1 changes in sbcl-0.8.22 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
2 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
3 (reported by Rajat Datta).
4 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
5 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
6 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
7 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
9 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
10 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
11 types for complex arguments better.
12 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
14 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
15 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
18 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
19 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
20 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
21 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
22 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
23 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
24 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
25 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
26 returning to the top level.
27 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
28 global optimization policy.
29 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
30 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
31 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
33 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
34 various incompatible changes.
35 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
36 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
37 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
38 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
39 level local call to FOO".
40 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
41 now have more legible printed representation
42 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
43 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
44 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
46 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
47 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
48 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
49 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
50 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
52 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
53 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
54 (reported by Lutz Euler)
55 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
56 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
57 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
58 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
59 the specializer is now possible.
60 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
61 face of package deletion.
62 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
63 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
64 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
65 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
66 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
67 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
68 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
69 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
70 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
71 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
73 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
74 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
75 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
76 correctable errors to be signalled.
77 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
78 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
81 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
82 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
83 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
85 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
86 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
87 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
88 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
89 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
90 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
91 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
92 related to the ~@F format directive.
93 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
95 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
96 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
97 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
98 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
100 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
102 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
103 coerce function designators to functions.
104 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
105 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
106 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
107 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
108 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
109 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
110 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
111 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
112 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
113 start of the buffer at the next read.
114 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
115 passing it through to OPEN.
116 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
117 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
118 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
119 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
120 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
121 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
122 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
123 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
125 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
126 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
127 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
128 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
129 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
130 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
132 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
133 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
134 secondary constituent character trait.
135 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
137 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
139 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
141 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
142 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
143 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
145 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
146 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
148 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
149 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
150 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
151 and reloading shared object files.
152 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
153 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
155 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
156 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
157 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
159 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
160 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
162 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
164 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
165 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
166 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
167 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
168 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
169 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
170 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
172 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
173 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
175 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
176 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
177 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
178 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
179 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
181 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
182 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
183 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
184 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
185 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
186 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
187 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
188 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
189 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
190 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
191 lisp characters are not eight bits.
192 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
193 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
194 the correct number of arguments.
195 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
196 to displaced strings.
197 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
198 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
200 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
201 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
202 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
203 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
204 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
205 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
206 available at runtime.
207 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
208 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
209 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
210 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
211 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
212 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
213 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
214 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
215 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
216 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
217 of lambda-list keywords.
218 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
219 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
221 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
222 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
223 (reported by Paul Dietz)
224 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
225 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
226 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
227 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
229 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
230 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
231 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
232 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
233 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
235 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
236 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
237 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
238 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
239 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
240 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
241 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
243 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
244 parameters correctly.
245 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
246 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
247 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
249 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
252 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
253 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
254 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
255 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
257 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
258 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
259 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
260 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
261 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
262 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
263 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
264 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
265 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
267 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
268 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
270 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
272 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
273 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
274 (reported by Bruno Haible)
275 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
277 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
278 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
279 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
280 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
281 (reported by David Morse)
282 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
283 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
284 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
285 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
286 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
287 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
288 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
289 now exists, an signals an error.
290 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
291 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
292 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
293 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
294 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
295 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
296 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
297 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
298 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
299 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
300 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
301 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
303 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
304 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
305 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
306 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
307 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
308 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
309 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
310 specialized array element types.
311 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
312 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
313 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
314 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
315 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
316 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
317 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
318 Wragg for the simple test case)
319 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
320 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
322 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
323 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
324 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
325 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
326 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
328 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
330 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
331 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
332 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
333 references to global functions.
334 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
336 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
338 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
339 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
340 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
342 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
343 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
344 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
345 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
346 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
347 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
348 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
349 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
350 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
351 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
352 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
353 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
354 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
356 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
357 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
358 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
359 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
360 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
361 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
363 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
364 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
366 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
367 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
368 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
369 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
370 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
371 returns the right answer.
372 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
374 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
376 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
377 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
379 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
380 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
382 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
383 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
384 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
385 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
386 the supported interface.
387 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
388 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
389 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
390 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
391 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
392 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
393 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
394 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
395 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
396 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
397 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
398 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
399 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
400 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
401 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
402 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
403 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
404 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
405 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
406 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
407 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
408 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
409 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
410 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
411 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
412 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
413 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
414 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
415 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
417 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
418 * incompatible change: the internal functions
419 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
420 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
421 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
422 instead of the old functions.
423 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
424 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
426 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
427 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
429 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
430 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
431 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
432 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
434 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
435 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
436 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
437 (reported by Rick Taube)
438 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
439 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
440 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
441 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
443 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
444 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
445 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
446 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
447 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
448 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
449 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
450 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
451 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
452 represented relative to default pathnames.
453 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
454 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
455 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
457 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
458 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
459 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
461 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
462 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
463 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
464 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
466 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
468 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
469 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
470 conditional newlines.
471 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
472 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
473 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
475 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
476 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
478 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
479 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
480 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
481 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
482 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
483 compiled in unconditionally.
484 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
485 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
486 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
487 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
488 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
490 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
491 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
492 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
493 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
494 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
495 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
496 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
497 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
498 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
499 an implementation-internal package.
500 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
502 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
503 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
504 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
505 bodies are now more legible.
506 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
507 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
508 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
509 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
510 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
511 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
512 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
514 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
515 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
516 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
517 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
518 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
519 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
520 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
522 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
523 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
525 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
526 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
527 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
528 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
529 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
530 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
531 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
532 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
533 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
534 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
535 system even when most of them are idle
536 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
537 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
538 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
540 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
541 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
542 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
543 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
544 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
546 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
547 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
548 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
549 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
550 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
551 string for information on the protocol.
552 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
553 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
555 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
556 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
558 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
559 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
560 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
561 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
562 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
563 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
565 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
566 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
568 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
569 move between its address being taken and the call to
570 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
571 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
572 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
573 instances corresponding to C structs.
575 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
576 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
577 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
578 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
579 has implications for memory management of client code
580 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
581 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
582 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
583 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
584 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
585 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
586 quality should be considered deprecated.
587 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
588 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
589 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
590 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
591 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
593 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
594 designator as the defaults argument.
595 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
596 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
597 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
598 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
599 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
601 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
603 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
604 (thanks to Zach Beane)
605 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
606 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
607 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
608 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
610 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
611 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
612 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
613 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
614 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
615 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
616 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
617 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
618 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
619 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
620 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
621 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
622 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
623 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
624 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
625 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
626 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
628 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
629 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
630 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
632 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
633 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
634 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
635 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
636 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
637 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
638 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
639 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
640 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
642 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
643 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
645 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
646 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
648 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
649 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
650 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
651 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
653 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
654 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
655 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
656 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
657 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
658 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
659 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
660 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
662 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
663 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
664 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
666 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
667 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
669 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
670 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
672 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
673 from local to shared slots.
674 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
675 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
676 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
677 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
679 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
680 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
681 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
682 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
683 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
684 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
685 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
686 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
687 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
689 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
691 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
693 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
694 print using #P"..." syntax.
696 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
697 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
698 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
699 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
700 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
701 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
702 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
703 * [placeholder for DX summary]
704 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
705 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
706 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
707 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
708 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
709 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
710 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
711 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
712 the test case to Dave Roberts)
713 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
714 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
715 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
716 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
717 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
718 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
719 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
720 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
721 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
722 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
723 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
724 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
725 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
726 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
727 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
730 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
731 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
732 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
733 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
734 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
735 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
736 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
737 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
738 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
739 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
740 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
741 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
742 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
744 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
745 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
747 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
748 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
749 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
750 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
751 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
752 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
754 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
755 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
756 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
758 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
760 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
762 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
763 their output stream on EOF from read.
764 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
765 have been read to end-of-file.
766 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
768 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
769 description of determination of which consecutive characters
771 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
772 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
773 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
774 less than 10 works correctly.
775 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
776 more than 10 works correctly.
777 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
778 the readtable currently in effect.
780 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
781 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
782 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
783 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
784 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
785 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
786 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
787 should usually be replaced by
788 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
789 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
790 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
791 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
792 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
793 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
794 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
795 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
797 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
798 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
799 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
800 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
801 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
802 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
803 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
804 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
805 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
806 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
807 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
808 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
809 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
811 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
812 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
813 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
814 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
815 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
816 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
817 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
818 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
819 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
820 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
821 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
822 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
823 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
824 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
825 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
826 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
827 non-local entry points.
828 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
830 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
831 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
833 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
834 host is already defined.
835 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
837 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
838 or not a character is whitespace.
839 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
840 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
841 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
843 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
844 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
846 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
848 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
849 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
850 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
851 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
852 designator argument does not designate a stream.
853 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
854 examining the synonym.
855 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
857 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
858 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
860 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
861 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
862 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
863 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
864 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
865 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
866 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
867 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
868 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
869 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
870 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
871 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
873 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
874 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
875 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
876 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
877 stream position information.
878 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
879 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
880 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
881 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
882 (reported by Paul Dietz)
883 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
885 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
886 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
888 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
889 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
890 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
891 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
892 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
893 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
894 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
896 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
898 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
899 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
900 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
901 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
902 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
903 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
904 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
905 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
906 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
907 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
908 the "SYS" logical host.
909 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
910 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
911 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
912 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
913 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
914 now each have their own history, command character, and other
915 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
916 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
917 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
919 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
920 shift greater than 32.
921 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
922 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
923 in some circumstances.
925 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
926 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
927 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
928 environments like SLIME.
929 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
930 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
931 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
932 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
933 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
934 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
935 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
936 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
937 argument types for all arguments.
938 * various threading fixes
939 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
940 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
941 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
942 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
944 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
945 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
946 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
947 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
948 arguments to a full call.
949 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
950 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
951 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
952 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
954 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
955 inserts a space where necessary.
956 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
957 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
958 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
959 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
960 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
961 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
962 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
963 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
964 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
965 counter now raises a meaningful error.
966 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
967 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
969 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
970 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
971 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
973 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
975 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
976 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
977 argument and negative second.
978 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
979 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
980 interval, containing 0.
981 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
983 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
984 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
986 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
987 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
988 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
989 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
990 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
991 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
992 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
993 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
994 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
995 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
996 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
997 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
998 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
999 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
1000 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
1001 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
1002 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
1003 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
1004 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
1005 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
1006 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
1007 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1008 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
1009 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
1010 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
1011 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
1012 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
1013 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
1014 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
1016 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
1017 platform now returns the right answer.
1018 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
1019 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
1020 precomputation is now tunable.
1021 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
1022 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
1023 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
1024 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
1025 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
1026 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
1027 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
1028 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
1029 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
1030 has been added for the alpha.
1031 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
1032 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
1033 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
1034 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
1035 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
1036 MEMBER-types to numeric.
1037 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
1039 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
1040 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
1041 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
1043 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
1044 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1045 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
1046 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
1047 might be pseudo-atomic.
1048 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
1049 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
1051 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
1053 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
1055 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
1056 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
1057 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
1058 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
1059 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
1060 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
1062 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1063 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
1064 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
1065 small float arguments.
1066 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
1068 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
1069 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
1070 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
1071 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
1072 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
1073 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
1075 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
1077 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
1078 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
1079 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
1080 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
1081 with negative last argument.
1082 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
1083 an error during type derivation.
1084 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
1086 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
1087 generates a 32-bit binary.
1088 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1089 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
1090 data structures referred to above).
1092 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
1093 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
1094 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
1095 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
1096 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
1097 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
1098 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
1099 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
1100 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
1101 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1102 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
1103 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
1105 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
1106 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
1108 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
1109 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
1110 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
1111 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
1112 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
1113 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
1114 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
1115 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
1116 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
1117 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
1118 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
1119 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1120 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
1121 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
1122 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
1123 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
1124 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
1125 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1126 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
1127 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
1128 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
1129 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
1130 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1131 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
1132 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
1133 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
1134 optimization quality.
1135 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
1136 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
1137 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
1138 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
1139 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1140 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1141 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
1142 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
1143 types form a lattice under type intersection.
1144 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
1145 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
1146 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
1147 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
1148 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
1149 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
1150 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
1151 calling the generic function.
1152 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
1153 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
1154 obscure ANSI requirements
1156 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
1157 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
1158 garbage, confusing the compiler.
1159 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
1160 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
1161 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
1162 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
1163 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
1164 circumstances could go off-by-one.
1165 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
1167 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
1168 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
1169 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
1170 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
1171 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
1172 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
1173 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
1174 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
1175 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
1176 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1177 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
1178 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
1179 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1180 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
1181 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1182 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
1183 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
1184 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
1185 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
1186 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
1188 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
1189 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
1190 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
1191 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
1193 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
1194 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
1195 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
1196 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
1197 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
1198 provide helpful disassembly notes.
1199 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
1200 the class in more cases than previously.
1201 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
1202 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1203 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
1204 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1205 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
1206 without lambda list.
1207 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
1208 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
1209 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1210 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
1211 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
1212 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
1214 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
1215 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
1216 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
1218 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
1219 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
1220 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
1221 were silently accepted).
1222 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
1223 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
1224 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
1225 to warn on static type mismatches and function
1226 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
1227 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
1228 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
1229 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
1230 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
1231 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
1232 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
1233 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
1234 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
1235 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
1237 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
1238 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
1239 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
1240 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
1241 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
1242 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
1244 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
1245 keywords or constants is permissible.
1246 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
1247 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
1248 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1249 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
1250 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
1251 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
1252 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
1253 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
1255 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
1256 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1257 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
1258 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
1259 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1260 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
1261 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
1263 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
1265 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
1266 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
1267 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
1268 respectively change and preserve the value.
1269 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
1270 is now better at handling symbol macros.
1271 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
1272 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
1273 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
1274 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
1275 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
1276 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
1277 their use properly signals an error now.
1278 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
1279 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
1280 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
1281 * fixed simple vector readable printing
1282 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
1283 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
1284 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
1285 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
1286 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
1287 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
1288 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1289 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
1290 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1291 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
1292 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
1293 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1294 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
1295 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
1296 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
1297 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
1298 causes a type error.
1299 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
1300 association between the name and a class.
1301 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
1302 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
1303 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1304 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
1305 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
1306 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
1308 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
1309 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
1310 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
1311 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
1313 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
1314 which its argument is a member.
1315 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
1316 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
1317 otherwise, it creates a new class.
1318 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
1319 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
1320 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
1321 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
1322 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1323 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
1325 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
1326 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
1327 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
1328 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
1329 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
1330 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
1331 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
1333 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
1334 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
1335 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
1336 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
1337 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
1338 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
1339 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
1340 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
1341 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
1342 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
1343 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
1344 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
1345 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1346 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
1348 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
1349 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
1350 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
1351 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
1352 superclasses are applied.
1353 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1354 no method was removed.
1355 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
1356 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
1357 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
1358 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
1360 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
1362 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
1363 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
1364 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
1365 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
1366 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
1367 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
1368 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
1369 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
1370 function lambda list.
1371 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
1373 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
1374 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
1375 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
1376 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
1378 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
1379 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
1380 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
1381 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
1382 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
1383 they look for GNU "make".
1385 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
1386 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
1387 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
1388 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
1390 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
1391 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
1392 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
1393 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
1394 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
1395 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
1396 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
1397 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
1398 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
1399 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
1401 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
1402 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
1403 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
1404 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
1405 libraries, and will know who they are.
1406 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
1407 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
1408 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
1409 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
1410 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
1411 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
1412 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
1413 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
1415 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
1416 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
1417 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1418 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
1419 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
1420 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
1421 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
1422 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
1423 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
1424 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
1425 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1426 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
1428 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
1429 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
1430 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
1431 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
1432 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1433 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
1434 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
1435 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
1436 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
1438 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
1439 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
1440 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
1441 this you were probably losing anyway.
1442 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
1443 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
1444 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
1445 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
1446 with names from the CL package.
1447 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
1448 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
1449 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
1450 documentation string.
1451 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1452 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
1454 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
1455 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
1456 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
1457 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
1459 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
1460 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
1462 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
1463 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1464 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
1466 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
1467 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
1468 arguments contain duplicated elements.
1469 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
1470 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
1471 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
1472 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
1473 in question is unbound.
1474 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
1475 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
1476 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
1477 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
1478 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
1480 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
1482 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
1483 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
1484 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
1485 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
1486 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
1487 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
1488 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
1489 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
1490 by Antonio Martinez)
1491 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
1492 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1493 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
1494 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
1495 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
1496 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
1497 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
1498 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1499 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
1500 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
1501 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
1502 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
1503 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
1504 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
1505 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
1506 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
1507 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
1508 on malformed property lists;
1510 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
1511 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
1512 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
1513 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
1514 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
1515 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
1516 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
1517 modules in this release include:
1518 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
1519 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
1520 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
1521 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1522 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
1524 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
1525 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
1526 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1527 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1528 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
1529 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
1530 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
1531 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
1533 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
1534 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
1535 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
1536 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
1537 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
1538 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
1539 the lexical environment.
1540 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
1541 unprintable packages can now be defined.
1542 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
1543 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1544 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
1545 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1546 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
1547 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
1548 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
1549 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
1550 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
1551 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
1552 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
1553 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
1554 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1555 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
1556 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1557 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
1558 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
1559 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
1560 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1561 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
1562 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
1563 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
1564 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
1566 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
1567 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
1568 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1569 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1570 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
1571 not just nonnegative fixnums;
1572 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
1573 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
1574 freshly-consed result bit-array);
1575 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
1577 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
1578 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
1580 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
1581 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
1582 cases are accurately computed;
1583 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
1584 if it is in the last clause;
1585 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
1587 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
1588 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
1589 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
1590 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
1592 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
1593 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
1594 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
1595 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
1596 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
1598 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
1599 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
1600 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
1601 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
1603 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1604 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
1605 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
1606 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
1607 not cause a type error;
1608 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
1610 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
1611 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
1612 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
1613 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
1614 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
1615 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
1616 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
1617 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
1619 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
1620 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
1621 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
1622 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
1623 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
1624 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
1626 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
1627 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
1629 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
1630 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
1631 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
1632 only for symbols in the CL package.
1633 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
1634 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1635 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
1636 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
1637 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
1639 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1640 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
1641 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
1642 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
1643 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
1644 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
1645 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
1646 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
1647 conditional loop clause;
1648 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
1649 signals a type error iff it should.
1650 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1651 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
1652 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
1653 argument) no longer signals an error;
1654 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
1655 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
1656 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
1658 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
1659 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
1660 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
1662 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
1663 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
1664 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
1665 functionality on said platforms verified.
1666 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
1667 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
1669 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
1670 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
1671 component indicating that directory.
1672 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
1673 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
1674 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
1675 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
1676 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1677 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
1679 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
1680 primary methods with no specializers;
1681 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
1683 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
1684 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
1685 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
1686 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
1688 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
1689 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
1690 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
1692 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
1693 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
1694 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
1695 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
1696 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
1697 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
1698 class STANDARD-CLASS;
1699 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
1700 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1701 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
1702 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
1704 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
1705 value producing form;
1706 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
1707 variables are bound and made to have no value;
1708 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
1710 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
1711 is not a valid sequence index;
1712 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
1713 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
1714 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1715 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
1717 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
1718 symbol-macro places;
1719 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
1720 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
1722 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
1724 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
1726 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
1727 invariant when deleting code.
1728 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
1729 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
1731 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
1732 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1733 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
1735 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
1736 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
1738 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
1739 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
1740 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1741 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
1743 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
1744 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1745 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
1746 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
1748 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
1749 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
1750 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
1751 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
1752 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
1753 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
1754 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
1755 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
1756 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
1757 sbcl and .core files.)
1758 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
1759 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
1760 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
1761 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
1762 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
1763 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1764 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
1766 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
1767 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
1768 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
1769 argument precedence order.
1770 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
1771 derived types contradict their declared type.
1772 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
1773 so it can be non-toplevel.
1774 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
1775 implementation of DEFMACRO).
1776 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
1777 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
1778 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
1780 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
1781 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
1782 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
1783 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
1784 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
1785 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
1786 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
1787 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
1788 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
1789 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
1790 symbol macro only once
1791 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
1792 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
1793 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
1796 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
1797 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
1798 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
1799 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
1800 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
1801 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
1802 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
1803 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
1804 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
1805 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1806 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
1807 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
1809 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
1810 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
1811 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
1812 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
1813 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1814 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
1816 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
1818 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
1819 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
1820 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
1821 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
1822 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1823 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
1824 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
1825 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
1826 ways in different special cases
1827 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
1829 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
1830 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
1831 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
1832 are no longer optimized away.
1833 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
1834 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
1835 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
1836 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
1837 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
1838 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
1839 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
1840 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
1843 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
1844 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
1845 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
1846 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
1847 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
1848 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
1849 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
1851 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
1852 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
1853 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
1854 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
1855 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
1856 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
1857 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
1858 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
1859 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
1860 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
1861 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
1862 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
1863 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
1864 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
1865 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
1866 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
1867 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
1868 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1869 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
1870 that are names of constants or global variables.
1871 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
1872 alien routines with docstrings.
1873 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
1874 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
1876 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
1877 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1878 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
1879 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1880 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
1881 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1882 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
1883 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
1884 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
1885 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1886 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
1887 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
1888 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
1889 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
1890 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
1891 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
1892 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
1893 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
1894 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
1895 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
1896 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
1897 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
1898 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
1900 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
1901 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
1903 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
1904 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
1905 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
1906 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
1907 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
1908 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
1909 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
1910 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
1911 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
1912 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
1914 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
1915 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
1916 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
1917 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
1918 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
1919 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
1920 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
1921 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
1922 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
1923 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
1924 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
1925 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
1926 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
1927 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
1928 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
1929 is no longer a static symbol.)
1931 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
1932 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
1933 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
1934 bootstrapping under CLISP.
1935 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
1937 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
1938 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
1940 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
1941 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
1942 to David Lichteblau)
1943 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
1944 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
1945 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
1947 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
1948 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1949 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
1950 count as they should.
1951 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
1952 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1953 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
1954 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
1955 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
1956 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
1957 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
1958 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
1959 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
1960 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
1961 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
1962 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
1963 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
1964 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
1965 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
1967 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
1968 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
1969 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
1971 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
1973 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
1974 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
1975 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
1976 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
1977 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
1978 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
1979 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
1981 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
1982 to Christophe Rhodes)
1983 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
1984 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
1985 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
1986 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
1987 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
1988 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
1989 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
1991 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
1992 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
1993 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
1994 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
1995 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
1996 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1997 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
1998 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
1999 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
2000 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
2001 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
2002 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
2003 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
2005 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
2006 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
2007 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
2008 INFO database to support symbol macros.
2009 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
2010 (thanks to coreythomas)
2011 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
2012 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
2013 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
2014 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
2015 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
2017 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
2018 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
2019 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
2020 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
2021 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
2022 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
2023 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
2024 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
2025 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
2026 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2027 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
2028 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
2029 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
2031 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
2032 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
2035 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
2036 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
2037 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
2038 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
2039 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
2040 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
2041 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
2042 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
2043 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
2044 systems than the old 4M value was)
2045 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
2046 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
2047 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
2048 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
2049 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
2050 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
2051 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
2053 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
2054 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
2055 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
2056 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
2057 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
2059 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
2060 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
2061 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
2062 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
2063 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
2064 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
2065 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
2066 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
2068 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
2069 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2070 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
2071 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2072 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
2073 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
2074 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
2075 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
2077 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2078 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2079 * several changes related to debugging:
2080 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
2081 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
2082 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
2083 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
2084 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
2085 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
2086 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
2089 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
2091 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
2092 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
2093 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
2094 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
2095 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
2096 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
2097 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
2098 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
2100 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
2101 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
2102 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
2103 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2104 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
2105 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
2106 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
2107 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
2108 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
2109 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
2110 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
2111 file format number to change again.
2113 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
2114 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
2115 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
2116 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
2118 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
2119 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
2120 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
2121 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
2122 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
2123 FUNCALL on the result.
2124 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
2125 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
2126 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
2127 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
2128 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
2129 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
2130 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
2131 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
2133 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
2134 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
2135 the old compiler produced.
2136 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
2137 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
2138 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
2139 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
2140 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
2141 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
2142 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
2143 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
2144 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
2145 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
2146 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
2147 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
2148 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
2149 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
2150 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
2151 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
2152 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
2153 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
2154 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
2155 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
2156 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
2157 straightened out in some future version.)
2158 * minor incompatible changes:
2159 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
2160 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
2161 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
2162 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
2163 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
2164 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
2165 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
2166 implementation dependent:
2167 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
2168 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
2169 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
2170 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
2171 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
2172 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
2173 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
2174 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
2176 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
2178 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
2179 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
2180 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
2181 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
2182 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
2183 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
2184 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
2185 are no longer used for output.
2186 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
2187 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
2188 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
2189 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
2190 increasing it even more.)
2191 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
2192 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
2193 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
2195 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
2196 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
2197 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
2198 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
2199 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
2200 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
2201 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
2202 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
2203 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
2204 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
2205 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
2206 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
2207 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
2208 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
2209 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
2210 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
2211 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
2212 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
2213 compilation of code which calls such functions.
2214 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
2215 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
2216 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
2217 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
2218 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
2219 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
2220 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
2221 built into the system.
2222 * many other bug fixes
2223 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
2224 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
2225 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
2226 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
2227 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
2229 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
2230 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
2231 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
2232 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
2233 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
2234 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
2235 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
2236 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
2237 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
2238 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
2239 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
2241 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
2242 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
2243 and several other LOOP problems as well
2244 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
2245 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
2246 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
2247 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
2248 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
2249 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
2250 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
2251 *** a bug in APROPOS
2252 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
2253 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
2254 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
2255 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
2256 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
2257 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
2258 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
2259 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
2260 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
2261 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
2262 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
2263 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
2264 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
2265 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
2266 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
2268 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
2269 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
2270 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
2271 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
2272 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
2273 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
2274 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
2275 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
2276 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
2277 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
2278 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
2279 some of which are apparent above.
2281 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
2282 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
2283 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
2284 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
2285 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
2286 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
2287 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
2288 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
2289 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
2290 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
2291 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
2292 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
2293 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
2294 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
2295 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
2296 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
2297 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
2298 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
2299 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
2300 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
2301 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
2302 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
2303 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
2304 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
2305 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
2306 different return types.
2307 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
2308 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
2309 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
2310 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
2311 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
2312 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
2313 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
2314 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
2315 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
2316 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
2318 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
2319 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
2320 does the right thing.
2321 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
2322 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
2323 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2324 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
2325 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2326 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2327 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
2328 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
2329 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
2330 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
2331 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2332 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
2333 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2334 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
2335 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
2336 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
2337 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
2338 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
2339 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
2340 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
2341 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
2342 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
2343 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
2344 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
2345 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
2346 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
2347 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
2348 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
2349 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
2350 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
2351 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
2352 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
2353 since historically most system changes which required version
2354 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
2355 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
2358 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
2359 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
2360 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
2361 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
2362 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
2363 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
2364 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
2365 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
2366 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
2367 half a dozen others elsewhere
2368 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
2369 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
2370 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
2371 as flaky as they were.
2372 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
2373 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
2374 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
2375 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
2376 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
2377 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
2378 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
2379 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
2381 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
2382 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
2383 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
2384 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2385 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
2386 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
2387 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
2388 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
2389 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
2390 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
2391 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
2392 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
2393 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
2394 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
2395 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
2396 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
2397 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
2398 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
2399 more obscure bugs as well
2400 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
2401 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
2402 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
2403 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
2404 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
2405 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
2406 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
2407 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
2408 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
2409 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
2410 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
2412 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
2413 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
2415 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
2417 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2418 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
2419 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
2420 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
2421 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
2422 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
2423 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
2424 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
2425 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
2426 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
2427 are local in this sense.)
2428 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
2429 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
2430 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
2431 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
2432 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
2433 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
2434 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2435 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
2436 system's STREAM objects.
2437 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
2438 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2439 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
2440 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2441 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
2442 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
2443 environment from the original process instead of starting the
2444 new process in an empty environment.
2445 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
2446 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
2447 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
2448 for porting convenience.
2449 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
2450 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
2452 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
2454 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
2455 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
2456 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
2457 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
2458 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
2459 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
2460 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
2461 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
2462 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
2463 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
2464 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
2465 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2466 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
2467 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
2468 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
2469 many fewer weird special cases.
2470 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
2471 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
2472 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2473 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
2474 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
2475 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
2476 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
2477 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
2478 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
2479 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2480 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
2483 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
2485 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
2486 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
2487 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
2489 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
2490 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
2491 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
2492 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
2493 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
2494 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
2495 should be constructed the same way as before.
2496 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
2497 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
2498 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
2499 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
2500 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
2501 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
2502 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
2503 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
2504 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
2505 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
2506 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
2507 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
2508 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
2509 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
2510 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
2511 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
2512 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
2513 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
2514 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
2515 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
2516 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
2517 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
2519 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
2520 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
2521 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
2522 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
2523 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
2524 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
2525 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
2526 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
2528 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
2530 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
2531 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
2532 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
2533 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
2534 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
2536 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
2537 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
2538 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
2539 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
2540 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
2541 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
2542 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
2543 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
2544 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
2545 and Douglas Crosher.
2546 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
2547 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
2548 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
2550 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
2551 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
2552 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
2553 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
2554 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
2555 undefined function error.
2556 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
2557 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
2558 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
2559 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
2560 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
2561 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
2562 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
2563 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
2564 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
2565 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
2566 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
2567 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
2568 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
2570 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
2572 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
2573 CVS repository on my home machine).
2574 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
2575 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
2576 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
2577 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
2578 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
2579 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
2580 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
2581 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
2582 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
2583 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
2584 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
2585 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
2586 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
2587 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
2588 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
2589 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
2590 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
2591 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
2592 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
2593 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
2594 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
2595 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
2597 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
2598 FreeBSD have been added.
2599 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
2600 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
2601 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
2602 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
2603 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
2604 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
2606 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
2607 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
2608 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
2609 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
2610 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
2611 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
2612 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
2613 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
2615 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
2616 away by constant folding
2617 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
2618 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
2619 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
2620 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
2621 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
2622 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
2623 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
2624 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
2625 diff-related operations.
2626 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
2627 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
2629 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
2631 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
2632 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
2633 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
2634 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
2635 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
2636 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
2637 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
2638 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
2639 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
2640 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
2641 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
2642 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
2643 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
2644 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
2645 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
2646 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
2647 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
2648 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
2649 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
2650 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
2651 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
2652 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
2653 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
2654 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
2655 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
2656 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
2657 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
2658 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
2659 instead of (VALUES T T).
2660 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
2661 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
2662 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
2663 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
2664 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
2665 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
2666 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
2667 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
2668 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
2669 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
2670 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
2671 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
2672 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
2673 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
2674 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
2675 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
2676 type will be interpreted at runtime.
2677 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
2678 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
2679 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
2680 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
2681 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
2682 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
2683 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
2684 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
2685 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
2686 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
2687 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
2688 fasl files for cold load.
2689 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
2690 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
2691 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
2692 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
2693 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
2694 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
2695 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
2696 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
2697 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
2698 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
2699 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
2701 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
2702 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
2703 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
2704 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
2705 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
2706 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
2707 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
2708 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
2709 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
2710 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
2711 renamed some files to increase consistency.
2712 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
2713 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
2714 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
2715 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
2716 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
2717 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
2719 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
2721 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
2722 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
2723 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
2724 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
2725 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
2726 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
2727 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
2728 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
2729 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
2730 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
2731 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
2732 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
2733 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
2734 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
2735 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
2736 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
2737 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
2738 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
2740 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
2741 as required by ANSI.
2742 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
2743 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
2744 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
2745 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
2747 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
2748 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
2749 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
2750 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
2751 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
2752 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
2753 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
2754 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
2756 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
2757 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
2758 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
2759 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2761 is now basically equivalent to
2762 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2763 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
2765 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
2766 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
2767 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
2768 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
2769 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
2770 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
2771 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
2772 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
2773 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
2774 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
2775 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
2776 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
2777 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
2778 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
2779 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
2780 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2781 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
2782 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
2783 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
2784 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
2785 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
2786 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
2787 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
2789 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
2791 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
2792 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
2793 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
2794 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
2795 GNUMAKE environment variable.
2796 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
2797 can build without error under CMU CL.
2799 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
2801 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
2802 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
2803 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
2804 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
2805 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
2806 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
2807 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
2808 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
2809 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
2810 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
2811 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
2812 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
2813 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
2814 being initialized before the type system knew the final
2815 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
2816 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
2817 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
2818 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
2819 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
2820 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
2821 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
2822 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
2823 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
2824 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
2826 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
2827 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
2828 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
2829 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
2830 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
2831 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
2832 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
2833 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
2834 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
2835 it were currently supported.
2836 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
2837 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
2838 having to maintain patches.
2839 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
2840 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
2842 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
2844 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
2845 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
2846 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
2847 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
2848 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
2849 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
2850 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
2851 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
2852 * various new style warnings:
2853 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
2854 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
2855 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
2856 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
2857 as specified by ANSI.
2858 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
2859 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
2860 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
2861 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
2862 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
2863 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
2864 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
2865 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
2866 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
2867 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
2868 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
2869 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
2870 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
2871 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
2872 argument types can be determined at compile time.
2873 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
2874 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
2875 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
2876 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
2877 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
2878 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
2879 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
2882 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
2884 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
2885 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
2886 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
2887 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
2888 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
2889 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
2890 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
2891 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
2892 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
2894 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
2895 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
2896 the report form was printed.)
2897 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
2898 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
2899 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
2900 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
2901 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
2902 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
2903 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
2904 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
2905 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
2906 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
2907 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
2908 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
2909 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
2910 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
2911 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
2912 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
2913 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
2914 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
2915 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
2916 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
2917 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
2918 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
2919 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
2920 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
2921 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
2922 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
2923 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
2924 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
2925 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
2926 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
2927 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
2928 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
2929 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
2930 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
2931 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
2932 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
2933 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
2934 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
2935 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
2936 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
2937 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
2938 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
2939 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
2940 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
2941 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
2942 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
2943 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
2944 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
2945 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
2946 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
2947 know more about target types.
2948 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
2949 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
2950 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
2951 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
2952 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
2953 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
2955 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
2956 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
2957 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
2958 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
2959 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
2960 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
2961 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
2962 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
2963 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
2964 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
2965 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
2966 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
2967 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
2969 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
2972 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
2974 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
2975 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
2976 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
2977 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
2978 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
2979 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
2980 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
2981 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
2982 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
2983 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
2984 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
2985 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
2986 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
2987 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
2988 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
2989 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
2990 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
2991 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
2992 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
2993 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
2994 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
2995 invisible at the user level.)
2996 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
2997 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
2998 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
3000 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
3002 * tidied up "make.sh" script
3003 * tidied up system directory structure
3004 * better "clean.sh" behavior
3005 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
3006 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
3007 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
3008 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
3009 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
3010 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
3011 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
3012 * command line argument processing
3013 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
3014 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
3015 terminating SBCL on EOF
3016 * non-verbose GC by default
3017 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
3018 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
3019 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
3021 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
3022 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
3023 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
3024 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
3025 transformed along with everything else.
3026 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
3027 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
3028 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
3029 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
3030 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
3031 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
3032 debugging and testing purposes
3033 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
3034 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
3035 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
3036 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
3037 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
3038 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
3039 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
3041 * regularized formatting of source files
3042 * added an install.sh script
3043 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
3044 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
3045 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
3046 builds nicely on my old laptop.
3047 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
3048 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
3049 was not implemented)
3050 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
3051 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
3052 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
3053 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
3054 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
3056 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
3057 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
3058 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
3059 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
3060 COMPILE-FILE command)
3061 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
3062 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
3063 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
3064 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
3065 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
3066 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
3067 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
3068 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
3069 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
3070 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
3071 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
3072 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
3073 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
3074 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
3075 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
3077 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
3078 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
3079 known to be able to handle the current sources
3080 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
3081 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
3082 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
3083 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
3084 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
3085 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
3086 * removed host-oops.lisp
3087 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
3088 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
3089 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
3090 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
3091 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
3092 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by
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