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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
3 * minor incompatible changes:
4 ** RENAME-FILE on a symbolic links used to rename the linked-to file instead
6 ** DELETE-DIRECTORY on symbolic link to a directory used to delete the
7 directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve
8 the pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE
9 if you wish to delete the
10 ** The internal SB-THREAD::SPINLOCK API has been deprecated, and using
11 symbols associated with it will trigger a compile-time warning.
12 * thread-related enhancements:
13 (This work has been funded by the SBCL Threading 2011 IndieGoGo campaign.
14 Many thanks to generous donors!)
15 ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still
16 don't consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to
17 enable them by default, but they're in a clearly better shape now.
18 ** Deadlines supported now on all platforms.
19 ** All blocking functions in the threading API now have a :TIMEOUT
21 ** Semaphore notification objects have been added to SB-THREAD.
22 ** SB-CONCURRENCY contrib now includes Allegro-style GATE objects.
23 ** SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP has been extended to support SLOT-VALUE,
24 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
25 ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP
26 using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places.
27 * GC-related enhancements and bug fixes:
28 ** --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size now understand Kb, Mb,
29 and Gb suffixes. Default is megabytes as before.
30 ** Default dynamic space size on all GENCGC platforms is now 512Mb for
31 32-bit systems, and 1Gb for 64-bit systems. (OpenBSD/x86-64 is the only
32 exception, defaulting to mere 444Mb to fit under default ulimits.) The
33 new defaults are in place to prevent hitting swap on low-end systems.
34 Use build-time option --dynamic-space-size to build an SBCL with
35 another default, or the runtime option to adjust the size at startup: a
36 good size is at most equal to the amount of physical memory the system
38 ** on GENCGC systems nursery and generation sizes now default to 5% of
40 ** on 64-bit systems setting the nursery size above 4Gb now
42 ** SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ on GENCGC no longer categorically refuses to
43 create SIMPLE-FUN objects.
44 * SB-BSD-SOCKETS bug fixes:
45 ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak.
46 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on
47 systems with getaddrinfo().
48 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt
49 safe outside systems with getaddrinfo().
50 * enhancement: special-case TCO prevention for functions which never return
51 extended to untrusted type, keeping one more frame's worth of debug
52 information around in many cases.
53 * enhancement: debug-names of anonymous and local function are more
54 descriptive. Affects backtraces and SB-SPROF results. (lp#805100)
55 * enhancement: on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does
56 the same validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a
57 comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces.
58 * enhancement: on win32, ABS of complex floats guards better against
59 overflows. (lp#888410)
60 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM now distinguishes exec() failing from child
61 process exiting with code 1. (lp#676987)
62 * enhancement: convenience function SET-SBCL-SOURCE-LOCATION for informing
63 the system where on the filesystem the SBCL sources themselves are
64 located. (Thanks to Zach Beane)
65 * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation
66 correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220)
67 * bug fix: (directory "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that
68 resolved to directories.
69 * bug fix: type mismatch when assigning to lexical variables no longer
70 result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. (lp#890750)
71 * bug fix: type mismatch on (setf aref) and function return values no
72 longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects.
73 * bug fix: With several combinations of argument types, for example (EXPT
74 <integer> <(complex double)>), EXPT now uses double-precision throughout
75 instead of partially calculating only to single-precision. (lp#741564;
77 * bug fix: SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD is no longer able to construct bogus
78 objects when interrupted by GC on PPC.
80 changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52:
81 * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,
82 the parameter n-fixnum-tag-bits may now vary from 1 (fixnum =
83 (signed-byte 63)) to 3 (fixnum = (signed-byte 61)) at build-time.
84 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WAIT-FOR allows waiting for arbitrary events.
85 * minor(?) incompatible(?) change: The default fixnum width on 64-bit
86 targets is now 63 bits (up from 61).
87 * enhancement: DESCRIBE now reports a lambda-list and source location
88 for complext setf-expanders.
89 * bug fix: PUSH, PUSHNEW, POP, REMF, INCF, DECF, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO,
90 GETF, LOGBITP, LDB, and MASK-FIELD now arrange for non-primary values
91 of multiple-valued places to be set to NIL, instead of signalling an
92 error (per a careful reading of CLHS 5.1.2.3).
93 * bug fix: floating-point traps now work on darwin/x86 and /x86-64.
94 * bug fix: repair crash in x86oid darwin signal handling emulation
95 when built with certain compilers.
96 * bug fix: SB-ROTATE-BYTE misrotated to the right when using constant
97 rotation arguments on x86-64. (lp#882151)
98 * bug fix: low-level control flow optimisations could result in bogus
99 code in functions with tail and non-tail calls to local functions on
101 * bug fix: on SPARC/:sb-unicode, avoid crashing the assembler by trying
102 to emit literal characters > (code-char 4095), for comparisons with
104 * bug fix: ROOM reported only the low 32 bits of dynamic space usage
105 on 64 bit platforms. (lp#881445)
106 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE did not MERGE-PATHNAMES, making it possible to
107 delete the wrong file when using relative pathnames. (lp#882877)
108 * bug fix: optimized SEARCH of vectors-on-vectors mishandled zero-length
109 sequences and :KEY NIL.
111 changes in sbcl-1.0.52 relative to sbcl-1.0.51:
112 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.017.
113 * enhancement: the --core command line option now accepts binaries with
115 * enhancement: when built with :sb-core-compression, core files (regular
116 or executable) can be compressed with zlib. Use the :COMPRESSION
117 argument to SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE to specify a compression level.
118 * enhancement: --[no-]merge-core-pages determines whether the runtime
119 hints the operating system that identical core pages between SBCL
120 processes should share the same physical memory. Default is to only
121 enable this for compressed cores.
122 * optimization: SLEEP no longer conses.
123 * optimization: *PRINT-PRETTY* no longer slows down printing of strings
124 or bit-vectors when using the standard pretty-print dispatch table.
125 * bug fix: non-function FTYPE declarations no longer cause a compiler-error.
127 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by MEMBER types in conjunction with with
128 AREF, CHAR, etc. (lp#826971)
129 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by integer arguments with composed of
130 multiple ranges to ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P. (lp#826970)
131 * bug fix: ,@ and ,. now signal a read-time error for certain non-list
132 expressions. (lp#770184)
133 * bug fix: complex single float literals are correctly aligned when used
134 as arguments of arithmetic operators.
135 * bug fix: on 32-bit platforms, rounding of double floats larger than a
136 fixnum is correct. (reported by Peter Keller)
137 * bug fix: stray FD-HANDLERs are no longer left lying around after unwinds
138 from RUN-PROGRAM. (lp#840190, reported by Dominic Pearson; fix from Max
140 * bug fix: redefining classes such that slots with custom allocation are
141 added or removed works again.
143 changes in sbcl-1.0.51 relative to sbcl-1.0.50:
144 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKET socket streams no longer
145 participate in SERVE-EVENT by default: pass :SERVE-EVENTS T to
146 MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM if using SERVE-EVENT.
147 * enhancement: added support for socket keepalive timeout intervals
148 and probe counts on Linux.
149 * enhancement: building 32-bit SBCL on Linux/x86-64 now works without a
150 chroot. (Use "SBCL_ARCH=x86 sh make.sh" to build.)
151 * enhancement: added new toplevel options --quit and --non-interactive
153 * enhancement: the Windows port of SBCL now builds and runs on Wine
154 (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
155 * enhancement: more, and more correct, SSE instruction definitions on
156 x86-64 (thanks to Alexander Gavrilov).
157 * enhancement: SB-EXT:SPIN-LOOP-HINT assembles to an instruction designed
158 to help the processor execute spin loops, when applicable. Currently
159 implemented for x86 and x86-64.
160 * optimization: unsigned integer divisions by a constant are implemented
161 using multiplication (affects CEILING, FLOOR, TRUNCATE, MOD, and REM.)
162 * optimization: improved type-derivation for LOAD-TIME-VALUE.
163 * bug fix: correct RIP offset calculation in SSE comparison and shuffle
164 instructions. (lp#814688)
165 * bug fix: COERCE to unfinalized extended sequence classes now works.
166 (reported by Jan Moringen; lp#815155)
167 * bug fix: a compiler error during typecheck generation, reported by Eric
169 * bug fix: obsolete instance protocol fires when shared slots are added
171 * bug fix: fixed-format floating point printing with scaling factors.
173 * bug fix: using GCC >= 4.6 to build SBCL on x86 no longer breaks
174 backtraces. (lp#818460)
175 * bug fix: better backtraces for interrupted syscall frames on x86.
177 * bug fix: SSE comparison instructions can be disassembled even when one
178 operand is in memory. (lp#814702)
179 * bug fix: incomplete writes when not using SERVE-EVENTS. (lp#820599)
180 * bug fix: MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND + VALUES -> LET conversion could lose derived
181 type information associated with the VALUES form.
182 * bug fix: broken warnings/errors for type-errors involving LOAD-TIME-VALUE
184 * bug fix: OPEN :IF-EXISTS :APPEND now returns correct FILE-POSITION before
185 first write (lp#561642).
186 * bug fix: compiled closures from EVAL could not be DESCRIBEd. (lp#824974)
187 * bug fix: bound propagation involving conversion of large bignums to
188 floats no longer signals a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR, reported by Lutz Euler.
190 * bug fix: &REST to &MORE conversion still works in unsafe call to known
191 functions; reported by Lutz Euler (lp#826459).
192 * bug fix: bogus deadlocks from interrupts and GCs. (lp#807475, regression
195 changes in sbcl-1.0.50 relative to sbcl-1.0.49:
196 * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove
197 the offending handler.
198 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works on structure
200 * enhancement: location of user or system initialization file can now easily
201 be customized for saved cores. See: SB-EXT:*USERINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*
202 and SB-EXT:*SYSINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*.
203 * enhancement: SB-EXT:MAKE-THREAD accepts an argument list designator for
204 the thunk, as a keyword argument, :arguments.
205 * enhancement: constraint propagation is simplified (and sped up) when
206 COMPILATION-SPEED > SPEED.
207 * enhancement: SB-ALIEN exports alien type specifiers SIZE-T and OFF-T.
208 * enhancement: debugger understands &MORE arguments better.
209 * optimization: extracting bits of a single-float on x86-64 has been
210 optimized. (lp#555201)
211 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are more efficient for non-simple vectors,
212 when (> SPEED SPACE).
213 * optimization: local call trampolines (x86 and x86-64) are emitted
215 * optimization: implicit value cells for dynamic-extent closed-over bindings
216 on x86 and x86-64 can hold unboxed values as well.
217 * meta-optimization: improved compilation speed, especially for large
218 functions. (lp#792363 and lp#394206)
219 * bug fix: bound derivation for floating point operations is now more
220 careful about rounding possibly closing open bounds. (lp#793771)
221 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:SYSCALL-ERROR's argument is now optional. (accidental
222 backwards incompatible change in 1.0.48.27)
223 * bug fix: occasional debugger errors in when a type-error occured in a
224 function with dynamic-extent &rest list.
225 * bug fix: &optional and &key supplied-p arguments in DEFSTRUCT
226 boa-construtors can be used to initialized structure slots.
227 * bug fix: FMAKUNBOUND removes the MACRO-FUNCTION, should one exist.
228 (lp#795705, regression)
229 * bug fix: DIRECTORY works better on logical pathnames.
230 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM no longer fails spuriously when argument strings
231 are of the order of ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT. (lp#787237)
232 * bug fix: the compiler no longer constant-folds NaNs in
233 MAKE-{SINGLE,DOUBLE}-FLOAT. (lp#486812)
234 * bug fix: FORMAT now handles floating point rounding correct, eg.
235 (format nil "~,1F" 0.01) => "0.0" instead of "0.01" as previously.
237 * bug fix: style warning during lambda-list introspection of generic
238 functions with both optional and key argments.
239 * bug fix: regalloc doesn't barf on unused TNs due to type-directed constant
241 * bug fix: Fixed an off-by-one in MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS that might have caused
244 changes in sbcl-1.0.49 relative to sbcl-1.0.48:
245 * minor incompatible change: WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE no longer disables
246 interrupts for its body.
247 * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as
248 source, compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files.
249 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :SOURCE-NAMESTRING allows providing
250 virtual source-file information, eg. overriding input-file of COMPILE-FILE
251 when a temporary file is used for compilation.
252 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.3.
253 * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator are
255 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM works with user-defined binary input and output
257 * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime errors for
258 type-errors detected at compile-time.
259 * enhancement: deadlock detection for mutexes and spinlocks.
260 * enhancement: dynamic-extent for &rest lists stack allocate only their
261 spines, not their argumets. While portable code should not rely on this,
262 particularly in combination with inlining, it should make dynamic-extent
263 easier to use safely.
264 * enhancement: SB-POSIX improvements:
265 ** WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are exported.
266 ** SYSCALL-ERROR now also provides the name of the failing system call.
267 * enhancement: --script improvements:
268 ** errors on standard input, output, and error streams are handled and
269 cause scripts to exit silently, making them easier to use in shell
271 ** backtraces from scripts now go to standard error instead of the
272 terminal even if one is available.
273 ** --script can be an argument, causing the script to be loaded from
275 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING provides an easy way to transport lisp
276 strings to foreign memory.
277 * enhancement: (SETF GC-LOGFILE) allows logging garbage collections to
278 a file, making it easier to understand heap dynamics.
279 * optimization: using a &REST argument only in APPLY or VALUES-LIST calls
280 allows the compiler to automatically elide rest-list allocation so long as
281 the call sites are in functions that the compiler knows cannot escape.
283 * optimization: CALL-NEXT-METHOD using explicit arguments is faster,
284 especially in safe code when none of the required arguments have changed
286 * bug fix: blocking reads from FIFOs created by RUN-PROGRAM were
287 uninterruptible, as well as blocking reads from socket streams created
288 with for which :SERVE-EVENTS NIL. (regression from 1.0.42.43)
289 * bug fix: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR now removes dispatch-macro character syntax
290 from the to-char if the from-char is not a dispatch-macro character.
291 * bug fix: references to undefined variables in function calls that are
292 optimized away now signal a runtime error. (lp#722734)
293 * bug fix: miscompilation of MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL when asserting derived
294 types from a function defined in the same file. (regression from
296 * bug fix: TRULY-THE forms are now macroexpandable and setf-expandable.
298 * bug fix: spurious errors during QUIT when standard streams were closed.
300 changes in sbcl-1.0.48 relative to sbcl-1.0.47:
301 * incompatible change: SB!KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA, deprecated for over five
302 years, is now no longer supported.
303 * enhancement: read() and write() have been added to SB-POSIX.
304 * enhancement: types of DEFSTRUCT constructors are proclaimed more
305 accurately, allowing better typechecking of call-sites.
306 * enhancement: errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
307 are no longer caught. (reverted to pre 1.0.34 behaviour)
308 * optimization: slightly faster ISQRT. (lp#713343)
309 * bug fix: better support for Solaris /bin/sh in sh-based tests.
310 * bug fix: TRACE behaves better when attempting to trace undefined
311 functions. (lp#740717)
312 * bug fix: missed optimizations for (FUNCALL (LAMBDA ...) ...) in comparison
313 to (FUNCALL #'(LAMBDA ...) ...).
314 * bug fix: ((LAMBDA ...) ...) forms with invalid argument counts resulted in
315 a compile-time error. (lp#720382)
316 * bug fix: forms such as (FUNCALL (FUNCTION NAME OOPS) ...) were compiled
318 * bug fix: less verbose source forms for functions from EVAL. (lp#747485)
319 * bug fix: sense of SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS was inverted in a MAKE-INSTANCE
320 optimization. (regression from 1.0.45.18/1.0.46.15)
321 * bug fix: package locks did not protects against compile-time side-effects
322 of DEFUN. (lp#675584)
323 * bug fix: --dynamic-space-size argument is validated more carefully.
325 * bug fix: memory fault from printing a malformed simple-condition.
327 * bug fix: redefining classes so that slot-definition classes change now
328 engages the obsolete instance protocol. (lp#766271)
329 * bug fix: constant improper lists could break source coverage recording.
331 * bug fix: compiling calls to eg. MEMBER with massive constant list arguments
334 changes in sbcl-1.0.47 relative to sbcl-1.0.46:
335 * bug fix: fix mach port rights leaks in mach exception handling code on
336 darwin/x86 and /x86-64. (thanks to Willem Oudshoorn for motivation and the
338 * enhancement: --script muffles style-warnings and compiler notes. (lp#677779)
339 * enhancement: redefinition warnings for macros from different files. (lp#434657)
340 * enhancement: better MACHINE-VERSION on Darwin x86 and x86-64. (lp#668332)
341 * enhancement: (FORMAT "foo" ...) and similar signal a compile-time warning. (lp#327223)
342 * enhancement: no more "in: LAMBDA NIL" messages from the compiler for forms
343 processed using EVAL -- now the appropriate toplevel form is reported instead.
344 * enhancement: more legible style-warnings for inappropriate IGNORE and IGNORABLE
345 declarations. (lp#726331)
346 * enhancement: :NOT-NULL option has been added to alien C-STRING type to indicate
347 that NIL/NULL is excluded from the type.
348 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:MAP-ROOT allows mapping over pointers contained in
350 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are faster in the presence of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS
352 * optimization: core startup time is reduced by 30% on x86-64. (lp#557357)
353 * bug fix: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST guards against potentially leaking
354 stack-allocated values out of their dynamic-extent. (lp#310175)
355 * bug fix: attempts to use SB-SPROF for wallclock profiling on threaded
356 x86-64 builds caused a type-error.
357 * bug fix: calling COMPILE with something else than a lambda-expression as the
358 second argument reports a more sensible error. (lp#718905)
359 * bug fix: invalid combinations of :PREDICATE and :TYPE options in DEFSTRUCT
360 are detected. (lp#520607)
361 * bug fix: constant keyword argument checking didn't take :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS
363 * bug fix: SLOT-BOUNDP information is correct during MAKE-INSTANCE in the
364 presence of (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS) and SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS
365 methods. (regression from 1.0.45.18)
366 * bug fix: INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods supplying initargs via
367 CALL-NEXT-METHOD work correctly. (regression from 1.0.45.19)
368 * bug fix: several foreign functions accepting string also accepted NIL and
369 consequently caused a memory fault at 0 now signal a type-error instead.
371 * bug fix: under rare circumstances, constraint propagation could rewrite a
372 variable reference to refer to a variable not in scope, causing an error
373 during physical environment analysis when attempting to close over the
374 variable. (lp#551227)
375 * bug fix: SIMPLE-CONDITION :FORMAT-CONTROL defaults to NIL.
377 changes in sbcl-1.0.46 relative to sbcl-1.0.45:
378 * enhancement: largefile support on Solaris.
379 * enhancement: SB-PROFILE:REPORT now supports :LIMIT and :PRINT-NO-CALL-LIST
380 arguments (lp#710017)
381 * enhancement: SB-PCL:+SLOT-UNBOUND+ is exported, making it possible to
382 distinguish unbound instance slots when using STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS
384 * optimization: ERROR and CERROR are approximately 5 times faster.
385 * optimization: optimized constructors are used for MAKE-INSTANCE of classes
386 with applicable non-standard (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS),
387 SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, and INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods, speeding
388 up instance creation in those cases.
389 * optimization: arithmetic operations with multiple constant arguments in now
390 have them reduced at compile-time. (lp#676414)
391 * optimization: determining current character position on string-streams for
392 pretty-printing was overly slow.
393 * bug fix: local tail calls to DYNAMIC-EXTENT functions can no longer cause
394 lifetime analysis to overwrite closed-over variables (lp#681092).
395 * bug fix: encoding errors from some multibyte external formats such as EUC-JP
396 were not handled correctly (lp#713063).
397 * bug fix: printing waitqueue objects without setting *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T is now
399 * bug fix: Solaris/x86-64 wasn't getting built with lutex support by
400 mistake. (lp#667297).
401 * bug fix: CONSTANTLY generated functions had bogus lambda-lists. (lp#713626)
402 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM :PTY option was racy on OpenBSD. (lp#669485)
403 * bug fix: UNINTERN takes a symbol, not a symbol designator -- could previously
404 unintern the wrong symbol with the same name. (lp#693796)
405 * bug fix: COPY-PPRINT-DISPATCH always has access to a pristine table,
406 making it possible to restore the initial table if it has been messed up.
409 changes in sbcl-1.0.45 relative to sbcl-1.0.44:
410 * enhancement: ~/ and ~user/ are treated specially in pathnames.
411 Refer to documentation for details.
412 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.010.
413 * optimization: mutated closed-over variables that are only accessed by
414 DYNAMIC-EXTENT closures (currently only FLET and LABELS functions
415 declared to be DYNAMIC-EXTENT) are stored directly in their containing
416 stack frame, rather than allocating a VALUE-CELL (lp#586103).
417 * optimization: UNWIND-PROTECT cleanup functions are now declared
419 * bug fix: backtracing function with &REST arguments now shows the full
420 argument list. (lp#310173)
421 * bug fix: return types for functions with complex lambda-lists are now
422 derived properly (lp#384892)
423 * bug fix: when SPEED > SPACE compiling CONCATENATE 'STRING with constant
424 long string arguments slowed the compiler down to a crawl.
425 * bug fix: closure VALUE-CELLs are no longer stack-allocated (lp#308934).
426 * bug fix: non-standard MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA methods could break RETURN-FROM
427 in the DEFMETHOD body.
428 * bug fix: #<SB-C::DEFINED-FUN ...> should no longer appear in compiler
429 messages, being instead replaced with the corresponding function name.
430 * bug fix: don't derive overly complex unions of numeric types for arithmetic
431 operators. (lp#309448)
433 changes in sbcl-1.0.44 relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
434 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
435 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
436 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
438 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
439 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
440 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
441 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
442 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
444 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
445 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
446 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
447 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
448 * enhancement: new function: SB-EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY is now provided.
449 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
450 addition member types.
451 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
452 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
453 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
454 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
455 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
457 * improvements to the Windows port:
458 ** change: canonical unparsing form for pathname namestrings now uses / as
459 directory separator. NATIVE-NAMESTRING still uses \ as the separator.
460 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
461 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
462 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
464 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
465 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
466 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
467 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
469 * bug fix: interrupts arriving during CL:OPEN caused an error.
470 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
471 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
472 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
473 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
474 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
475 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
476 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
477 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
478 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
479 so badly. (lp#654485)
480 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
481 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
482 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
483 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
484 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
485 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
486 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
487 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
488 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
489 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
490 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
491 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
492 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
493 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
494 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
495 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
496 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
497 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
499 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
500 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
501 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
502 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
504 * bug fix: short-form DEFSETF checks that the second argument is a symbol
505 (lp#655824, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
506 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) clobbered macro-definitions before
507 package-lock violation was detected. (lp#660752)
508 * bug fix: the system can store different docstrings for a single function
509 under different names. (lp#661631, regression from 1.0.29.24)
510 * bug fix: source-locations of DEFGENERIC forms weren't getting recorded
511 properly. (lp#384801)
512 * bug fix: (COERCE X '(SIMPLE-VECTOR 5)) and similar coercions to vectors
513 of specified length could confuse the type derivation in unsafe code.
515 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
516 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made on every platform,
517 not just Darwin. (lp#451111)
518 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS and SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS could leave stale finalizers
519 around when core was saved, which could cause undefined behaviour when the
521 * bug fix: Allow UNTRACE of functions that are no longer defined
522 (lp#667657, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
523 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY calls with invalid keyword argument lists now signal a
524 compile-time warning (lp#664373, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
526 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
527 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
528 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
529 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
530 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
531 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
532 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
533 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
535 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
537 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
538 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
539 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
541 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
542 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
543 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
544 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
545 thanks to Andrew Golding)
546 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
547 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
549 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
550 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
551 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
552 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
553 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
554 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
555 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
556 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
557 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
558 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
559 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
560 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
561 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
562 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
564 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
565 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
566 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
567 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
568 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
569 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
570 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
571 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
572 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
573 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
574 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
575 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
576 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
577 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
578 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
579 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
580 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
581 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
582 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
584 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
586 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
587 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
589 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
591 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
592 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
593 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
594 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
595 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
596 * optimization: The default implementation of
597 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
598 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
599 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
600 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
601 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
602 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
603 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
604 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
605 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
606 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
607 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
609 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
610 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
611 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
612 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
613 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
614 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
616 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
618 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
619 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
620 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
621 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
622 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
623 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
625 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
627 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
628 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
630 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
631 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
633 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
634 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
635 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
636 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
637 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
638 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
639 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
640 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
641 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
642 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
643 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
644 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
646 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
648 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
649 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
650 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
651 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
652 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
653 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
654 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
655 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
656 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
657 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
659 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
660 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
661 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
663 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
664 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
665 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
667 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
668 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
669 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
671 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
672 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
673 generic function call.
674 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
675 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
676 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
678 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
680 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
681 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
682 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
683 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
684 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
685 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
686 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
687 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
688 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
689 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
690 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
691 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
692 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
693 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
694 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
696 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
697 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
698 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
699 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
700 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
701 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
702 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
703 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
704 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
705 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
706 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
707 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
708 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
709 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
710 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
711 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
712 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
713 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
714 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
715 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
716 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
717 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
718 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
719 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
720 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
722 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
723 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
724 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
726 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
727 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
729 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
730 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
731 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
732 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
734 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
735 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
736 stack frame thrown from.
737 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
738 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
739 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
740 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
742 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
743 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
744 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
745 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
746 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
747 for accessing such arrays.
748 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
749 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
750 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
751 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
752 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
753 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
754 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
755 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
756 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
757 functions. (lp#524707)
758 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
759 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
760 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
761 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
762 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
763 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
764 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
765 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
766 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
767 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
768 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
769 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
770 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
771 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
773 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
774 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
775 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
776 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
777 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
779 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
780 declarations (lp#497321)
781 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
782 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
783 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
785 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
786 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
787 due to it, so that handlers can run.
788 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
790 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
791 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
792 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
793 expanded calls (lp#542174)
794 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
795 than just at toplevel form.
797 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
798 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
799 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
800 but work on type specifiers.
801 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
802 to name a type specifier.
803 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
804 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
805 second argument of TYPEP".
806 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
807 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
808 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
809 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
810 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
811 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
812 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
813 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
814 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
815 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
816 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
817 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
818 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
820 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
822 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
823 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
825 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
826 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
827 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
828 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
829 before reaching the erring stack frame.
830 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
831 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
832 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
833 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
834 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
835 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
836 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
837 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
839 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
840 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
841 is properly inlined when possible.
842 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
843 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
844 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
845 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
846 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
847 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
848 launchpad bug lp#508485)
849 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
850 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
851 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
852 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
853 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
854 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
856 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
857 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
859 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
861 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
862 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
863 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
864 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
865 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
866 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
867 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
869 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
870 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
871 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
872 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
873 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
874 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
875 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
876 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
877 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
878 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
879 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
880 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
881 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
882 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
884 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
887 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
888 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
889 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
890 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
891 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
892 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
893 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
894 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
896 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
897 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
898 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
899 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
901 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
902 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
903 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
904 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
905 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
906 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
908 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
909 errors for fd-stream external formats.
910 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
911 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
912 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
913 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
914 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
916 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
917 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
918 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
919 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
921 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
922 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
923 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
924 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
925 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
927 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
928 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
929 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
930 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
931 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
932 error is near the end of file.
933 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
934 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
935 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
936 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
937 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
938 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
939 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
940 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
941 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
942 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
943 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
944 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
945 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
946 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
947 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
948 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
949 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
950 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
951 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
952 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
953 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
954 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
955 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
956 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
958 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
959 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
960 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
961 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
962 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
963 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
964 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
965 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
966 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
968 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
969 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
970 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
971 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
973 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
974 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
975 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
977 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
979 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
980 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
982 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
983 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
984 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
985 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
986 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
987 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
988 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
989 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
990 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
991 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
992 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
993 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
994 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
996 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
997 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
998 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
999 open coded is now considered a bug.
1000 * improvements related to Unicode:
1001 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1002 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1003 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1005 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
1006 syllable characters.
1007 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
1008 (as well as for stream operations).
1009 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
1010 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
1012 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
1013 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
1015 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
1017 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
1018 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
1019 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
1020 constant two has been optimized.
1021 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
1022 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1023 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
1024 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
1025 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
1026 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
1027 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
1028 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
1029 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
1030 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
1031 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
1032 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
1033 but assumed or declared function as well.
1034 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
1035 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1036 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
1037 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
1039 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
1040 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
1041 well as user defined declaration names.
1042 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
1043 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
1045 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
1046 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1047 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
1048 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
1049 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
1051 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
1053 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
1055 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
1056 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1057 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
1058 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1059 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
1060 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
1061 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
1062 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
1063 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
1065 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
1066 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1067 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
1068 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
1069 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
1070 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
1072 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
1073 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
1074 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
1075 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
1076 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
1077 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
1078 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1079 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
1081 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
1082 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
1083 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
1084 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
1085 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
1086 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
1087 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1088 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
1089 values in other threads.
1090 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
1091 about object allocation.
1092 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
1093 with a specialised code sequence.
1094 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
1095 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
1096 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
1097 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
1098 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
1099 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
1100 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
1101 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
1102 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
1103 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
1105 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
1107 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
1108 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
1109 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
1110 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
1111 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
1112 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
1113 unboxed format on x86[-64].
1114 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
1115 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
1116 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
1117 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
1118 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
1120 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
1121 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
1122 contains more pertinent information.
1123 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
1124 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
1125 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
1126 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
1127 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
1128 types. (reported by "abhi")
1129 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
1130 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
1131 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1132 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
1133 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
1134 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
1135 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
1136 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
1137 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
1138 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
1139 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1140 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
1141 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1142 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
1143 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
1144 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
1145 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
1146 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
1148 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
1149 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
1150 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
1151 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
1152 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1153 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
1154 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1156 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
1157 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
1158 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
1159 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
1160 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
1161 (no subscription required.)
1162 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
1163 types are weakened less aggressively.
1164 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
1165 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
1166 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
1167 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
1168 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
1169 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
1170 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
1171 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
1173 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
1174 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
1175 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
1176 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
1178 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
1179 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
1180 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
1182 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
1183 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
1184 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
1186 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
1187 is known are 50% faster.
1188 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
1189 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
1191 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
1192 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
1193 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
1194 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
1195 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
1197 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
1198 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
1199 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
1200 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
1201 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
1202 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
1204 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
1205 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
1206 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
1207 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
1208 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
1209 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1210 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
1211 to Tobias Rittweiler)
1212 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
1213 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
1214 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
1215 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
1216 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
1217 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1218 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
1219 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
1220 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
1221 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
1222 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
1224 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
1225 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
1226 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
1227 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
1229 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
1230 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
1231 result register (bug 316325).
1232 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
1233 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
1234 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
1235 generate incorrect code.
1236 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
1237 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
1238 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
1239 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
1241 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
1242 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
1243 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
1244 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
1245 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
1246 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
1247 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
1248 from :INITFORM, if any.
1250 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
1251 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
1252 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
1253 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
1254 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
1256 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
1257 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
1258 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
1259 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
1260 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
1261 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1262 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
1263 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
1264 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1265 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
1267 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
1268 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1269 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
1270 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
1271 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
1272 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
1273 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1274 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
1275 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
1276 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
1277 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
1278 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
1279 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
1280 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1281 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
1282 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
1283 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
1285 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
1286 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1287 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
1288 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
1289 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
1290 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
1291 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
1292 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
1294 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
1295 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1296 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
1297 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
1298 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
1300 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
1301 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
1302 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
1303 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
1304 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
1305 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
1306 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
1307 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
1308 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
1309 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
1310 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
1311 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
1312 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
1313 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
1314 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
1315 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
1317 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
1318 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
1319 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
1320 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
1321 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
1322 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
1323 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
1324 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
1325 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
1326 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
1327 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
1328 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
1329 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
1330 recursive errors or deadlock.
1331 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
1332 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
1333 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
1335 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
1336 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
1337 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
1338 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
1339 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
1340 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
1341 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
1342 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
1344 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
1345 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
1346 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
1347 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
1348 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1349 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
1350 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
1351 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
1353 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
1354 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
1355 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
1356 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
1357 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
1358 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
1359 their constant arguments.
1360 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
1361 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1362 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
1363 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
1364 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
1365 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
1366 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
1367 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
1368 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
1369 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
1370 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
1371 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
1372 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
1373 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
1374 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
1375 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
1376 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
1377 * improvements to the Windows port:
1378 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
1379 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
1381 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
1382 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
1383 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
1384 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
1385 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1386 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
1387 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
1388 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
1389 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
1390 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
1391 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
1392 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
1393 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
1394 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
1396 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
1398 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
1399 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
1400 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
1401 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1402 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
1403 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1404 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1405 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1406 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1407 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
1409 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
1410 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
1411 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
1412 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
1413 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
1414 compile-time style-warning.
1415 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
1416 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
1417 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
1418 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
1419 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
1420 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
1421 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
1422 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
1423 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
1424 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
1425 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
1426 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
1427 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
1428 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
1429 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
1430 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
1432 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
1433 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
1434 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
1435 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
1436 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
1437 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
1438 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
1439 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
1440 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
1442 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
1444 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
1447 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
1448 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
1449 for the associated fast function is also produced.
1450 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
1452 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
1453 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
1454 special handling by the pretty printer.
1455 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
1456 now interact correctly with type declarations.
1457 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
1458 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1459 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
1460 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
1461 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
1462 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
1463 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
1464 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1466 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
1467 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
1468 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
1469 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
1470 object loading function as-it.
1471 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
1472 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
1474 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
1475 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
1477 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
1478 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
1479 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
1480 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1481 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
1482 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
1483 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
1484 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
1485 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
1487 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
1488 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
1489 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
1490 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
1491 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
1492 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
1493 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1494 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
1495 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1496 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
1497 file descriptors when there were none.
1498 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
1499 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
1500 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
1501 pathnames without a directory.
1502 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
1503 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
1504 not signal an error.
1505 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
1506 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
1507 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
1508 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
1509 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
1510 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
1511 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
1512 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
1514 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
1515 after alien stack frames.
1516 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
1518 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
1519 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
1520 generic function across method addition and removal.
1521 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
1522 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
1523 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
1524 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
1526 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
1527 non-local transfer of control.
1528 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
1529 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
1530 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
1531 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
1532 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
1533 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
1534 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
1536 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
1537 owned by other threads anymore.
1538 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
1539 subsequence. (reported by budden)
1540 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
1541 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
1542 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
1543 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
1545 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
1546 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
1547 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
1548 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
1549 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
1550 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
1551 added to the user manual.
1552 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
1553 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
1554 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
1555 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
1556 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
1557 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
1559 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
1561 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
1562 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
1563 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
1564 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
1565 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
1566 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
1567 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
1569 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
1570 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
1572 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
1573 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
1574 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
1575 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
1576 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
1577 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
1578 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
1580 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
1581 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
1583 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
1584 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1585 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1586 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
1587 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1588 type of a variable is made.
1589 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
1590 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
1592 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
1593 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1594 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
1595 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1596 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
1597 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1598 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
1599 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
1600 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
1602 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
1603 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
1604 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
1605 of the type that's the value of this variable.
1606 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
1608 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
1609 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
1610 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
1611 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
1612 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
1613 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
1614 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
1615 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
1616 * improvements to the Windows port:
1617 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
1618 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
1619 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1620 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
1621 to single-float coercions.
1622 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
1623 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
1624 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
1625 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
1626 containing invalid type specifiers.
1627 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
1628 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
1630 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
1631 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
1632 profiles only the current thread.
1633 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
1634 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
1635 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
1636 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
1637 has also additional sorting options.
1638 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
1640 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
1641 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
1642 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
1643 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
1644 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
1645 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
1647 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
1649 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
1650 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
1651 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
1652 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
1653 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
1654 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
1656 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
1657 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1658 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
1659 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
1660 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
1661 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1662 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
1663 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
1664 (thanks to James Knight)
1665 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
1666 (thanks to Travis Cross)
1667 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1668 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
1669 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
1670 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1671 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1672 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1673 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1675 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
1676 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
1677 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
1678 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
1679 use this feature in the meanwhile.
1680 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
1681 adjust thread default control stack size.
1682 * enhancement: improved TIME output
1683 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
1684 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
1685 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
1686 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
1687 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
1688 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
1689 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
1690 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
1692 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
1694 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
1695 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
1696 in normal SPEED policies.
1697 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
1698 in normal SPEED policies.
1699 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
1700 to Sidney Markowitz)
1701 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
1702 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1703 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
1704 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1705 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
1706 as the second argument.
1707 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
1708 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
1709 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
1711 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
1712 platform word lengths.
1713 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
1714 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
1715 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
1717 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
1718 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1720 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
1721 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
1722 signaling added in 1.0.14.
1723 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
1724 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
1725 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
1726 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
1727 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
1728 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1729 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
1730 on threaded platforms.
1731 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
1732 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
1733 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1734 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
1735 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
1736 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
1737 representation is available.
1738 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
1739 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
1740 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
1741 Francois-Rene Rideau)
1742 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1743 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1744 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
1745 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
1746 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
1747 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
1748 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
1749 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
1750 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
1752 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
1753 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
1754 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
1755 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
1756 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
1757 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
1758 traces SETF-functions as well.
1759 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
1760 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
1761 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
1762 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
1764 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
1765 is now more efficient.
1766 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
1767 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
1768 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
1769 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
1770 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
1771 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1772 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
1773 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
1774 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
1775 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
1776 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
1778 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
1779 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
1780 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
1781 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
1782 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
1783 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1784 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
1785 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
1786 * improvements to the Windows port:
1787 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
1788 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
1790 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
1791 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
1792 (see documentation for details.)
1793 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
1794 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
1795 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
1796 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
1797 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
1799 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
1800 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
1801 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
1802 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
1803 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1804 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
1805 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
1806 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
1807 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
1809 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
1810 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
1811 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
1812 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
1813 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
1814 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
1815 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
1817 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
1818 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
1819 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
1820 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
1821 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
1822 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
1823 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
1824 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
1826 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
1827 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
1828 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
1829 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
1830 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
1831 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
1832 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
1833 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
1834 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
1835 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1836 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
1837 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
1838 known at compile-time.
1839 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
1840 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
1841 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
1843 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
1844 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
1846 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
1847 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1848 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1849 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
1850 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
1851 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
1853 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
1855 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
1857 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
1860 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
1861 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
1862 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
1863 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
1864 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
1865 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
1866 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
1867 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
1868 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
1869 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
1870 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
1871 END is smaller then START.
1872 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
1873 calls to profiled functions.
1874 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
1875 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
1876 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
1877 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
1878 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
1879 hash-table usage have been fixed.
1880 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
1881 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
1882 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
1883 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
1884 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
1885 slime to work again.
1887 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
1888 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
1889 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
1890 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
1891 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
1892 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
1893 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
1894 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
1895 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
1896 and will signal an error at runtime.
1897 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
1898 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
1899 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
1901 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
1902 platforms providing stack allocation support.
1903 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
1904 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
1906 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
1907 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
1908 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
1909 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1910 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
1911 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
1913 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
1914 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
1916 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
1918 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
1919 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
1920 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
1921 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
1922 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
1923 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
1924 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1925 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
1926 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
1927 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1928 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
1929 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
1930 a specializer parameter for the method.
1931 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
1932 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
1933 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
1934 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
1935 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
1937 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
1938 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
1940 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
1941 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
1942 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1943 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
1944 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
1945 the CAS operation was being performed.
1946 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
1947 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
1948 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
1949 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
1952 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
1953 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
1954 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
1955 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
1957 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
1958 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
1959 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1960 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
1961 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
1962 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1963 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
1964 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
1965 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
1966 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
1967 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
1968 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
1969 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
1970 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
1971 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
1973 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
1974 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
1975 the underlying file descriptor.
1976 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
1977 could cause buffer-overflows.
1978 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
1979 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
1980 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
1982 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
1984 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
1985 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
1986 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
1987 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
1988 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
1989 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
1992 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
1993 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
1994 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
1995 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
1996 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
1997 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
1998 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
2000 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
2002 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
2003 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
2004 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
2005 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
2006 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
2007 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
2009 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
2010 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
2011 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
2012 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
2013 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
2014 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
2015 objects that can be seen by the GC.
2016 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
2017 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
2018 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
2020 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
2021 as the property-list of a symbol.
2022 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
2023 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
2024 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
2027 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
2028 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
2029 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
2030 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
2031 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
2032 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
2033 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
2034 debugging and introspective support.
2035 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
2036 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
2037 has the owning thread as its value.
2038 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
2039 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
2041 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
2042 "a constant string".
2043 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
2044 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
2045 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
2046 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2047 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
2048 (depending on the bignum size.)
2049 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
2051 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
2052 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
2054 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
2055 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
2057 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
2058 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
2059 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
2060 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
2061 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
2064 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
2065 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
2066 as a contrib module.
2067 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
2068 significantly faster.
2069 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2070 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
2071 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2072 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2073 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
2074 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
2075 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
2076 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
2077 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2078 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
2079 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
2081 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
2083 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
2084 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
2085 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
2086 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
2087 that use the generational garbage collector
2088 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
2090 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
2091 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
2093 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
2095 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
2096 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
2097 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
2098 system running with GC inhibited.
2099 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
2100 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
2101 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
2102 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
2103 (reported by Peter Graves)
2105 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
2106 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
2107 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
2109 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
2110 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
2111 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
2112 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
2113 documented as unsafe.
2114 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
2115 in multithreaded application code.
2116 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
2117 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
2118 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
2120 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
2121 variants no longer cons.
2122 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
2123 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
2124 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
2125 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
2126 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
2127 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
2128 are significantly faster.
2129 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
2130 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
2131 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
2132 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
2133 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
2134 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
2135 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
2136 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
2137 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
2138 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
2139 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
2141 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
2142 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
2143 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
2144 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2145 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
2146 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2147 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
2148 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2149 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
2150 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
2151 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
2152 line in a file is unlimited.
2153 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
2154 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
2155 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
2156 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
2157 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
2158 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
2159 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
2160 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2161 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
2162 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
2163 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2164 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
2165 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
2166 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
2167 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
2168 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
2169 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
2170 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
2171 experimental until this is fixed.
2172 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
2173 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2174 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
2175 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
2176 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
2178 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
2179 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
2180 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
2181 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
2182 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
2183 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
2185 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
2186 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
2187 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2188 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
2189 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
2190 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
2191 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2192 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
2193 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
2195 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
2196 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
2197 (reported by Andras Simon)
2198 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
2199 bugs remain on x86-64.)
2200 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
2201 funcallable instances.
2202 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
2203 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
2205 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
2206 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2207 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
2208 non-base strings as arguments
2209 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
2211 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
2212 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
2214 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
2215 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
2216 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2217 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
2218 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2219 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2220 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
2221 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
2222 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
2224 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
2225 (thanks to Jon Buller)
2226 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
2227 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
2230 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
2231 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
2232 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
2234 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
2235 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
2236 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
2237 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
2238 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
2240 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
2241 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
2242 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
2243 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2244 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
2245 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2246 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
2247 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
2248 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
2249 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
2250 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2251 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
2252 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
2253 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
2254 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
2255 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
2256 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2257 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2258 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
2259 stack frames from alien callbacks.
2260 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2261 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
2262 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
2263 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2265 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
2266 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
2267 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
2268 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
2269 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
2270 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
2271 sb-introspect contrib.
2272 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
2273 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
2274 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
2275 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
2276 users and the general community)
2277 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
2278 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
2279 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
2280 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
2281 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2282 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
2283 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
2284 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2285 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
2286 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2287 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
2288 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
2289 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
2290 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
2291 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
2292 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
2294 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
2295 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
2296 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
2297 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
2298 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
2299 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
2300 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
2302 * improvements to the Windows port:
2303 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
2304 to Alastair Bridgewater)
2305 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
2307 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
2308 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2310 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
2311 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
2312 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2313 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
2314 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
2315 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
2316 core, and restored on startup.
2317 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
2318 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2319 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
2320 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
2321 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
2322 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
2323 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
2325 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
2326 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2327 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
2329 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
2330 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
2331 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
2333 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
2334 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2335 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
2336 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2337 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
2338 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
2340 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
2341 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
2342 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
2343 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
2344 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
2345 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
2346 (reported by Josip Gracin)
2347 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
2348 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
2349 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
2350 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
2351 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
2352 and don't cause extra consing
2353 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
2354 whose elements types have been declared.
2355 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
2356 ** Support for allocation profiling
2357 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
2358 * Improvements to the Windows port:
2359 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
2360 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
2361 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2362 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
2364 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
2365 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
2366 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
2367 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
2368 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
2370 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
2371 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
2372 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
2374 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
2375 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
2376 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
2377 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
2378 with non-variable places
2379 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
2380 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
2381 code more stable against memory faults.
2382 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
2383 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
2384 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
2385 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
2388 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
2389 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
2390 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
2391 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
2392 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
2393 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
2394 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
2395 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
2396 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2397 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2398 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
2399 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
2400 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
2402 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
2403 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
2404 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
2405 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
2406 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
2407 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
2408 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
2410 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
2411 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
2413 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
2414 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
2415 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
2416 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
2417 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
2418 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
2419 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
2420 to the single-stepper REPL.
2421 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
2422 for a type now works.
2423 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
2425 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
2426 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2427 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
2428 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2429 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
2430 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
2431 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
2432 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
2434 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
2435 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
2436 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
2437 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
2438 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
2439 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
2440 whose bindings are modified
2441 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
2442 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
2443 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
2444 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
2446 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
2447 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
2448 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
2449 as specified by AMOP.
2450 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
2452 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
2453 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2454 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
2455 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
2456 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
2457 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
2458 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
2459 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
2460 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
2461 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
2462 better type inference.
2463 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
2464 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
2465 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
2466 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
2467 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
2468 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2469 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
2470 initialization of methods can now be used to override
2471 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
2473 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
2474 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
2475 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
2476 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
2477 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
2479 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
2480 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
2481 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
2482 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
2483 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
2484 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
2485 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
2486 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
2487 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
2488 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
2489 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
2490 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
2491 (reported by James Y Knight).
2492 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
2493 argument for shadowing by local functions.
2494 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
2496 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
2497 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
2498 with type-inference.
2499 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
2500 types in some cases.
2501 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
2502 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2503 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
2505 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
2506 * thread-safety improvements:
2507 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
2508 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
2509 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
2511 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
2512 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
2514 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
2515 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
2516 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
2518 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
2519 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
2520 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
2521 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
2522 class became finalizeable.
2523 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
2524 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
2525 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
2526 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
2528 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
2529 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
2530 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
2531 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
2532 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
2533 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
2534 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2535 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
2536 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
2537 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
2538 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
2539 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
2540 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
2541 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2542 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
2543 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
2544 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
2545 * minor code generation optimizations:
2546 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
2547 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
2548 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
2549 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
2550 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
2551 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2552 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
2553 return its argument.
2555 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
2556 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
2558 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
2560 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
2561 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
2562 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
2563 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
2564 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
2565 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
2566 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
2567 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
2568 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
2569 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
2570 the low-level debugger.
2571 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
2572 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
2573 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
2574 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
2576 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
2577 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
2578 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
2580 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
2581 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2582 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
2583 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
2584 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
2585 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
2586 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
2587 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
2588 (reported by James Y Knight)
2589 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
2590 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
2591 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
2592 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
2593 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
2594 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
2595 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
2596 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
2597 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
2598 workaround for bug 403.)
2599 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
2600 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2601 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2602 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
2604 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2605 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
2606 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
2608 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
2609 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
2610 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
2611 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
2612 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
2614 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
2616 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
2617 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
2618 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
2621 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
2622 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
2623 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
2624 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
2625 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
2626 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
2627 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
2628 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
2629 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
2630 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
2631 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
2632 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2633 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
2634 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2635 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
2636 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
2637 documentation on package locks for details.
2638 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
2640 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
2641 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
2642 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
2643 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
2644 immediately available from the stream
2645 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
2646 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
2647 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
2648 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
2650 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
2651 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
2652 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
2654 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
2655 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
2656 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
2658 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
2659 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
2660 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
2661 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
2663 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2664 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
2665 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
2666 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2667 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
2668 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
2669 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2670 ** sb-grovel supported
2671 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
2672 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
2673 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
2674 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
2675 ** floating-point exception handling support
2676 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
2677 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2678 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2679 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
2680 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
2681 structure accessors.
2682 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
2684 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
2685 defaults for optional parameters.
2686 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
2687 function, which is already optimized.
2689 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
2690 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
2691 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
2692 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
2693 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
2694 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
2695 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
2696 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
2697 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
2698 this change is to make it easier to distribute
2699 location-independent binaries.
2700 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
2701 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
2703 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
2704 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
2705 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
2706 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
2707 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
2708 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
2709 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
2710 Alastair Bridgewater)
2711 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
2712 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
2713 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2714 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
2715 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
2716 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
2717 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
2718 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
2719 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
2720 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
2721 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
2722 (thanks to James Knight)
2723 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
2724 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
2726 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
2727 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
2728 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
2729 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
2730 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
2731 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
2732 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
2733 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
2734 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
2735 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
2736 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
2737 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
2738 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
2739 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
2740 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
2741 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
2742 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
2743 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
2744 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
2745 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
2746 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
2748 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
2749 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
2750 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
2751 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2752 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
2753 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
2755 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
2756 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
2757 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
2758 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
2759 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
2760 many others over the years)
2761 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
2762 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
2763 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
2765 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
2766 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
2767 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2768 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
2769 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
2770 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
2772 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
2774 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
2775 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
2776 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
2777 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
2778 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
2779 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
2780 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
2781 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
2782 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
2783 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
2784 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
2785 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2786 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
2787 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2789 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
2790 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2791 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
2792 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
2793 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
2794 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
2795 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
2796 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
2797 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
2798 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2799 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
2800 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
2801 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
2802 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
2803 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
2804 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
2805 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
2806 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2807 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
2808 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
2810 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
2811 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2812 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
2813 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
2814 index variables in LOOP
2815 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
2816 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2817 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
2818 that don't have a docstring
2820 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
2821 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2822 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
2823 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
2824 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
2825 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
2826 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
2827 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
2828 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
2829 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
2830 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
2831 Costanza's "Closer" project)
2832 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
2833 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
2835 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
2836 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
2837 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
2838 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
2839 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
2840 and Pascal Costanza)
2841 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
2842 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
2843 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
2844 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
2845 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2846 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
2847 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
2848 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
2849 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2850 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
2851 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2852 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
2853 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2854 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
2855 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2856 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
2857 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
2858 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
2859 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
2861 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
2862 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2863 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
2864 floating point index variable or a negative step.
2866 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
2867 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
2868 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
2869 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
2870 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
2871 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2872 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
2873 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
2874 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
2875 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2876 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2877 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
2878 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
2879 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
2880 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2881 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
2882 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
2883 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
2884 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
2885 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
2886 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
2887 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2888 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
2889 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2890 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
2891 and dump core on SIGQUIT
2893 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
2894 from their parents (see manual)
2895 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
2896 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
2897 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
2898 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
2899 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
2900 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
2902 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2903 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
2904 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
2905 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
2907 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
2908 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
2909 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
2911 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
2912 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
2913 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
2914 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
2915 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
2916 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
2917 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
2918 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
2919 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
2920 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
2921 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
2922 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
2923 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
2924 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
2926 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
2927 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
2928 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
2930 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
2931 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
2933 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
2934 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2935 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
2936 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
2937 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
2938 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
2939 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
2940 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
2941 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
2943 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
2944 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
2945 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
2946 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
2947 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
2948 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
2950 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
2952 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
2953 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
2954 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
2955 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
2956 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
2957 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
2958 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
2959 classes; see the manual for more details;
2960 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
2961 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
2962 requested slot ordering.
2964 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
2966 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
2967 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
2969 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
2971 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
2972 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
2973 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
2974 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
2975 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2976 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
2977 the :method-class keyword argument.
2979 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
2980 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
2981 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
2982 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2983 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
2984 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2985 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
2986 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2987 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
2988 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
2989 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
2991 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
2992 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
2993 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
2994 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
2995 is switched on or off
2996 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
2997 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
2998 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
3000 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
3001 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3002 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
3003 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
3004 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3005 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
3006 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
3007 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
3008 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
3010 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
3011 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
3012 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
3013 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
3014 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
3015 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
3016 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
3018 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
3019 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
3020 not prevent gc from running
3021 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
3022 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
3023 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
3024 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
3025 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
3026 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
3027 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
3028 an inline 32-bit rotation.
3030 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
3031 there is only one thread in the session
3032 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
3033 written to in another
3034 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
3035 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
3037 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
3038 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
3040 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
3041 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3042 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
3043 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
3044 the orignal arguments.
3045 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
3047 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
3048 name a compiled function.
3049 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
3050 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
3051 derivation were fixed.
3052 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
3053 list-form FUNCTION type.
3054 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
3055 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
3056 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
3058 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
3059 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
3060 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
3061 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
3062 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
3063 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
3065 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
3066 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
3067 of a select system call
3068 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
3070 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
3071 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
3073 * various error reporting improvements.
3074 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
3075 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3076 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
3077 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
3078 code and foreign data with the same name.
3080 ** added x86-64 support
3081 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
3082 objects instead of thread ids
3083 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
3084 starting up or going down
3085 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
3086 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
3087 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
3088 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
3089 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
3090 an inappropriate moment
3091 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
3092 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
3093 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
3094 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3095 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
3096 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
3097 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
3099 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
3100 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
3101 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
3102 range before calling Unix time functions
3104 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
3105 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
3106 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3107 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
3108 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
3109 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
3110 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3111 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
3112 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
3113 for more information.
3114 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
3115 pathname is a directory pathname.
3116 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
3117 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
3119 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
3120 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
3121 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
3122 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
3123 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
3124 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
3126 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
3127 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
3128 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
3129 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
3130 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
3131 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
3132 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3133 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
3134 the PowerPC platform.
3135 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
3136 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
3138 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
3139 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
3140 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
3141 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
3142 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
3143 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3145 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
3146 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
3147 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
3148 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
3149 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
3150 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3151 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
3152 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
3153 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
3154 as the name of a type, or vice versa
3155 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
3156 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
3157 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
3158 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
3159 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
3160 FLET or MACROLET forms
3161 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
3163 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
3165 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
3168 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
3169 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
3170 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
3171 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
3172 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
3173 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
3174 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
3175 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
3176 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
3177 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
3178 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
3179 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
3180 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
3181 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
3182 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
3183 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3184 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
3185 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3186 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
3187 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
3188 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
3189 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
3191 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3192 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
3193 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
3194 a file has the stream as its datum.
3195 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
3196 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
3197 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
3198 a correct expected type
3199 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
3200 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
3201 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
3202 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
3203 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
3204 on broadcast streams.
3206 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
3207 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
3208 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
3209 --disable-debugger option instead.
3210 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
3212 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
3213 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
3214 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
3215 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
3216 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
3217 has been added to the manual.
3218 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
3219 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
3220 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
3221 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
3222 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
3223 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
3224 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
3225 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
3226 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
3227 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
3229 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
3230 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
3231 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
3232 (reported by Rajat Datta).
3233 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
3234 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
3236 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
3237 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
3238 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
3239 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
3240 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
3241 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
3242 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
3243 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
3244 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
3245 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
3246 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3247 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
3248 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3249 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
3250 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
3251 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3252 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3253 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
3254 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3256 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
3258 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
3259 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
3260 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
3261 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
3262 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
3264 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
3265 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
3266 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
3267 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
3268 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3269 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
3270 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
3272 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3273 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
3274 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
3276 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
3277 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
3278 types for complex arguments better.
3279 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
3281 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
3282 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
3284 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
3285 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
3286 resulting in GC crashes.
3287 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
3289 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
3292 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
3293 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
3294 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
3295 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
3296 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
3297 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
3298 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
3299 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
3300 returning to the top level.
3301 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
3302 global optimization policy.
3303 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
3304 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
3305 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
3307 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
3308 various incompatible changes.
3309 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
3310 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
3311 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
3312 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
3313 level local call to FOO".
3314 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
3315 now have more legible printed representation
3316 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
3317 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
3318 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
3319 explicitly requested.
3320 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
3321 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
3322 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
3323 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
3324 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
3326 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
3327 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
3328 (reported by Lutz Euler)
3329 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
3330 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3331 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
3332 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
3333 the specializer is now possible.
3334 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
3335 face of package deletion.
3336 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
3337 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
3338 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
3339 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
3340 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
3341 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
3342 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
3343 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
3344 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3345 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
3347 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3348 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
3349 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
3350 correctable errors to be signalled.
3351 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
3352 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
3355 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
3356 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3357 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
3359 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
3360 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3361 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
3362 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
3363 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
3364 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
3365 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
3366 related to the ~@F format directive.
3367 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
3369 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
3370 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
3371 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
3372 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
3374 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
3376 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
3377 coerce function designators to functions.
3378 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
3379 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
3380 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
3381 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
3382 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
3383 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
3384 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3385 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
3386 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
3387 start of the buffer at the next read.
3388 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
3389 passing it through to OPEN.
3390 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
3391 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
3392 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
3393 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
3394 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
3395 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3396 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
3397 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
3399 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
3400 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3401 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3402 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
3403 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3404 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
3406 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3407 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
3408 secondary constituent character trait.
3409 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
3411 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
3413 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
3414 works more reliably.
3415 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
3416 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
3417 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
3419 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
3420 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
3422 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
3423 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
3424 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
3425 and reloading shared object files.
3426 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3427 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
3429 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
3430 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
3431 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
3433 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
3434 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
3436 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
3438 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
3439 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
3440 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
3441 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3442 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
3443 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
3444 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
3446 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
3447 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
3449 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
3450 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
3451 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
3452 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
3453 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
3455 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
3456 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
3457 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3458 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
3459 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
3460 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3461 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
3462 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3463 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
3464 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
3465 lisp characters are not eight bits.
3466 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3467 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
3468 the correct number of arguments.
3469 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
3470 to displaced strings.
3471 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
3472 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
3474 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
3475 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
3476 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
3477 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
3478 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
3479 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
3480 available at runtime.
3481 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
3482 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
3483 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
3484 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3485 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
3486 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
3487 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
3488 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
3489 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
3490 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
3491 of lambda-list keywords.
3492 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
3493 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
3495 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
3496 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
3497 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3498 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
3499 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
3500 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
3501 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
3503 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
3504 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3505 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
3506 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
3507 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
3509 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3510 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
3511 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3512 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
3513 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
3514 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3515 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
3517 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
3518 parameters correctly.
3519 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
3520 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
3521 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
3523 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
3526 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
3527 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
3528 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
3529 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
3531 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
3532 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
3533 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
3534 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
3535 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
3536 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
3537 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
3538 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3539 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
3541 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
3542 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3544 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
3546 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
3547 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
3548 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3549 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
3551 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
3552 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3553 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
3554 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
3555 (reported by David Morse)
3556 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
3557 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3558 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
3559 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3560 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
3561 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3562 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
3563 now exists, an signals an error.
3564 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
3565 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
3566 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3567 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
3568 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3569 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
3570 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
3571 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3572 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
3573 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3574 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
3575 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
3577 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
3578 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
3579 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
3580 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
3581 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3582 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
3583 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
3584 specialized array element types.
3585 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
3586 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3587 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
3588 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3589 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
3590 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
3591 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
3592 Wragg for the simple test case)
3593 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3594 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
3596 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
3597 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
3598 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
3599 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
3600 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
3602 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
3604 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
3605 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
3606 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
3607 references to global functions.
3608 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
3610 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
3612 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
3613 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3614 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
3615 supported platforms.
3616 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
3617 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
3618 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3619 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
3620 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
3621 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3622 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
3623 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3624 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
3625 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
3626 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
3627 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
3628 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
3630 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
3631 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3632 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
3633 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
3634 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
3635 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
3637 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
3638 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
3640 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
3641 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
3642 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
3643 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3644 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
3645 returns the right answer.
3646 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
3648 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
3650 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
3651 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
3653 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
3654 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
3656 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
3657 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
3658 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
3659 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
3660 the supported interface.
3661 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
3662 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
3663 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3664 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
3665 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
3666 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
3667 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
3668 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3669 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
3670 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
3671 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
3672 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
3673 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3674 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
3675 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
3676 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
3677 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
3678 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
3679 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
3680 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
3681 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
3682 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
3683 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
3684 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
3685 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
3686 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
3687 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3688 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
3689 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
3691 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
3692 * incompatible change: the internal functions
3693 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
3694 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
3695 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
3696 instead of the old functions.
3697 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
3698 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
3700 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
3701 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
3703 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
3704 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
3705 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
3706 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
3708 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
3709 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3710 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
3711 (reported by Rick Taube)
3712 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
3713 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
3714 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
3715 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
3717 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
3718 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
3719 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
3720 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
3721 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3722 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
3723 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
3724 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
3725 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
3726 represented relative to default pathnames.
3727 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
3728 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
3729 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
3731 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
3732 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
3733 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
3735 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3736 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
3737 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
3738 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
3740 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
3742 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
3743 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
3744 conditional newlines.
3745 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
3746 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
3747 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
3749 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
3750 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
3752 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
3753 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
3754 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
3755 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
3756 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
3757 compiled in unconditionally.
3758 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
3759 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
3760 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
3761 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
3762 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
3764 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
3765 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
3766 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
3767 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
3768 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
3769 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
3770 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
3771 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
3772 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
3773 an implementation-internal package.
3774 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
3776 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
3777 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
3778 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
3779 bodies are now more legible.
3780 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
3781 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
3782 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
3783 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
3784 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3785 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
3786 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
3788 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
3789 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
3790 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
3791 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
3792 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
3793 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
3794 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
3795 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
3796 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
3797 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
3799 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
3800 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
3801 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
3802 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
3803 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
3804 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
3805 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
3806 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
3807 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
3808 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
3809 system even when most of them are idle
3810 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
3811 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3812 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
3814 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
3815 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
3816 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
3817 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
3818 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
3820 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
3821 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
3822 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
3823 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
3824 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
3825 string for information on the protocol.
3826 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
3827 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
3829 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
3830 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
3832 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
3833 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
3834 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
3835 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
3836 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
3837 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
3839 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
3840 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
3842 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
3843 move between its address being taken and the call to
3844 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
3845 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
3846 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
3847 instances corresponding to C structs.
3849 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
3850 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
3851 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
3852 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
3853 has implications for memory management of client code
3854 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
3855 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
3856 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
3857 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
3858 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
3859 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
3860 quality should be considered deprecated.
3861 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
3862 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
3863 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
3864 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
3865 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
3867 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
3868 designator as the defaults argument.
3869 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
3870 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
3871 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3872 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
3873 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
3875 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
3877 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
3878 (thanks to Zach Beane)
3879 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
3880 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
3881 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3882 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
3884 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
3885 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3886 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
3887 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
3888 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
3889 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
3890 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3891 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
3892 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
3893 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
3894 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
3895 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3896 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
3897 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
3898 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
3899 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
3900 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
3902 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
3903 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
3904 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
3906 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
3907 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3908 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
3909 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
3910 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
3911 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
3912 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3913 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
3914 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
3916 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
3917 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
3919 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
3920 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
3922 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
3923 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3924 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
3925 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
3927 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
3928 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
3929 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3930 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
3931 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
3932 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
3933 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
3934 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
3936 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
3937 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
3938 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
3940 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
3941 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
3943 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3944 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
3946 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
3947 from local to shared slots.
3948 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
3949 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
3950 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
3951 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
3953 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
3954 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
3955 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
3956 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
3957 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
3958 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
3959 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
3960 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
3961 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
3963 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
3965 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
3967 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
3968 print using #P"..." syntax.
3970 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
3971 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
3972 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
3973 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
3974 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
3975 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
3976 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
3977 * [placeholder for DX summary]
3978 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
3979 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
3980 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
3981 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
3982 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
3983 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
3984 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
3985 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
3986 the test case to Dave Roberts)
3987 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
3988 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
3989 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
3990 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
3991 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
3992 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
3993 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
3994 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3995 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
3996 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
3997 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
3998 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
3999 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4000 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
4001 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
4004 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
4005 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
4006 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
4007 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
4008 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
4009 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
4010 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
4011 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
4012 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
4013 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4014 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
4015 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
4016 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
4018 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
4019 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
4021 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
4022 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
4023 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4024 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
4025 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4026 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
4028 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
4029 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
4030 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
4032 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
4034 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
4036 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
4037 their output stream on EOF from read.
4038 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
4039 have been read to end-of-file.
4040 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
4042 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
4043 description of determination of which consecutive characters
4045 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
4046 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
4047 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4048 less than 10 works correctly.
4049 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4050 more than 10 works correctly.
4051 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
4052 the readtable currently in effect.
4054 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
4055 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
4056 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
4057 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
4058 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
4059 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
4060 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
4061 should usually be replaced by
4062 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
4063 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
4064 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
4065 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
4066 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
4067 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
4068 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
4069 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
4071 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
4072 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
4073 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4074 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
4075 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
4076 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4077 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
4078 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
4079 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
4080 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
4081 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
4082 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
4083 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
4085 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
4086 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
4087 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
4088 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4089 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
4090 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
4091 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
4092 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4093 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
4094 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
4095 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
4096 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
4097 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
4098 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
4099 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4100 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
4101 non-local entry points.
4102 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
4104 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4105 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
4107 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
4108 host is already defined.
4109 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
4111 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
4112 or not a character is whitespace.
4113 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
4114 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
4115 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
4117 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
4118 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
4120 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
4122 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
4123 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
4124 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
4125 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
4126 designator argument does not designate a stream.
4127 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
4128 examining the synonym.
4129 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
4131 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
4132 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
4134 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
4135 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
4136 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
4137 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
4138 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
4139 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
4140 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
4141 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
4142 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
4143 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4144 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
4145 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
4147 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
4148 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
4149 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4150 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
4151 stream position information.
4152 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
4153 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
4154 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
4155 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
4156 (reported by Paul Dietz)
4157 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
4159 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
4160 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
4162 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4163 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4164 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
4165 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
4166 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
4167 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
4168 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
4170 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
4172 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
4173 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
4174 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
4175 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
4176 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
4177 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
4178 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
4179 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
4180 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
4181 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
4182 the "SYS" logical host.
4183 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
4184 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
4185 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
4186 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
4187 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
4188 now each have their own history, command character, and other
4189 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4190 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4191 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
4193 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
4194 shift greater than 32.
4195 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
4196 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
4197 in some circumstances.
4199 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
4200 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
4201 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
4202 environments like SLIME.
4203 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
4204 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
4205 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
4206 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
4207 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
4208 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
4209 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
4210 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
4211 argument types for all arguments.
4212 * various threading fixes
4213 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
4214 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
4215 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
4216 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
4218 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
4219 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
4220 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
4221 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
4222 arguments to a full call.
4223 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
4224 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
4225 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
4226 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
4228 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
4229 inserts a space where necessary.
4230 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
4231 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
4232 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
4233 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
4234 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
4235 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
4236 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
4237 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
4238 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
4239 counter now raises a meaningful error.
4240 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
4241 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
4243 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
4244 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
4245 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
4247 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
4249 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4250 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
4251 argument and negative second.
4252 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
4253 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
4254 interval, containing 0.
4255 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
4257 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
4258 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
4260 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
4261 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
4262 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
4263 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
4264 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
4265 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
4266 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
4267 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
4268 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
4269 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
4270 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
4271 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
4272 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
4273 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
4274 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
4275 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
4276 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
4277 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
4278 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
4279 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
4280 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
4281 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4282 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
4283 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
4284 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
4285 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
4286 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
4287 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
4288 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
4290 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
4291 platform now returns the right answer.
4292 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
4293 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
4294 precomputation is now tunable.
4295 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
4296 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
4297 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
4298 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
4299 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
4300 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
4301 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
4302 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
4303 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
4304 has been added for the alpha.
4305 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
4306 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
4307 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
4308 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
4309 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
4310 MEMBER-types to numeric.
4311 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
4313 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
4314 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
4315 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
4317 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
4318 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4319 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
4320 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
4321 might be pseudo-atomic.
4322 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
4323 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
4325 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
4327 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
4329 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
4330 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
4331 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
4332 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
4333 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
4334 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
4336 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4337 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
4338 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
4339 small float arguments.
4340 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
4342 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
4343 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
4344 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
4345 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
4346 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
4347 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
4349 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
4351 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
4352 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
4353 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
4354 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
4355 with negative last argument.
4356 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
4357 an error during type derivation.
4358 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
4360 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
4361 generates a 32-bit binary.
4362 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
4363 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
4364 data structures referred to above).
4366 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
4367 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
4368 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
4369 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
4370 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
4371 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
4372 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
4373 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
4374 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
4375 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4376 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
4377 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
4379 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
4380 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
4382 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
4383 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
4384 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
4385 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
4386 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
4387 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
4388 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
4389 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
4390 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
4391 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
4392 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
4393 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4394 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
4395 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
4396 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
4397 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
4398 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
4399 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4400 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
4401 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
4402 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
4403 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
4404 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4405 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
4406 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
4407 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
4408 optimization quality.
4409 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
4410 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
4411 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
4412 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
4413 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4414 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4415 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
4416 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
4417 types form a lattice under type intersection.
4418 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
4419 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
4420 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
4421 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
4422 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
4423 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
4424 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
4425 calling the generic function.
4426 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
4427 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
4428 obscure ANSI requirements
4430 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
4431 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
4432 garbage, confusing the compiler.
4433 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
4434 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
4435 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
4436 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
4437 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
4438 circumstances could go off-by-one.
4439 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
4441 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
4442 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
4443 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
4444 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
4445 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
4446 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
4447 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
4448 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
4449 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
4450 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4451 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
4452 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
4453 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
4454 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
4455 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
4456 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
4457 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
4458 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
4459 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
4460 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
4462 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
4463 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
4464 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
4465 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
4467 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
4468 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
4469 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
4470 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
4471 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
4472 provide helpful disassembly notes.
4473 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
4474 the class in more cases than previously.
4475 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
4476 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4477 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
4478 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4479 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
4480 without lambda list.
4481 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
4482 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
4483 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4484 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
4485 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
4486 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
4488 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
4489 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
4490 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
4492 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
4493 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
4494 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
4495 were silently accepted).
4496 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
4497 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
4498 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
4499 to warn on static type mismatches and function
4500 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
4501 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
4502 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
4503 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
4504 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
4505 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
4506 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
4507 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
4508 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
4509 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
4511 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
4512 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
4513 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
4514 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
4515 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
4516 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
4518 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
4519 keywords or constants is permissible.
4520 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
4521 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
4522 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4523 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
4524 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
4525 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
4526 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
4527 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
4529 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
4530 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4531 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
4532 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
4533 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4534 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
4535 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
4537 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
4539 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
4540 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
4541 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
4542 respectively change and preserve the value.
4543 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
4544 is now better at handling symbol macros.
4545 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
4546 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
4547 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
4548 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
4549 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
4550 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
4551 their use properly signals an error now.
4552 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
4553 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
4554 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
4555 * fixed simple vector readable printing
4556 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
4557 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
4558 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
4559 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
4560 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
4561 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
4562 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4563 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
4564 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4565 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
4566 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
4567 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4568 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
4569 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
4570 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
4571 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
4572 causes a type error.
4573 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
4574 association between the name and a class.
4575 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
4576 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
4577 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4578 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
4579 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
4580 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
4582 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
4583 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
4584 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
4585 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
4587 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
4588 which its argument is a member.
4589 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
4590 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
4591 otherwise, it creates a new class.
4592 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
4593 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
4594 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
4595 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
4596 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4597 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
4599 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
4600 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
4601 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
4602 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
4603 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
4604 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
4605 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
4607 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
4608 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
4609 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
4610 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
4611 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
4612 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
4613 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
4614 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
4615 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
4616 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
4617 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
4618 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
4619 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4620 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
4622 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
4623 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
4624 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
4625 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
4626 superclasses are applied.
4627 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
4628 no method was removed.
4629 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
4630 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
4631 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
4632 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
4634 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
4636 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
4637 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
4638 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
4639 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
4640 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
4641 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
4642 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
4643 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
4644 function lambda list.
4645 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
4647 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
4648 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
4649 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
4650 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
4652 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
4653 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
4654 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
4655 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
4656 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
4657 they look for GNU "make".
4659 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
4660 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
4661 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
4662 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
4664 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
4665 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
4666 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
4667 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
4668 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
4669 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
4670 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
4671 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
4672 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
4673 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
4675 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
4676 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
4677 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
4678 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
4679 libraries, and will know who they are.
4680 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
4681 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
4682 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
4683 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
4684 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
4685 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
4686 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
4687 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
4689 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
4690 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
4691 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4692 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
4693 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
4694 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
4695 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
4696 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
4697 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
4698 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
4699 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4700 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
4702 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
4703 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
4704 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
4705 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
4706 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4707 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
4708 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
4709 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
4710 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
4712 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
4713 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
4714 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
4715 this you were probably losing anyway.
4716 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
4717 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
4718 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
4719 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
4720 with names from the CL package.
4721 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
4722 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
4723 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
4724 documentation string.
4725 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4726 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
4728 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
4729 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
4730 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
4731 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
4733 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
4734 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
4736 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
4737 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4738 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
4740 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
4741 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
4742 arguments contain duplicated elements.
4743 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
4744 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
4745 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
4746 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
4747 in question is unbound.
4748 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
4749 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
4750 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
4751 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
4752 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
4754 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
4756 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
4757 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
4758 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
4759 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
4760 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
4761 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
4762 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
4763 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
4764 by Antonio Martinez)
4765 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
4766 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4767 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
4768 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
4769 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
4770 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
4771 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
4772 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4773 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
4774 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
4775 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
4776 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
4777 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
4778 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
4779 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
4780 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
4781 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
4782 on malformed property lists;
4784 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
4785 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
4786 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
4787 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
4788 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
4789 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
4790 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
4791 modules in this release include:
4792 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
4793 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
4794 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
4795 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4796 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
4798 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
4799 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
4800 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4801 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4802 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
4803 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
4804 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
4805 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
4807 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
4808 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
4809 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
4810 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
4811 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
4812 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
4813 the lexical environment.
4814 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
4815 unprintable packages can now be defined.
4816 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
4817 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4818 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
4819 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4820 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
4821 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
4822 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
4823 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
4824 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
4825 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
4826 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
4827 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
4828 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4829 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
4830 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4831 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
4832 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
4833 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
4834 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4835 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
4836 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
4837 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
4838 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
4840 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
4841 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
4842 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
4843 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4844 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
4845 not just nonnegative fixnums;
4846 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
4847 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
4848 freshly-consed result bit-array);
4849 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
4851 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
4852 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
4854 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
4855 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
4856 cases are accurately computed;
4857 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
4858 if it is in the last clause;
4859 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
4861 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
4862 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
4863 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
4864 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
4866 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
4867 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
4868 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
4869 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
4870 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
4872 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
4873 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
4874 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
4875 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
4877 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4878 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
4879 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
4880 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
4881 not cause a type error;
4882 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
4884 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
4885 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
4886 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
4887 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
4888 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
4889 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
4890 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
4891 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
4893 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
4894 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
4895 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
4896 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
4897 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
4898 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
4900 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
4901 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
4903 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
4904 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
4905 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
4906 only for symbols in the CL package.
4907 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
4908 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4909 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
4910 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
4911 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
4913 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4914 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
4915 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
4916 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
4917 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
4918 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
4919 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
4920 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
4921 conditional loop clause;
4922 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
4923 signals a type error iff it should.
4924 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4925 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
4926 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
4927 argument) no longer signals an error;
4928 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
4929 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
4930 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
4932 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
4933 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
4934 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
4936 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
4937 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
4938 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
4939 functionality on said platforms verified.
4940 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
4941 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
4943 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
4944 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
4945 component indicating that directory.
4946 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
4947 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
4948 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
4949 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
4950 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4951 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
4953 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
4954 primary methods with no specializers;
4955 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
4957 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
4958 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
4959 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
4960 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
4962 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
4963 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
4964 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
4966 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
4967 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
4968 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
4969 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
4970 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
4971 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
4972 class STANDARD-CLASS;
4973 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
4974 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4975 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
4976 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
4978 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
4979 value producing form;
4980 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
4981 variables are bound and made to have no value;
4982 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
4984 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
4985 is not a valid sequence index;
4986 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
4987 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
4988 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4989 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
4991 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
4992 symbol-macro places;
4993 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
4994 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
4996 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
4998 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
5000 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
5001 invariant when deleting code.
5002 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
5003 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
5005 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
5006 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5007 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
5009 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
5010 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
5012 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
5013 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
5014 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5015 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
5017 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
5018 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5019 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
5020 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
5022 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
5023 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
5024 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
5025 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
5026 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5027 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
5028 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
5029 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
5030 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
5031 sbcl and .core files.)
5032 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
5033 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
5034 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
5035 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
5036 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
5037 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5038 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
5040 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
5041 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
5042 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
5043 argument precedence order.
5044 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
5045 derived types contradict their declared type.
5046 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
5047 so it can be non-toplevel.
5048 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
5049 implementation of DEFMACRO).
5050 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
5051 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
5052 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
5054 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
5055 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
5056 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
5057 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
5058 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
5059 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
5060 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
5061 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
5062 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
5063 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
5064 symbol macro only once
5065 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
5066 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
5067 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
5070 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
5071 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
5072 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
5073 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
5074 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
5075 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
5076 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
5077 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
5078 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
5079 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5080 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
5081 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
5083 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
5084 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
5085 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
5086 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
5087 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5088 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
5090 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
5092 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
5093 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
5094 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
5095 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
5096 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5097 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
5098 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
5099 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
5100 ways in different special cases
5101 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
5103 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
5104 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
5105 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
5106 are no longer optimized away.
5107 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
5108 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
5109 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
5110 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
5111 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
5112 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
5113 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
5114 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
5117 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
5118 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
5119 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
5120 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
5121 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
5122 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
5123 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
5125 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
5126 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
5127 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
5128 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
5129 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
5130 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
5131 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
5132 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
5133 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
5134 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
5135 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
5136 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
5137 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
5138 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
5139 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
5140 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
5141 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
5142 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5143 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
5144 that are names of constants or global variables.
5145 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
5146 alien routines with docstrings.
5147 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
5148 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
5150 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
5151 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
5152 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
5153 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
5154 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
5155 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5156 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
5157 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
5158 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
5159 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5160 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
5161 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
5162 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
5163 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
5164 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
5165 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
5166 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
5167 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
5168 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
5169 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
5170 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
5171 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
5172 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
5174 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
5175 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
5177 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
5178 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
5179 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
5180 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
5181 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
5182 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
5183 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
5184 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
5185 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
5186 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
5188 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
5189 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
5190 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
5191 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
5192 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
5193 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
5194 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
5195 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
5196 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
5197 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
5198 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
5199 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
5200 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
5201 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
5202 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
5203 is no longer a static symbol.)
5205 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
5206 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
5207 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
5208 bootstrapping under CLISP.
5209 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
5211 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
5212 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
5214 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
5215 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
5216 to David Lichteblau)
5217 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
5218 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
5219 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
5221 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
5222 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5223 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
5224 count as they should.
5225 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
5226 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5227 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
5228 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
5229 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
5230 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
5231 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
5232 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
5233 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
5234 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
5235 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
5236 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
5237 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
5238 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
5239 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
5241 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
5242 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
5243 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
5245 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
5247 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
5248 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
5249 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
5250 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
5251 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
5252 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5253 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
5255 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
5256 to Christophe Rhodes)
5257 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
5258 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
5259 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
5260 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
5261 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
5262 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
5263 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
5265 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
5266 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
5267 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
5268 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
5269 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
5270 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5271 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
5272 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
5273 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
5274 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
5275 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
5276 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
5277 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
5279 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
5280 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
5281 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
5282 INFO database to support symbol macros.
5283 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
5284 (thanks to coreythomas)
5285 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
5286 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
5287 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
5288 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
5289 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
5291 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
5292 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
5293 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
5294 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
5295 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
5296 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
5297 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
5298 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
5299 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
5300 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5301 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
5302 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
5303 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
5305 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
5306 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
5309 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
5310 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
5311 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
5312 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
5313 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
5314 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
5315 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
5316 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
5317 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
5318 systems than the old 4M value was)
5319 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
5320 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
5321 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
5322 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
5323 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
5324 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
5325 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
5327 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
5328 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
5329 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
5330 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
5331 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
5333 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
5334 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
5335 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5336 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
5337 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
5338 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
5339 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
5340 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
5342 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
5343 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5344 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
5345 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5346 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
5347 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
5348 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
5349 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
5351 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5352 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5353 * several changes related to debugging:
5354 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
5355 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
5356 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
5357 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
5358 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
5359 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
5360 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
5363 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
5365 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
5366 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
5367 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
5368 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
5369 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
5370 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
5371 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
5372 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
5374 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
5375 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
5376 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
5377 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5378 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
5379 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
5380 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
5381 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
5382 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
5383 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
5384 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
5385 file format number to change again.
5387 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
5388 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
5389 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
5390 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
5392 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
5393 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
5394 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
5395 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
5396 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
5397 FUNCALL on the result.
5398 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
5399 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
5400 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
5401 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
5402 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
5403 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
5404 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
5405 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
5407 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
5408 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
5409 the old compiler produced.
5410 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
5411 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
5412 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
5413 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
5414 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
5415 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
5416 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
5417 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
5418 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
5419 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
5420 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
5421 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
5422 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
5423 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
5424 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
5425 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
5426 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
5427 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
5428 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
5429 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
5430 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
5431 straightened out in some future version.)
5432 * minor incompatible changes:
5433 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
5434 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
5435 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
5436 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
5437 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
5438 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
5439 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
5440 implementation dependent:
5441 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
5442 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
5443 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
5444 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
5445 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
5446 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
5447 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
5448 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
5450 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
5452 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
5453 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
5454 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
5455 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
5456 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
5457 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
5458 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
5459 are no longer used for output.
5460 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
5461 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
5462 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
5463 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
5464 increasing it even more.)
5465 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
5466 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
5467 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
5469 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
5470 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
5471 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
5472 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
5473 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
5474 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
5475 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
5476 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
5477 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
5478 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
5479 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
5480 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
5481 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
5482 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
5483 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
5484 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
5485 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
5486 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
5487 compilation of code which calls such functions.
5488 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
5489 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
5490 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
5491 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
5492 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
5493 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
5494 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
5495 built into the system.
5496 * many other bug fixes
5497 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
5498 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
5499 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
5500 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
5501 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
5503 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
5504 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
5505 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
5506 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
5507 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
5508 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
5509 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
5510 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
5511 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
5512 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
5513 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
5515 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
5516 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
5517 and several other LOOP problems as well
5518 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
5519 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
5520 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
5521 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
5522 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
5523 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
5524 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
5525 *** a bug in APROPOS
5526 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
5527 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
5528 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
5529 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
5530 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
5531 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
5532 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
5533 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
5534 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
5535 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
5536 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
5537 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
5538 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
5539 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
5540 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
5542 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
5543 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
5544 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
5545 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
5546 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
5547 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
5548 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
5549 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
5550 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
5551 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
5552 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
5553 some of which are apparent above.
5555 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
5556 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
5557 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
5558 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
5559 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
5560 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
5561 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
5562 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
5563 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
5564 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
5565 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
5566 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
5567 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
5568 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
5569 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
5570 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
5571 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
5572 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
5573 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
5574 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
5575 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
5576 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
5577 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
5578 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
5579 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
5580 different return types.
5581 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
5582 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
5583 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
5584 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
5585 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
5586 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
5587 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
5588 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
5589 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
5590 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
5592 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
5593 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
5594 does the right thing.
5595 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
5596 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
5597 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5598 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
5599 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5600 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5601 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
5602 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
5603 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
5604 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
5605 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5606 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
5607 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5608 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
5609 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
5610 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
5611 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
5612 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
5613 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
5614 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
5615 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
5616 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
5617 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
5618 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
5619 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
5620 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
5621 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
5622 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
5623 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
5624 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
5625 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
5626 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
5627 since historically most system changes which required version
5628 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
5629 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
5632 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
5633 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
5634 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
5635 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
5636 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
5637 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
5638 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
5639 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
5640 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
5641 half a dozen others elsewhere
5642 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
5643 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
5644 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
5645 as flaky as they were.
5646 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
5647 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
5648 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
5649 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
5650 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
5651 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
5652 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
5653 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
5655 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
5656 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
5657 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
5658 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5659 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
5660 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
5661 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
5662 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
5663 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
5664 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
5665 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
5666 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
5667 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
5668 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
5669 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
5670 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
5671 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
5672 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
5673 more obscure bugs as well
5674 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
5675 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
5676 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
5677 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
5678 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
5679 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
5680 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
5681 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
5682 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
5683 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
5684 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
5686 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
5687 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
5689 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
5691 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5692 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
5693 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
5694 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
5695 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
5696 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
5697 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
5698 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
5699 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
5700 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
5701 are local in this sense.)
5702 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
5703 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
5704 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
5705 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
5706 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
5707 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
5708 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5709 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
5710 system's STREAM objects.
5711 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
5712 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5713 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
5714 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5715 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
5716 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
5717 environment from the original process instead of starting the
5718 new process in an empty environment.
5719 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
5720 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
5721 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
5722 for porting convenience.
5723 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
5724 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
5726 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
5728 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
5729 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
5730 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
5731 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
5732 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
5733 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
5734 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
5735 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
5736 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
5737 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
5738 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
5739 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5740 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
5741 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
5742 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
5743 many fewer weird special cases.
5744 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
5745 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
5746 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5747 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
5748 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
5749 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
5750 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
5751 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
5752 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
5753 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5754 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
5757 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
5759 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
5760 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
5761 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
5763 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
5764 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
5765 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
5766 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
5767 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
5768 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
5769 should be constructed the same way as before.
5770 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
5771 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
5772 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
5773 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
5774 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
5775 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
5776 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
5777 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
5778 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
5779 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
5780 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
5781 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
5782 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
5783 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
5784 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
5785 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
5786 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
5787 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
5788 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
5789 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
5790 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
5791 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
5793 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
5794 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
5795 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
5796 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
5797 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
5798 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
5799 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
5800 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
5802 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
5804 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
5805 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
5806 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
5807 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
5808 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
5810 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
5811 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
5812 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
5813 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
5814 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
5815 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
5816 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
5817 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
5818 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
5819 and Douglas Crosher.
5820 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
5821 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
5822 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
5824 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
5825 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
5826 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
5827 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
5828 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
5829 undefined function error.
5830 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
5831 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
5832 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
5833 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
5834 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
5835 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
5836 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
5837 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
5838 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
5839 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
5840 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
5841 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
5842 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
5844 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
5846 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
5847 CVS repository on my home machine).
5848 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
5849 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
5850 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
5851 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
5852 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
5853 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
5854 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
5855 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
5856 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
5857 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
5858 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
5859 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
5860 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
5861 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
5862 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
5863 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
5864 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
5865 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
5866 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
5867 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
5868 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
5869 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
5871 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
5872 FreeBSD have been added.
5873 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
5874 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
5875 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
5876 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
5877 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
5878 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
5880 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
5881 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
5882 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
5883 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
5884 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
5885 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
5886 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
5887 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
5889 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
5890 away by constant folding
5891 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
5892 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
5893 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
5894 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
5895 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
5896 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
5897 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
5898 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
5899 diff-related operations.
5900 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
5901 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
5903 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
5905 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
5906 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
5907 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
5908 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
5909 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
5910 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
5911 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
5912 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
5913 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
5914 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
5915 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
5916 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
5917 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
5918 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
5919 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
5920 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
5921 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
5922 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
5923 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
5924 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
5925 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
5926 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
5927 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
5928 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
5929 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
5930 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
5931 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
5932 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
5933 instead of (VALUES T T).
5934 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
5935 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
5936 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
5937 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
5938 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
5939 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
5940 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
5941 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
5942 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
5943 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
5944 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
5945 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
5946 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
5947 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
5948 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
5949 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
5950 type will be interpreted at runtime.
5951 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
5952 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
5953 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
5954 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
5955 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
5956 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
5957 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
5958 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
5959 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
5960 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
5961 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
5962 fasl files for cold load.
5963 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
5964 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
5965 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
5966 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
5967 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
5968 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
5969 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
5970 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
5971 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
5972 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
5973 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
5975 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
5976 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
5977 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
5978 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
5979 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
5980 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
5981 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
5982 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
5983 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
5984 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
5985 renamed some files to increase consistency.
5986 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
5987 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
5988 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
5989 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
5990 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
5991 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
5993 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
5995 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
5996 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
5997 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
5998 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
5999 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
6000 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
6001 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
6002 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
6003 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
6004 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
6005 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
6006 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
6007 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
6008 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
6009 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
6010 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
6011 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
6012 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
6014 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
6015 as required by ANSI.
6016 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
6017 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
6018 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
6019 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
6021 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
6022 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
6023 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
6024 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
6025 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
6026 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
6027 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
6028 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
6030 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
6031 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
6032 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
6033 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6035 is now basically equivalent to
6036 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6037 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
6039 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
6040 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
6041 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
6042 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
6043 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
6044 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
6045 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
6046 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
6047 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
6048 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
6049 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
6050 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
6051 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
6052 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
6053 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
6054 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
6055 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
6056 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
6057 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
6058 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
6059 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
6060 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
6061 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
6063 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
6065 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
6066 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
6067 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
6068 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
6069 GNUMAKE environment variable.
6070 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
6071 can build without error under CMU CL.
6073 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
6075 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
6076 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
6077 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
6078 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
6079 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
6080 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
6081 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
6082 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
6083 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
6084 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
6085 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
6086 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
6087 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
6088 being initialized before the type system knew the final
6089 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
6090 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
6091 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
6092 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
6093 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
6094 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
6095 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
6096 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
6097 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
6098 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
6100 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
6101 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
6102 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
6103 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
6104 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
6105 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
6106 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
6107 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
6108 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
6109 it were currently supported.
6110 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
6111 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
6112 having to maintain patches.
6113 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
6114 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
6116 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
6118 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
6119 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
6120 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
6121 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
6122 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
6123 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
6124 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
6125 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
6126 * various new style warnings:
6127 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
6128 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
6129 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
6130 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
6131 as specified by ANSI.
6132 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
6133 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
6134 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
6135 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
6136 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
6137 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
6138 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
6139 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
6140 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
6141 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
6142 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
6143 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
6144 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
6145 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
6146 argument types can be determined at compile time.
6147 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
6148 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
6149 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
6150 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
6151 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
6152 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
6153 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
6156 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
6158 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
6159 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
6160 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
6161 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
6162 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
6163 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
6164 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
6165 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
6166 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
6168 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
6169 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
6170 the report form was printed.)
6171 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
6172 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
6173 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
6174 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
6175 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
6176 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
6177 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
6178 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
6179 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
6180 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
6181 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
6182 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
6183 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
6184 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
6185 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
6186 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
6187 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
6188 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
6189 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
6190 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
6191 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
6192 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
6193 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
6194 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
6195 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
6196 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
6197 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
6198 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
6199 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
6200 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
6201 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
6202 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
6203 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
6204 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
6205 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
6206 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
6207 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
6208 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
6209 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
6210 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
6211 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
6212 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
6213 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
6214 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
6215 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
6216 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
6217 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
6218 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
6219 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
6220 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
6221 know more about target types.
6222 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
6223 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
6224 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
6225 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
6226 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
6227 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
6229 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
6230 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
6231 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
6232 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
6233 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
6234 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
6235 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
6236 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
6237 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
6238 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
6239 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
6240 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
6241 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
6243 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
6246 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
6248 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
6249 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
6250 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
6251 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
6252 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
6253 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
6254 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
6255 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
6256 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
6257 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
6258 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
6259 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
6260 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
6261 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
6262 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
6263 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
6264 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
6265 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
6266 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
6267 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
6268 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
6269 invisible at the user level.)
6270 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
6271 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
6272 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
6274 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
6276 * tidied up "make.sh" script
6277 * tidied up system directory structure
6278 * better "clean.sh" behavior
6279 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
6280 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
6281 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
6282 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
6283 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
6284 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
6285 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
6286 * command line argument processing
6287 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
6288 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
6289 terminating SBCL on EOF
6290 * non-verbose GC by default
6291 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
6292 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
6293 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
6295 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
6296 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
6297 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
6298 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
6299 transformed along with everything else.
6300 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
6301 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
6302 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
6303 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
6304 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
6305 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
6306 debugging and testing purposes
6307 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
6308 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
6309 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
6310 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
6311 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
6312 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
6313 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
6315 * regularized formatting of source files
6316 * added an install.sh script
6317 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
6318 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
6319 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
6320 builds nicely on my old laptop.
6321 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
6322 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
6323 was not implemented)
6324 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
6325 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
6326 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
6327 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
6328 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
6330 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
6331 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
6332 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
6333 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
6334 COMPILE-FILE command)
6335 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
6336 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
6337 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
6338 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
6339 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
6340 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
6341 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
6342 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
6343 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
6344 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
6345 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
6346 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
6347 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
6348 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
6349 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
6351 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
6352 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
6353 known to be able to handle the current sources
6354 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
6355 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
6356 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
6357 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
6358 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
6359 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
6360 * removed host-oops.lisp
6361 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
6362 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
6363 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
6364 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
6365 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
6366 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by