1 changes in sbcl-0.8.22 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
2 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
3 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
4 --disable-debugger option instead.
5 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
7 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
8 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
9 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
10 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
11 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
12 has been added to the manual.
13 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
14 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
15 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
16 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
17 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
18 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
19 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
20 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
21 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
22 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
24 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
25 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
26 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
27 (reported by Rajat Datta).
28 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
29 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
31 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
32 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
33 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
34 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
35 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
36 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
37 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
38 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
39 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
40 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
41 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
42 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
43 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
44 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
45 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
46 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
47 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
48 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
49 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
51 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
53 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
54 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
55 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
57 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
58 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
59 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
61 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
62 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
63 types for complex arguments better.
64 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
66 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
67 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
69 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
70 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
71 resulting in GC crashes.
72 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
75 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
76 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
77 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
78 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
79 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
80 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
81 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
82 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
83 returning to the top level.
84 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
85 global optimization policy.
86 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
87 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
88 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
90 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
91 various incompatible changes.
92 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
93 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
94 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
95 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
96 level local call to FOO".
97 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
98 now have more legible printed representation
99 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
100 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
101 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
102 explicitly requested.
103 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
104 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
105 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
106 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
107 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
109 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
110 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
111 (reported by Lutz Euler)
112 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
113 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
114 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
115 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
116 the specializer is now possible.
117 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
118 face of package deletion.
119 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
120 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
121 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
122 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
123 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
124 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
125 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
126 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
127 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
128 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
130 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
131 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
132 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
133 correctable errors to be signalled.
134 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
135 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
138 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
139 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
140 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
142 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
143 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
144 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
145 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
146 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
147 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
148 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
149 related to the ~@F format directive.
150 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
152 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
153 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
154 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
155 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
157 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
159 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
160 coerce function designators to functions.
161 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
162 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
163 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
164 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
165 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
166 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
167 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
168 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
169 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
170 start of the buffer at the next read.
171 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
172 passing it through to OPEN.
173 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
174 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
175 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
176 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
177 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
178 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
179 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
180 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
182 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
183 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
184 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
185 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
186 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
187 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
189 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
190 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
191 secondary constituent character trait.
192 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
194 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
196 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
198 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
199 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
200 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
202 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
203 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
205 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
206 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
207 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
208 and reloading shared object files.
209 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
210 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
212 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
213 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
214 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
216 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
217 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
219 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
221 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
222 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
223 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
224 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
225 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
226 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
227 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
229 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
230 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
232 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
233 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
234 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
235 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
236 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
238 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
239 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
240 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
241 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
242 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
243 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
244 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
245 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
246 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
247 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
248 lisp characters are not eight bits.
249 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
250 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
251 the correct number of arguments.
252 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
253 to displaced strings.
254 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
255 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
257 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
258 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
259 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
260 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
261 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
262 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
263 available at runtime.
264 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
265 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
266 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
267 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
268 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
269 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
270 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
271 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
272 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
273 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
274 of lambda-list keywords.
275 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
276 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
278 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
279 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
280 (reported by Paul Dietz)
281 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
282 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
283 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
284 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
286 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
287 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
288 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
289 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
290 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
292 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
293 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
294 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
295 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
296 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
297 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
298 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
300 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
301 parameters correctly.
302 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
303 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
304 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
306 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
309 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
310 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
311 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
312 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
314 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
315 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
316 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
317 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
318 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
319 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
320 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
321 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
322 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
324 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
325 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
327 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
329 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
330 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
331 (reported by Bruno Haible)
332 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
334 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
335 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
336 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
337 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
338 (reported by David Morse)
339 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
340 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
341 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
342 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
343 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
344 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
345 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
346 now exists, an signals an error.
347 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
348 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
349 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
350 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
351 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
352 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
353 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
354 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
355 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
356 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
357 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
358 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
360 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
361 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
362 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
363 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
364 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
365 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
366 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
367 specialized array element types.
368 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
369 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
370 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
371 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
372 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
373 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
374 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
375 Wragg for the simple test case)
376 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
377 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
379 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
380 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
381 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
382 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
383 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
385 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
387 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
388 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
389 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
390 references to global functions.
391 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
393 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
395 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
396 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
397 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
399 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
400 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
401 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
402 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
403 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
404 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
405 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
406 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
407 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
408 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
409 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
410 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
411 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
413 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
414 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
415 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
416 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
417 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
418 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
420 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
421 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
423 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
424 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
425 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
426 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
427 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
428 returns the right answer.
429 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
431 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
433 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
434 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
436 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
437 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
439 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
440 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
441 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
442 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
443 the supported interface.
444 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
445 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
446 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
447 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
448 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
449 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
450 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
451 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
452 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
453 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
454 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
455 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
456 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
457 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
458 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
459 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
460 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
461 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
462 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
463 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
464 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
465 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
466 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
467 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
468 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
469 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
470 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
471 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
472 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
474 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
475 * incompatible change: the internal functions
476 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
477 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
478 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
479 instead of the old functions.
480 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
481 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
483 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
484 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
486 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
487 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
488 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
489 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
491 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
492 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
493 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
494 (reported by Rick Taube)
495 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
496 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
497 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
498 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
500 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
501 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
502 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
503 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
504 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
505 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
506 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
507 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
508 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
509 represented relative to default pathnames.
510 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
511 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
512 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
514 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
515 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
516 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
518 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
519 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
520 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
521 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
523 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
525 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
526 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
527 conditional newlines.
528 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
529 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
530 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
532 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
533 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
535 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
536 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
537 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
538 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
539 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
540 compiled in unconditionally.
541 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
542 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
543 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
544 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
545 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
547 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
548 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
549 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
550 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
551 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
552 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
553 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
554 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
555 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
556 an implementation-internal package.
557 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
559 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
560 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
561 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
562 bodies are now more legible.
563 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
564 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
565 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
566 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
567 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
568 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
569 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
571 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
572 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
573 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
574 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
575 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
576 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
577 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
579 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
580 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
582 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
583 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
584 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
585 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
586 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
587 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
588 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
589 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
590 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
591 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
592 system even when most of them are idle
593 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
594 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
595 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
597 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
598 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
599 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
600 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
601 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
603 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
604 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
605 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
606 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
607 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
608 string for information on the protocol.
609 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
610 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
612 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
613 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
615 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
616 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
617 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
618 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
619 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
620 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
622 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
623 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
625 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
626 move between its address being taken and the call to
627 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
628 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
629 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
630 instances corresponding to C structs.
632 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
633 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
634 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
635 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
636 has implications for memory management of client code
637 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
638 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
639 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
640 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
641 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
642 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
643 quality should be considered deprecated.
644 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
645 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
646 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
647 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
648 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
650 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
651 designator as the defaults argument.
652 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
653 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
654 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
655 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
656 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
658 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
660 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
661 (thanks to Zach Beane)
662 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
663 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
664 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
665 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
667 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
668 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
669 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
670 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
671 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
672 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
673 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
674 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
675 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
676 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
677 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
678 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
679 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
680 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
681 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
682 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
683 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
685 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
686 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
687 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
689 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
690 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
691 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
692 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
693 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
694 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
695 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
696 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
697 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
699 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
700 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
702 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
703 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
705 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
706 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
707 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
708 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
710 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
711 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
712 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
713 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
714 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
715 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
716 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
717 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
719 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
720 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
721 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
723 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
724 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
726 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
727 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
729 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
730 from local to shared slots.
731 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
732 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
733 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
734 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
736 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
737 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
738 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
739 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
740 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
741 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
742 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
743 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
744 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
746 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
748 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
750 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
751 print using #P"..." syntax.
753 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
754 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
755 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
756 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
757 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
758 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
759 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
760 * [placeholder for DX summary]
761 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
762 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
763 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
764 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
765 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
766 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
767 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
768 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
769 the test case to Dave Roberts)
770 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
771 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
772 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
773 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
774 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
775 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
776 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
777 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
778 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
779 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
780 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
781 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
782 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
783 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
784 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
787 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
788 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
789 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
790 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
791 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
792 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
793 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
794 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
795 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
796 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
797 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
798 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
799 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
801 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
802 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
804 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
805 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
806 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
807 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
808 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
809 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
811 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
812 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
813 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
815 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
817 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
819 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
820 their output stream on EOF from read.
821 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
822 have been read to end-of-file.
823 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
825 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
826 description of determination of which consecutive characters
828 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
829 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
830 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
831 less than 10 works correctly.
832 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
833 more than 10 works correctly.
834 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
835 the readtable currently in effect.
837 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
838 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
839 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
840 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
841 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
842 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
843 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
844 should usually be replaced by
845 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
846 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
847 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
848 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
849 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
850 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
851 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
852 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
854 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
855 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
856 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
857 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
858 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
859 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
860 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
861 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
862 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
863 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
864 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
865 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
866 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
868 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
869 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
870 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
871 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
872 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
873 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
874 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
875 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
876 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
877 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
878 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
879 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
880 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
881 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
882 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
883 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
884 non-local entry points.
885 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
887 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
888 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
890 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
891 host is already defined.
892 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
894 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
895 or not a character is whitespace.
896 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
897 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
898 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
900 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
901 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
903 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
905 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
906 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
907 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
908 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
909 designator argument does not designate a stream.
910 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
911 examining the synonym.
912 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
914 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
915 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
917 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
918 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
919 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
920 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
921 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
922 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
923 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
924 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
925 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
926 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
927 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
928 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
930 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
931 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
932 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
933 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
934 stream position information.
935 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
936 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
937 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
938 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
939 (reported by Paul Dietz)
940 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
942 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
943 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
945 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
946 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
947 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
948 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
949 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
950 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
951 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
953 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
955 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
956 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
957 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
958 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
959 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
960 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
961 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
962 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
963 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
964 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
965 the "SYS" logical host.
966 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
967 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
968 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
969 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
970 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
971 now each have their own history, command character, and other
972 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
973 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
974 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
976 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
977 shift greater than 32.
978 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
979 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
980 in some circumstances.
982 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
983 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
984 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
985 environments like SLIME.
986 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
987 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
988 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
989 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
990 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
991 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
992 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
993 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
994 argument types for all arguments.
995 * various threading fixes
996 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
997 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
998 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
999 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
1001 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
1002 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
1003 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
1004 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
1005 arguments to a full call.
1006 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
1007 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
1008 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
1009 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
1011 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
1012 inserts a space where necessary.
1013 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
1014 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
1015 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
1016 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
1017 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
1018 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
1019 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
1020 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
1021 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
1022 counter now raises a meaningful error.
1023 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
1024 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
1026 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
1027 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
1028 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
1030 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
1032 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1033 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
1034 argument and negative second.
1035 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
1036 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
1037 interval, containing 0.
1038 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
1040 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
1041 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
1043 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
1044 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
1045 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
1046 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
1047 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
1048 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
1049 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
1050 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
1051 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
1052 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
1053 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
1054 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
1055 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
1056 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
1057 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
1058 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
1059 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
1060 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
1061 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
1062 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
1063 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
1064 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1065 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
1066 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
1067 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
1068 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
1069 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
1070 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
1071 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
1073 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
1074 platform now returns the right answer.
1075 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
1076 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
1077 precomputation is now tunable.
1078 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
1079 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
1080 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
1081 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
1082 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
1083 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
1084 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
1085 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
1086 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
1087 has been added for the alpha.
1088 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
1089 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
1090 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
1091 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
1092 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
1093 MEMBER-types to numeric.
1094 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
1096 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
1097 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
1098 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
1100 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
1101 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1102 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
1103 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
1104 might be pseudo-atomic.
1105 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
1106 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
1108 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
1110 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
1112 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
1113 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
1114 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
1115 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
1116 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
1117 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
1119 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1120 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
1121 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
1122 small float arguments.
1123 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
1125 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
1126 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
1127 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
1128 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
1129 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
1130 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
1132 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
1134 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
1135 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
1136 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
1137 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
1138 with negative last argument.
1139 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
1140 an error during type derivation.
1141 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
1143 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
1144 generates a 32-bit binary.
1145 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1146 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
1147 data structures referred to above).
1149 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
1150 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
1151 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
1152 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
1153 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
1154 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
1155 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
1156 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
1157 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
1158 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1159 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
1160 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
1162 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
1163 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
1165 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
1166 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
1167 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
1168 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
1169 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
1170 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
1171 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
1172 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
1173 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
1174 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
1175 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
1176 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1177 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
1178 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
1179 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
1180 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
1181 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
1182 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1183 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
1184 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
1185 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
1186 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
1187 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1188 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
1189 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
1190 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
1191 optimization quality.
1192 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
1193 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
1194 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
1195 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
1196 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1197 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1198 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
1199 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
1200 types form a lattice under type intersection.
1201 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
1202 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
1203 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
1204 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
1205 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
1206 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
1207 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
1208 calling the generic function.
1209 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
1210 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
1211 obscure ANSI requirements
1213 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
1214 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
1215 garbage, confusing the compiler.
1216 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
1217 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
1218 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
1219 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
1220 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
1221 circumstances could go off-by-one.
1222 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
1224 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
1225 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
1226 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
1227 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
1228 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
1229 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
1230 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
1231 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
1232 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
1233 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1234 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
1235 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
1236 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1237 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
1238 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1239 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
1240 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
1241 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
1242 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
1243 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
1245 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
1246 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
1247 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
1248 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
1250 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
1251 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
1252 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
1253 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
1254 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
1255 provide helpful disassembly notes.
1256 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
1257 the class in more cases than previously.
1258 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
1259 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1260 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
1261 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1262 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
1263 without lambda list.
1264 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
1265 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
1266 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1267 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
1268 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
1269 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
1271 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
1272 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
1273 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
1275 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
1276 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
1277 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
1278 were silently accepted).
1279 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
1280 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
1281 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
1282 to warn on static type mismatches and function
1283 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
1284 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
1285 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
1286 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
1287 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
1288 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
1289 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
1290 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
1291 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
1292 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
1294 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
1295 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
1296 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
1297 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
1298 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
1299 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
1301 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
1302 keywords or constants is permissible.
1303 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
1304 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
1305 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1306 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
1307 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
1308 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
1309 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
1310 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
1312 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
1313 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1314 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
1315 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
1316 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1317 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
1318 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
1320 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
1322 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
1323 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
1324 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
1325 respectively change and preserve the value.
1326 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
1327 is now better at handling symbol macros.
1328 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
1329 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
1330 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
1331 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
1332 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
1333 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
1334 their use properly signals an error now.
1335 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
1336 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
1337 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
1338 * fixed simple vector readable printing
1339 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
1340 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
1341 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
1342 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
1343 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
1344 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
1345 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1346 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
1347 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1348 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
1349 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
1350 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1351 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
1352 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
1353 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
1354 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
1355 causes a type error.
1356 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
1357 association between the name and a class.
1358 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
1359 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
1360 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1361 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
1362 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
1363 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
1365 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
1366 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
1367 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
1368 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
1370 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
1371 which its argument is a member.
1372 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
1373 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
1374 otherwise, it creates a new class.
1375 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
1376 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
1377 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
1378 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
1379 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1380 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
1382 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
1383 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
1384 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
1385 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
1386 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
1387 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
1388 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
1390 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
1391 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
1392 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
1393 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
1394 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
1395 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
1396 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
1397 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
1398 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
1399 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
1400 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
1401 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
1402 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1403 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
1405 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
1406 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
1407 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
1408 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
1409 superclasses are applied.
1410 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1411 no method was removed.
1412 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
1413 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
1414 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
1415 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
1417 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
1419 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
1420 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
1421 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
1422 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
1423 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
1424 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
1425 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
1426 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
1427 function lambda list.
1428 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
1430 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
1431 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
1432 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
1433 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
1435 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
1436 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
1437 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
1438 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
1439 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
1440 they look for GNU "make".
1442 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
1443 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
1444 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
1445 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
1447 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
1448 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
1449 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
1450 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
1451 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
1452 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
1453 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
1454 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
1455 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
1456 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
1458 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
1459 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
1460 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
1461 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
1462 libraries, and will know who they are.
1463 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
1464 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
1465 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
1466 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
1467 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
1468 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
1469 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
1470 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
1472 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
1473 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
1474 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1475 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
1476 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
1477 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
1478 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
1479 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
1480 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
1481 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
1482 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1483 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
1485 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
1486 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
1487 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
1488 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
1489 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1490 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
1491 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
1492 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
1493 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
1495 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
1496 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
1497 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
1498 this you were probably losing anyway.
1499 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
1500 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
1501 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
1502 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
1503 with names from the CL package.
1504 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
1505 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
1506 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
1507 documentation string.
1508 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1509 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
1511 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
1512 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
1513 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
1514 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
1516 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
1517 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
1519 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
1520 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1521 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
1523 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
1524 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
1525 arguments contain duplicated elements.
1526 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
1527 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
1528 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
1529 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
1530 in question is unbound.
1531 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
1532 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
1533 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
1534 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
1535 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
1537 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
1539 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
1540 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
1541 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
1542 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
1543 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
1544 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
1545 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
1546 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
1547 by Antonio Martinez)
1548 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
1549 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1550 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
1551 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
1552 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
1553 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
1554 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
1555 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1556 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
1557 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
1558 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
1559 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
1560 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
1561 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
1562 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
1563 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
1564 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
1565 on malformed property lists;
1567 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
1568 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
1569 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
1570 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
1571 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
1572 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
1573 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
1574 modules in this release include:
1575 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
1576 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
1577 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
1578 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1579 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
1581 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
1582 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
1583 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1584 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1585 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
1586 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
1587 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
1588 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
1590 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
1591 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
1592 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
1593 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
1594 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
1595 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
1596 the lexical environment.
1597 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
1598 unprintable packages can now be defined.
1599 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
1600 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1601 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
1602 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1603 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
1604 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
1605 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
1606 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
1607 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
1608 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
1609 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
1610 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
1611 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1612 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
1613 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1614 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
1615 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
1616 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
1617 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1618 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
1619 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
1620 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
1621 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
1623 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
1624 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
1625 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1626 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1627 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
1628 not just nonnegative fixnums;
1629 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
1630 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
1631 freshly-consed result bit-array);
1632 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
1634 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
1635 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
1637 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
1638 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
1639 cases are accurately computed;
1640 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
1641 if it is in the last clause;
1642 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
1644 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
1645 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
1646 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
1647 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
1649 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
1650 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
1651 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
1652 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
1653 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
1655 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
1656 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
1657 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
1658 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
1660 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1661 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
1662 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
1663 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
1664 not cause a type error;
1665 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
1667 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
1668 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
1669 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
1670 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
1671 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
1672 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
1673 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
1674 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
1676 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
1677 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
1678 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
1679 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
1680 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
1681 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
1683 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
1684 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
1686 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
1687 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
1688 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
1689 only for symbols in the CL package.
1690 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
1691 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1692 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
1693 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
1694 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
1696 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1697 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
1698 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
1699 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
1700 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
1701 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
1702 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
1703 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
1704 conditional loop clause;
1705 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
1706 signals a type error iff it should.
1707 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1708 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
1709 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
1710 argument) no longer signals an error;
1711 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
1712 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
1713 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
1715 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
1716 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
1717 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
1719 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
1720 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
1721 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
1722 functionality on said platforms verified.
1723 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
1724 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
1726 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
1727 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
1728 component indicating that directory.
1729 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
1730 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
1731 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
1732 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
1733 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1734 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
1736 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
1737 primary methods with no specializers;
1738 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
1740 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
1741 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
1742 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
1743 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
1745 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
1746 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
1747 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
1749 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
1750 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
1751 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
1752 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
1753 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
1754 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
1755 class STANDARD-CLASS;
1756 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
1757 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1758 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
1759 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
1761 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
1762 value producing form;
1763 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
1764 variables are bound and made to have no value;
1765 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
1767 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
1768 is not a valid sequence index;
1769 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
1770 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
1771 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1772 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
1774 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
1775 symbol-macro places;
1776 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
1777 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
1779 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
1781 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
1783 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
1784 invariant when deleting code.
1785 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
1786 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
1788 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
1789 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1790 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
1792 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
1793 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
1795 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
1796 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
1797 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1798 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
1800 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
1801 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1802 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
1803 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
1805 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
1806 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
1807 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
1808 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
1809 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
1810 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
1811 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
1812 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
1813 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
1814 sbcl and .core files.)
1815 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
1816 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
1817 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
1818 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
1819 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
1820 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1821 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
1823 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
1824 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
1825 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
1826 argument precedence order.
1827 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
1828 derived types contradict their declared type.
1829 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
1830 so it can be non-toplevel.
1831 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
1832 implementation of DEFMACRO).
1833 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
1834 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
1835 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
1837 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
1838 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
1839 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
1840 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
1841 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
1842 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
1843 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
1844 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
1845 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
1846 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
1847 symbol macro only once
1848 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
1849 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
1850 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
1853 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
1854 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
1855 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
1856 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
1857 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
1858 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
1859 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
1860 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
1861 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
1862 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1863 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
1864 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
1866 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
1867 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
1868 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
1869 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
1870 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1871 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
1873 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
1875 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
1876 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
1877 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
1878 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
1879 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1880 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
1881 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
1882 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
1883 ways in different special cases
1884 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
1886 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
1887 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
1888 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
1889 are no longer optimized away.
1890 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
1891 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
1892 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
1893 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
1894 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
1895 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
1896 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
1897 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
1900 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
1901 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
1902 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
1903 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
1904 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
1905 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
1906 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
1908 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
1909 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
1910 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
1911 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
1912 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
1913 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
1914 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
1915 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
1916 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
1917 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
1918 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
1919 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
1920 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
1921 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
1922 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
1923 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
1924 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
1925 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1926 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
1927 that are names of constants or global variables.
1928 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
1929 alien routines with docstrings.
1930 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
1931 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
1933 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
1934 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1935 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
1936 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1937 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
1938 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1939 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
1940 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
1941 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
1942 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1943 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
1944 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
1945 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
1946 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
1947 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
1948 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
1949 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
1950 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
1951 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
1952 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
1953 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
1954 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
1955 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
1957 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
1958 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
1960 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
1961 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
1962 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
1963 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
1964 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
1965 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
1966 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
1967 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
1968 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
1969 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
1971 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
1972 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
1973 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
1974 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
1975 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
1976 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
1977 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
1978 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
1979 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
1980 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
1981 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
1982 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
1983 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
1984 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
1985 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
1986 is no longer a static symbol.)
1988 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
1989 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
1990 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
1991 bootstrapping under CLISP.
1992 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
1994 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
1995 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
1997 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
1998 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
1999 to David Lichteblau)
2000 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
2001 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
2002 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
2004 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
2005 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2006 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
2007 count as they should.
2008 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
2009 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2010 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
2011 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
2012 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
2013 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
2014 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
2015 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
2016 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
2017 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
2018 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
2019 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
2020 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
2021 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
2022 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
2024 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
2025 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
2026 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
2028 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
2030 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
2031 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
2032 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
2033 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
2034 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
2035 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
2036 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
2038 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
2039 to Christophe Rhodes)
2040 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
2041 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
2042 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
2043 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
2044 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
2045 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
2046 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
2048 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
2049 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
2050 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
2051 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
2052 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
2053 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2054 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
2055 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
2056 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
2057 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
2058 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
2059 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
2060 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
2062 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
2063 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
2064 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
2065 INFO database to support symbol macros.
2066 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
2067 (thanks to coreythomas)
2068 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
2069 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
2070 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
2071 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
2072 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
2074 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
2075 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
2076 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
2077 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
2078 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
2079 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
2080 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
2081 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
2082 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
2083 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2084 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
2085 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
2086 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
2088 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
2089 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
2092 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
2093 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
2094 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
2095 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
2096 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
2097 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
2098 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
2099 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
2100 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
2101 systems than the old 4M value was)
2102 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
2103 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
2104 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
2105 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
2106 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
2107 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
2108 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
2110 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
2111 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
2112 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
2113 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
2114 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
2116 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
2117 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
2118 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
2119 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
2120 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
2121 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
2122 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
2123 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
2125 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
2126 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2127 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
2128 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2129 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
2130 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
2131 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
2132 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
2134 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2135 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2136 * several changes related to debugging:
2137 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
2138 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
2139 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
2140 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
2141 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
2142 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
2143 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
2146 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
2148 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
2149 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
2150 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
2151 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
2152 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
2153 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
2154 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
2155 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
2157 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
2158 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
2159 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
2160 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2161 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
2162 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
2163 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
2164 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
2165 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
2166 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
2167 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
2168 file format number to change again.
2170 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
2171 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
2172 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
2173 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
2175 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
2176 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
2177 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
2178 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
2179 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
2180 FUNCALL on the result.
2181 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
2182 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
2183 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
2184 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
2185 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
2186 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
2187 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
2188 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
2190 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
2191 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
2192 the old compiler produced.
2193 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
2194 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
2195 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
2196 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
2197 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
2198 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
2199 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
2200 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
2201 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
2202 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
2203 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
2204 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
2205 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
2206 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
2207 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
2208 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
2209 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
2210 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
2211 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
2212 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
2213 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
2214 straightened out in some future version.)
2215 * minor incompatible changes:
2216 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
2217 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
2218 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
2219 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
2220 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
2221 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
2222 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
2223 implementation dependent:
2224 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
2225 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
2226 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
2227 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
2228 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
2229 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
2230 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
2231 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
2233 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
2235 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
2236 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
2237 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
2238 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
2239 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
2240 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
2241 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
2242 are no longer used for output.
2243 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
2244 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
2245 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
2246 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
2247 increasing it even more.)
2248 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
2249 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
2250 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
2252 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
2253 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
2254 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
2255 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
2256 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
2257 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
2258 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
2259 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
2260 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
2261 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
2262 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
2263 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
2264 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
2265 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
2266 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
2267 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
2268 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
2269 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
2270 compilation of code which calls such functions.
2271 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
2272 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
2273 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
2274 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
2275 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
2276 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
2277 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
2278 built into the system.
2279 * many other bug fixes
2280 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
2281 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
2282 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
2283 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
2284 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
2286 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
2287 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
2288 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
2289 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
2290 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
2291 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
2292 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
2293 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
2294 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
2295 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
2296 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
2298 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
2299 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
2300 and several other LOOP problems as well
2301 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
2302 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
2303 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
2304 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
2305 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
2306 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
2307 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
2308 *** a bug in APROPOS
2309 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
2310 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
2311 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
2312 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
2313 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
2314 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
2315 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
2316 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
2317 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
2318 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
2319 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
2320 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
2321 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
2322 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
2323 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
2325 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
2326 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
2327 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
2328 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
2329 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
2330 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
2331 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
2332 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
2333 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
2334 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
2335 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
2336 some of which are apparent above.
2338 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
2339 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
2340 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
2341 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
2342 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
2343 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
2344 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
2345 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
2346 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
2347 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
2348 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
2349 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
2350 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
2351 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
2352 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
2353 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
2354 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
2355 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
2356 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
2357 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
2358 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
2359 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
2360 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
2361 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
2362 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
2363 different return types.
2364 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
2365 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
2366 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
2367 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
2368 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
2369 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
2370 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
2371 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
2372 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
2373 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
2375 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
2376 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
2377 does the right thing.
2378 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
2379 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
2380 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2381 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
2382 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2383 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2384 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
2385 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
2386 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
2387 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
2388 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2389 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
2390 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2391 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
2392 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
2393 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
2394 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
2395 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
2396 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
2397 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
2398 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
2399 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
2400 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
2401 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
2402 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
2403 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
2404 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
2405 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
2406 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
2407 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
2408 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
2409 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
2410 since historically most system changes which required version
2411 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
2412 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
2415 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
2416 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
2417 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
2418 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
2419 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
2420 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
2421 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
2422 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
2423 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
2424 half a dozen others elsewhere
2425 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
2426 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
2427 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
2428 as flaky as they were.
2429 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
2430 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
2431 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
2432 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
2433 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
2434 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
2435 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
2436 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
2438 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
2439 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
2440 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
2441 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2442 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
2443 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
2444 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
2445 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
2446 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
2447 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
2448 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
2449 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
2450 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
2451 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
2452 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
2453 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
2454 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
2455 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
2456 more obscure bugs as well
2457 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
2458 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
2459 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
2460 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
2461 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
2462 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
2463 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
2464 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
2465 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
2466 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
2467 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
2469 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
2470 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
2472 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
2474 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2475 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
2476 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
2477 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
2478 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
2479 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
2480 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
2481 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
2482 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
2483 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
2484 are local in this sense.)
2485 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
2486 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
2487 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
2488 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
2489 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
2490 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
2491 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2492 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
2493 system's STREAM objects.
2494 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
2495 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2496 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
2497 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2498 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
2499 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
2500 environment from the original process instead of starting the
2501 new process in an empty environment.
2502 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
2503 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
2504 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
2505 for porting convenience.
2506 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
2507 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
2509 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
2511 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
2512 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
2513 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
2514 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
2515 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
2516 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
2517 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
2518 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
2519 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
2520 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
2521 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
2522 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2523 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
2524 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
2525 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
2526 many fewer weird special cases.
2527 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
2528 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
2529 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2530 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
2531 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
2532 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
2533 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
2534 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
2535 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
2536 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2537 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
2540 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
2542 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
2543 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
2544 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
2546 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
2547 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
2548 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
2549 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
2550 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
2551 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
2552 should be constructed the same way as before.
2553 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
2554 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
2555 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
2556 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
2557 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
2558 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
2559 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
2560 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
2561 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
2562 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
2563 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
2564 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
2565 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
2566 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
2567 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
2568 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
2569 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
2570 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
2571 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
2572 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
2573 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
2574 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
2576 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
2577 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
2578 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
2579 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
2580 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
2581 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
2582 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
2583 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
2585 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
2587 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
2588 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
2589 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
2590 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
2591 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
2593 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
2594 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
2595 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
2596 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
2597 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
2598 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
2599 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
2600 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
2601 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
2602 and Douglas Crosher.
2603 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
2604 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
2605 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
2607 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
2608 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
2609 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
2610 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
2611 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
2612 undefined function error.
2613 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
2614 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
2615 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
2616 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
2617 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
2618 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
2619 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
2620 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
2621 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
2622 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
2623 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
2624 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
2625 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
2627 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
2629 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
2630 CVS repository on my home machine).
2631 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
2632 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
2633 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
2634 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
2635 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
2636 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
2637 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
2638 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
2639 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
2640 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
2641 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
2642 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
2643 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
2644 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
2645 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
2646 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
2647 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
2648 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
2649 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
2650 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
2651 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
2652 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
2654 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
2655 FreeBSD have been added.
2656 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
2657 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
2658 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
2659 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
2660 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
2661 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
2663 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
2664 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
2665 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
2666 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
2667 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
2668 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
2669 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
2670 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
2672 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
2673 away by constant folding
2674 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
2675 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
2676 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
2677 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
2678 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
2679 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
2680 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
2681 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
2682 diff-related operations.
2683 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
2684 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
2686 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
2688 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
2689 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
2690 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
2691 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
2692 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
2693 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
2694 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
2695 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
2696 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
2697 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
2698 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
2699 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
2700 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
2701 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
2702 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
2703 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
2704 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
2705 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
2706 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
2707 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
2708 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
2709 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
2710 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
2711 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
2712 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
2713 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
2714 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
2715 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
2716 instead of (VALUES T T).
2717 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
2718 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
2719 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
2720 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
2721 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
2722 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
2723 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
2724 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
2725 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
2726 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
2727 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
2728 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
2729 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
2730 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
2731 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
2732 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
2733 type will be interpreted at runtime.
2734 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
2735 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
2736 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
2737 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
2738 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
2739 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
2740 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
2741 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
2742 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
2743 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
2744 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
2745 fasl files for cold load.
2746 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
2747 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
2748 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
2749 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
2750 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
2751 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
2752 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
2753 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
2754 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
2755 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
2756 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
2758 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
2759 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
2760 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
2761 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
2762 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
2763 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
2764 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
2765 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
2766 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
2767 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
2768 renamed some files to increase consistency.
2769 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
2770 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
2771 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
2772 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
2773 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
2774 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
2776 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
2778 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
2779 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
2780 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
2781 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
2782 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
2783 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
2784 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
2785 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
2786 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
2787 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
2788 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
2789 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
2790 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
2791 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
2792 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
2793 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
2794 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
2795 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
2797 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
2798 as required by ANSI.
2799 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
2800 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
2801 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
2802 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
2804 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
2805 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
2806 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
2807 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
2808 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
2809 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
2810 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
2811 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
2813 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
2814 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
2815 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
2816 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2818 is now basically equivalent to
2819 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2820 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
2822 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
2823 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
2824 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
2825 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
2826 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
2827 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
2828 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
2829 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
2830 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
2831 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
2832 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
2833 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
2834 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
2835 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
2836 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
2837 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2838 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
2839 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
2840 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
2841 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
2842 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
2843 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
2844 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
2846 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
2848 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
2849 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
2850 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
2851 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
2852 GNUMAKE environment variable.
2853 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
2854 can build without error under CMU CL.
2856 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
2858 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
2859 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
2860 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
2861 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
2862 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
2863 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
2864 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
2865 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
2866 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
2867 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
2868 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
2869 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
2870 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
2871 being initialized before the type system knew the final
2872 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
2873 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
2874 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
2875 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
2876 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
2877 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
2878 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
2879 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
2880 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
2881 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
2883 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
2884 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
2885 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
2886 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
2887 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
2888 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
2889 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
2890 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
2891 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
2892 it were currently supported.
2893 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
2894 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
2895 having to maintain patches.
2896 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
2897 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
2899 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
2901 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
2902 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
2903 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
2904 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
2905 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
2906 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
2907 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
2908 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
2909 * various new style warnings:
2910 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
2911 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
2912 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
2913 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
2914 as specified by ANSI.
2915 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
2916 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
2917 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
2918 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
2919 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
2920 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
2921 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
2922 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
2923 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
2924 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
2925 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
2926 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
2927 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
2928 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
2929 argument types can be determined at compile time.
2930 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
2931 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
2932 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
2933 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
2934 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
2935 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
2936 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
2939 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
2941 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
2942 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
2943 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
2944 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
2945 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
2946 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
2947 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
2948 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
2949 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
2951 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
2952 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
2953 the report form was printed.)
2954 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
2955 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
2956 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
2957 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
2958 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
2959 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
2960 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
2961 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
2962 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
2963 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
2964 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
2965 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
2966 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
2967 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
2968 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
2969 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
2970 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
2971 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
2972 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
2973 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
2974 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
2975 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
2976 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
2977 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
2978 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
2979 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
2980 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
2981 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
2982 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
2983 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
2984 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
2985 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
2986 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
2987 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
2988 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
2989 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
2990 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
2991 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
2992 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
2993 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
2994 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
2995 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
2996 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
2997 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
2998 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
2999 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
3000 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
3001 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
3002 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
3003 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
3004 know more about target types.
3005 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
3006 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
3007 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
3008 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
3009 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
3010 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
3012 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
3013 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
3014 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
3015 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
3016 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
3017 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
3018 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
3019 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
3020 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
3021 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
3022 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
3023 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
3024 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
3026 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
3029 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
3031 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
3032 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
3033 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
3034 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
3035 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
3036 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
3037 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
3038 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
3039 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
3040 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
3041 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
3042 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
3043 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
3044 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
3045 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
3046 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
3047 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
3048 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
3049 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
3050 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
3051 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
3052 invisible at the user level.)
3053 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
3054 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
3055 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
3057 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
3059 * tidied up "make.sh" script
3060 * tidied up system directory structure
3061 * better "clean.sh" behavior
3062 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
3063 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
3064 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
3065 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
3066 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
3067 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
3068 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
3069 * command line argument processing
3070 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
3071 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
3072 terminating SBCL on EOF
3073 * non-verbose GC by default
3074 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
3075 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
3076 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
3078 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
3079 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
3080 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
3081 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
3082 transformed along with everything else.
3083 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
3084 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
3085 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
3086 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
3087 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
3088 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
3089 debugging and testing purposes
3090 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
3091 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
3092 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
3093 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
3094 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
3095 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
3096 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
3098 * regularized formatting of source files
3099 * added an install.sh script
3100 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
3101 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
3102 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
3103 builds nicely on my old laptop.
3104 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
3105 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
3106 was not implemented)
3107 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
3108 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
3109 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
3110 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
3111 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
3113 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
3114 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
3115 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
3116 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
3117 COMPILE-FILE command)
3118 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
3119 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
3120 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
3121 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
3122 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
3123 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
3124 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
3125 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
3126 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
3127 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
3128 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
3129 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
3130 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
3131 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
3132 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
3134 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
3135 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
3136 known to be able to handle the current sources
3137 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
3138 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
3139 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
3140 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
3141 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
3142 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
3143 * removed host-oops.lisp
3144 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
3145 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
3146 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
3147 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
3148 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
3149 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by
projects / sbcl.git / blob