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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.42
3 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
5 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
7 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
8 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
9 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
10 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
11 thanks to Andrew Golding)
12 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
14 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
15 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
16 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
17 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
18 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
19 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
20 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
21 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
22 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
23 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
24 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
25 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
26 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
27 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
29 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
30 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
31 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
32 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
33 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
34 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
35 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
36 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
37 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
38 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
39 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
40 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
41 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
42 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
43 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
45 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
48 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
49 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
50 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
51 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
52 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
53 * optimization: The default implementation of
54 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
55 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
56 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
57 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
58 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
59 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
60 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
61 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
62 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
63 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
64 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
66 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
67 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
68 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
69 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
70 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
71 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
73 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
75 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
76 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
77 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
78 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
79 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
80 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
82 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
84 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
85 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
87 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
88 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
90 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
91 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
92 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
93 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
94 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
95 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
96 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
97 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
98 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
99 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
100 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
101 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
103 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
105 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
106 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
107 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
108 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
109 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
110 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
111 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
112 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
113 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
114 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
116 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
117 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
118 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
120 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
121 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
122 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
124 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
125 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
126 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
128 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
129 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
130 generic function call.
131 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
132 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
133 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
135 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
137 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
138 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
139 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
140 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
141 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
142 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
143 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
144 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
145 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
146 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
147 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
148 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
149 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
150 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
151 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
153 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
154 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
155 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
156 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
157 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
158 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
159 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
160 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
161 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
162 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
163 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
164 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
165 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
166 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
167 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
168 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
169 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
170 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
171 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
172 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
173 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
174 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
175 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
176 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
177 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
179 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
180 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
181 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
183 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
184 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
186 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
187 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
188 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
189 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
191 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
192 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
193 stack frame thrown from.
194 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
195 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
196 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
197 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
199 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
200 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
201 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
202 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
203 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
204 for accessing such arrays.
205 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
206 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
207 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
208 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
209 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
210 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
211 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
212 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
213 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
214 functions. (lp#524707)
215 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
216 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
217 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
218 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
219 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
220 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
221 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
222 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
223 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
224 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
225 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
226 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
227 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
228 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
230 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
231 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
232 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
233 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
234 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
236 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
237 declarations (lp#497321)
238 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
239 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
240 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
242 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
243 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
244 due to it, so that handlers can run.
245 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
247 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
248 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
249 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
250 expanded calls (lp#542174)
251 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
252 than just at toplevel form.
254 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
255 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
256 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
257 but work on type specifiers.
258 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
259 to name a type specifier.
260 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
261 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
262 second argument of TYPEP".
263 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
264 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
265 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
266 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
267 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
268 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
269 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
270 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
271 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
272 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
273 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
274 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
275 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
277 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
279 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
280 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
282 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
283 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
284 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
285 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
286 before reaching the erring stack frame.
287 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
288 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
289 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
290 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
291 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
292 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
293 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
294 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
296 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
297 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
298 is properly inlined when possible.
299 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
300 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
301 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
302 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
303 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
304 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
305 launchpad bug lp#508485)
306 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
307 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
308 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
309 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
310 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
311 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
313 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
314 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
316 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
318 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
319 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
320 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
321 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
322 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
323 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
324 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
326 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
327 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
328 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
329 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
330 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
331 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
332 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
333 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
334 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
335 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
336 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
337 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
338 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
339 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
341 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
344 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
345 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
346 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
347 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
348 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
349 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
350 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
351 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
353 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
354 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
355 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
356 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
358 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
359 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
360 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
361 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
362 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
363 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
365 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
366 errors for fd-stream external formats.
367 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
368 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
369 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
370 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
371 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
373 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
374 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
375 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
376 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
378 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
379 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
380 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
381 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
382 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
384 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
385 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
386 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
387 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
388 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
389 error is near the end of file.
390 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
391 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
392 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
393 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
394 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
395 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
396 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
397 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
398 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
399 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
400 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
401 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
402 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
403 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
404 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
405 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
406 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
407 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
408 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
409 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
410 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
411 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
412 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
413 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
415 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
416 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
417 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
418 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
419 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
420 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
421 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
422 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
423 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
425 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
426 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
427 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
428 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
430 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
431 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
432 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
434 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
436 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
437 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
439 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
440 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
441 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
442 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
443 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
444 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
445 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
446 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
447 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
448 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
449 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
450 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
451 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
453 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
454 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
455 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
456 open coded is now considered a bug.
457 * improvements related to Unicode:
458 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
459 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
460 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
462 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
464 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
465 (as well as for stream operations).
466 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
467 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
469 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
470 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
472 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
474 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
475 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
476 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
477 constant two has been optimized.
478 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
479 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
480 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
481 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
482 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
483 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
484 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
485 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
486 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
487 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
488 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
489 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
490 but assumed or declared function as well.
491 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
492 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
493 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
494 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
496 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
497 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
498 well as user defined declaration names.
499 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
500 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
502 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
503 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
504 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
505 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
506 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
508 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
510 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
512 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
513 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
514 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
515 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
516 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
517 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
518 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
519 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
520 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
522 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
523 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
524 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
525 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
526 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
527 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
529 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
530 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
531 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
532 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
533 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
534 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
535 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
536 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
538 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
539 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
540 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
541 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
542 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
543 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
544 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
545 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
546 values in other threads.
547 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
548 about object allocation.
549 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
550 with a specialised code sequence.
551 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
552 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
553 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
554 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
555 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
556 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
557 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
558 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
559 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
560 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
562 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
564 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
565 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
566 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
567 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
568 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
569 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
570 unboxed format on x86[-64].
571 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
572 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
573 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
574 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
575 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
577 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
578 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
579 contains more pertinent information.
580 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
581 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
582 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
583 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
584 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
585 types. (reported by "abhi")
586 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
587 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
588 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
589 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
590 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
591 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
592 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
593 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
594 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
595 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
596 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
597 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
598 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
599 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
600 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
601 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
602 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
603 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
605 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
606 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
607 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
608 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
609 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
610 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
611 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
613 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
614 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
615 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
616 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
617 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
618 (no subscription required.)
619 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
620 types are weakened less aggressively.
621 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
622 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
623 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
624 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
625 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
626 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
627 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
628 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
630 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
631 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
632 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
633 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
635 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
636 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
637 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
639 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
640 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
641 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
643 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
644 is known are 50% faster.
645 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
646 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
648 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
649 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
650 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
651 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
652 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
654 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
655 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
656 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
657 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
658 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
659 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
661 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
662 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
663 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
664 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
665 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
666 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
667 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
668 to Tobias Rittweiler)
669 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
670 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
671 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
672 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
673 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
674 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
675 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
676 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
677 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
678 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
679 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
681 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
682 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
683 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
684 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
686 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
687 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
688 result register (bug 316325).
689 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
690 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
691 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
692 generate incorrect code.
693 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
694 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
695 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
696 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
698 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
699 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
700 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
701 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
702 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
703 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
704 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
705 from :INITFORM, if any.
707 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
708 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
709 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
710 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
711 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
713 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
714 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
715 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
716 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
717 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
718 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
719 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
720 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
721 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
722 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
724 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
725 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
726 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
727 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
728 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
729 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
730 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
731 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
732 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
733 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
734 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
735 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
736 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
737 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
738 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
739 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
740 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
742 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
743 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
744 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
745 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
746 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
747 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
748 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
749 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
751 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
752 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
753 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
754 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
755 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
757 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
758 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
759 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
760 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
761 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
762 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
763 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
764 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
765 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
766 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
767 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
768 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
769 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
770 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
771 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
772 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
774 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
775 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
776 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
777 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
778 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
779 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
780 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
781 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
782 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
783 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
784 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
785 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
786 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
787 recursive errors or deadlock.
788 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
789 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
790 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
792 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
793 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
794 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
795 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
796 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
797 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
798 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
799 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
801 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
802 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
803 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
804 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
805 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
806 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
807 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
808 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
810 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
811 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
812 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
813 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
814 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
815 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
816 their constant arguments.
817 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
818 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
819 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
820 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
821 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
822 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
823 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
824 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
825 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
826 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
827 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
828 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
829 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
830 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
831 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
832 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
833 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
834 * improvements to the Windows port:
835 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
836 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
838 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
839 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
840 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
841 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
842 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
843 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
844 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
845 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
846 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
847 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
848 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
849 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
850 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
851 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
853 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
855 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
856 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
857 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
858 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
859 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
860 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
861 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
862 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
863 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
864 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
866 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
867 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
868 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
869 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
870 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
871 compile-time style-warning.
872 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
873 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
874 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
875 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
876 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
877 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
878 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
879 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
880 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
881 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
882 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
883 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
884 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
885 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
886 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
887 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
889 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
890 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
891 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
892 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
893 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
894 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
895 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
896 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
897 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
899 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
901 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
904 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
905 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
906 for the associated fast function is also produced.
907 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
909 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
910 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
911 special handling by the pretty printer.
912 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
913 now interact correctly with type declarations.
914 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
915 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
916 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
917 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
918 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
919 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
920 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
921 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
923 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
924 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
925 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
926 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
927 object loading function as-it.
928 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
929 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
931 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
932 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
934 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
935 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
936 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
937 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
938 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
939 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
940 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
941 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
942 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
944 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
945 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
946 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
947 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
948 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
949 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
950 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
951 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
952 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
953 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
954 file descriptors when there were none.
955 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
956 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
957 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
958 pathnames without a directory.
959 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
960 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
962 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
963 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
964 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
965 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
966 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
967 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
968 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
969 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
971 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
972 after alien stack frames.
973 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
975 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
976 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
977 generic function across method addition and removal.
978 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
979 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
980 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
981 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
983 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
984 non-local transfer of control.
985 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
986 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
987 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
988 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
989 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
990 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
991 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
993 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
994 owned by other threads anymore.
995 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
996 subsequence. (reported by budden)
997 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
998 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
999 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
1000 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
1002 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
1003 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
1004 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
1005 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
1006 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
1007 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
1008 added to the user manual.
1009 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
1010 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
1011 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
1012 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
1013 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
1014 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
1016 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
1018 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
1019 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
1020 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
1021 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
1022 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
1023 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
1024 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
1026 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
1027 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
1029 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
1030 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
1031 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
1032 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
1033 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
1034 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
1035 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
1037 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
1038 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
1040 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
1041 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1042 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1043 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
1044 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1045 type of a variable is made.
1046 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
1047 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
1049 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
1050 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1051 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
1052 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1053 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
1054 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1055 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
1056 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
1057 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
1059 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
1060 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
1061 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
1062 of the type that's the value of this variable.
1063 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
1065 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
1066 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
1067 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
1068 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
1069 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
1070 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
1071 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
1072 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
1073 * improvements to the Windows port:
1074 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
1075 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
1076 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1077 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
1078 to single-float coercions.
1079 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
1080 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
1081 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
1082 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
1083 containing invalid type specifiers.
1084 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
1085 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
1087 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
1088 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
1089 profiles only the current thread.
1090 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
1091 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
1092 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
1093 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
1094 has also additional sorting options.
1095 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
1097 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
1098 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
1099 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
1100 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
1101 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
1102 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
1104 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
1106 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
1107 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
1108 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
1109 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
1110 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
1111 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
1113 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
1114 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1115 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
1116 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
1117 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
1118 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1119 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
1120 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
1121 (thanks to James Knight)
1122 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
1123 (thanks to Travis Cross)
1124 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1125 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
1126 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
1127 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1128 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1129 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1130 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1132 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
1133 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
1134 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
1135 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
1136 use this feature in the meanwhile.
1137 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
1138 adjust thread default control stack size.
1139 * enhancement: improved TIME output
1140 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
1141 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
1142 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
1143 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
1144 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
1145 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
1146 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
1147 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
1149 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
1151 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
1152 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
1153 in normal SPEED policies.
1154 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
1155 in normal SPEED policies.
1156 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
1157 to Sidney Markowitz)
1158 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
1159 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1160 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
1161 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1162 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
1163 as the second argument.
1164 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
1165 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
1166 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
1168 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
1169 platform word lengths.
1170 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
1171 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
1172 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
1174 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
1175 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1177 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
1178 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
1179 signaling added in 1.0.14.
1180 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
1181 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
1182 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
1183 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
1184 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
1185 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1186 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
1187 on threaded platforms.
1188 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
1189 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
1190 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1191 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
1192 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
1193 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
1194 representation is available.
1195 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
1196 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
1197 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
1198 Francois-Rene Rideau)
1199 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1200 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1201 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
1202 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
1203 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
1204 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
1205 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
1206 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
1207 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
1209 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
1210 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
1211 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
1212 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
1213 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
1214 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
1215 traces SETF-functions as well.
1216 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
1217 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
1218 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
1219 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
1221 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
1222 is now more efficient.
1223 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
1224 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
1225 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
1226 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
1227 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
1228 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1229 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
1230 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
1231 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
1232 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
1233 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
1235 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
1236 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
1237 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
1238 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
1239 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
1240 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1241 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
1242 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
1243 * improvements to the Windows port:
1244 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
1245 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
1247 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
1248 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
1249 (see documentation for details.)
1250 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
1251 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
1252 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
1253 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
1254 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
1256 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
1257 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
1258 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
1259 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
1260 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1261 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
1262 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
1263 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
1264 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
1266 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
1267 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
1268 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
1269 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
1270 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
1271 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
1272 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
1274 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
1275 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
1276 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
1277 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
1278 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
1279 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
1280 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
1281 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
1283 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
1284 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
1285 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
1286 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
1287 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
1288 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
1289 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
1290 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
1291 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
1292 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1293 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
1294 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
1295 known at compile-time.
1296 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
1297 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
1298 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
1300 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
1301 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
1303 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
1304 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1305 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1306 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
1307 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
1308 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
1310 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
1312 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
1314 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
1317 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
1318 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
1319 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
1320 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
1321 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
1322 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
1323 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
1324 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
1325 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
1326 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
1327 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
1328 END is smaller then START.
1329 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
1330 calls to profiled functions.
1331 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
1332 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
1333 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
1334 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
1335 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
1336 hash-table usage have been fixed.
1337 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
1338 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
1339 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
1340 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
1341 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
1342 slime to work again.
1344 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
1345 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
1346 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
1347 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
1348 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
1349 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
1350 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
1351 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
1352 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
1353 and will signal an error at runtime.
1354 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
1355 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
1356 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
1358 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
1359 platforms providing stack allocation support.
1360 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
1361 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
1363 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
1364 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
1365 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
1366 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1367 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
1368 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
1370 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
1371 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
1373 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
1375 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
1376 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
1377 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
1378 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
1379 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
1380 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
1381 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1382 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
1383 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
1384 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1385 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
1386 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
1387 a specializer parameter for the method.
1388 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
1389 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
1390 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
1391 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
1392 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
1394 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
1395 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
1397 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
1398 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
1399 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1400 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
1401 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
1402 the CAS operation was being performed.
1403 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
1404 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
1405 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
1406 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
1409 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
1410 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
1411 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
1412 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
1414 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
1415 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
1416 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1417 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
1418 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
1419 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1420 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
1421 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
1422 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
1423 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
1424 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
1425 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
1426 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
1427 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
1428 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
1430 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
1431 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
1432 the underlying file descriptor.
1433 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
1434 could cause buffer-overflows.
1435 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
1436 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
1437 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
1439 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
1441 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
1442 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
1443 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
1444 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
1445 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
1446 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
1449 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
1450 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
1451 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
1452 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
1453 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
1454 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
1455 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
1457 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
1459 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
1460 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
1461 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
1462 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
1463 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
1464 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
1466 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
1467 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
1468 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
1469 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
1470 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
1471 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
1472 objects that can be seen by the GC.
1473 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
1474 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
1475 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
1477 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
1478 as the property-list of a symbol.
1479 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
1480 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
1481 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
1484 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
1485 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
1486 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
1487 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
1488 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
1489 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
1490 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
1491 debugging and introspective support.
1492 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
1493 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
1494 has the owning thread as its value.
1495 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
1496 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
1498 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
1499 "a constant string".
1500 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
1501 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
1502 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
1503 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1504 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
1505 (depending on the bignum size.)
1506 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
1508 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
1509 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
1511 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
1512 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
1514 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
1515 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
1516 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
1517 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
1518 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
1521 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
1522 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
1523 as a contrib module.
1524 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
1525 significantly faster.
1526 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1527 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
1528 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1529 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1530 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
1531 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
1532 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
1533 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
1534 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1535 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
1536 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
1538 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
1540 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
1541 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
1542 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
1543 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
1544 that use the generational garbage collector
1545 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
1547 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
1548 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
1550 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
1552 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
1553 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
1554 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
1555 system running with GC inhibited.
1556 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
1557 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
1558 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
1559 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
1560 (reported by Peter Graves)
1562 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
1563 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
1564 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
1566 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
1567 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
1568 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
1569 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
1570 documented as unsafe.
1571 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
1572 in multithreaded application code.
1573 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
1574 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
1575 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
1577 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
1578 variants no longer cons.
1579 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
1580 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
1581 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
1582 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
1583 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
1584 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
1585 are significantly faster.
1586 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
1587 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
1588 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
1589 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
1590 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
1591 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
1592 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
1593 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
1594 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
1595 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
1596 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
1598 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
1599 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
1600 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
1601 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1602 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
1603 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1604 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
1605 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
1606 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
1607 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
1608 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
1609 line in a file is unlimited.
1610 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
1611 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
1612 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
1613 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
1614 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
1615 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
1616 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
1617 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1618 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
1619 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
1620 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1621 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
1622 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
1623 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
1624 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
1625 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
1626 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
1627 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
1628 experimental until this is fixed.
1629 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
1630 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1631 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
1632 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
1633 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
1635 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
1636 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
1637 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
1638 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
1639 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
1640 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
1642 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
1643 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
1644 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1645 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
1646 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
1647 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
1648 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1649 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
1650 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
1652 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
1653 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
1654 (reported by Andras Simon)
1655 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
1656 bugs remain on x86-64.)
1657 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
1658 funcallable instances.
1659 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
1660 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
1662 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
1663 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1664 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
1665 non-base strings as arguments
1666 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
1668 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
1669 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
1671 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
1672 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
1673 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1674 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
1675 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1676 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1677 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
1678 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
1679 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
1681 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
1682 (thanks to Jon Buller)
1683 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
1684 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
1687 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
1688 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
1689 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
1691 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
1692 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
1693 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
1694 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
1695 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
1697 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
1698 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
1699 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
1700 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1701 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
1702 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1703 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
1704 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
1705 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
1706 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
1707 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1708 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
1709 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
1710 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
1711 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
1712 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
1713 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
1714 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
1715 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
1716 stack frames from alien callbacks.
1717 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1718 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
1719 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
1720 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1722 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
1723 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
1724 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
1725 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
1726 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
1727 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
1728 sb-introspect contrib.
1729 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
1730 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
1731 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
1732 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
1733 users and the general community)
1734 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
1735 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
1736 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
1737 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
1738 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1739 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
1740 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
1741 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1742 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
1743 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1744 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
1745 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
1746 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
1747 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
1748 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
1749 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
1751 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
1752 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
1753 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
1754 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
1755 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
1756 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
1757 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
1759 * improvements to the Windows port:
1760 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
1761 to Alastair Bridgewater)
1762 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
1764 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
1765 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1767 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
1768 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
1769 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1770 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
1771 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
1772 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
1773 core, and restored on startup.
1774 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
1775 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1776 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
1777 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
1778 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
1779 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
1780 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
1782 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
1783 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1784 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
1786 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
1787 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
1788 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
1790 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
1791 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
1792 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
1793 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
1794 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
1795 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
1797 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
1798 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
1799 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
1800 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
1801 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
1802 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
1803 (reported by Josip Gracin)
1804 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
1805 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
1806 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
1807 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
1808 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
1809 and don't cause extra consing
1810 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
1811 whose elements types have been declared.
1812 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
1813 ** Support for allocation profiling
1814 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
1815 * Improvements to the Windows port:
1816 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
1817 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
1818 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1819 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
1821 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
1822 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
1823 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
1824 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
1825 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
1827 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
1828 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
1829 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
1831 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
1832 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
1833 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
1834 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
1835 with non-variable places
1836 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
1837 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
1838 code more stable against memory faults.
1839 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
1840 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
1841 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
1842 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
1845 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
1846 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
1847 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
1848 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
1849 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
1850 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
1851 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
1852 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
1853 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1854 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1855 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
1856 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
1857 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
1859 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
1860 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
1861 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
1862 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
1863 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
1864 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
1865 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
1867 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
1868 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
1870 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
1871 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
1872 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
1873 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
1874 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
1875 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
1876 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
1877 to the single-stepper REPL.
1878 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
1879 for a type now works.
1880 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
1882 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
1883 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
1884 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
1885 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1886 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
1887 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
1888 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
1889 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
1891 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
1892 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
1893 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
1894 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
1895 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
1896 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
1897 whose bindings are modified
1898 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
1899 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
1900 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
1901 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
1903 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
1904 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
1905 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
1906 as specified by AMOP.
1907 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
1909 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
1910 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1911 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
1912 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
1913 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
1914 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
1915 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
1916 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
1917 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
1918 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
1919 better type inference.
1920 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
1921 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
1922 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
1923 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
1924 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
1925 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1926 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
1927 initialization of methods can now be used to override
1928 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
1930 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
1931 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
1932 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
1933 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
1934 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
1936 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
1937 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
1938 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
1939 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
1940 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
1941 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
1942 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
1943 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
1944 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
1945 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
1946 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
1947 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
1948 (reported by James Y Knight).
1949 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
1950 argument for shadowing by local functions.
1951 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
1953 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
1954 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
1955 with type-inference.
1956 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
1957 types in some cases.
1958 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
1959 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1960 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
1962 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
1963 * thread-safety improvements:
1964 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
1965 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
1966 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
1968 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
1969 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
1971 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
1972 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
1973 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
1975 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
1976 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
1977 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
1978 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
1979 class became finalizeable.
1980 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
1981 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
1982 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
1983 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
1985 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
1986 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
1987 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
1988 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
1989 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
1990 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
1991 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1992 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
1993 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
1994 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
1995 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
1996 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
1997 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
1998 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1999 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
2000 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
2001 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
2002 * minor code generation optimizations:
2003 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
2004 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
2005 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
2006 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
2007 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
2008 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2009 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
2010 return its argument.
2012 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
2013 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
2015 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
2017 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
2018 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
2019 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
2020 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
2021 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
2022 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
2023 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
2024 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
2025 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
2026 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
2027 the low-level debugger.
2028 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
2029 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
2030 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
2031 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
2033 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
2034 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
2035 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
2037 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
2038 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2039 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
2040 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
2041 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
2042 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
2043 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
2044 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
2045 (reported by James Y Knight)
2046 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
2047 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
2048 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
2049 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
2050 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
2051 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
2052 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
2053 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
2054 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
2055 workaround for bug 403.)
2056 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
2057 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2058 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2059 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
2061 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2062 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
2063 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
2065 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
2066 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
2067 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
2068 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
2069 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
2071 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
2073 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
2074 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
2075 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
2078 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
2079 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
2080 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
2081 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
2082 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
2083 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
2084 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
2085 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
2086 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
2087 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
2088 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
2089 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2090 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
2091 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2092 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
2093 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
2094 documentation on package locks for details.
2095 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
2097 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
2098 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
2099 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
2100 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
2101 immediately available from the stream
2102 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
2103 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
2104 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
2105 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
2107 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
2108 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
2109 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
2111 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
2112 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
2113 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
2115 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
2116 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
2117 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
2118 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
2120 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2121 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
2122 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
2123 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2124 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
2125 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
2126 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2127 ** sb-grovel supported
2128 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
2129 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
2130 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
2131 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
2132 ** floating-point exception handling support
2133 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
2134 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2135 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2136 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
2137 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
2138 structure accessors.
2139 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
2141 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
2142 defaults for optional parameters.
2143 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
2144 function, which is already optimized.
2146 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
2147 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
2148 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
2149 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
2150 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
2151 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
2152 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
2153 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
2154 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
2155 this change is to make it easier to distribute
2156 location-independent binaries.
2157 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
2158 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
2160 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
2161 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
2162 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
2163 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
2164 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
2165 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
2166 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
2167 Alastair Bridgewater)
2168 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
2169 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
2170 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2171 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
2172 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
2173 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
2174 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
2175 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
2176 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
2177 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
2178 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
2179 (thanks to James Knight)
2180 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
2181 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
2183 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
2184 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
2185 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
2186 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
2187 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
2188 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
2189 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
2190 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
2191 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
2192 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
2193 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
2194 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
2195 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
2196 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
2197 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
2198 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
2199 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
2200 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
2201 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
2202 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
2203 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
2205 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
2206 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
2207 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
2208 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2209 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
2210 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
2212 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
2213 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
2214 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
2215 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
2216 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
2217 many others over the years)
2218 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
2219 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
2220 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
2222 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
2223 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
2224 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2225 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
2226 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
2227 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
2229 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
2231 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
2232 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
2233 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
2234 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
2235 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
2236 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
2237 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
2238 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
2239 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
2240 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
2241 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
2242 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2243 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
2244 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2246 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
2247 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2248 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
2249 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
2250 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
2251 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
2252 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
2253 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
2254 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
2255 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2256 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
2257 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
2258 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
2259 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
2260 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
2261 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
2262 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
2263 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2264 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
2265 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
2267 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
2268 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2269 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
2270 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
2271 index variables in LOOP
2272 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
2273 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2274 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
2275 that don't have a docstring
2277 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
2278 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2279 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
2280 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
2281 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
2282 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
2283 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
2284 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
2285 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
2286 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
2287 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
2288 Costanza's "Closer" project)
2289 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
2290 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
2292 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
2293 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
2294 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
2295 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
2296 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
2297 and Pascal Costanza)
2298 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
2299 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
2300 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
2301 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
2302 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2303 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
2304 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
2305 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
2306 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2307 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
2308 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2309 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
2310 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2311 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
2312 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2313 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
2314 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
2315 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
2316 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
2318 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
2319 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2320 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
2321 floating point index variable or a negative step.
2323 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
2324 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
2325 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
2326 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
2327 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
2328 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2329 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
2330 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
2331 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
2332 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2333 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2334 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
2335 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
2336 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
2337 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2338 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
2339 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
2340 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
2341 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
2342 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
2343 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
2344 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2345 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
2346 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2347 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
2348 and dump core on SIGQUIT
2350 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
2351 from their parents (see manual)
2352 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
2353 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
2354 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
2355 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
2356 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
2357 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
2359 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2360 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
2361 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
2362 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
2364 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
2365 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
2366 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
2368 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
2369 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
2370 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
2371 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
2372 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
2373 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
2374 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
2375 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
2376 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
2377 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
2378 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
2379 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
2380 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
2381 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
2383 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
2384 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
2385 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
2387 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
2388 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
2390 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
2391 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2392 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
2393 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
2394 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
2395 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
2396 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
2397 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
2398 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
2400 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
2401 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
2402 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
2403 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
2404 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
2405 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
2407 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
2409 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
2410 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
2411 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
2412 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
2413 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
2414 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
2415 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
2416 classes; see the manual for more details;
2417 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
2418 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
2419 requested slot ordering.
2421 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
2423 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
2424 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
2426 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
2428 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
2429 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
2430 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
2431 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
2432 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2433 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
2434 the :method-class keyword argument.
2436 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
2437 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
2438 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
2439 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2440 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
2441 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2442 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
2443 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2444 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
2445 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
2446 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
2448 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
2449 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
2450 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
2451 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
2452 is switched on or off
2453 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
2454 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
2455 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
2457 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
2458 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2459 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
2460 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
2461 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2462 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
2463 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
2464 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
2465 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
2467 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
2468 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
2469 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
2470 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
2471 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
2472 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
2473 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
2475 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
2476 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
2477 not prevent gc from running
2478 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
2479 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
2480 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
2481 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
2482 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
2483 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
2484 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
2485 an inline 32-bit rotation.
2487 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
2488 there is only one thread in the session
2489 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
2490 written to in another
2491 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
2492 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
2494 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
2495 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
2497 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
2498 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2499 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
2500 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
2501 the orignal arguments.
2502 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
2504 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
2505 name a compiled function.
2506 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
2507 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
2508 derivation were fixed.
2509 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
2510 list-form FUNCTION type.
2511 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
2512 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
2513 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
2515 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
2516 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
2517 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
2518 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
2519 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
2520 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
2522 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
2523 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
2524 of a select system call
2525 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
2527 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
2528 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
2530 * various error reporting improvements.
2531 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
2532 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2533 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
2534 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
2535 code and foreign data with the same name.
2537 ** added x86-64 support
2538 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
2539 objects instead of thread ids
2540 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
2541 starting up or going down
2542 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
2543 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
2544 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
2545 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
2546 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
2547 an inappropriate moment
2548 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
2549 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
2550 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
2551 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2552 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
2553 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
2554 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
2556 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
2557 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
2558 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
2559 range before calling Unix time functions
2561 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
2562 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
2563 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2564 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
2565 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
2566 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
2567 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
2568 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
2569 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
2570 for more information.
2571 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
2572 pathname is a directory pathname.
2573 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
2574 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
2576 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
2577 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
2578 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
2579 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
2580 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
2581 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
2583 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
2584 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
2585 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
2586 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
2587 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
2588 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
2589 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2590 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
2591 the PowerPC platform.
2592 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
2593 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
2595 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
2596 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
2597 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
2598 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
2599 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
2600 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2602 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
2603 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
2604 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
2605 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
2606 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
2607 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2608 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
2609 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
2610 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
2611 as the name of a type, or vice versa
2612 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
2613 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
2614 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
2615 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
2616 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
2617 FLET or MACROLET forms
2618 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
2620 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
2622 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
2625 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
2626 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
2627 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
2628 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
2629 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
2630 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
2631 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
2632 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
2633 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
2634 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
2635 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
2636 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
2637 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
2638 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
2639 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
2640 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
2641 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
2642 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
2643 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
2644 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
2645 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
2646 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
2648 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2649 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
2650 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
2651 a file has the stream as its datum.
2652 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
2653 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
2654 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
2655 a correct expected type
2656 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
2657 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
2658 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
2659 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
2660 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
2661 on broadcast streams.
2663 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
2664 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
2665 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
2666 --disable-debugger option instead.
2667 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
2669 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
2670 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
2671 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
2672 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
2673 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
2674 has been added to the manual.
2675 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
2676 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
2677 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
2678 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
2679 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
2680 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
2681 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
2682 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
2683 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
2684 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
2686 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
2687 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
2688 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
2689 (reported by Rajat Datta).
2690 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
2691 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
2693 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
2694 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
2695 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
2696 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
2697 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
2698 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
2699 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
2700 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
2701 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
2702 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
2703 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2704 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
2705 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2706 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
2707 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
2708 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2709 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2710 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
2711 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
2713 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
2715 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
2716 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
2717 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
2718 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
2719 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
2721 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
2722 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
2723 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
2724 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
2725 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2726 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
2727 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
2729 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2730 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
2731 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
2733 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
2734 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
2735 types for complex arguments better.
2736 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
2738 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
2739 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
2741 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
2742 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
2743 resulting in GC crashes.
2744 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
2746 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
2749 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
2750 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
2751 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
2752 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
2753 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
2754 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
2755 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
2756 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
2757 returning to the top level.
2758 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
2759 global optimization policy.
2760 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
2761 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
2762 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
2764 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
2765 various incompatible changes.
2766 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
2767 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
2768 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
2769 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
2770 level local call to FOO".
2771 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
2772 now have more legible printed representation
2773 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
2774 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
2775 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
2776 explicitly requested.
2777 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
2778 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
2779 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
2780 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
2781 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
2783 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
2784 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
2785 (reported by Lutz Euler)
2786 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
2787 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2788 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
2789 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
2790 the specializer is now possible.
2791 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
2792 face of package deletion.
2793 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
2794 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
2795 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
2796 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
2797 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
2798 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
2799 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
2800 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
2801 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2802 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
2804 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2805 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
2806 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
2807 correctable errors to be signalled.
2808 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
2809 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
2812 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
2813 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2814 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
2816 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
2817 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2818 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
2819 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
2820 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
2821 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
2822 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
2823 related to the ~@F format directive.
2824 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
2826 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
2827 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
2828 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
2829 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
2831 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
2833 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
2834 coerce function designators to functions.
2835 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
2836 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
2837 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
2838 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
2839 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
2840 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
2841 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2842 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
2843 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
2844 start of the buffer at the next read.
2845 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
2846 passing it through to OPEN.
2847 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2848 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
2849 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
2850 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
2851 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
2852 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
2853 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
2854 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
2856 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
2857 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2858 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2859 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
2860 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2861 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
2863 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2864 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
2865 secondary constituent character trait.
2866 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
2868 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
2870 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
2871 works more reliably.
2872 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
2873 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
2874 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
2876 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
2877 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
2879 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
2880 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
2881 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
2882 and reloading shared object files.
2883 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2884 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
2886 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
2887 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
2888 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
2890 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
2891 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
2893 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
2895 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
2896 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
2897 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
2898 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2899 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
2900 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
2901 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
2903 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
2904 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
2906 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
2907 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
2908 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
2909 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
2910 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
2912 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
2913 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
2914 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2915 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
2916 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
2917 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
2918 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
2919 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2920 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
2921 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
2922 lisp characters are not eight bits.
2923 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2924 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
2925 the correct number of arguments.
2926 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
2927 to displaced strings.
2928 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
2929 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
2931 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
2932 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
2933 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
2934 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
2935 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
2936 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
2937 available at runtime.
2938 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
2939 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
2940 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
2941 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2942 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
2943 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
2944 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
2945 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
2946 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
2947 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
2948 of lambda-list keywords.
2949 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
2950 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
2952 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
2953 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
2954 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2955 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
2956 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
2957 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
2958 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
2960 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
2961 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2962 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
2963 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
2964 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
2966 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2967 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
2968 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
2969 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
2970 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
2971 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2972 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
2974 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
2975 parameters correctly.
2976 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
2977 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
2978 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
2980 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
2983 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
2984 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
2985 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
2986 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
2988 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
2989 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
2990 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
2991 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
2992 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
2993 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
2994 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
2995 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
2996 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
2998 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
2999 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3001 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
3003 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
3004 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
3005 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3006 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
3008 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
3009 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3010 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
3011 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
3012 (reported by David Morse)
3013 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
3014 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3015 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
3016 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3017 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
3018 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3019 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
3020 now exists, an signals an error.
3021 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
3022 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
3023 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3024 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
3025 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3026 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
3027 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
3028 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3029 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
3030 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3031 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
3032 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
3034 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
3035 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
3036 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
3037 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
3038 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3039 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
3040 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
3041 specialized array element types.
3042 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
3043 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3044 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
3045 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3046 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
3047 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
3048 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
3049 Wragg for the simple test case)
3050 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3051 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
3053 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
3054 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
3055 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
3056 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
3057 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
3059 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
3061 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
3062 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
3063 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
3064 references to global functions.
3065 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
3067 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
3069 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
3070 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3071 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
3072 supported platforms.
3073 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
3074 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
3075 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3076 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
3077 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
3078 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3079 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
3080 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3081 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
3082 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
3083 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
3084 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
3085 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
3087 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
3088 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3089 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
3090 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
3091 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
3092 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
3094 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
3095 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
3097 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
3098 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
3099 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
3100 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3101 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
3102 returns the right answer.
3103 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
3105 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
3107 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
3108 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
3110 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
3111 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
3113 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
3114 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
3115 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
3116 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
3117 the supported interface.
3118 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
3119 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
3120 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3121 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
3122 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
3123 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
3124 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
3125 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3126 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
3127 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
3128 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
3129 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
3130 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3131 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
3132 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
3133 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
3134 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
3135 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
3136 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
3137 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
3138 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
3139 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
3140 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
3141 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
3142 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
3143 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
3144 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3145 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
3146 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
3148 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
3149 * incompatible change: the internal functions
3150 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
3151 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
3152 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
3153 instead of the old functions.
3154 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
3155 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
3157 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
3158 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
3160 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
3161 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
3162 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
3163 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
3165 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
3166 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3167 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
3168 (reported by Rick Taube)
3169 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
3170 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
3171 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
3172 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
3174 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
3175 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
3176 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
3177 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
3178 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3179 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
3180 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
3181 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
3182 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
3183 represented relative to default pathnames.
3184 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
3185 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
3186 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
3188 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
3189 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
3190 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
3192 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3193 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
3194 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
3195 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
3197 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
3199 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
3200 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
3201 conditional newlines.
3202 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
3203 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
3204 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
3206 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
3207 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
3209 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
3210 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
3211 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
3212 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
3213 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
3214 compiled in unconditionally.
3215 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
3216 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
3217 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
3218 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
3219 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
3221 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
3222 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
3223 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
3224 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
3225 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
3226 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
3227 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
3228 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
3229 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
3230 an implementation-internal package.
3231 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
3233 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
3234 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
3235 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
3236 bodies are now more legible.
3237 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
3238 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
3239 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
3240 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
3241 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3242 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
3243 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
3245 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
3246 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
3247 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
3248 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
3249 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
3250 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
3251 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
3252 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
3253 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
3254 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
3256 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
3257 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
3258 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
3259 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
3260 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
3261 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
3262 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
3263 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
3264 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
3265 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
3266 system even when most of them are idle
3267 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
3268 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3269 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
3271 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
3272 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
3273 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
3274 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
3275 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
3277 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
3278 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
3279 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
3280 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
3281 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
3282 string for information on the protocol.
3283 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
3284 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
3286 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
3287 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
3289 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
3290 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
3291 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
3292 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
3293 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
3294 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
3296 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
3297 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
3299 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
3300 move between its address being taken and the call to
3301 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
3302 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
3303 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
3304 instances corresponding to C structs.
3306 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
3307 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
3308 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
3309 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
3310 has implications for memory management of client code
3311 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
3312 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
3313 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
3314 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
3315 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
3316 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
3317 quality should be considered deprecated.
3318 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
3319 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
3320 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
3321 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
3322 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
3324 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
3325 designator as the defaults argument.
3326 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
3327 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
3328 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3329 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
3330 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
3332 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
3334 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
3335 (thanks to Zach Beane)
3336 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
3337 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
3338 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3339 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
3341 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
3342 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3343 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
3344 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
3345 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
3346 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
3347 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3348 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
3349 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
3350 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
3351 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
3352 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3353 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
3354 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
3355 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
3356 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
3357 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
3359 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
3360 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
3361 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
3363 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
3364 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3365 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
3366 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
3367 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
3368 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
3369 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3370 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
3371 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
3373 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
3374 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
3376 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
3377 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
3379 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
3380 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3381 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
3382 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
3384 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
3385 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
3386 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3387 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
3388 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
3389 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
3390 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
3391 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
3393 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
3394 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
3395 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
3397 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
3398 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
3400 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3401 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
3403 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
3404 from local to shared slots.
3405 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
3406 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
3407 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
3408 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
3410 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
3411 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
3412 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
3413 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
3414 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
3415 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
3416 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
3417 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
3418 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
3420 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
3422 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
3424 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
3425 print using #P"..." syntax.
3427 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
3428 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
3429 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
3430 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
3431 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
3432 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
3433 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
3434 * [placeholder for DX summary]
3435 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
3436 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
3437 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
3438 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
3439 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
3440 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
3441 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
3442 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
3443 the test case to Dave Roberts)
3444 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
3445 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
3446 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
3447 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
3448 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
3449 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
3450 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
3451 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3452 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
3453 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
3454 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
3455 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
3456 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3457 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
3458 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
3461 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
3462 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
3463 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
3464 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
3465 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
3466 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
3467 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
3468 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
3469 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
3470 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3471 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
3472 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
3473 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
3475 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
3476 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
3478 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
3479 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
3480 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3481 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
3482 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3483 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
3485 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
3486 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
3487 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
3489 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
3491 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
3493 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
3494 their output stream on EOF from read.
3495 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
3496 have been read to end-of-file.
3497 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
3499 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
3500 description of determination of which consecutive characters
3502 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
3503 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
3504 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3505 less than 10 works correctly.
3506 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3507 more than 10 works correctly.
3508 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
3509 the readtable currently in effect.
3511 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
3512 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
3513 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
3514 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
3515 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
3516 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
3517 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
3518 should usually be replaced by
3519 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
3520 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
3521 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
3522 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
3523 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
3524 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
3525 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
3526 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
3528 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
3529 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
3530 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
3531 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
3532 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
3533 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3534 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
3535 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
3536 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
3537 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
3538 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
3539 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
3540 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
3542 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
3543 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
3544 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
3545 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3546 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
3547 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
3548 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
3549 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3550 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
3551 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
3552 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
3553 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
3554 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
3555 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
3556 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3557 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
3558 non-local entry points.
3559 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
3561 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
3562 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
3564 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
3565 host is already defined.
3566 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
3568 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
3569 or not a character is whitespace.
3570 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
3571 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
3572 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
3574 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
3575 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
3577 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
3579 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
3580 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
3581 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
3582 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
3583 designator argument does not designate a stream.
3584 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
3585 examining the synonym.
3586 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
3588 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
3589 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
3591 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
3592 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
3593 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
3594 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
3595 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
3596 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
3597 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
3598 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
3599 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
3600 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3601 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
3602 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
3604 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
3605 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
3606 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3607 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
3608 stream position information.
3609 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
3610 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
3611 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
3612 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
3613 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3614 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
3616 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
3617 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
3619 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
3620 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3621 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
3622 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
3623 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
3624 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
3625 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
3627 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
3629 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
3630 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
3631 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
3632 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
3633 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
3634 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
3635 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
3636 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
3637 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
3638 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
3639 the "SYS" logical host.
3640 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
3641 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
3642 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
3643 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3644 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
3645 now each have their own history, command character, and other
3646 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3647 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3648 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
3650 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
3651 shift greater than 32.
3652 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
3653 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
3654 in some circumstances.
3656 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
3657 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
3658 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
3659 environments like SLIME.
3660 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
3661 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
3662 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
3663 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
3664 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
3665 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
3666 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
3667 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
3668 argument types for all arguments.
3669 * various threading fixes
3670 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
3671 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
3672 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
3673 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
3675 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
3676 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
3677 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
3678 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
3679 arguments to a full call.
3680 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
3681 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
3682 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
3683 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
3685 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
3686 inserts a space where necessary.
3687 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
3688 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
3689 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
3690 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
3691 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
3692 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
3693 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
3694 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
3695 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
3696 counter now raises a meaningful error.
3697 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
3698 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
3700 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
3701 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
3702 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
3704 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
3706 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3707 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
3708 argument and negative second.
3709 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
3710 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
3711 interval, containing 0.
3712 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
3714 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
3715 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
3717 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
3718 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
3719 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
3720 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
3721 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
3722 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
3723 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
3724 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
3725 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
3726 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
3727 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
3728 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
3729 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
3730 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
3731 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
3732 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
3733 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
3734 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
3735 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
3736 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
3737 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
3738 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3739 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
3740 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
3741 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
3742 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
3743 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
3744 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
3745 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
3747 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
3748 platform now returns the right answer.
3749 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
3750 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
3751 precomputation is now tunable.
3752 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
3753 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
3754 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
3755 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
3756 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
3757 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
3758 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
3759 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
3760 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
3761 has been added for the alpha.
3762 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
3763 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
3764 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
3765 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
3766 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
3767 MEMBER-types to numeric.
3768 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
3770 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
3771 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
3772 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
3774 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
3775 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3776 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
3777 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
3778 might be pseudo-atomic.
3779 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
3780 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
3782 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
3784 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
3786 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
3787 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
3788 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
3789 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
3790 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
3791 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
3793 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3794 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
3795 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
3796 small float arguments.
3797 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
3799 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
3800 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
3801 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
3802 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
3803 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
3804 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
3806 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
3808 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
3809 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
3810 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
3811 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
3812 with negative last argument.
3813 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
3814 an error during type derivation.
3815 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
3817 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
3818 generates a 32-bit binary.
3819 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3820 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
3821 data structures referred to above).
3823 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
3824 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
3825 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
3826 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
3827 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
3828 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
3829 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
3830 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
3831 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
3832 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3833 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
3834 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
3836 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
3837 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
3839 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
3840 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
3841 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
3842 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
3843 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
3844 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
3845 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
3846 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
3847 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
3848 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
3849 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
3850 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3851 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
3852 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
3853 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
3854 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
3855 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
3856 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3857 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
3858 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
3859 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
3860 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
3861 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3862 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
3863 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
3864 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
3865 optimization quality.
3866 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
3867 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
3868 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
3869 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
3870 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3871 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3872 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
3873 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
3874 types form a lattice under type intersection.
3875 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
3876 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
3877 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
3878 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
3879 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
3880 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
3881 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
3882 calling the generic function.
3883 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
3884 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
3885 obscure ANSI requirements
3887 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
3888 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
3889 garbage, confusing the compiler.
3890 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
3891 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
3892 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
3893 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
3894 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
3895 circumstances could go off-by-one.
3896 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
3898 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
3899 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
3900 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
3901 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
3902 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
3903 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
3904 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
3905 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
3906 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
3907 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3908 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
3909 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
3910 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
3911 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
3912 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
3913 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
3914 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
3915 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
3916 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
3917 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
3919 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
3920 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
3921 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
3922 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
3924 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
3925 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
3926 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
3927 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
3928 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
3929 provide helpful disassembly notes.
3930 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
3931 the class in more cases than previously.
3932 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
3933 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3934 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
3935 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3936 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
3937 without lambda list.
3938 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
3939 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
3940 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3941 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
3942 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
3943 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
3945 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
3946 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
3947 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
3949 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
3950 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
3951 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
3952 were silently accepted).
3953 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
3954 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
3955 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
3956 to warn on static type mismatches and function
3957 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
3958 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
3959 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
3960 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
3961 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
3962 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
3963 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
3964 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
3965 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
3966 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
3968 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
3969 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
3970 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
3971 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
3972 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
3973 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
3975 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
3976 keywords or constants is permissible.
3977 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
3978 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
3979 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
3980 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
3981 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
3982 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
3983 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
3984 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
3986 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
3987 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3988 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
3989 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
3990 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3991 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
3992 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
3994 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
3996 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
3997 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
3998 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
3999 respectively change and preserve the value.
4000 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
4001 is now better at handling symbol macros.
4002 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
4003 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
4004 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
4005 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
4006 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
4007 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
4008 their use properly signals an error now.
4009 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
4010 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
4011 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
4012 * fixed simple vector readable printing
4013 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
4014 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
4015 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
4016 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
4017 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
4018 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
4019 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4020 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
4021 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4022 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
4023 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
4024 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4025 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
4026 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
4027 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
4028 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
4029 causes a type error.
4030 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
4031 association between the name and a class.
4032 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
4033 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
4034 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4035 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
4036 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
4037 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
4039 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
4040 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
4041 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
4042 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
4044 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
4045 which its argument is a member.
4046 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
4047 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
4048 otherwise, it creates a new class.
4049 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
4050 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
4051 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
4052 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
4053 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4054 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
4056 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
4057 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
4058 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
4059 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
4060 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
4061 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
4062 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
4064 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
4065 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
4066 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
4067 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
4068 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
4069 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
4070 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
4071 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
4072 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
4073 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
4074 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
4075 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
4076 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4077 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
4079 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
4080 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
4081 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
4082 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
4083 superclasses are applied.
4084 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
4085 no method was removed.
4086 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
4087 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
4088 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
4089 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
4091 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
4093 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
4094 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
4095 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
4096 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
4097 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
4098 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
4099 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
4100 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
4101 function lambda list.
4102 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
4104 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
4105 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
4106 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
4107 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
4109 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
4110 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
4111 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
4112 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
4113 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
4114 they look for GNU "make".
4116 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
4117 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
4118 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
4119 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
4121 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
4122 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
4123 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
4124 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
4125 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
4126 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
4127 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
4128 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
4129 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
4130 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
4132 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
4133 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
4134 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
4135 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
4136 libraries, and will know who they are.
4137 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
4138 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
4139 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
4140 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
4141 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
4142 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
4143 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
4144 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
4146 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
4147 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
4148 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4149 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
4150 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
4151 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
4152 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
4153 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
4154 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
4155 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
4156 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4157 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
4159 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
4160 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
4161 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
4162 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
4163 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4164 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
4165 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
4166 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
4167 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
4169 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
4170 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
4171 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
4172 this you were probably losing anyway.
4173 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
4174 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
4175 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
4176 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
4177 with names from the CL package.
4178 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
4179 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
4180 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
4181 documentation string.
4182 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4183 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
4185 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
4186 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
4187 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
4188 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
4190 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
4191 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
4193 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
4194 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4195 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
4197 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
4198 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
4199 arguments contain duplicated elements.
4200 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
4201 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
4202 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
4203 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
4204 in question is unbound.
4205 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
4206 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
4207 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
4208 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
4209 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
4211 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
4213 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
4214 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
4215 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
4216 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
4217 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
4218 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
4219 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
4220 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
4221 by Antonio Martinez)
4222 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
4223 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4224 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
4225 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
4226 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
4227 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
4228 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
4229 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4230 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
4231 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
4232 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
4233 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
4234 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
4235 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
4236 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
4237 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
4238 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
4239 on malformed property lists;
4241 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
4242 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
4243 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
4244 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
4245 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
4246 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
4247 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
4248 modules in this release include:
4249 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
4250 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
4251 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
4252 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4253 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
4255 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
4256 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
4257 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4258 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4259 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
4260 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
4261 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
4262 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
4264 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
4265 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
4266 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
4267 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
4268 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
4269 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
4270 the lexical environment.
4271 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
4272 unprintable packages can now be defined.
4273 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
4274 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4275 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
4276 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4277 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
4278 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
4279 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
4280 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
4281 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
4282 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
4283 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
4284 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
4285 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4286 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
4287 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4288 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
4289 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
4290 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
4291 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4292 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
4293 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
4294 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
4295 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
4297 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
4298 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
4299 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
4300 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4301 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
4302 not just nonnegative fixnums;
4303 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
4304 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
4305 freshly-consed result bit-array);
4306 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
4308 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
4309 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
4311 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
4312 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
4313 cases are accurately computed;
4314 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
4315 if it is in the last clause;
4316 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
4318 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
4319 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
4320 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
4321 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
4323 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
4324 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
4325 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
4326 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
4327 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
4329 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
4330 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
4331 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
4332 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
4334 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4335 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
4336 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
4337 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
4338 not cause a type error;
4339 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
4341 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
4342 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
4343 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
4344 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
4345 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
4346 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
4347 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
4348 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
4350 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
4351 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
4352 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
4353 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
4354 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
4355 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
4357 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
4358 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
4360 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
4361 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
4362 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
4363 only for symbols in the CL package.
4364 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
4365 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4366 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
4367 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
4368 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
4370 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4371 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
4372 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
4373 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
4374 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
4375 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
4376 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
4377 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
4378 conditional loop clause;
4379 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
4380 signals a type error iff it should.
4381 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4382 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
4383 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
4384 argument) no longer signals an error;
4385 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
4386 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
4387 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
4389 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
4390 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
4391 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
4393 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
4394 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
4395 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
4396 functionality on said platforms verified.
4397 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
4398 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
4400 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
4401 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
4402 component indicating that directory.
4403 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
4404 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
4405 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
4406 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
4407 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4408 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
4410 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
4411 primary methods with no specializers;
4412 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
4414 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
4415 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
4416 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
4417 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
4419 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
4420 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
4421 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
4423 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
4424 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
4425 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
4426 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
4427 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
4428 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
4429 class STANDARD-CLASS;
4430 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
4431 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4432 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
4433 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
4435 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
4436 value producing form;
4437 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
4438 variables are bound and made to have no value;
4439 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
4441 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
4442 is not a valid sequence index;
4443 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
4444 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
4445 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4446 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
4448 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
4449 symbol-macro places;
4450 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
4451 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
4453 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
4455 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
4457 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
4458 invariant when deleting code.
4459 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
4460 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
4462 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
4463 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4464 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
4466 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
4467 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
4469 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
4470 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
4471 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4472 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
4474 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
4475 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4476 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
4477 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
4479 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
4480 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
4481 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
4482 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
4483 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4484 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
4485 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
4486 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
4487 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
4488 sbcl and .core files.)
4489 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
4490 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
4491 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
4492 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
4493 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
4494 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4495 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
4497 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
4498 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
4499 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
4500 argument precedence order.
4501 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
4502 derived types contradict their declared type.
4503 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
4504 so it can be non-toplevel.
4505 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
4506 implementation of DEFMACRO).
4507 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
4508 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
4509 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
4511 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
4512 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
4513 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
4514 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
4515 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
4516 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
4517 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
4518 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
4519 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
4520 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
4521 symbol macro only once
4522 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
4523 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
4524 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
4527 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
4528 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
4529 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
4530 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
4531 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
4532 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
4533 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
4534 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
4535 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
4536 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4537 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
4538 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
4540 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
4541 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
4542 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
4543 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
4544 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4545 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
4547 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
4549 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
4550 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
4551 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
4552 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
4553 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4554 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
4555 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
4556 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
4557 ways in different special cases
4558 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
4560 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
4561 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
4562 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
4563 are no longer optimized away.
4564 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
4565 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
4566 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
4567 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
4568 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
4569 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
4570 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
4571 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
4574 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
4575 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
4576 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
4577 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
4578 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
4579 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
4580 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
4582 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
4583 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
4584 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
4585 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
4586 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
4587 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
4588 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
4589 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
4590 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
4591 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
4592 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
4593 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
4594 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
4595 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
4596 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
4597 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
4598 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
4599 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4600 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
4601 that are names of constants or global variables.
4602 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
4603 alien routines with docstrings.
4604 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
4605 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
4607 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
4608 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
4609 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
4610 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4611 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
4612 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4613 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
4614 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
4615 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
4616 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4617 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
4618 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
4619 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
4620 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
4621 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
4622 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
4623 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
4624 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
4625 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
4626 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
4627 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
4628 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
4629 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
4631 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
4632 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
4634 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
4635 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
4636 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
4637 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
4638 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
4639 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
4640 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
4641 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
4642 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
4643 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
4645 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
4646 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
4647 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
4648 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
4649 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
4650 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
4651 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
4652 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
4653 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
4654 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
4655 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
4656 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
4657 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
4658 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
4659 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
4660 is no longer a static symbol.)
4662 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
4663 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
4664 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
4665 bootstrapping under CLISP.
4666 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
4668 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
4669 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
4671 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
4672 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
4673 to David Lichteblau)
4674 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
4675 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
4676 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
4678 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
4679 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
4680 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
4681 count as they should.
4682 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
4683 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
4684 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
4685 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
4686 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
4687 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
4688 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
4689 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
4690 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
4691 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
4692 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
4693 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
4694 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
4695 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
4696 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
4698 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
4699 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
4700 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
4702 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
4704 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
4705 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
4706 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
4707 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
4708 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
4709 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
4710 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
4712 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
4713 to Christophe Rhodes)
4714 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
4715 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
4716 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
4717 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
4718 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
4719 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
4720 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
4722 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
4723 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
4724 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
4725 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
4726 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
4727 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4728 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
4729 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
4730 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
4731 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
4732 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
4733 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
4734 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
4736 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
4737 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
4738 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
4739 INFO database to support symbol macros.
4740 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
4741 (thanks to coreythomas)
4742 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
4743 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
4744 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
4745 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
4746 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
4748 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
4749 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
4750 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
4751 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
4752 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
4753 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
4754 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
4755 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
4756 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
4757 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4758 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
4759 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
4760 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
4762 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
4763 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
4766 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
4767 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
4768 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
4769 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
4770 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
4771 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
4772 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
4773 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
4774 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
4775 systems than the old 4M value was)
4776 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
4777 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
4778 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
4779 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
4780 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
4781 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
4782 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
4784 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
4785 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
4786 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
4787 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
4788 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
4790 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
4791 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
4792 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
4793 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
4794 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
4795 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
4796 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
4797 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
4799 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
4800 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
4801 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
4802 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4803 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
4804 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
4805 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
4806 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
4808 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
4809 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4810 * several changes related to debugging:
4811 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
4812 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
4813 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
4814 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
4815 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
4816 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
4817 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
4820 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
4822 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
4823 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
4824 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
4825 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
4826 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
4827 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
4828 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
4829 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
4831 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
4832 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
4833 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
4834 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4835 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
4836 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
4837 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
4838 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
4839 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
4840 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
4841 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
4842 file format number to change again.
4844 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
4845 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
4846 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
4847 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
4849 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
4850 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
4851 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
4852 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
4853 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
4854 FUNCALL on the result.
4855 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
4856 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
4857 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
4858 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
4859 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
4860 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
4861 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
4862 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
4864 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
4865 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
4866 the old compiler produced.
4867 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
4868 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
4869 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
4870 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
4871 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
4872 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
4873 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
4874 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
4875 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
4876 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
4877 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
4878 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
4879 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
4880 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
4881 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
4882 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
4883 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
4884 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
4885 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
4886 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
4887 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
4888 straightened out in some future version.)
4889 * minor incompatible changes:
4890 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
4891 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
4892 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
4893 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
4894 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
4895 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
4896 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
4897 implementation dependent:
4898 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
4899 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
4900 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
4901 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
4902 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
4903 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
4904 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
4905 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
4907 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
4909 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
4910 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
4911 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
4912 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
4913 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
4914 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
4915 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
4916 are no longer used for output.
4917 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
4918 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
4919 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
4920 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
4921 increasing it even more.)
4922 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
4923 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
4924 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
4926 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
4927 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
4928 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
4929 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
4930 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
4931 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
4932 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
4933 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
4934 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
4935 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
4936 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
4937 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
4938 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
4939 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
4940 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
4941 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
4942 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
4943 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
4944 compilation of code which calls such functions.
4945 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
4946 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
4947 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
4948 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
4949 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
4950 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
4951 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
4952 built into the system.
4953 * many other bug fixes
4954 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
4955 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
4956 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
4957 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
4958 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
4960 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
4961 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
4962 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
4963 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
4964 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
4965 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
4966 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
4967 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
4968 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
4969 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
4970 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
4972 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
4973 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
4974 and several other LOOP problems as well
4975 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
4976 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
4977 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
4978 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
4979 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
4980 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
4981 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
4982 *** a bug in APROPOS
4983 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
4984 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
4985 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
4986 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
4987 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
4988 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
4989 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
4990 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
4991 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
4992 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
4993 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
4994 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
4995 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
4996 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
4997 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
4999 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
5000 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
5001 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
5002 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
5003 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
5004 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
5005 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
5006 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
5007 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
5008 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
5009 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
5010 some of which are apparent above.
5012 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
5013 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
5014 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
5015 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
5016 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
5017 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
5018 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
5019 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
5020 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
5021 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
5022 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
5023 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
5024 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
5025 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
5026 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
5027 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
5028 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
5029 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
5030 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
5031 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
5032 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
5033 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
5034 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
5035 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
5036 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
5037 different return types.
5038 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
5039 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
5040 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
5041 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
5042 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
5043 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
5044 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
5045 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
5046 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
5047 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
5049 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
5050 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
5051 does the right thing.
5052 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
5053 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
5054 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5055 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
5056 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5057 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5058 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
5059 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
5060 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
5061 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
5062 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5063 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
5064 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5065 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
5066 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
5067 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
5068 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
5069 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
5070 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
5071 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
5072 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
5073 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
5074 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
5075 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
5076 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
5077 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
5078 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
5079 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
5080 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
5081 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
5082 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
5083 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
5084 since historically most system changes which required version
5085 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
5086 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
5089 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
5090 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
5091 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
5092 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
5093 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
5094 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
5095 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
5096 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
5097 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
5098 half a dozen others elsewhere
5099 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
5100 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
5101 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
5102 as flaky as they were.
5103 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
5104 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
5105 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
5106 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
5107 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
5108 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
5109 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
5110 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
5112 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
5113 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
5114 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
5115 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5116 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
5117 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
5118 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
5119 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
5120 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
5121 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
5122 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
5123 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
5124 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
5125 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
5126 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
5127 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
5128 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
5129 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
5130 more obscure bugs as well
5131 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
5132 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
5133 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
5134 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
5135 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
5136 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
5137 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
5138 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
5139 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
5140 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
5141 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
5143 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
5144 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
5146 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
5148 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5149 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
5150 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
5151 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
5152 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
5153 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
5154 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
5155 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
5156 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
5157 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
5158 are local in this sense.)
5159 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
5160 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
5161 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
5162 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
5163 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
5164 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
5165 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5166 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
5167 system's STREAM objects.
5168 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
5169 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5170 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
5171 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5172 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
5173 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
5174 environment from the original process instead of starting the
5175 new process in an empty environment.
5176 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
5177 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
5178 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
5179 for porting convenience.
5180 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
5181 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
5183 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
5185 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
5186 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
5187 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
5188 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
5189 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
5190 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
5191 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
5192 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
5193 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
5194 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
5195 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
5196 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5197 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
5198 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
5199 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
5200 many fewer weird special cases.
5201 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
5202 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
5203 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5204 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
5205 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
5206 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
5207 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
5208 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
5209 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
5210 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5211 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
5214 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
5216 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
5217 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
5218 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
5220 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
5221 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
5222 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
5223 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
5224 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
5225 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
5226 should be constructed the same way as before.
5227 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
5228 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
5229 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
5230 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
5231 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
5232 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
5233 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
5234 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
5235 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
5236 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
5237 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
5238 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
5239 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
5240 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
5241 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
5242 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
5243 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
5244 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
5245 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
5246 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
5247 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
5248 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
5250 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
5251 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
5252 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
5253 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
5254 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
5255 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
5256 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
5257 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
5259 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
5261 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
5262 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
5263 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
5264 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
5265 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
5267 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
5268 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
5269 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
5270 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
5271 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
5272 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
5273 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
5274 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
5275 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
5276 and Douglas Crosher.
5277 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
5278 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
5279 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
5281 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
5282 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
5283 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
5284 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
5285 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
5286 undefined function error.
5287 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
5288 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
5289 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
5290 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
5291 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
5292 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
5293 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
5294 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
5295 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
5296 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
5297 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
5298 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
5299 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
5301 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
5303 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
5304 CVS repository on my home machine).
5305 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
5306 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
5307 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
5308 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
5309 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
5310 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
5311 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
5312 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
5313 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
5314 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
5315 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
5316 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
5317 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
5318 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
5319 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
5320 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
5321 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
5322 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
5323 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
5324 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
5325 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
5326 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
5328 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
5329 FreeBSD have been added.
5330 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
5331 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
5332 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
5333 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
5334 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
5335 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
5337 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
5338 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
5339 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
5340 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
5341 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
5342 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
5343 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
5344 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
5346 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
5347 away by constant folding
5348 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
5349 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
5350 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
5351 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
5352 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
5353 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
5354 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
5355 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
5356 diff-related operations.
5357 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
5358 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
5360 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
5362 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
5363 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
5364 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
5365 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
5366 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
5367 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
5368 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
5369 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
5370 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
5371 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
5372 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
5373 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
5374 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
5375 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
5376 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
5377 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
5378 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
5379 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
5380 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
5381 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
5382 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
5383 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
5384 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
5385 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
5386 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
5387 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
5388 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
5389 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
5390 instead of (VALUES T T).
5391 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
5392 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
5393 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
5394 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
5395 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
5396 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
5397 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
5398 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
5399 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
5400 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
5401 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
5402 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
5403 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
5404 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
5405 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
5406 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
5407 type will be interpreted at runtime.
5408 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
5409 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
5410 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
5411 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
5412 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
5413 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
5414 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
5415 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
5416 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
5417 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
5418 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
5419 fasl files for cold load.
5420 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
5421 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
5422 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
5423 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
5424 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
5425 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
5426 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
5427 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
5428 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
5429 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
5430 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
5432 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
5433 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
5434 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
5435 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
5436 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
5437 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
5438 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
5439 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
5440 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
5441 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
5442 renamed some files to increase consistency.
5443 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
5444 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
5445 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
5446 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
5447 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
5448 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
5450 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
5452 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
5453 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
5454 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
5455 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
5456 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
5457 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
5458 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
5459 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
5460 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
5461 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
5462 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
5463 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
5464 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
5465 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
5466 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
5467 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
5468 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
5469 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
5471 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
5472 as required by ANSI.
5473 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
5474 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
5475 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
5476 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
5478 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
5479 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
5480 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
5481 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
5482 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
5483 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
5484 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
5485 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
5487 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
5488 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
5489 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
5490 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5492 is now basically equivalent to
5493 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5494 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
5496 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
5497 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
5498 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
5499 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
5500 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
5501 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
5502 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
5503 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
5504 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
5505 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
5506 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
5507 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
5508 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
5509 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
5510 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
5511 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5512 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
5513 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
5514 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
5515 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
5516 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
5517 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
5518 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
5520 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
5522 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
5523 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
5524 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
5525 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
5526 GNUMAKE environment variable.
5527 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
5528 can build without error under CMU CL.
5530 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
5532 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
5533 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
5534 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
5535 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
5536 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
5537 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
5538 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
5539 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
5540 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
5541 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
5542 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
5543 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
5544 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
5545 being initialized before the type system knew the final
5546 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
5547 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
5548 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
5549 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
5550 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
5551 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
5552 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
5553 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
5554 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
5555 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
5557 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
5558 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
5559 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
5560 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
5561 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
5562 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
5563 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
5564 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
5565 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
5566 it were currently supported.
5567 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
5568 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
5569 having to maintain patches.
5570 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
5571 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
5573 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
5575 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
5576 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
5577 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
5578 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
5579 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
5580 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
5581 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
5582 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
5583 * various new style warnings:
5584 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
5585 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
5586 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
5587 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
5588 as specified by ANSI.
5589 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
5590 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
5591 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
5592 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
5593 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
5594 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
5595 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
5596 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
5597 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
5598 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
5599 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
5600 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
5601 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
5602 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
5603 argument types can be determined at compile time.
5604 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
5605 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
5606 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
5607 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
5608 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
5609 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
5610 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
5613 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
5615 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
5616 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
5617 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
5618 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
5619 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
5620 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
5621 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
5622 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
5623 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
5625 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
5626 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
5627 the report form was printed.)
5628 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
5629 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
5630 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
5631 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
5632 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
5633 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
5634 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
5635 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
5636 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
5637 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
5638 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
5639 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
5640 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
5641 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
5642 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
5643 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
5644 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
5645 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
5646 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
5647 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
5648 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
5649 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
5650 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
5651 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
5652 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
5653 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
5654 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
5655 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
5656 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
5657 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
5658 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
5659 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
5660 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
5661 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
5662 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
5663 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
5664 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
5665 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
5666 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
5667 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
5668 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
5669 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
5670 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
5671 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
5672 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
5673 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
5674 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
5675 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
5676 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
5677 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
5678 know more about target types.
5679 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
5680 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
5681 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
5682 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
5683 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
5684 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
5686 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
5687 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
5688 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
5689 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
5690 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
5691 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
5692 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
5693 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
5694 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
5695 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
5696 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
5697 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
5698 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
5700 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
5703 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
5705 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
5706 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
5707 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
5708 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
5709 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
5710 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
5711 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
5712 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
5713 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
5714 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
5715 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
5716 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
5717 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
5718 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
5719 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
5720 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
5721 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
5722 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
5723 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
5724 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
5725 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
5726 invisible at the user level.)
5727 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
5728 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
5729 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
5731 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
5733 * tidied up "make.sh" script
5734 * tidied up system directory structure
5735 * better "clean.sh" behavior
5736 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
5737 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
5738 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
5739 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
5740 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
5741 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
5742 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
5743 * command line argument processing
5744 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
5745 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
5746 terminating SBCL on EOF
5747 * non-verbose GC by default
5748 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
5749 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
5750 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
5752 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
5753 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
5754 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
5755 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
5756 transformed along with everything else.
5757 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
5758 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
5759 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
5760 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
5761 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
5762 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
5763 debugging and testing purposes
5764 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
5765 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
5766 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
5767 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
5768 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
5769 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
5770 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
5772 * regularized formatting of source files
5773 * added an install.sh script
5774 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
5775 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
5776 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
5777 builds nicely on my old laptop.
5778 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
5779 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
5780 was not implemented)
5781 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
5782 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
5783 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
5784 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
5785 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
5787 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
5788 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
5789 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
5790 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
5791 COMPILE-FILE command)
5792 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
5793 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
5794 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
5795 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
5796 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
5797 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
5798 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
5799 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
5800 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
5801 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
5802 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
5803 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
5804 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
5805 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
5806 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
5808 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
5809 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
5810 known to be able to handle the current sources
5811 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
5812 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
5813 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
5814 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
5815 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
5816 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
5817 * removed host-oops.lisp
5818 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
5819 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
5820 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
5821 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
5822 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
5823 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by