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2 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
3 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
4 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
5 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
7 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
8 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
9 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
10 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
11 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
12 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
13 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
14 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
16 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
17 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
18 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
19 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
20 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
22 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
23 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
24 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
25 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
26 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
27 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
28 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
29 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
30 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
31 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
32 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
33 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
34 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
35 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
36 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
37 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
39 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
40 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
41 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
42 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
43 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
44 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
45 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
46 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
47 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
48 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
49 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
50 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
51 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
52 recursive errors or deadlock.
53 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
54 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
55 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
57 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
58 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
59 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
60 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
61 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
62 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
63 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
64 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
66 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
67 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
68 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
69 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
70 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
71 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
72 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
73 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
75 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
76 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
77 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
78 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
79 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
80 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
81 their constant arguments.
82 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
83 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
84 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
85 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
86 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
87 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
88 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
89 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
90 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
91 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
92 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
93 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
94 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
95 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
96 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
97 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
98 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
99 * improvements to the Windows port:
100 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
101 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
103 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
104 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
105 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
106 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
107 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
108 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
109 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
110 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
111 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
112 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
113 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
114 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
115 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
116 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
118 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
120 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
121 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
122 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
123 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
124 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
125 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
126 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
127 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
128 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
129 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
131 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
132 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
133 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
134 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
135 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
136 compile-time style-warning.
137 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
138 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
139 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
140 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
141 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
142 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
143 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
144 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
145 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
146 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
147 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
148 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
149 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
150 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
151 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
152 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
154 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
155 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
156 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
157 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
158 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
159 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
160 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
161 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
162 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
164 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
166 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
169 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
170 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
171 for the associated fast function is also produced.
172 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
174 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
175 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
176 special handling by the pretty printer.
177 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
178 now interact correctly with type declarations.
179 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
180 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
181 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
182 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
183 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
184 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
185 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
186 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
188 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
189 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
190 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
191 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
192 object loading function as-it.
193 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
194 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
196 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
197 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
199 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
200 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
201 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
202 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
203 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
204 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
205 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
206 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
207 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
209 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
210 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
211 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
212 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
213 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
214 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
215 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
216 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
217 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
218 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
219 file descriptors when there were none.
220 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
221 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
222 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
223 pathnames without a directory.
224 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
225 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
227 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
228 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
229 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
230 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
231 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
232 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
233 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
234 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
236 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
237 after alien stack frames.
238 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
240 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
241 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
242 generic function across method addition and removal.
243 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
244 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
245 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
246 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
248 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
249 non-local transfer of control.
250 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
251 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
252 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
253 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
254 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
255 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
256 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
258 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
259 owned by other threads anymore.
260 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
261 subsequence. (reported by budden)
262 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
263 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
264 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
265 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
267 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
268 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
269 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
270 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
271 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
272 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
273 added to the user manual.
274 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
275 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
276 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
277 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
278 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
279 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
281 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
283 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
284 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
285 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
286 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
287 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
288 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
289 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
291 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
292 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
294 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
295 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
296 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
297 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
298 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
299 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
300 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
302 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
303 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
305 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
306 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
307 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
308 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
309 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
310 type of a variable is made.
311 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
312 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
314 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
315 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
316 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
317 (thanks to Michael Weber)
318 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
319 (thanks to Michael Weber)
320 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
321 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
322 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
324 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
325 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
326 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
327 of the type that's the value of this variable.
328 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
330 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
331 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
332 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
333 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
334 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
335 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
336 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
337 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
338 * improvements to the Windows port:
339 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
340 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
341 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
342 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
343 to single-float coercions.
344 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
345 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
346 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
347 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
348 containing invalid type specifiers.
349 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
350 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
352 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
353 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
354 profiles only the current thread.
355 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
356 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
357 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
358 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
359 has also additional sorting options.
360 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
362 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
363 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
364 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
365 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
366 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
367 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
369 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
371 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
372 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
373 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
374 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
375 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
376 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
378 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
379 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
380 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
381 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
382 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
383 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
384 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
385 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
386 (thanks to James Knight)
387 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
388 (thanks to Travis Cross)
389 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
390 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
391 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
392 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
393 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
394 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
395 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
397 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
398 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
399 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
400 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
401 use this feature in the meanwhile.
402 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
403 adjust thread default control stack size.
404 * enhancement: improved TIME output
405 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
406 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
407 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
408 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
409 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
410 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
411 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
412 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
414 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
416 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
417 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
418 in normal SPEED policies.
419 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
420 in normal SPEED policies.
421 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
423 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
424 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
425 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
426 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
427 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
428 as the second argument.
429 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
430 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
431 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
433 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
434 platform word lengths.
435 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
436 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
437 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
439 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
440 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
442 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
443 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
444 signaling added in 1.0.14.
445 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
446 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
447 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
448 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
449 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
450 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
451 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
452 on threaded platforms.
453 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
454 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
455 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
456 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
457 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
458 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
459 representation is available.
460 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
461 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
462 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
463 Francois-Rene Rideau)
464 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
465 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
466 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
467 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
468 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
469 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
470 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
471 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
472 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
474 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
475 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
476 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
477 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
478 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
479 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
480 traces SETF-functions as well.
481 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
482 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
483 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
484 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
486 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
487 is now more efficient.
488 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
489 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
490 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
491 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
492 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
493 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
494 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
495 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
496 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
497 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
498 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
500 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
501 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
502 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
503 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
504 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
505 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
506 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
507 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
508 * improvements to the Windows port:
509 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
510 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
512 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
513 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
514 (see documentation for details.)
515 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
516 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
517 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
518 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
519 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
521 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
522 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
523 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
524 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
525 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
526 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
527 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
528 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
529 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
531 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
532 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
533 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
534 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
535 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
536 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
537 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
539 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
540 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
541 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
542 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
543 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
544 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
545 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
546 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
548 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
549 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
550 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
551 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
552 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
553 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
554 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
555 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
556 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
557 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
558 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
559 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
560 known at compile-time.
561 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
562 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
563 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
565 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
566 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
568 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
569 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
570 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
571 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
572 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
573 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
575 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
577 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
579 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
582 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
583 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
584 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
585 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
586 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
587 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
588 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
589 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
590 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
591 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
592 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
593 END is smaller then START.
594 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
595 calls to profiled functions.
596 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
597 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
598 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
599 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
600 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
601 hash-table usage have been fixed.
602 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
603 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
604 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
605 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
606 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
609 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
610 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
611 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
612 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
613 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
614 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
615 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
616 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
617 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
618 and will signal an error at runtime.
619 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
620 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
621 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
623 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
624 platforms providing stack allocation support.
625 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
626 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
628 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
629 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
630 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
631 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
632 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
633 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
635 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
636 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
638 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
640 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
641 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
642 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
643 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
644 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
645 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
646 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
647 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
648 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
649 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
650 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
651 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
652 a specializer parameter for the method.
653 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
654 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
655 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
656 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
657 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
659 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
660 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
662 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
663 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
664 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
665 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
666 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
667 the CAS operation was being performed.
668 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
669 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
670 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
671 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
674 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
675 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
676 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
677 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
679 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
680 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
681 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
682 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
683 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
684 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
685 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
686 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
687 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
688 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
689 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
690 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
691 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
692 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
693 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
695 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
696 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
697 the underlying file descriptor.
698 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
699 could cause buffer-overflows.
700 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
701 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
702 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
704 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
706 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
707 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
708 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
709 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
710 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
711 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
714 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
715 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
716 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
717 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
718 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
719 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
720 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
722 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
724 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
725 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
726 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
727 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
728 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
729 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
731 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
732 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
733 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
734 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
735 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
736 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
737 objects that can be seen by the GC.
738 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
739 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
740 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
742 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
743 as the property-list of a symbol.
744 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
745 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
746 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
749 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
750 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
751 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
752 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
753 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
754 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
755 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
756 debugging and introspective support.
757 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
758 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
759 has the owning thread as its value.
760 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
761 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
763 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
765 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
766 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
767 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
768 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
769 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
770 (depending on the bignum size.)
771 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
773 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
774 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
776 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
777 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
779 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
780 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
781 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
782 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
783 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
786 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
787 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
789 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
790 significantly faster.
791 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
792 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
793 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
794 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
795 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
796 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
797 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
798 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
799 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
800 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
801 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
803 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
805 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
806 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
807 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
808 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
809 that use the generational garbage collector
810 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
812 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
813 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
815 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
817 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
818 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
819 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
820 system running with GC inhibited.
821 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
822 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
823 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
824 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
825 (reported by Peter Graves)
827 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
828 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
829 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
831 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
832 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
833 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
834 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
835 documented as unsafe.
836 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
837 in multithreaded application code.
838 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
839 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
840 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
842 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
843 variants no longer cons.
844 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
845 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
846 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
847 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
848 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
849 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
850 are significantly faster.
851 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
852 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
853 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
854 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
855 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
856 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
857 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
858 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
859 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
860 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
861 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
863 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
864 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
865 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
866 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
867 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
868 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
869 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
870 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
871 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
872 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
873 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
874 line in a file is unlimited.
875 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
876 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
877 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
878 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
879 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
880 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
881 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
882 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
883 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
884 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
885 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
886 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
887 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
888 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
889 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
890 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
891 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
892 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
893 experimental until this is fixed.
894 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
895 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
896 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
897 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
898 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
900 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
901 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
902 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
903 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
904 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
905 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
907 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
908 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
909 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
910 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
911 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
912 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
913 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
914 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
915 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
917 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
918 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
919 (reported by Andras Simon)
920 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
921 bugs remain on x86-64.)
922 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
923 funcallable instances.
924 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
925 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
927 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
928 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
929 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
930 non-base strings as arguments
931 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
933 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
934 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
936 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
937 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
938 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
939 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
940 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
941 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
942 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
943 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
944 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
946 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
947 (thanks to Jon Buller)
948 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
949 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
952 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
953 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
954 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
956 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
957 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
958 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
959 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
960 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
962 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
963 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
964 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
965 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
966 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
967 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
968 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
969 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
970 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
971 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
972 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
973 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
974 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
975 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
976 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
977 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
978 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
979 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
980 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
981 stack frames from alien callbacks.
982 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
983 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
984 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
985 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
987 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
988 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
989 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
990 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
991 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
992 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
993 sb-introspect contrib.
994 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
995 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
996 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
997 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
998 users and the general community)
999 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
1000 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
1001 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
1002 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
1003 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1004 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
1005 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
1006 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1007 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
1008 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1009 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
1010 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
1011 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
1012 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
1013 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
1014 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
1016 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
1017 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
1018 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
1019 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
1020 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
1021 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
1022 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
1024 * improvements to the Windows port:
1025 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
1026 to Alastair Bridgewater)
1027 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
1029 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
1030 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1032 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
1033 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
1034 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1035 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
1036 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
1037 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
1038 core, and restored on startup.
1039 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
1040 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1041 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
1042 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
1043 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
1044 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
1045 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
1047 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
1048 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1049 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
1051 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
1052 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
1053 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
1055 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
1056 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
1057 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
1058 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
1059 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
1060 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
1062 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
1063 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
1064 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
1065 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
1066 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
1067 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
1068 (reported by Josip Gracin)
1069 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
1070 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
1071 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
1072 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
1073 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
1074 and don't cause extra consing
1075 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
1076 whose elements types have been declared.
1077 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
1078 ** Support for allocation profiling
1079 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
1080 * Improvements to the Windows port:
1081 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
1082 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
1083 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1084 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
1086 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
1087 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
1088 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
1089 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
1090 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
1092 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
1093 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
1094 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
1096 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
1097 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
1098 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
1099 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
1100 with non-variable places
1101 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
1102 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
1103 code more stable against memory faults.
1104 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
1105 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
1106 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
1107 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
1110 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
1111 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
1112 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
1113 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
1114 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
1115 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
1116 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
1117 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
1118 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1119 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1120 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
1121 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
1122 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
1124 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
1125 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
1126 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
1127 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
1128 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
1129 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
1130 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
1132 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
1133 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
1135 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
1136 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
1137 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
1138 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
1139 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
1140 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
1141 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
1142 to the single-stepper REPL.
1143 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
1144 for a type now works.
1145 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
1147 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
1148 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
1149 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
1150 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1151 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
1152 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
1153 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
1154 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
1156 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
1157 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
1158 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
1159 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
1160 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
1161 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
1162 whose bindings are modified
1163 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
1164 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
1165 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
1166 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
1168 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
1169 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
1170 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
1171 as specified by AMOP.
1172 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
1174 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
1175 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1176 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
1177 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
1178 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
1179 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
1180 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
1181 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
1182 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
1183 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
1184 better type inference.
1185 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
1186 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
1187 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
1188 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
1189 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
1190 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1191 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
1192 initialization of methods can now be used to override
1193 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
1195 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
1196 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
1197 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
1198 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
1199 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
1201 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
1202 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
1203 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
1204 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
1205 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
1206 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
1207 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
1208 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
1209 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
1210 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
1211 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
1212 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
1213 (reported by James Y Knight).
1214 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
1215 argument for shadowing by local functions.
1216 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
1218 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
1219 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
1220 with type-inference.
1221 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
1222 types in some cases.
1223 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
1224 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1225 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
1227 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
1228 * thread-safety improvements:
1229 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
1230 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
1231 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
1233 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
1234 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
1236 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
1237 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
1238 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
1240 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
1241 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
1242 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
1243 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
1244 class became finalizeable.
1245 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
1246 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
1247 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
1248 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
1250 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
1251 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
1252 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
1253 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
1254 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
1255 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
1256 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1257 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
1258 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
1259 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
1260 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
1261 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
1262 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
1263 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1264 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
1265 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
1266 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
1267 * minor code generation optimizations:
1268 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
1269 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
1270 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
1271 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
1272 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
1273 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1274 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
1275 return its argument.
1277 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
1278 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
1280 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
1282 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
1283 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
1284 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
1285 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
1286 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
1287 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
1288 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
1289 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
1290 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
1291 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
1292 the low-level debugger.
1293 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
1294 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
1295 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
1296 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
1298 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
1299 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
1300 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
1302 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
1303 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1304 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
1305 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
1306 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
1307 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
1308 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
1309 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
1310 (reported by James Y Knight)
1311 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
1312 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
1313 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
1314 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
1315 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
1316 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
1317 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
1318 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
1319 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
1320 workaround for bug 403.)
1321 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
1322 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1323 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1324 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
1326 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
1327 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
1328 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
1330 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
1331 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
1332 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
1333 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
1334 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
1336 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
1338 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
1339 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
1340 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
1343 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
1344 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
1345 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
1346 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
1347 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
1348 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
1349 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
1350 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
1351 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
1352 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
1353 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
1354 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
1355 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
1356 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
1357 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
1358 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
1359 documentation on package locks for details.
1360 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
1362 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
1363 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
1364 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
1365 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
1366 immediately available from the stream
1367 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
1368 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
1369 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
1370 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
1372 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
1373 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
1374 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
1376 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
1377 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
1378 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
1380 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
1381 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
1382 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
1383 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
1385 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
1386 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
1387 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
1388 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1389 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
1390 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
1391 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1392 ** sb-grovel supported
1393 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
1394 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
1395 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
1396 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
1397 ** floating-point exception handling support
1398 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
1399 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1400 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1401 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
1402 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
1403 structure accessors.
1404 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
1406 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
1407 defaults for optional parameters.
1408 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
1409 function, which is already optimized.
1411 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
1412 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
1413 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
1414 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
1415 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
1416 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
1417 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
1418 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
1419 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
1420 this change is to make it easier to distribute
1421 location-independent binaries.
1422 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
1423 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
1425 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
1426 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
1427 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
1428 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
1429 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
1430 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
1431 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
1432 Alastair Bridgewater)
1433 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
1434 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
1435 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1436 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
1437 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
1438 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
1439 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
1440 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
1441 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
1442 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
1443 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
1444 (thanks to James Knight)
1445 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
1446 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
1448 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
1449 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
1450 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
1451 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
1452 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
1453 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
1454 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
1455 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
1456 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
1457 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
1458 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
1459 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
1460 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
1461 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
1462 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
1463 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
1464 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
1465 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
1466 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
1467 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
1468 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
1470 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
1471 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
1472 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
1473 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1474 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
1475 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
1477 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
1478 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
1479 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
1480 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
1481 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
1482 many others over the years)
1483 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
1484 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
1485 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
1487 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
1488 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
1489 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1490 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
1491 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
1492 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
1494 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
1496 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
1497 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
1498 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
1499 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
1500 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
1501 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
1502 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
1503 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
1504 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
1505 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
1506 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
1507 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1508 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
1509 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1511 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
1512 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
1513 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
1514 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
1515 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
1516 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
1517 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
1518 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
1519 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
1520 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1521 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
1522 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
1523 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
1524 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
1525 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
1526 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
1527 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
1528 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1529 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
1530 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
1532 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
1533 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1534 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
1535 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
1536 index variables in LOOP
1537 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
1538 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1539 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
1540 that don't have a docstring
1542 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
1543 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
1544 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
1545 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
1546 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
1547 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
1548 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
1549 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
1550 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
1551 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
1552 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
1553 Costanza's "Closer" project)
1554 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
1555 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
1557 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
1558 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
1559 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
1560 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
1561 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
1562 and Pascal Costanza)
1563 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
1564 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
1565 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
1566 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
1567 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1568 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
1569 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
1570 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
1571 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1572 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
1573 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1574 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
1575 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1576 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
1577 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1578 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
1579 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
1580 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
1581 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
1583 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
1584 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1585 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
1586 floating point index variable or a negative step.
1588 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
1589 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
1590 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
1591 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
1592 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
1593 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1594 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
1595 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
1596 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
1597 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1598 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1599 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
1600 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
1601 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
1602 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1603 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
1604 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
1605 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
1606 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
1607 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
1608 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
1609 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1610 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
1611 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1612 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
1613 and dump core on SIGQUIT
1615 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
1616 from their parents (see manual)
1617 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
1618 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
1619 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
1620 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
1621 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
1622 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
1624 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1625 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
1626 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
1627 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
1629 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
1630 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
1631 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
1633 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
1634 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
1635 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
1636 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
1637 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
1638 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
1639 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
1640 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
1641 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
1642 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
1643 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
1644 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
1645 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
1646 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
1648 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
1649 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
1650 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
1652 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
1653 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
1655 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
1656 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1657 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
1658 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
1659 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
1660 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
1661 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
1662 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
1663 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
1665 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
1666 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
1667 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
1668 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
1669 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
1670 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
1672 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
1674 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
1675 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
1676 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
1677 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
1678 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
1679 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
1680 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
1681 classes; see the manual for more details;
1682 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
1683 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
1684 requested slot ordering.
1686 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
1688 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
1689 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
1691 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
1693 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
1694 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
1695 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
1696 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
1697 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1698 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
1699 the :method-class keyword argument.
1701 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
1702 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
1703 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
1704 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1705 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
1706 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1707 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
1708 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1709 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
1710 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
1711 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
1713 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
1714 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
1715 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
1716 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
1717 is switched on or off
1718 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
1719 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
1720 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
1722 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
1723 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1724 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
1725 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
1726 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1727 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
1728 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
1729 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
1730 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
1732 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
1733 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
1734 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
1735 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
1736 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
1737 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
1738 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
1740 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
1741 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
1742 not prevent gc from running
1743 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
1744 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
1745 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
1746 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
1747 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
1748 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
1749 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
1750 an inline 32-bit rotation.
1752 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
1753 there is only one thread in the session
1754 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
1755 written to in another
1756 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
1757 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
1759 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
1760 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
1762 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
1763 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1764 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
1765 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
1766 the orignal arguments.
1767 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
1769 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
1770 name a compiled function.
1771 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
1772 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
1773 derivation were fixed.
1774 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
1775 list-form FUNCTION type.
1776 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
1777 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
1778 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
1780 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
1781 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
1782 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
1783 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
1784 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
1785 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
1787 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
1788 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
1789 of a select system call
1790 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
1792 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
1793 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
1795 * various error reporting improvements.
1796 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
1797 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1798 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
1799 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
1800 code and foreign data with the same name.
1802 ** added x86-64 support
1803 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
1804 objects instead of thread ids
1805 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
1806 starting up or going down
1807 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
1808 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
1809 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
1810 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
1811 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
1812 an inappropriate moment
1813 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
1814 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
1815 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
1816 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1817 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
1818 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
1819 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
1821 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
1822 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
1823 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
1824 range before calling Unix time functions
1826 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
1827 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
1828 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1829 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
1830 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
1831 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
1832 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1833 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
1834 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
1835 for more information.
1836 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
1837 pathname is a directory pathname.
1838 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
1839 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
1841 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
1842 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
1843 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
1844 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
1845 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
1846 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
1848 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
1849 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
1850 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
1851 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
1852 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
1853 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
1854 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1855 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
1856 the PowerPC platform.
1857 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
1858 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
1860 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
1861 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
1862 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
1863 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
1864 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
1865 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1867 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
1868 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
1869 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
1870 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
1871 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
1872 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1873 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
1874 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
1875 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
1876 as the name of a type, or vice versa
1877 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
1878 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
1879 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
1880 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
1881 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
1882 FLET or MACROLET forms
1883 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
1885 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
1887 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
1890 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
1891 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
1892 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
1893 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
1894 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
1895 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
1896 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
1897 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
1898 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
1899 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
1900 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
1901 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
1902 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
1903 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
1904 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
1905 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1906 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
1907 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1908 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
1909 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
1910 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
1911 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
1913 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1914 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
1915 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
1916 a file has the stream as its datum.
1917 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
1918 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
1919 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
1920 a correct expected type
1921 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
1922 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
1923 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
1924 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
1925 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
1926 on broadcast streams.
1928 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
1929 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
1930 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
1931 --disable-debugger option instead.
1932 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
1934 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
1935 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
1936 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
1937 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
1938 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
1939 has been added to the manual.
1940 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
1941 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
1942 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
1943 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
1944 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1945 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
1946 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
1947 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
1948 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
1949 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
1951 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
1952 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
1953 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
1954 (reported by Rajat Datta).
1955 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1956 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1958 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1959 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1960 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1961 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1962 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1963 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1964 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1965 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1966 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1967 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1968 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1969 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1970 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1971 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1972 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1973 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1974 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1975 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1976 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1978 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1980 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1981 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1982 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1983 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1984 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1986 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1987 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1988 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1989 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1990 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1991 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1992 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1994 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1995 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1996 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1998 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1999 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
2000 types for complex arguments better.
2001 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
2003 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
2004 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
2006 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
2007 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
2008 resulting in GC crashes.
2009 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
2011 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
2014 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
2015 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
2016 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
2017 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
2018 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
2019 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
2020 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
2021 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
2022 returning to the top level.
2023 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
2024 global optimization policy.
2025 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
2026 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
2027 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
2029 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
2030 various incompatible changes.
2031 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
2032 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
2033 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
2034 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
2035 level local call to FOO".
2036 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
2037 now have more legible printed representation
2038 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
2039 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
2040 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
2041 explicitly requested.
2042 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
2043 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
2044 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
2045 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
2046 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
2048 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
2049 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
2050 (reported by Lutz Euler)
2051 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
2052 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2053 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
2054 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
2055 the specializer is now possible.
2056 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
2057 face of package deletion.
2058 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
2059 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
2060 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
2061 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
2062 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
2063 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
2064 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
2065 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
2066 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2067 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
2069 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2070 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
2071 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
2072 correctable errors to be signalled.
2073 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
2074 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
2077 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
2078 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2079 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
2081 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
2082 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2083 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
2084 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
2085 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
2086 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
2087 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
2088 related to the ~@F format directive.
2089 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
2091 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
2092 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
2093 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
2094 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
2096 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
2098 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
2099 coerce function designators to functions.
2100 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
2101 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
2102 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
2103 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
2104 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
2105 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
2106 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2107 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
2108 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
2109 start of the buffer at the next read.
2110 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
2111 passing it through to OPEN.
2112 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2113 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
2114 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
2115 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
2116 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
2117 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
2118 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
2119 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
2121 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
2122 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2123 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2124 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
2125 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2126 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
2128 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2129 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
2130 secondary constituent character trait.
2131 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
2133 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
2135 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
2136 works more reliably.
2137 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
2138 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
2139 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
2141 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
2142 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
2144 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
2145 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
2146 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
2147 and reloading shared object files.
2148 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2149 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
2151 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
2152 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
2153 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
2155 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
2156 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
2158 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
2160 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
2161 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
2162 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
2163 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2164 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
2165 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
2166 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
2168 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
2169 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
2171 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
2172 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
2173 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
2174 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
2175 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
2177 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
2178 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
2179 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2180 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
2181 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
2182 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
2183 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
2184 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2185 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
2186 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
2187 lisp characters are not eight bits.
2188 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2189 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
2190 the correct number of arguments.
2191 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
2192 to displaced strings.
2193 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
2194 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
2196 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
2197 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
2198 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
2199 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
2200 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
2201 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
2202 available at runtime.
2203 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
2204 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
2205 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
2206 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2207 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
2208 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
2209 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
2210 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
2211 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
2212 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
2213 of lambda-list keywords.
2214 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
2215 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
2217 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
2218 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
2219 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2220 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
2221 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
2222 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
2223 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
2225 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
2226 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2227 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
2228 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
2229 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
2231 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2232 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
2233 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
2234 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
2235 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
2236 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2237 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
2239 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
2240 parameters correctly.
2241 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
2242 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
2243 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
2245 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
2248 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
2249 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
2250 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
2251 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
2253 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
2254 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
2255 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
2256 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
2257 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
2258 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
2259 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
2260 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
2261 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
2263 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
2264 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
2266 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
2268 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
2269 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
2270 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2271 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
2273 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
2274 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2275 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
2276 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
2277 (reported by David Morse)
2278 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
2279 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2280 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
2281 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2282 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
2283 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2284 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
2285 now exists, an signals an error.
2286 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
2287 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
2288 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2289 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
2290 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2291 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
2292 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
2293 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2294 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
2295 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2296 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
2297 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
2299 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
2300 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
2301 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
2302 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
2303 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2304 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
2305 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
2306 specialized array element types.
2307 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
2308 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2309 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
2310 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2311 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
2312 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
2313 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
2314 Wragg for the simple test case)
2315 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2316 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
2318 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
2319 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
2320 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
2321 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
2322 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
2324 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
2326 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
2327 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
2328 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
2329 references to global functions.
2330 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
2332 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
2334 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
2335 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2336 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
2337 supported platforms.
2338 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
2339 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
2340 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
2341 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
2342 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
2343 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2344 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
2345 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2346 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
2347 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
2348 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
2349 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
2350 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
2352 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
2353 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
2354 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
2355 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
2356 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
2357 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
2359 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
2360 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
2362 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
2363 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
2364 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
2365 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2366 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
2367 returns the right answer.
2368 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
2370 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
2372 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
2373 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
2375 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
2376 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
2378 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
2379 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
2380 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
2381 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
2382 the supported interface.
2383 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
2384 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
2385 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
2386 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
2387 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
2388 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
2389 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
2390 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
2391 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
2392 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
2393 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
2394 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
2395 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
2396 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
2397 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
2398 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
2399 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
2400 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
2401 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
2402 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
2403 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
2404 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
2405 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
2406 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
2407 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
2408 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
2409 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2410 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
2411 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
2413 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
2414 * incompatible change: the internal functions
2415 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
2416 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
2417 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
2418 instead of the old functions.
2419 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
2420 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
2422 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
2423 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
2425 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
2426 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
2427 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
2428 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
2430 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
2431 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2432 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
2433 (reported by Rick Taube)
2434 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
2435 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
2436 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
2437 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
2439 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
2440 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
2441 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
2442 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
2443 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
2444 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
2445 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
2446 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
2447 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
2448 represented relative to default pathnames.
2449 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
2450 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
2451 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
2453 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
2454 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
2455 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
2457 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2458 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
2459 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
2460 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
2462 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
2464 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
2465 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
2466 conditional newlines.
2467 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
2468 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
2469 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
2471 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
2472 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
2474 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
2475 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
2476 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
2477 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
2478 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
2479 compiled in unconditionally.
2480 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
2481 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
2482 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
2483 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
2484 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
2486 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
2487 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
2488 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
2489 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
2490 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
2491 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
2492 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
2493 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
2494 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
2495 an implementation-internal package.
2496 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
2498 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
2499 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
2500 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
2501 bodies are now more legible.
2502 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
2503 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
2504 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
2505 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
2506 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2507 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
2508 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
2510 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
2511 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
2512 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
2513 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
2514 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
2515 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
2516 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
2517 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
2518 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
2519 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
2521 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
2522 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
2523 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
2524 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
2525 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
2526 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
2527 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
2528 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
2529 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
2530 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
2531 system even when most of them are idle
2532 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
2533 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2534 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
2536 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
2537 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
2538 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
2539 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
2540 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
2542 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
2543 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
2544 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
2545 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
2546 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
2547 string for information on the protocol.
2548 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
2549 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
2551 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
2552 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
2554 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
2555 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
2556 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
2557 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
2558 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
2559 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
2561 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
2562 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
2564 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
2565 move between its address being taken and the call to
2566 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
2567 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
2568 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
2569 instances corresponding to C structs.
2571 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
2572 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
2573 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
2574 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
2575 has implications for memory management of client code
2576 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
2577 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
2578 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
2579 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
2580 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
2581 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
2582 quality should be considered deprecated.
2583 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
2584 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
2585 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
2586 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
2587 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
2589 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
2590 designator as the defaults argument.
2591 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
2592 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
2593 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2594 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
2595 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
2597 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
2599 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
2600 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2601 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
2602 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
2603 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2604 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
2606 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
2607 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2608 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
2609 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
2610 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
2611 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
2612 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2613 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
2614 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
2615 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
2616 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
2617 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2618 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
2619 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
2620 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
2621 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
2622 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
2624 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
2625 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
2626 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
2628 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
2629 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2630 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
2631 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
2632 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
2633 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
2634 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2635 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
2636 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
2638 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
2639 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
2641 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
2642 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
2644 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
2645 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2646 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
2647 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
2649 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
2650 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
2651 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2652 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
2653 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
2654 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
2655 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
2656 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
2658 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
2659 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
2660 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
2662 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
2663 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
2665 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2666 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
2668 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
2669 from local to shared slots.
2670 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
2671 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
2672 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
2673 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
2675 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
2676 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
2677 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
2678 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
2679 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
2680 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
2681 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
2682 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
2683 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
2685 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
2687 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
2689 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
2690 print using #P"..." syntax.
2692 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
2693 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
2694 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
2695 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
2696 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
2697 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
2698 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
2699 * [placeholder for DX summary]
2700 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
2701 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
2702 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
2703 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
2704 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
2705 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
2706 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
2707 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
2708 the test case to Dave Roberts)
2709 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
2710 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
2711 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
2712 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2713 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
2714 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
2715 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
2716 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2717 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
2718 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
2719 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
2720 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
2721 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2722 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
2723 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
2726 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
2727 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
2728 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
2729 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
2730 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
2731 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
2732 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
2733 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
2734 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
2735 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2736 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
2737 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
2738 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
2740 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
2741 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
2743 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
2744 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
2745 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2746 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
2747 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2748 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
2750 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
2751 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
2752 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
2754 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
2756 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
2758 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
2759 their output stream on EOF from read.
2760 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
2761 have been read to end-of-file.
2762 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
2764 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
2765 description of determination of which consecutive characters
2767 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
2768 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
2769 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2770 less than 10 works correctly.
2771 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2772 more than 10 works correctly.
2773 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
2774 the readtable currently in effect.
2776 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
2777 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
2778 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
2779 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
2780 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
2781 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
2782 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
2783 should usually be replaced by
2784 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
2785 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
2786 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
2787 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
2788 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
2789 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
2790 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
2791 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
2793 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
2794 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
2795 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2796 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
2797 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
2798 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2799 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
2800 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
2801 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
2802 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
2803 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
2804 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
2805 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
2807 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
2808 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
2809 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
2810 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2811 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
2812 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
2813 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
2814 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2815 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
2816 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
2817 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
2818 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
2819 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
2820 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
2821 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2822 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
2823 non-local entry points.
2824 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
2826 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2827 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
2829 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
2830 host is already defined.
2831 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
2833 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
2834 or not a character is whitespace.
2835 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
2836 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
2837 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
2839 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
2840 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
2842 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
2844 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
2845 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
2846 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
2847 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
2848 designator argument does not designate a stream.
2849 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
2850 examining the synonym.
2851 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
2853 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
2854 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
2856 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
2857 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
2858 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
2859 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
2860 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
2861 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
2862 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
2863 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
2864 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
2865 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2866 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
2867 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
2869 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
2870 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
2871 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2872 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
2873 stream position information.
2874 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
2875 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
2876 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
2877 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
2878 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2879 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
2881 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
2882 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
2884 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2885 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2886 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
2887 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
2888 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
2889 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
2890 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
2892 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
2894 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
2895 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
2896 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
2897 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
2898 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
2899 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
2900 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
2901 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
2902 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
2903 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
2904 the "SYS" logical host.
2905 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
2906 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
2907 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
2908 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2909 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
2910 now each have their own history, command character, and other
2911 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2912 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2913 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
2915 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
2916 shift greater than 32.
2917 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
2918 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
2919 in some circumstances.
2921 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
2922 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
2923 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
2924 environments like SLIME.
2925 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
2926 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
2927 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
2928 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
2929 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
2930 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
2931 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
2932 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
2933 argument types for all arguments.
2934 * various threading fixes
2935 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
2936 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
2937 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
2938 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
2940 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
2941 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
2942 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
2943 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
2944 arguments to a full call.
2945 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
2946 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
2947 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
2948 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
2950 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
2951 inserts a space where necessary.
2952 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
2953 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
2954 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
2955 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2956 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2957 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2958 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2959 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2960 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2961 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2962 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2963 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2965 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2966 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2967 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2969 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2971 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2972 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2973 argument and negative second.
2974 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2975 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2976 interval, containing 0.
2977 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2979 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2980 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2982 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2983 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2984 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2985 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2986 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2987 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2988 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2989 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2990 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2991 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2992 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2993 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2994 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2995 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2996 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2997 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2998 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2999 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
3000 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
3001 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
3002 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
3003 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3004 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
3005 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
3006 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
3007 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
3008 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
3009 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
3010 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
3012 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
3013 platform now returns the right answer.
3014 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
3015 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
3016 precomputation is now tunable.
3017 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
3018 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
3019 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
3020 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
3021 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
3022 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
3023 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
3024 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
3025 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
3026 has been added for the alpha.
3027 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
3028 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
3029 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
3030 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
3031 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
3032 MEMBER-types to numeric.
3033 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
3035 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
3036 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
3037 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
3039 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
3040 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3041 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
3042 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
3043 might be pseudo-atomic.
3044 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
3045 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
3047 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
3049 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
3051 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
3052 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
3053 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
3054 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
3055 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
3056 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
3058 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3059 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
3060 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
3061 small float arguments.
3062 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
3064 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
3065 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
3066 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
3067 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
3068 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
3069 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
3071 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
3073 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
3074 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
3075 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
3076 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
3077 with negative last argument.
3078 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
3079 an error during type derivation.
3080 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
3082 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
3083 generates a 32-bit binary.
3084 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3085 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
3086 data structures referred to above).
3088 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
3089 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
3090 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
3091 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
3092 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
3093 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
3094 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
3095 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
3096 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
3097 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3098 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
3099 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
3101 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
3102 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
3104 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
3105 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
3106 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
3107 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
3108 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
3109 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
3110 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
3111 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
3112 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
3113 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
3114 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
3115 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3116 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
3117 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
3118 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
3119 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
3120 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
3121 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3122 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
3123 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
3124 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
3125 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
3126 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3127 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
3128 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
3129 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
3130 optimization quality.
3131 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
3132 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
3133 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
3134 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
3135 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3136 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3137 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
3138 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
3139 types form a lattice under type intersection.
3140 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
3141 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
3142 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
3143 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
3144 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
3145 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
3146 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
3147 calling the generic function.
3148 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
3149 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
3150 obscure ANSI requirements
3152 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
3153 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
3154 garbage, confusing the compiler.
3155 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
3156 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
3157 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
3158 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
3159 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
3160 circumstances could go off-by-one.
3161 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
3163 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
3164 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
3165 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
3166 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
3167 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
3168 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
3169 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
3170 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
3171 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
3172 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3173 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
3174 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
3175 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
3176 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
3177 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
3178 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
3179 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
3180 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
3181 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
3182 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
3184 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
3185 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
3186 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
3187 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
3189 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
3190 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
3191 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
3192 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
3193 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
3194 provide helpful disassembly notes.
3195 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
3196 the class in more cases than previously.
3197 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
3198 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3199 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
3200 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3201 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
3202 without lambda list.
3203 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
3204 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
3205 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3206 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
3207 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
3208 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
3210 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
3211 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
3212 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
3214 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
3215 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
3216 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
3217 were silently accepted).
3218 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
3219 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
3220 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
3221 to warn on static type mismatches and function
3222 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
3223 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
3224 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
3225 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
3226 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
3227 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
3228 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
3229 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
3230 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
3231 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
3233 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
3234 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
3235 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
3236 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
3237 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
3238 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
3240 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
3241 keywords or constants is permissible.
3242 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
3243 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
3244 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
3245 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
3246 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
3247 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
3248 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
3249 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
3251 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
3252 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3253 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
3254 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
3255 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3256 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
3257 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
3259 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
3261 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
3262 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
3263 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
3264 respectively change and preserve the value.
3265 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
3266 is now better at handling symbol macros.
3267 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
3268 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
3269 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
3270 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
3271 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
3272 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
3273 their use properly signals an error now.
3274 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
3275 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
3276 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
3277 * fixed simple vector readable printing
3278 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
3279 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
3280 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
3281 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
3282 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
3283 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
3284 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3285 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
3286 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3287 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
3288 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
3289 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3290 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
3291 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
3292 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
3293 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
3294 causes a type error.
3295 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
3296 association between the name and a class.
3297 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
3298 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
3299 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3300 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
3301 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
3302 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
3304 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
3305 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
3306 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
3307 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
3309 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
3310 which its argument is a member.
3311 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
3312 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
3313 otherwise, it creates a new class.
3314 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
3315 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
3316 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
3317 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
3318 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
3319 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
3321 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
3322 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
3323 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
3324 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
3325 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
3326 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
3327 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
3329 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
3330 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
3331 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
3332 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
3333 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
3334 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
3335 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
3336 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
3337 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
3338 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
3339 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
3340 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
3341 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3342 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
3344 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
3345 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
3346 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
3347 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
3348 superclasses are applied.
3349 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
3350 no method was removed.
3351 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
3352 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
3353 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
3354 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
3356 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
3358 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
3359 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
3360 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
3361 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
3362 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
3363 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
3364 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
3365 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
3366 function lambda list.
3367 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
3369 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
3370 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
3371 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
3372 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
3374 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
3375 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
3376 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
3377 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
3378 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
3379 they look for GNU "make".
3381 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
3382 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
3383 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
3384 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
3386 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
3387 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
3388 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
3389 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
3390 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
3391 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
3392 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
3393 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
3394 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
3395 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
3397 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
3398 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
3399 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
3400 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
3401 libraries, and will know who they are.
3402 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
3403 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
3404 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
3405 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
3406 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
3407 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
3408 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
3409 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
3411 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
3412 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
3413 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
3414 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
3415 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
3416 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
3417 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
3418 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
3419 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
3420 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
3421 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3422 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
3424 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
3425 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
3426 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
3427 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
3428 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
3429 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
3430 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
3431 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
3432 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
3434 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
3435 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
3436 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
3437 this you were probably losing anyway.
3438 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
3439 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
3440 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
3441 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
3442 with names from the CL package.
3443 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
3444 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
3445 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
3446 documentation string.
3447 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3448 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
3450 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
3451 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
3452 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
3453 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
3455 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
3456 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
3458 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
3459 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3460 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
3462 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
3463 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
3464 arguments contain duplicated elements.
3465 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
3466 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
3467 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
3468 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
3469 in question is unbound.
3470 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
3471 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
3472 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
3473 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
3474 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
3476 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
3478 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
3479 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
3480 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
3481 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
3482 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
3483 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
3484 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
3485 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
3486 by Antonio Martinez)
3487 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
3488 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3489 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
3490 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
3491 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
3492 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
3493 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
3494 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3495 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
3496 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
3497 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
3498 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
3499 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
3500 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
3501 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
3502 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
3503 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
3504 on malformed property lists;
3506 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
3507 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
3508 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
3509 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
3510 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
3511 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
3512 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
3513 modules in this release include:
3514 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
3515 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
3516 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
3517 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
3518 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
3520 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
3521 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
3522 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3523 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
3524 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
3525 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
3526 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
3527 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
3529 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
3530 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
3531 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
3532 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
3533 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
3534 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
3535 the lexical environment.
3536 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
3537 unprintable packages can now be defined.
3538 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
3539 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3540 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
3541 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3542 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
3543 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
3544 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
3545 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
3546 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
3547 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
3548 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
3549 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
3550 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
3551 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
3552 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3553 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
3554 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
3555 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
3556 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
3557 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
3558 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
3559 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
3560 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
3562 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
3563 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
3564 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3565 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3566 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
3567 not just nonnegative fixnums;
3568 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
3569 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
3570 freshly-consed result bit-array);
3571 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
3573 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
3574 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
3576 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
3577 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
3578 cases are accurately computed;
3579 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
3580 if it is in the last clause;
3581 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
3583 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
3584 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
3585 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
3586 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
3588 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
3589 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
3590 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
3591 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
3592 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
3594 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
3595 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
3596 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
3597 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
3599 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3600 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
3601 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
3602 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
3603 not cause a type error;
3604 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
3606 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
3607 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
3608 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
3609 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
3610 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
3611 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
3612 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
3613 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
3615 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
3616 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
3617 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
3618 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
3619 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
3620 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
3622 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
3623 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
3625 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
3626 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
3627 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
3628 only for symbols in the CL package.
3629 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
3630 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3631 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
3632 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
3633 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
3635 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3636 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
3637 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
3638 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
3639 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
3640 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
3641 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
3642 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
3643 conditional loop clause;
3644 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
3645 signals a type error iff it should.
3646 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3647 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
3648 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
3649 argument) no longer signals an error;
3650 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
3651 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
3652 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
3654 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
3655 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
3656 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
3658 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
3659 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
3660 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
3661 functionality on said platforms verified.
3662 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
3663 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
3665 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
3666 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
3667 component indicating that directory.
3668 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
3669 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
3670 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
3671 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
3672 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3673 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
3675 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
3676 primary methods with no specializers;
3677 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
3679 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
3680 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
3681 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
3682 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
3684 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
3685 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
3686 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
3688 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
3689 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
3690 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
3691 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
3692 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
3693 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
3694 class STANDARD-CLASS;
3695 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
3696 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3697 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
3698 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
3700 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
3701 value producing form;
3702 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
3703 variables are bound and made to have no value;
3704 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
3706 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
3707 is not a valid sequence index;
3708 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
3709 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
3710 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3711 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
3713 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
3714 symbol-macro places;
3715 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
3716 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
3718 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
3720 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
3722 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
3723 invariant when deleting code.
3724 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
3725 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
3727 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
3728 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3729 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
3731 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
3732 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
3734 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
3735 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
3736 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3737 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
3739 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
3740 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3741 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
3742 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
3744 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
3745 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
3746 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
3747 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
3748 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3749 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
3750 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
3751 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
3752 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
3753 sbcl and .core files.)
3754 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
3755 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
3756 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
3757 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
3758 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
3759 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3760 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
3762 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
3763 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
3764 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
3765 argument precedence order.
3766 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
3767 derived types contradict their declared type.
3768 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
3769 so it can be non-toplevel.
3770 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
3771 implementation of DEFMACRO).
3772 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
3773 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
3774 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
3776 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
3777 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
3778 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
3779 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
3780 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
3781 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
3782 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
3783 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
3784 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
3785 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
3786 symbol macro only once
3787 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
3788 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
3789 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
3792 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
3793 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
3794 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
3795 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
3796 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
3797 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
3798 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
3799 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
3800 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
3801 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3802 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
3803 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
3805 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
3806 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
3807 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
3808 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
3809 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3810 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
3812 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
3814 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
3815 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
3816 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
3817 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
3818 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3819 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
3820 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
3821 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
3822 ways in different special cases
3823 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
3825 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
3826 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
3827 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
3828 are no longer optimized away.
3829 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
3830 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
3831 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
3832 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
3833 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
3834 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
3835 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
3836 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
3839 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
3840 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
3841 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
3842 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
3843 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
3844 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
3845 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
3847 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
3848 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
3849 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
3850 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
3851 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
3852 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
3853 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
3854 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
3855 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
3856 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
3857 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
3858 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
3859 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
3860 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
3861 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
3862 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
3863 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
3864 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3865 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
3866 that are names of constants or global variables.
3867 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
3868 alien routines with docstrings.
3869 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
3870 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
3872 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
3873 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3874 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
3875 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3876 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
3877 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3878 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
3879 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
3880 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
3881 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3882 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
3883 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
3884 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
3885 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
3886 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
3887 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
3888 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
3889 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
3890 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
3891 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
3892 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
3893 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
3894 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
3896 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
3897 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
3899 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
3900 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
3901 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
3902 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
3903 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
3904 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
3905 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
3906 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
3907 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
3908 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
3910 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
3911 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
3912 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
3913 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
3914 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
3915 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
3916 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
3917 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
3918 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
3919 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
3920 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
3921 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
3922 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
3923 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
3924 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
3925 is no longer a static symbol.)
3927 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
3928 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
3929 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
3930 bootstrapping under CLISP.
3931 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
3933 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
3934 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
3936 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
3937 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
3938 to David Lichteblau)
3939 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
3940 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
3941 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
3943 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
3944 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3945 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
3946 count as they should.
3947 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
3948 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3949 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
3950 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
3951 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
3952 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
3953 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
3954 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
3955 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3956 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3957 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3958 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3959 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3960 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3961 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3963 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3964 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3965 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3967 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3969 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3970 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3971 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3972 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3973 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3974 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3975 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3977 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3978 to Christophe Rhodes)
3979 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3980 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3981 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3982 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3983 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3984 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
3985 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3987 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3988 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3989 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3990 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3991 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3992 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3993 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3994 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3995 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3996 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3997 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3998 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3999 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
4001 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
4002 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
4003 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
4004 INFO database to support symbol macros.
4005 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
4006 (thanks to coreythomas)
4007 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
4008 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
4009 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
4010 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
4011 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
4013 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
4014 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
4015 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
4016 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
4017 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
4018 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
4019 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
4020 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
4021 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
4022 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4023 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
4024 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
4025 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
4027 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
4028 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
4031 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
4032 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
4033 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
4034 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
4035 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
4036 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
4037 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
4038 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
4039 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
4040 systems than the old 4M value was)
4041 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
4042 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
4043 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
4044 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
4045 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
4046 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
4047 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
4049 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
4050 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
4051 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
4052 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
4053 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
4055 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
4056 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
4057 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
4058 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
4059 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
4060 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
4061 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
4062 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
4064 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
4065 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
4066 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
4067 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4068 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
4069 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
4070 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
4071 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
4073 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
4074 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4075 * several changes related to debugging:
4076 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
4077 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
4078 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
4079 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
4080 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
4081 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
4082 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
4085 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
4087 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
4088 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
4089 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
4090 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
4091 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
4092 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
4093 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
4094 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
4096 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
4097 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
4098 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
4099 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4100 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
4101 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
4102 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
4103 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
4104 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
4105 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
4106 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
4107 file format number to change again.
4109 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
4110 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
4111 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
4112 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
4114 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
4115 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
4116 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
4117 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
4118 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
4119 FUNCALL on the result.
4120 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
4121 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
4122 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
4123 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
4124 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
4125 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
4126 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
4127 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
4129 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
4130 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
4131 the old compiler produced.
4132 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
4133 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
4134 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
4135 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
4136 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
4137 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
4138 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
4139 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
4140 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
4141 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
4142 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
4143 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
4144 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
4145 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
4146 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
4147 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
4148 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
4149 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
4150 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
4151 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
4152 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
4153 straightened out in some future version.)
4154 * minor incompatible changes:
4155 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
4156 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
4157 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
4158 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
4159 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
4160 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
4161 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
4162 implementation dependent:
4163 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
4164 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
4165 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
4166 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
4167 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
4168 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
4169 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
4170 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
4172 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
4174 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
4175 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
4176 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
4177 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
4178 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
4179 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
4180 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
4181 are no longer used for output.
4182 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
4183 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
4184 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
4185 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
4186 increasing it even more.)
4187 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
4188 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
4189 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
4191 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
4192 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
4193 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
4194 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
4195 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
4196 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
4197 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
4198 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
4199 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
4200 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
4201 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
4202 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
4203 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
4204 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
4205 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
4206 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
4207 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
4208 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
4209 compilation of code which calls such functions.
4210 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
4211 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
4212 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
4213 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
4214 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
4215 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
4216 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
4217 built into the system.
4218 * many other bug fixes
4219 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
4220 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
4221 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
4222 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
4223 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
4225 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
4226 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
4227 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
4228 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
4229 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
4230 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
4231 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
4232 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
4233 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
4234 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
4235 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
4237 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
4238 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
4239 and several other LOOP problems as well
4240 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
4241 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
4242 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
4243 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
4244 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
4245 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
4246 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
4247 *** a bug in APROPOS
4248 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
4249 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
4250 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
4251 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
4252 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
4253 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
4254 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
4255 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
4256 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
4257 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
4258 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
4259 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
4260 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
4261 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
4262 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
4264 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
4265 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
4266 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
4267 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
4268 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
4269 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
4270 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
4271 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
4272 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
4273 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
4274 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
4275 some of which are apparent above.
4277 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
4278 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
4279 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
4280 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
4281 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
4282 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
4283 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
4284 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
4285 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
4286 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
4287 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
4288 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
4289 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
4290 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
4291 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
4292 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
4293 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
4294 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
4295 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
4296 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
4297 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
4298 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
4299 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
4300 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
4301 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
4302 different return types.
4303 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
4304 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
4305 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
4306 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
4307 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
4308 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
4309 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
4310 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
4311 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
4312 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
4314 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
4315 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
4316 does the right thing.
4317 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
4318 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
4319 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
4320 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
4321 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
4322 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
4323 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
4324 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
4325 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
4326 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
4327 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
4328 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
4329 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
4330 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
4331 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
4332 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
4333 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
4334 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
4335 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
4336 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
4337 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
4338 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
4339 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
4340 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
4341 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
4342 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
4343 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
4344 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
4345 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
4346 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
4347 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
4348 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
4349 since historically most system changes which required version
4350 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
4351 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
4354 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
4355 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
4356 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
4357 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
4358 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
4359 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
4360 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
4361 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
4362 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
4363 half a dozen others elsewhere
4364 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
4365 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
4366 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
4367 as flaky as they were.
4368 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
4369 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
4370 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
4371 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
4372 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
4373 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
4374 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
4375 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
4377 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
4378 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
4379 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
4380 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
4381 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
4382 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
4383 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
4384 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
4385 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
4386 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
4387 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
4388 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
4389 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
4390 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
4391 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
4392 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
4393 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
4394 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
4395 more obscure bugs as well
4396 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
4397 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
4398 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
4399 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
4400 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
4401 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
4402 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
4403 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
4404 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
4405 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
4406 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
4408 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
4409 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
4411 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
4413 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
4414 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
4415 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
4416 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
4417 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
4418 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
4419 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
4420 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
4421 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
4422 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
4423 are local in this sense.)
4424 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
4425 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
4426 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
4427 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
4428 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
4429 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
4430 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
4431 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
4432 system's STREAM objects.
4433 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
4434 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4435 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
4436 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4437 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
4438 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
4439 environment from the original process instead of starting the
4440 new process in an empty environment.
4441 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
4442 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
4443 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
4444 for porting convenience.
4445 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
4446 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
4448 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
4450 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
4451 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
4452 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
4453 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
4454 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
4455 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
4456 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
4457 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
4458 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
4459 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
4460 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
4461 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
4462 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
4463 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
4464 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
4465 many fewer weird special cases.
4466 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
4467 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
4468 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
4469 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
4470 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
4471 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
4472 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
4473 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
4474 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
4475 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
4476 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
4479 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
4481 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
4482 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
4483 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
4485 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
4486 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
4487 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
4488 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
4489 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
4490 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
4491 should be constructed the same way as before.
4492 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
4493 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
4494 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
4495 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
4496 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
4497 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
4498 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
4499 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
4500 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
4501 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
4502 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
4503 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
4504 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
4505 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
4506 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
4507 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
4508 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
4509 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
4510 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
4511 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
4512 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
4513 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
4515 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
4516 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
4517 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
4518 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
4519 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
4520 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
4521 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
4522 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
4524 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
4526 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
4527 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
4528 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
4529 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
4530 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
4532 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
4533 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
4534 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
4535 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
4536 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
4537 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
4538 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
4539 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
4540 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
4541 and Douglas Crosher.
4542 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
4543 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
4544 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
4546 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
4547 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
4548 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
4549 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
4550 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
4551 undefined function error.
4552 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
4553 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
4554 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
4555 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
4556 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
4557 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
4558 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
4559 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
4560 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
4561 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
4562 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
4563 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
4564 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
4566 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
4568 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
4569 CVS repository on my home machine).
4570 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
4571 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
4572 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
4573 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
4574 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
4575 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
4576 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
4577 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
4578 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
4579 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
4580 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
4581 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
4582 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
4583 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
4584 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
4585 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
4586 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
4587 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
4588 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
4589 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
4590 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
4591 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
4593 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
4594 FreeBSD have been added.
4595 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
4596 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
4597 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
4598 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
4599 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
4600 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
4602 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
4603 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
4604 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
4605 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
4606 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
4607 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
4608 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
4609 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
4611 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
4612 away by constant folding
4613 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
4614 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
4615 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
4616 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
4617 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
4618 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
4619 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
4620 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
4621 diff-related operations.
4622 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
4623 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
4625 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
4627 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
4628 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
4629 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
4630 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
4631 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
4632 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
4633 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
4634 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
4635 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
4636 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
4637 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
4638 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
4639 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
4640 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
4641 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
4642 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
4643 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
4644 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
4645 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
4646 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
4647 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
4648 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
4649 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
4650 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
4651 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
4652 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
4653 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
4654 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
4655 instead of (VALUES T T).
4656 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
4657 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
4658 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
4659 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
4660 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
4661 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
4662 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
4663 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
4664 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
4665 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
4666 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
4667 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
4668 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
4669 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
4670 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
4671 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
4672 type will be interpreted at runtime.
4673 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
4674 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
4675 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
4676 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
4677 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
4678 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
4679 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
4680 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
4681 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
4682 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
4683 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
4684 fasl files for cold load.
4685 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
4686 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
4687 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
4688 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
4689 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
4690 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
4691 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
4692 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
4693 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
4694 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
4695 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
4697 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
4698 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
4699 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
4700 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
4701 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
4702 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
4703 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
4704 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
4705 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
4706 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
4707 renamed some files to increase consistency.
4708 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
4709 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
4710 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
4711 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
4712 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
4713 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
4715 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
4717 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
4718 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
4719 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
4720 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
4721 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
4722 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
4723 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
4724 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
4725 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
4726 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
4727 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
4728 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
4729 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
4730 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
4731 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
4732 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
4733 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
4734 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
4736 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
4737 as required by ANSI.
4738 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
4739 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
4740 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
4741 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
4743 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
4744 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
4745 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
4746 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
4747 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
4748 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
4749 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
4750 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
4752 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
4753 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
4754 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
4755 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4757 is now basically equivalent to
4758 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4759 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
4761 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
4762 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
4763 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
4764 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
4765 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
4766 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
4767 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
4768 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
4769 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
4770 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
4771 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
4772 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
4773 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
4774 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
4775 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
4776 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4777 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
4778 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
4779 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
4780 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
4781 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
4782 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
4783 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
4785 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
4787 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
4788 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
4789 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
4790 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
4791 GNUMAKE environment variable.
4792 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
4793 can build without error under CMU CL.
4795 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
4797 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
4798 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
4799 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
4800 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
4801 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
4802 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
4803 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
4804 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
4805 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
4806 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
4807 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
4808 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
4809 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
4810 being initialized before the type system knew the final
4811 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
4812 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
4813 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
4814 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
4815 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
4816 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
4817 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
4818 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
4819 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
4820 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
4822 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
4823 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
4824 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
4825 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
4826 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
4827 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
4828 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
4829 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
4830 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
4831 it were currently supported.
4832 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
4833 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
4834 having to maintain patches.
4835 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
4836 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
4838 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
4840 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
4841 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
4842 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
4843 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
4844 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
4845 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
4846 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
4847 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
4848 * various new style warnings:
4849 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
4850 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
4851 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
4852 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
4853 as specified by ANSI.
4854 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
4855 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
4856 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
4857 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
4858 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
4859 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
4860 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
4861 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
4862 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
4863 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
4864 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
4865 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
4866 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
4867 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
4868 argument types can be determined at compile time.
4869 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
4870 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
4871 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
4872 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
4873 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
4874 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
4875 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
4878 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
4880 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
4881 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
4882 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
4883 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
4884 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
4885 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
4886 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
4887 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
4888 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
4890 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
4891 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
4892 the report form was printed.)
4893 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
4894 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
4895 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
4896 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
4897 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
4898 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
4899 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
4900 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
4901 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
4902 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
4903 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
4904 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
4905 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
4906 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
4907 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
4908 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
4909 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
4910 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
4911 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
4912 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
4913 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
4914 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
4915 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
4916 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
4917 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
4918 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
4919 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
4920 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
4921 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
4922 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
4923 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
4924 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
4925 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
4926 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
4927 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
4928 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
4929 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
4930 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
4931 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
4932 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
4933 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
4934 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
4935 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
4936 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
4937 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
4938 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
4939 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
4940 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
4941 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
4942 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
4943 know more about target types.
4944 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
4945 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
4946 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
4947 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
4948 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
4949 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
4951 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
4952 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
4953 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
4954 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
4955 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4956 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4957 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4958 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4959 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4960 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4961 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4962 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4963 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4965 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4968 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4970 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4971 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4972 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4973 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4974 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4975 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4976 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4977 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4978 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4979 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4980 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4981 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4982 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4983 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4984 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4985 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4986 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4987 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4988 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4989 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4990 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4991 invisible at the user level.)
4992 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4993 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4994 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4996 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4998 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4999 * tidied up system directory structure
5000 * better "clean.sh" behavior
5001 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
5002 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
5003 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
5004 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
5005 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
5006 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
5007 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
5008 * command line argument processing
5009 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
5010 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
5011 terminating SBCL on EOF
5012 * non-verbose GC by default
5013 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
5014 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
5015 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
5017 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
5018 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
5019 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
5020 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
5021 transformed along with everything else.
5022 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
5023 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
5024 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
5025 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
5026 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
5027 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
5028 debugging and testing purposes
5029 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
5030 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
5031 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
5032 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
5033 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
5034 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
5035 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
5037 * regularized formatting of source files
5038 * added an install.sh script
5039 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
5040 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
5041 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
5042 builds nicely on my old laptop.
5043 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
5044 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
5045 was not implemented)
5046 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
5047 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
5048 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
5049 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
5050 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
5052 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
5053 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
5054 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
5055 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
5056 COMPILE-FILE command)
5057 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
5058 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
5059 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
5060 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
5061 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
5062 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
5063 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
5064 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
5065 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
5066 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
5067 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
5068 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
5069 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
5070 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
5071 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
5073 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
5074 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
5075 known to be able to handle the current sources
5076 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
5077 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
5078 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
5079 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
5080 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
5081 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
5082 * removed host-oops.lisp
5083 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
5084 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
5085 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
5086 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
5087 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
5088 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by