1 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
2 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
3 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
4 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now
5 part of the supported interface.
6 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
7 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based
8 on Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
9 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused
10 a style warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
12 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
13 * incompatible change: the internal functions
14 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
15 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
16 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
17 instead of the old functions.
18 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
19 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
21 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
22 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
24 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
25 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
26 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
27 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
29 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
30 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
31 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
32 (reported by Rick Taube)
33 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
34 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
35 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
36 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
38 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
39 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
40 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
41 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
42 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
43 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
44 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
45 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
46 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
47 represented relative to default pathnames.
48 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
49 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
50 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
52 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
53 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
54 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
56 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
57 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
58 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
59 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
61 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
63 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
64 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
66 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
67 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
68 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
70 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
71 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
73 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
74 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
75 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
76 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
77 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
78 compiled in unconditionally.
79 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
80 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
81 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
82 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
83 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
85 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
86 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
87 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
88 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
89 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
90 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
91 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
92 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
93 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
94 an implementation-internal package.
95 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
97 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
98 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
99 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
100 bodies are now more legible.
101 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
102 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
103 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
104 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
105 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
106 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
107 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
109 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
110 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
111 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
112 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
113 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
114 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
115 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
117 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
118 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
120 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
121 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
122 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
123 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
124 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
125 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
126 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
127 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
128 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
129 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
130 system even when most of them are idle
131 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
132 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
133 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
135 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
136 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
137 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
138 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
139 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
141 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
142 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
143 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
144 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
145 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
146 string for information on the protocol.
147 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
148 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
150 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
151 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
153 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
154 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
155 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
156 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
157 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
158 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
160 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
161 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
163 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
164 move between its address being taken and the call to
165 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
166 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
167 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
168 instances corresponding to C structs.
170 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
171 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
172 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
173 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
174 has implications for memory management of client code
175 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
176 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
177 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
178 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
179 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
180 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
181 quality should be considered deprecated.
182 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
183 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
184 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
185 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
186 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
188 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
189 designator as the defaults argument.
190 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
191 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
192 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
193 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
194 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
196 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
198 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
199 (thanks to Zach Beane)
200 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
201 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
202 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
203 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
205 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
206 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
207 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
208 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
209 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
210 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
211 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
212 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
213 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
214 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
215 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
216 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
217 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
218 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
219 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
220 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
221 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
223 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
224 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
225 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
227 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
228 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
229 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
230 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
231 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
232 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
233 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
234 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
235 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
237 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
238 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
240 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
241 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
243 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
244 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
245 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
246 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
248 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
249 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
250 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
251 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
252 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
253 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
254 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
255 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
257 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
258 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
259 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
261 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
262 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
264 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
265 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
267 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
268 from local to shared slots.
269 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
270 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
271 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
272 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
274 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
275 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
276 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
277 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
278 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
279 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
280 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
281 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
282 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
284 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
286 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
288 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
289 print using #P"..." syntax.
291 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
292 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
293 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
294 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
295 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
296 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
297 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
298 * [placeholder for DX summary]
299 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
300 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
301 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
302 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
303 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
304 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
305 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
306 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
307 the test case to Dave Roberts)
308 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
309 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
310 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
311 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
312 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
313 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
314 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
315 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
316 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
317 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
318 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
319 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
320 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
321 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
322 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
325 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
326 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
327 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
328 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
329 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
330 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
331 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
332 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
333 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
334 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
335 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
336 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
337 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
339 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
340 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
342 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
343 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
344 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
345 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
346 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
347 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
349 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
350 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
351 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
353 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
355 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
357 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
358 their output stream on EOF from read.
359 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
360 have been read to end-of-file.
361 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
363 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
364 description of determination of which consecutive characters
366 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
367 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
368 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
369 less than 10 works correctly.
370 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
371 more than 10 works correctly.
372 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
373 the readtable currently in effect.
375 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
376 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
377 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
378 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
379 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
380 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
381 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
382 should usually be replaced by
383 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
384 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
385 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
386 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
387 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
388 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
389 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
390 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
392 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
393 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
394 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
395 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
396 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
397 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
398 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
399 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
400 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
401 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
402 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
403 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
404 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
406 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
407 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
408 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
409 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
410 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
411 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
412 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
413 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
414 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
415 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
416 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
417 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
418 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
419 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
420 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
421 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
422 non-local entry points.
423 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
425 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
426 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
428 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
429 host is already defined.
430 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
432 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
433 or not a character is whitespace.
434 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
435 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
436 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
438 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
439 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
441 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
443 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
444 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
445 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
446 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
447 designator argument does not designate a stream.
448 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
449 examining the synonym.
450 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
452 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
453 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
455 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
456 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
457 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
458 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
459 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
460 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
461 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
462 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
463 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
464 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
465 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
466 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
468 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
469 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
470 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
471 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
472 stream position information.
473 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
474 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
475 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
476 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
477 (reported by Paul Dietz)
478 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
480 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
481 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
483 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
484 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
485 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
486 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
487 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
488 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
489 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
491 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
493 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
494 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
495 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
496 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
497 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
498 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
499 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
500 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
501 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
502 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
503 the "SYS" logical host.
504 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
505 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
506 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
507 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
508 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
509 now each have their own history, command character, and other
510 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
511 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
512 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
514 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
515 shift greater than 32.
516 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
517 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
518 in some circumstances.
520 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
521 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
522 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
523 environments like SLIME.
524 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
525 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
526 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
527 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
528 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
529 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
530 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
531 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
532 argument types for all arguments.
533 * various threading fixes
534 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
535 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
536 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
537 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
539 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
540 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
541 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
542 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
543 arguments to a full call.
544 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
545 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
546 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
547 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
549 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
550 inserts a space where necessary.
551 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
552 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
553 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
554 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
555 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
556 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
557 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
558 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
559 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
560 counter now raises a meaningful error.
561 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
562 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
564 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
565 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
566 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
568 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
570 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
571 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
572 argument and negative second.
573 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
574 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
575 interval, containing 0.
576 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
578 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
579 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
581 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
582 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
583 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
584 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
585 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
586 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
587 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
588 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
589 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
590 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
591 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
592 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
593 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
594 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
595 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
596 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
597 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
598 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
599 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
600 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
601 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
602 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
603 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
604 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
605 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
606 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
607 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
608 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
609 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
611 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
612 platform now returns the right answer.
613 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
614 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
615 precomputation is now tunable.
616 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
617 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
618 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
619 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
620 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
621 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
622 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
623 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
624 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
625 has been added for the alpha.
626 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
627 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
628 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
629 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
630 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
631 MEMBER-types to numeric.
632 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
634 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
635 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
636 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
638 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
639 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
640 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
641 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
642 might be pseudo-atomic.
643 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
644 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
646 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
648 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
650 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
651 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
652 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
653 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
654 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
655 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
657 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
658 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
659 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
660 small float arguments.
661 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
663 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
664 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
665 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
666 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
667 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
668 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
670 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
672 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
673 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
674 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
675 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
676 with negative last argument.
677 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
678 an error during type derivation.
679 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
681 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
682 generates a 32-bit binary.
683 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
684 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
685 data structures referred to above).
687 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
688 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
689 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
690 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
691 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
692 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
693 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
694 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
695 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
696 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
697 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
698 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
700 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
701 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
703 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
704 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
705 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
706 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
707 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
708 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
709 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
710 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
711 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
712 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
713 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
714 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
715 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
716 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
717 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
718 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
719 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
720 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
721 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
722 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
723 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
724 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
725 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
726 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
727 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
728 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
729 optimization quality.
730 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
731 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
732 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
733 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
734 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
735 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
736 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
737 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
738 types form a lattice under type intersection.
739 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
740 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
741 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
742 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
743 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
744 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
745 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
746 calling the generic function.
747 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
748 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
749 obscure ANSI requirements
751 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
752 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
753 garbage, confusing the compiler.
754 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
755 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
756 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
757 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
758 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
759 circumstances could go off-by-one.
760 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
762 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
763 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
764 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
765 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
766 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
767 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
768 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
769 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
770 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
771 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
772 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
773 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
774 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
775 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
776 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
777 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
778 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
779 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
780 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
781 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
783 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
784 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
785 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
786 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
788 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
789 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
790 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
791 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
792 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
793 provide helpful disassembly notes.
794 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
795 the class in more cases than previously.
796 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
797 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
798 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
799 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
800 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
802 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
803 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
804 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
805 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
806 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
807 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
809 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
810 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
811 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
813 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
814 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
815 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
816 were silently accepted).
817 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
818 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
819 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
820 to warn on static type mismatches and function
821 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
822 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
823 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
824 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
825 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
826 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
827 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
828 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
829 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
830 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
832 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
833 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
834 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
835 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
836 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
837 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
839 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
840 keywords or constants is permissible.
841 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
842 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
843 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
844 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
845 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
846 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
847 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
848 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
850 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
851 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
852 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
853 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
854 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
855 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
856 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
858 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
860 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
861 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
862 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
863 respectively change and preserve the value.
864 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
865 is now better at handling symbol macros.
866 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
867 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
868 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
869 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
870 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
871 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
872 their use properly signals an error now.
873 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
874 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
875 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
876 * fixed simple vector readable printing
877 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
878 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
879 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
880 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
881 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
882 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
883 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
884 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
885 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
886 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
887 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
888 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
889 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
890 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
891 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
892 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
894 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
895 association between the name and a class.
896 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
897 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
898 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
899 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
900 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
901 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
903 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
904 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
905 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
906 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
908 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
909 which its argument is a member.
910 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
911 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
912 otherwise, it creates a new class.
913 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
914 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
915 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
916 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
917 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
918 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
920 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
921 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
922 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
923 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
924 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
925 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
926 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
928 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
929 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
930 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
931 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
932 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
933 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
934 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
935 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
936 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
937 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
938 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
939 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
940 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
941 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
943 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
944 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
945 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
946 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
947 superclasses are applied.
948 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
949 no method was removed.
950 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
951 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
952 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
953 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
955 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
957 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
958 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
959 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
960 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
961 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
962 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
963 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
964 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
965 function lambda list.
966 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
968 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
969 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
970 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
971 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
973 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
974 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
975 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
976 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
977 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
978 they look for GNU "make".
980 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
981 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
982 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
983 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
985 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
986 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
987 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
988 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
989 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
990 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
991 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
992 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
993 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
994 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
996 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
997 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
998 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
999 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
1000 libraries, and will know who they are.
1001 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
1002 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
1003 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
1004 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
1005 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
1006 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
1007 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
1008 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
1010 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
1011 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
1012 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1013 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
1014 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
1015 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
1016 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
1017 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
1018 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
1019 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
1020 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1021 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
1023 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
1024 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
1025 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
1026 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
1027 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1028 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
1029 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
1030 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
1031 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
1033 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
1034 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
1035 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
1036 this you were probably losing anyway.
1037 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
1038 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
1039 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
1040 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
1041 with names from the CL package.
1042 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
1043 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
1044 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
1045 documentation string.
1046 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1047 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
1049 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
1050 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
1051 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
1052 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
1054 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
1055 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
1057 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
1058 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1059 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
1061 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
1062 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
1063 arguments contain duplicated elements.
1064 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
1065 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
1066 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
1067 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
1068 in question is unbound.
1069 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
1070 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
1071 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
1072 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
1073 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
1075 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
1077 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
1078 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
1079 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
1080 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
1081 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
1082 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
1083 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
1084 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
1085 by Antonio Martinez)
1086 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
1087 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1088 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
1089 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
1090 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
1091 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
1092 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
1093 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1094 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
1095 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
1096 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
1097 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
1098 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
1099 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
1100 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
1101 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
1102 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
1103 on malformed property lists;
1105 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
1106 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
1107 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
1108 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
1109 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
1110 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
1111 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
1112 modules in this release include:
1113 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
1114 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
1115 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
1116 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1117 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
1119 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
1120 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
1121 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1122 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1123 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
1124 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
1125 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
1126 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
1128 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
1129 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
1130 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
1131 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
1132 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
1133 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
1134 the lexical environment.
1135 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
1136 unprintable packages can now be defined.
1137 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
1138 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1139 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
1140 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1141 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
1142 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
1143 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
1144 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
1145 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
1146 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
1147 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
1148 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
1149 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1150 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
1151 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1152 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
1153 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
1154 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
1155 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1156 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
1157 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
1158 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
1159 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
1161 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
1162 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
1163 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1164 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1165 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
1166 not just nonnegative fixnums;
1167 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
1168 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
1169 freshly-consed result bit-array);
1170 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
1172 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
1173 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
1175 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
1176 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
1177 cases are accurately computed;
1178 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
1179 if it is in the last clause;
1180 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
1182 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
1183 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
1184 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
1185 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
1187 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
1188 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
1189 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
1190 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
1191 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
1193 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
1194 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
1195 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
1196 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
1198 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1199 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
1200 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
1201 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
1202 not cause a type error;
1203 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
1205 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
1206 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
1207 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
1208 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
1209 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
1210 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
1211 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
1212 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
1214 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
1215 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
1216 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
1217 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
1218 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
1219 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
1221 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
1222 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
1224 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
1225 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
1226 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
1227 only for symbols in the CL package.
1228 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
1229 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1230 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
1231 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
1232 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
1234 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1235 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
1236 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
1237 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
1238 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
1239 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
1240 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
1241 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
1242 conditional loop clause;
1243 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
1244 signals a type error iff it should.
1245 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1246 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
1247 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
1248 argument) no longer signals an error;
1249 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
1250 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
1251 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
1253 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
1254 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
1255 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
1257 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
1258 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
1259 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
1260 functionality on said platforms verified.
1261 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
1262 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
1264 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
1265 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
1266 component indicating that directory.
1267 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
1268 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
1269 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
1270 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
1271 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1272 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
1274 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
1275 primary methods with no specializers;
1276 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
1278 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
1279 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
1280 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
1281 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
1283 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
1284 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
1285 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
1287 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
1288 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
1289 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
1290 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
1291 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
1292 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
1293 class STANDARD-CLASS;
1294 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
1295 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1296 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
1297 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
1299 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
1300 value producing form;
1301 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
1302 variables are bound and made to have no value;
1303 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
1305 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
1306 is not a valid sequence index;
1307 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
1308 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
1309 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1310 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
1312 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
1313 symbol-macro places;
1314 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
1315 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
1317 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
1319 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
1321 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
1322 invariant when deleting code.
1323 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
1324 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
1326 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
1327 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1328 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
1330 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
1331 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
1333 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
1334 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
1335 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1336 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
1338 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
1339 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1340 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
1341 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
1343 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
1344 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
1345 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
1346 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
1347 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
1348 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
1349 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
1350 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
1351 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
1352 sbcl and .core files.)
1353 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
1354 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
1355 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
1356 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
1357 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
1358 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1359 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
1361 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
1362 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
1363 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
1364 argument precedence order.
1365 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
1366 derived types contradict their declared type.
1367 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
1368 so it can be non-toplevel.
1369 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
1370 implementation of DEFMACRO).
1371 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
1372 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
1373 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
1375 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
1376 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
1377 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
1378 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
1379 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
1380 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
1381 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
1382 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
1383 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
1384 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
1385 symbol macro only once
1386 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
1387 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
1388 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
1391 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
1392 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
1393 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
1394 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
1395 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
1396 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
1397 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
1398 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
1399 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
1400 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1401 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
1402 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
1404 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
1405 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
1406 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
1407 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
1408 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1409 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
1411 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
1413 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
1414 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
1415 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
1416 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
1417 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1418 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
1419 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
1420 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
1421 ways in different special cases
1422 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
1424 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
1425 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
1426 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
1427 are no longer optimized away.
1428 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
1429 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
1430 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
1431 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
1432 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
1433 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
1434 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
1435 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
1438 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
1439 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
1440 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
1441 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
1442 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
1443 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
1444 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
1446 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
1447 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
1448 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
1449 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
1450 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
1451 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
1452 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
1453 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
1454 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
1455 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
1456 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
1457 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
1458 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
1459 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
1460 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
1461 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
1462 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
1463 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1464 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
1465 that are names of constants or global variables.
1466 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
1467 alien routines with docstrings.
1468 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
1469 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
1471 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
1472 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1473 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
1474 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1475 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
1476 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1477 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
1478 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
1479 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
1480 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1481 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
1482 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
1483 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
1484 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
1485 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
1486 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
1487 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
1488 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
1489 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
1490 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
1491 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
1492 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
1493 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
1495 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
1496 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
1498 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
1499 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
1500 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
1501 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
1502 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
1503 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
1504 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
1505 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
1506 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
1507 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
1509 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
1510 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
1511 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
1512 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
1513 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
1514 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
1515 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
1516 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
1517 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
1518 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
1519 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
1520 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
1521 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
1522 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
1523 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
1524 is no longer a static symbol.)
1526 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
1527 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
1528 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
1529 bootstrapping under CLISP.
1530 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
1532 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
1533 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
1535 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
1536 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
1537 to David Lichteblau)
1538 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
1539 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
1540 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
1542 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
1543 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1544 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
1545 count as they should.
1546 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
1547 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1548 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
1549 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
1550 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
1551 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
1552 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
1553 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
1554 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
1555 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
1556 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
1557 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
1558 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
1559 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
1560 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
1562 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
1563 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
1564 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
1566 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
1568 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
1569 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
1570 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
1571 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
1572 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
1573 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
1574 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
1576 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
1577 to Christophe Rhodes)
1578 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
1579 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
1580 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
1581 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
1582 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
1583 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
1584 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
1586 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
1587 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
1588 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
1589 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
1590 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
1591 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1592 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
1593 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
1594 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
1595 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
1596 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
1597 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
1598 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
1600 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
1601 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
1602 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
1603 INFO database to support symbol macros.
1604 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
1605 (thanks to coreythomas)
1606 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
1607 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
1608 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
1609 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
1610 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
1612 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
1613 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
1614 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
1615 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
1616 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
1617 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
1618 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
1619 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
1620 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
1621 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1622 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
1623 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
1624 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
1626 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
1627 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
1630 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
1631 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
1632 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
1633 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
1634 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
1635 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
1636 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
1637 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
1638 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
1639 systems than the old 4M value was)
1640 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
1641 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
1642 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
1643 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
1644 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
1645 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
1646 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
1648 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
1649 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
1650 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
1651 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
1652 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
1654 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
1655 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
1656 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
1657 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
1658 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
1659 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
1660 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
1661 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
1663 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
1664 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
1665 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
1666 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1667 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
1668 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
1669 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
1670 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
1672 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
1673 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1674 * several changes related to debugging:
1675 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
1676 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
1677 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
1678 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
1679 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1680 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
1681 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
1684 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
1686 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
1687 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
1688 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
1689 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
1690 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
1691 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
1692 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
1693 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
1695 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
1696 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
1697 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
1698 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1699 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
1700 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
1701 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
1702 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
1703 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
1704 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
1705 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
1706 file format number to change again.
1708 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
1709 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
1710 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
1711 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
1713 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
1714 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
1715 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
1716 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
1717 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
1718 FUNCALL on the result.
1719 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
1720 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
1721 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
1722 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
1723 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
1724 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
1725 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
1726 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
1728 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
1729 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
1730 the old compiler produced.
1731 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
1732 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
1733 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
1734 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
1735 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
1736 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
1737 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
1738 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
1739 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
1740 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
1741 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
1742 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
1743 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
1744 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
1745 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
1746 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
1747 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
1748 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
1749 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
1750 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
1751 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
1752 straightened out in some future version.)
1753 * minor incompatible changes:
1754 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
1755 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
1756 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
1757 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
1758 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
1759 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
1760 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
1761 implementation dependent:
1762 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
1763 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
1764 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
1765 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
1766 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
1767 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
1768 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
1769 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
1771 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
1773 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
1774 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
1775 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
1776 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
1777 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
1778 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
1779 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
1780 are no longer used for output.
1781 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
1782 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
1783 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
1784 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
1785 increasing it even more.)
1786 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
1787 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
1788 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
1790 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
1791 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
1792 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
1793 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
1794 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
1795 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
1796 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
1797 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
1798 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
1799 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
1800 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
1801 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
1802 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
1803 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
1804 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
1805 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
1806 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
1807 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
1808 compilation of code which calls such functions.
1809 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
1810 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
1811 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
1812 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
1813 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
1814 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
1815 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
1816 built into the system.
1817 * many other bug fixes
1818 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
1819 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
1820 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
1821 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
1822 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
1824 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
1825 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
1826 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
1827 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
1828 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
1829 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
1830 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
1831 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
1832 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
1833 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
1834 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
1836 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
1837 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
1838 and several other LOOP problems as well
1839 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
1840 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
1841 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
1842 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
1843 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
1844 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
1845 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
1846 *** a bug in APROPOS
1847 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
1848 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
1849 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
1850 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
1851 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
1852 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
1853 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
1854 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
1855 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
1856 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
1857 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
1858 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
1859 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
1860 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
1861 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
1863 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
1864 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
1865 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
1866 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
1867 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
1868 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
1869 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
1870 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
1871 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
1872 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
1873 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
1874 some of which are apparent above.
1876 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
1877 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
1878 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
1879 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
1880 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
1881 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
1882 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
1883 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
1884 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
1885 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
1886 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
1887 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
1888 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
1889 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
1890 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
1891 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
1892 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
1893 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
1894 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
1895 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
1896 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
1897 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
1898 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
1899 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
1900 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
1901 different return types.
1902 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
1903 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
1904 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
1905 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
1906 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
1907 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
1908 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
1909 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
1910 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
1911 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
1913 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
1914 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
1915 does the right thing.
1916 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
1917 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
1918 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
1919 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
1920 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
1921 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
1922 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
1923 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
1924 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
1925 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
1926 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
1927 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
1928 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
1929 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
1930 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
1931 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
1932 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
1933 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
1934 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
1935 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
1936 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
1937 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
1938 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
1939 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
1940 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
1941 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
1942 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
1943 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
1944 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
1945 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
1946 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
1947 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
1948 since historically most system changes which required version
1949 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
1950 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
1953 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
1954 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
1955 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
1956 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
1957 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
1958 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
1959 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
1960 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
1961 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
1962 half a dozen others elsewhere
1963 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
1964 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
1965 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
1966 as flaky as they were.
1967 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
1968 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
1969 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
1970 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
1971 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
1972 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
1973 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
1974 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
1976 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
1977 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
1978 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
1979 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
1980 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
1981 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
1982 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
1983 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
1984 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
1985 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
1986 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
1987 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
1988 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
1989 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
1990 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
1991 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
1992 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
1993 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
1994 more obscure bugs as well
1995 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
1996 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
1997 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
1998 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
1999 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
2000 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
2001 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
2002 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
2003 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
2004 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
2005 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
2007 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
2008 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
2010 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
2012 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2013 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
2014 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
2015 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
2016 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
2017 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
2018 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
2019 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
2020 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
2021 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
2022 are local in this sense.)
2023 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
2024 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
2025 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
2026 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
2027 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
2028 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
2029 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2030 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
2031 system's STREAM objects.
2032 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
2033 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2034 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
2035 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2036 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
2037 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
2038 environment from the original process instead of starting the
2039 new process in an empty environment.
2040 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
2041 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
2042 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
2043 for porting convenience.
2044 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
2045 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
2047 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
2049 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
2050 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
2051 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
2052 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
2053 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
2054 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
2055 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
2056 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
2057 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
2058 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
2059 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
2060 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2061 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
2062 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
2063 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
2064 many fewer weird special cases.
2065 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
2066 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
2067 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2068 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
2069 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
2070 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
2071 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
2072 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
2073 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
2074 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2075 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
2078 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
2080 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
2081 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
2082 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
2084 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
2085 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
2086 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
2087 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
2088 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
2089 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
2090 should be constructed the same way as before.
2091 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
2092 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
2093 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
2094 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
2095 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
2096 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
2097 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
2098 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
2099 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
2100 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
2101 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
2102 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
2103 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
2104 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
2105 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
2106 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
2107 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
2108 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
2109 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
2110 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
2111 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
2112 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
2114 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
2115 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
2116 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
2117 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
2118 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
2119 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
2120 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
2121 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
2123 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
2125 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
2126 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
2127 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
2128 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
2129 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
2131 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
2132 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
2133 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
2134 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
2135 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
2136 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
2137 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
2138 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
2139 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
2140 and Douglas Crosher.
2141 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
2142 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
2143 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
2145 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
2146 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
2147 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
2148 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
2149 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
2150 undefined function error.
2151 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
2152 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
2153 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
2154 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
2155 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
2156 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
2157 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
2158 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
2159 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
2160 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
2161 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
2162 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
2163 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
2165 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
2167 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
2168 CVS repository on my home machine).
2169 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
2170 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
2171 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
2172 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
2173 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
2174 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
2175 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
2176 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
2177 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
2178 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
2179 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
2180 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
2181 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
2182 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
2183 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
2184 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
2185 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
2186 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
2187 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
2188 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
2189 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
2190 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
2192 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
2193 FreeBSD have been added.
2194 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
2195 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
2196 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
2197 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
2198 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
2199 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
2201 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
2202 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
2203 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
2204 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
2205 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
2206 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
2207 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
2208 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
2210 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
2211 away by constant folding
2212 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
2213 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
2214 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
2215 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
2216 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
2217 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
2218 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
2219 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
2220 diff-related operations.
2221 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
2222 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
2224 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
2226 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
2227 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
2228 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
2229 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
2230 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
2231 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
2232 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
2233 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
2234 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
2235 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
2236 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
2237 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
2238 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
2239 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
2240 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
2241 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
2242 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
2243 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
2244 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
2245 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
2246 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
2247 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
2248 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
2249 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
2250 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
2251 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
2252 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
2253 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
2254 instead of (VALUES T T).
2255 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
2256 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
2257 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
2258 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
2259 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
2260 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
2261 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
2262 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
2263 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
2264 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
2265 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
2266 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
2267 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
2268 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
2269 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
2270 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
2271 type will be interpreted at runtime.
2272 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
2273 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
2274 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
2275 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
2276 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
2277 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
2278 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
2279 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
2280 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
2281 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
2282 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
2283 fasl files for cold load.
2284 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
2285 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
2286 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
2287 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
2288 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
2289 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
2290 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
2291 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
2292 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
2293 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
2294 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
2296 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
2297 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
2298 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
2299 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
2300 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
2301 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
2302 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
2303 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
2304 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
2305 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
2306 renamed some files to increase consistency.
2307 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
2308 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
2309 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
2310 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
2311 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
2312 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
2314 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
2316 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
2317 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
2318 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
2319 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
2320 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
2321 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
2322 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
2323 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
2324 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
2325 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
2326 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
2327 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
2328 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
2329 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
2330 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
2331 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
2332 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
2333 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
2335 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
2336 as required by ANSI.
2337 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
2338 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
2339 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
2340 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
2342 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
2343 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
2344 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
2345 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
2346 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
2347 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
2348 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
2349 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
2351 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
2352 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
2353 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
2354 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2356 is now basically equivalent to
2357 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2358 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
2360 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
2361 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
2362 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
2363 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
2364 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
2365 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
2366 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
2367 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
2368 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
2369 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
2370 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
2371 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
2372 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
2373 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
2374 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
2375 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2376 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
2377 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
2378 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
2379 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
2380 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
2381 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
2382 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
2384 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
2386 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
2387 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
2388 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
2389 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
2390 GNUMAKE environment variable.
2391 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
2392 can build without error under CMU CL.
2394 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
2396 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
2397 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
2398 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
2399 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
2400 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
2401 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
2402 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
2403 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
2404 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
2405 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
2406 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
2407 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
2408 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
2409 being initialized before the type system knew the final
2410 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
2411 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
2412 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
2413 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
2414 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
2415 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
2416 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
2417 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
2418 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
2419 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
2421 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
2422 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
2423 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
2424 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
2425 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
2426 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
2427 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
2428 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
2429 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
2430 it were currently supported.
2431 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
2432 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
2433 having to maintain patches.
2434 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
2435 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
2437 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
2439 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
2440 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
2441 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
2442 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
2443 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
2444 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
2445 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
2446 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
2447 * various new style warnings:
2448 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
2449 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
2450 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
2451 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
2452 as specified by ANSI.
2453 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
2454 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
2455 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
2456 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
2457 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
2458 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
2459 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
2460 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
2461 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
2462 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
2463 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
2464 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
2465 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
2466 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
2467 argument types can be determined at compile time.
2468 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
2469 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
2470 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
2471 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
2472 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
2473 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
2474 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
2477 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
2479 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
2480 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
2481 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
2482 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
2483 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
2484 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
2485 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
2486 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
2487 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
2489 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
2490 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
2491 the report form was printed.)
2492 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
2493 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
2494 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
2495 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
2496 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
2497 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
2498 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
2499 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
2500 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
2501 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
2502 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
2503 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
2504 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
2505 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
2506 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
2507 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
2508 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
2509 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
2510 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
2511 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
2512 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
2513 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
2514 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
2515 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
2516 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
2517 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
2518 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
2519 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
2520 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
2521 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
2522 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
2523 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
2524 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
2525 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
2526 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
2527 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
2528 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
2529 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
2530 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
2531 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
2532 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
2533 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
2534 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
2535 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
2536 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
2537 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
2538 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
2539 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
2540 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
2541 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
2542 know more about target types.
2543 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
2544 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
2545 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
2546 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
2547 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
2548 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
2550 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
2551 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
2552 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
2553 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
2554 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
2555 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
2556 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
2557 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
2558 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
2559 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
2560 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
2561 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
2562 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
2564 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
2567 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
2569 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
2570 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
2571 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
2572 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
2573 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
2574 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
2575 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
2576 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
2577 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
2578 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
2579 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
2580 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
2581 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
2582 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
2583 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
2584 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
2585 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
2586 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
2587 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
2588 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
2589 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
2590 invisible at the user level.)
2591 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
2592 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
2593 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
2595 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
2597 * tidied up "make.sh" script
2598 * tidied up system directory structure
2599 * better "clean.sh" behavior
2600 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
2601 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
2602 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
2603 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
2604 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
2605 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
2606 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
2607 * command line argument processing
2608 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
2609 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
2610 terminating SBCL on EOF
2611 * non-verbose GC by default
2612 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
2613 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
2614 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
2616 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
2617 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
2618 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
2619 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
2620 transformed along with everything else.
2621 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
2622 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
2623 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
2624 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
2625 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
2626 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
2627 debugging and testing purposes
2628 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
2629 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
2630 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
2631 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
2632 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
2633 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
2634 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
2636 * regularized formatting of source files
2637 * added an install.sh script
2638 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
2639 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
2640 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
2641 builds nicely on my old laptop.
2642 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
2643 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
2644 was not implemented)
2645 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
2646 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
2647 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
2648 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
2649 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
2651 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
2652 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
2653 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
2654 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
2655 COMPILE-FILE command)
2656 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
2657 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
2658 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
2659 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
2660 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
2661 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
2662 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
2663 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
2664 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
2665 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
2666 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
2667 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
2668 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
2669 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
2670 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
2672 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
2673 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
2674 known to be able to handle the current sources
2675 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
2676 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
2677 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
2678 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
2679 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
2680 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
2681 * removed host-oops.lisp
2682 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
2683 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
2684 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
2685 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
2686 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
2687 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by