 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
3399 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
3400 compilation of code which calls such functions.
3401 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
3402 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
3403 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
3404 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
3405 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
3406 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
3407 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
3408 built into the system.
3409 * many other bug fixes
3410 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
3411 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
3412 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
3413 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
3414 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
3416 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
3417 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
3418 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
3419 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
3420 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
3421 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
3422 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
3423 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
3424 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
3425 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
3426 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
3428 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
3429 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
3430 and several other LOOP problems as well
3431 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
3432 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
3433 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
3434 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
3435 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
3436 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
3437 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
3438 *** a bug in APROPOS
3439 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
3440 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
3441 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
3442 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
3443 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
3444 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
3445 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
3446 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
3447 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
3448 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
3449 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
3450 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
3451 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
3452 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
3453 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
3455 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
3456 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
3457 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
3458 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
3459 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
3460 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
3461 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
3462 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
3463 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
3464 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
3465 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
3466 some of which are apparent above.
3468 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
3469 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
3470 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
3471 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
3472 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
3473 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
3474 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
3475 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
3476 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
3477 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
3478 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
3479 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
3480 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
3481 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
3482 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
3483 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
3484 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
3485 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
3486 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
3487 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
3488 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
3489 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
3490 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
3491 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
3492 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
3493 different return types.
3494 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
3495 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
3496 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
3497 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
3498 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
3499 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
3500 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
3501 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
3502 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
3503 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
3505 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
3506 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
3507 does the right thing.
3508 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
3509 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
3510 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3511 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
3512 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3513 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3514 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
3515 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
3516 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
3517 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
3518 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3519 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
3520 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3521 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
3522 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
3523 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
3524 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
3525 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
3526 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
3527 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
3528 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
3529 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
3530 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
3531 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
3532 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
3533 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
3534 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
3535 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
3536 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
3537 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
3538 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
3539 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
3540 since historically most system changes which required version
3541 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
3542 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
3545 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
3546 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
3547 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
3548 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
3549 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
3550 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
3551 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
3552 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
3553 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
3554 half a dozen others elsewhere
3555 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
3556 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
3557 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
3558 as flaky as they were.
3559 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
3560 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
3561 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
3562 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
3563 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
3564 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
3565 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
3566 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
3568 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
3569 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
3570 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
3571 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3572 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
3573 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
3574 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
3575 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
3576 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
3577 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
3578 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
3579 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
3580 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
3581 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
3582 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
3583 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
3584 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
3585 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
3586 more obscure bugs as well
3587 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
3588 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
3589 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
3590 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
3591 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
3592 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
3593 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
3594 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
3595 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
3596 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
3597 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
3599 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
3600 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
3602 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
3604 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3605 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
3606 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
3607 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
3608 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
3609 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
3610 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
3611 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
3612 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
3613 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
3614 are local in this sense.)
3615 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
3616 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
3617 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
3618 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
3619 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
3620 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
3621 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3622 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
3623 system's STREAM objects.
3624 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
3625 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3626 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
3627 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3628 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
3629 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
3630 environment from the original process instead of starting the
3631 new process in an empty environment.
3632 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
3633 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
3634 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
3635 for porting convenience.
3636 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
3637 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
3639 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
3641 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
3642 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
3643 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
3644 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
3645 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
3646 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
3647 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
3648 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
3649 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
3650 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
3651 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
3652 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3653 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
3654 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
3655 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
3656 many fewer weird special cases.
3657 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
3658 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
3659 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3660 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
3661 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
3662 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
3663 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
3664 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
3665 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
3666 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3667 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
3670 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
3672 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
3673 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
3674 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
3676 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
3677 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
3678 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
3679 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
3680 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
3681 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
3682 should be constructed the same way as before.
3683 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
3684 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
3685 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
3686 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
3687 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
3688 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
3689 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
3690 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
3691 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
3692 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
3693 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
3694 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
3695 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
3696 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
3697 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
3698 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
3699 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
3700 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
3701 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
3702 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
3703 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
3704 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
3706 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
3707 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
3708 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
3709 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
3710 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
3711 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
3712 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
3713 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
3715 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
3717 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
3718 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
3719 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
3720 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
3721 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
3723 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
3724 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
3725 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
3726 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
3727 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
3728 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
3729 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
3730 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
3731 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
3732 and Douglas Crosher.
3733 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
3734 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
3735 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
3737 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
3738 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
3739 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
3740 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
3741 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
3742 undefined function error.
3743 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
3744 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
3745 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
3746 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
3747 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
3748 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
3749 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
3750 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
3751 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
3752 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
3753 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
3754 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
3755 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
3757 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
3759 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
3760 CVS repository on my home machine).
3761 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
3762 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
3763 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
3764 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
3765 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
3766 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
3767 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
3768 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
3769 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
3770 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
3771 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
3772 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
3773 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
3774 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
3775 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
3776 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
3777 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
3778 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
3779 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
3780 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
3781 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
3782 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
3784 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
3785 FreeBSD have been added.
3786 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
3787 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
3788 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
3789 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
3790 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
3791 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
3793 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
3794 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
3795 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
3796 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
3797 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
3798 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
3799 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
3800 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
3802 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
3803 away by constant folding
3804 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
3805 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
3806 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
3807 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
3808 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
3809 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
3810 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
3811 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
3812 diff-related operations.
3813 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
3814 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
3816 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
3818 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
3819 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
3820 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
3821 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
3822 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
3823 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
3824 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
3825 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
3826 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
3827 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
3828 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
3829 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
3830 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
3831 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
3832 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
3833 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
3834 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
3835 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
3836 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
3837 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
3838 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
3839 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
3840 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
3841 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
3842 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
3843 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
3844 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
3845 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
3846 instead of (VALUES T T).
3847 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
3848 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
3849 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
3850 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
3851 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
3852 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
3853 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
3854 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
3855 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
3856 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
3857 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
3858 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
3859 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
3860 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
3861 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
3862 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
3863 type will be interpreted at runtime.
3864 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
3865 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
3866 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
3867 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
3868 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
3869 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
3870 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
3871 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
3872 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
3873 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
3874 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
3875 fasl files for cold load.
3876 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
3877 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
3878 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
3879 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
3880 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
3881 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
3882 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
3883 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
3884 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
3885 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
3886 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
3888 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
3889 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
3890 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
3891 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
3892 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
3893 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
3894 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
3895 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
3896 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
3897 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
3898 renamed some files to increase consistency.
3899 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
3900 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
3901 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
3902 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
3903 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
3904 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
3906 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
3908 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
3909 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
3910 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
3911 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
3912 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
3913 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
3914 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
3915 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
3916 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
3917 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
3918 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
3919 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
3920 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
3921 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
3922 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
3923 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
3924 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
3925 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
3927 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
3928 as required by ANSI.
3929 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
3930 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
3931 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
3932 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
3934 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
3935 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
3936 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
3937 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
3938 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
3939 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
3940 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
3941 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
3943 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
3944 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
3945 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
3946 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3948 is now basically equivalent to
3949 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3950 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
3952 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
3953 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
3954 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
3955 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
3956 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
3957 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
3958 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
3959 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
3960 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
3961 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
3962 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
3963 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
3964 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
3965 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
3966 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
3967 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3968 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
3969 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
3970 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
3971 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
3972 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
3973 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
3974 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
3976 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
3978 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
3979 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
3980 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
3981 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
3982 GNUMAKE environment variable.
3983 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
3984 can build without error under CMU CL.
3986 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
3988 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
3989 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
3990 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
3991 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
3992 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
3993 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
3994 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
3995 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
3996 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
3997 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
3998 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
3999 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
4000 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
4001 being initialized before the type system knew the final
4002 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
4003 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
4004 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
4005 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
4006 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
4007 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
4008 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
4009 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
4010 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
4011 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
4013 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
4014 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
4015 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
4016 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
4017 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
4018 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
4019 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
4020 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
4021 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
4022 it were currently supported.
4023 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
4024 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
4025 having to maintain patches.
4026 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
4027 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
4029 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
4031 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
4032 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
4033 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
4034 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
4035 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
4036 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
4037 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
4038 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
4039 * various new style warnings:
4040 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
4041 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
4042 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
4043 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
4044 as specified by ANSI.
4045 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
4046 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
4047 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
4048 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
4049 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
4050 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
4051 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
4052 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
4053 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
4054 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
4055 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
4056 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
4057 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
4058 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
4059 argument types can be determined at compile time.
4060 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
4061 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
4062 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
4063 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
4064 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
4065 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
4066 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
4069 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
4071 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
4072 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
4073 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
4074 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
4075 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
4076 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
4077 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
4078 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
4079 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
4081 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
4082 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
4083 the report form was printed.)
4084 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
4085 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
4086 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
4087 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
4088 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
4089 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
4090 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
4091 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
4092 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
4093 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
4094 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
4095 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
4096 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
4097 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
4098 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
4099 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
4100 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
4101 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
4102 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
4103 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
4104 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
4105 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
4106 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
4107 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
4108 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
4109 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
4110 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
4111 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
4112 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
4113 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
4114 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
4115 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
4116 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
4117 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
4118 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
4119 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
4120 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
4121 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
4122 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
4123 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
4124 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
4125 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
4126 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
4127 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
4128 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
4129 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
4130 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
4131 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
4132 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
4133 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
4134 know more about target types.
4135 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
4136 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
4137 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
4138 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
4139 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
4140 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
4142 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
4143 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
4144 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
4145 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
4146 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4147 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4148 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4149 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4150 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4151 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4152 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4153 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4154 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4156 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4159 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4161 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4162 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4163 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4164 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4165 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4166 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4167 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4168 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4169 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4170 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4171 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4172 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4173 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4174 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4175 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4176 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4177 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4178 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4179 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4180 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4181 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4182 invisible at the user level.)
4183 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4184 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4185 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4187 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4189 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4190 * tidied up system directory structure
4191 * better "clean.sh" behavior
4192 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
4193 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
4194 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
4195 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
4196 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
4197 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
4198 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
4199 * command line argument processing
4200 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
4201 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
4202 terminating SBCL on EOF
4203 * non-verbose GC by default
4204 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
4205 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
4206 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
4208 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
4209 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
4210 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
4211 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
4212 transformed along with everything else.
4213 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
4214 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
4215 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
4216 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
4217 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
4218 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
4219 debugging and testing purposes
4220 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
4221 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
4222 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
4223 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
4224 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
4225 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
4226 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
4228 * regularized formatting of source files
4229 * added an install.sh script
4230 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
4231 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
4232 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
4233 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4234 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4235 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4236 was not implemented)
4237 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4238 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4239 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4240 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4241 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4243 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4244 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4245 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4246 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4247 COMPILE-FILE command)
4248 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4249 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4250 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4251 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4252 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4253 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4254 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4255 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4256 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4257 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4258 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4259 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4260 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4261 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4262 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4264 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4265 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
4266 known to be able to handle the current sources
4267 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
4268 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
4269 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
4270 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
4271 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
4272 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
4273 * removed host-oops.lisp
4274 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
4275 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
4276 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
4277 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
4278 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
4279 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by