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2 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
3 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
4 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
6 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
7 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
8 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
9 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
10 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
12 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
13 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
14 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
15 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
16 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
17 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
18 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
19 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
20 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
21 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
22 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
23 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
24 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
25 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
26 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
27 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
28 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
29 stack frames from alien callbacks.
31 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
32 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
33 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
34 abount function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
35 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
36 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
37 sb-introspect contrib.
38 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
39 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
40 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
41 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
42 users and the general community)
43 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
44 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
45 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
46 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
47 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
48 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
49 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
50 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
51 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
52 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
53 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
54 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
55 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
56 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
57 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
58 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
60 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
61 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
62 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
63 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
64 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
65 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
66 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
68 * improvements to the Windows port:
69 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
70 to Alastair Bridgewater)
71 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
73 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
74 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
76 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
77 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
78 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
79 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
80 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
81 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
82 core, and restored on startup.
83 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
84 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
85 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
86 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
87 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
88 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
89 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
91 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
92 (thanks to Zach Beane)
93 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
95 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
96 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
97 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
99 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
100 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
101 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
102 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
103 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
104 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
106 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
107 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
108 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
109 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
110 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
111 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
112 (reported by Josip Gracin)
113 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
114 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
115 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
116 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
117 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
118 and don't cause extra consing
119 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
120 whose elements types have been declared.
121 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
122 ** Support for allocation profiling
123 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
124 * Improvements to the Windows port:
125 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
126 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
127 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
128 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
130 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
131 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
132 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
133 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
134 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
136 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
137 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
138 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
140 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
141 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
142 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
143 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
144 with non-variable places
145 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
146 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
147 code more stable against memory faults.
148 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
149 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
150 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
151 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
154 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
155 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
156 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
157 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
158 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
159 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
160 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
161 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
162 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
163 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
164 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
165 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
166 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
168 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
169 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
170 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
171 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
172 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
173 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
174 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
176 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
177 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
179 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
180 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
181 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
182 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
183 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
184 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
185 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
186 to the single-stepper REPL.
187 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
188 for a type now works.
189 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
191 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
192 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
193 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
194 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
195 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
196 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
197 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
198 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
200 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
201 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
202 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
203 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
204 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
205 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
206 whose bindings are modified
207 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
208 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
209 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
210 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
212 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
213 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
214 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
215 as specified by AMOP.
216 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
218 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
219 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
220 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
221 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
222 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
223 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
224 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
225 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
226 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
227 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
228 better type inference.
229 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
230 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
231 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
232 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
233 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
234 (reported by Bruno Haible)
235 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
236 initialization of methods can now be used to override
237 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
239 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
240 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
241 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
242 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
243 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
245 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
246 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
247 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
248 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
249 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
250 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
251 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
252 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
253 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
254 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
255 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
256 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
257 (reported by James Y Knight).
258 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
259 argument for shadowing by local functions.
260 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
262 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
263 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
265 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
267 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
268 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
269 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
271 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
272 * thread-safety improvements:
273 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
274 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
275 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
277 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
278 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
280 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
281 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
282 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
284 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
285 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
286 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
287 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
288 class became finalizeable.
289 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
290 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
291 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
292 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
294 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
295 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
296 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
297 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
298 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
299 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
300 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
301 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
302 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
303 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
304 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
305 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
306 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
307 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
308 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
309 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
310 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
311 * minor code generation optimizations:
312 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
313 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
314 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
315 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
316 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
317 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
318 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
321 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
322 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
324 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
326 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
327 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
328 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
329 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
330 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
331 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
332 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
333 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
334 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
335 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
336 the low-level debugger.
337 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
338 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
339 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
340 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
342 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
343 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
344 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
346 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
347 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
348 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
349 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
350 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
351 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
352 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
353 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
354 (reported by James Y Knight)
355 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
356 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
357 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
358 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
359 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
360 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
361 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
362 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
363 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
364 workaround for bug 403.)
365 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
366 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
367 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
368 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
370 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
371 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
372 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
374 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
375 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
376 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
377 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
378 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
380 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
382 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
383 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
384 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
387 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
388 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
389 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
390 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
391 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
392 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
393 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
394 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
395 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
396 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
397 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
398 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
399 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
400 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
401 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
402 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
403 documentation on package locks for details.
404 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
406 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
407 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
408 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
409 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
410 immediately available from the stream
411 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
412 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
413 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
414 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
416 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
417 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
418 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
420 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
421 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
422 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
424 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
425 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
426 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
427 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
429 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
430 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
431 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
432 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
433 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
434 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
435 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
436 ** sb-grovel supported
437 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
438 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
439 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
440 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
441 ** floating-point exception handling support
442 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
443 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
444 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
445 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
446 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
448 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
450 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
451 defaults for optional parameters.
452 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
453 function, which is already optimized.
455 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
456 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
457 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
458 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
459 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
460 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
461 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
462 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
463 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
464 this change is to make it easier to distribute
465 location-independent binaries.
466 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
467 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
469 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
470 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
471 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
472 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
473 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
474 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
475 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
476 Alastair Bridgewater)
477 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
478 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
479 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
480 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
481 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
482 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
483 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
484 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
485 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
486 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
487 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
488 (thanks to James Knight)
489 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
490 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
492 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
493 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
494 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
495 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
496 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
497 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
498 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
499 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
500 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
501 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
502 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
503 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
504 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
505 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
506 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
507 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
508 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
509 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
510 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
511 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
512 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
514 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
515 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
516 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
517 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
518 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
519 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
521 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
522 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
523 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
524 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
525 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
526 many others over the years)
527 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
528 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
529 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
531 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
532 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
533 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
534 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
535 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
536 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
538 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
540 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
541 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
542 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
543 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
544 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
545 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
546 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
547 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
548 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
549 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
550 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
551 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
552 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
553 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
555 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
556 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
557 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
558 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
559 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
560 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
561 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
562 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
563 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
564 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
565 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
566 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
567 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
568 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
569 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
570 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
571 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
572 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
573 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
574 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
576 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
577 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
578 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
579 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
580 index variables in LOOP
581 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
582 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
583 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
584 that don't have a docstring
586 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
587 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
588 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
589 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
590 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
591 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
592 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
593 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
594 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
595 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
596 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
597 Costanza's "Closer" project)
598 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
599 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
601 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
602 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
603 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
604 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
605 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
607 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
608 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
609 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
610 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
611 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
612 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
613 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
614 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
615 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
616 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
617 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
618 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
619 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
620 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
621 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
622 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
623 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
624 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
625 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
627 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
628 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
629 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
630 floating point index variable or a negative step.
632 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
633 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
634 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
635 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
636 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
637 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
638 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
639 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
640 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
641 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
642 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
643 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
644 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
645 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
646 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
647 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
648 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
649 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
650 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
651 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
652 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
653 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
654 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
655 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
656 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
657 and dump core on SIGQUIT
659 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
660 from their parents (see manual)
661 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
662 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
663 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
664 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
665 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
666 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
668 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
669 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
670 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
671 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
673 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
674 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
675 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
677 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
678 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
679 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
680 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
681 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
682 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
683 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
684 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
685 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
686 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
687 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
688 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
689 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
690 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
692 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
693 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
694 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
696 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
697 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
699 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
700 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
701 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
702 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
703 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
704 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
705 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
706 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
707 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
709 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
710 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
711 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
712 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
713 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
714 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
716 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
718 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
719 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
720 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
721 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
722 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
723 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
724 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
725 classes; see the manual for more details;
726 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
727 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
728 requested slot ordering.
730 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
732 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
733 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
735 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
737 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
738 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
739 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
740 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
741 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
742 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
743 the :method-class keyword argument.
745 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
746 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
747 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
748 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
749 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
750 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
751 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
752 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
753 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
754 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
755 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
757 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
758 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
759 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
760 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
761 is switched on or off
762 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
763 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
764 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
766 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
767 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
768 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
769 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
770 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
771 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
772 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
773 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
774 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
776 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
777 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
778 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
779 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
780 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
781 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
782 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
784 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
785 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
786 not prevent gc from running
787 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
788 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
789 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
790 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
791 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
792 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
793 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
794 an inline 32-bit rotation.
796 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
797 there is only one thread in the session
798 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
799 written to in another
800 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
801 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
803 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
804 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
806 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
807 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
808 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
809 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
810 the orignal arguments.
811 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
813 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
814 name a compiled function.
815 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
816 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
817 derivation were fixed.
818 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
819 list-form FUNCTION type.
820 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
821 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
822 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
824 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
825 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
826 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
827 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
828 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
829 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
831 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
832 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
833 of a select system call
834 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
836 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
837 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
839 * various error reporting improvements.
840 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
841 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
842 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
843 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
844 code and foreign data with the same name.
846 ** added x86-64 support
847 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
848 objects instead of thread ids
849 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
850 starting up or going down
851 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
852 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
853 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
854 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
855 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
856 an inappropriate moment
857 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
858 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
859 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
860 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
861 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
862 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
863 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
865 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
866 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
867 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
868 range before calling Unix time functions
870 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
871 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
872 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
873 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
874 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
875 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
876 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
877 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
878 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
879 for more information.
880 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
881 pathname is a directory pathname.
882 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
883 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
885 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
886 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
887 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
888 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
889 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
890 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
892 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
893 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
894 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
895 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
896 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
897 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
898 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
899 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
900 the PowerPC platform.
901 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
902 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
904 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
905 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
906 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
907 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
908 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
909 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
911 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
912 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
913 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
914 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
915 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
916 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
917 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
919 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
920 as the name of a type, or vice versa
921 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
922 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
923 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
924 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
925 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
926 FLET or MACROLET forms
927 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
929 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
931 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
934 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
935 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
936 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
937 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
938 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
939 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
940 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
941 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
942 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
943 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
944 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
945 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
946 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
947 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
948 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
949 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
950 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
951 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
952 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
953 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
954 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
955 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
957 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
958 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
959 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
960 a file has the stream as its datum.
961 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
962 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
963 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
964 a correct expected type
965 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
966 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
967 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
968 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
969 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
970 on broadcast streams.
972 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
973 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
974 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
975 --disable-debugger option instead.
976 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
978 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
979 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
980 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
981 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
982 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
983 has been added to the manual.
984 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
985 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
986 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
987 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
988 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
989 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
990 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
991 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
992 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
993 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
995 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
996 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
997 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
998 (reported by Rajat Datta).
999 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1000 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1002 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1003 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1004 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1005 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1006 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1007 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1008 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1009 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1010 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1011 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1012 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1013 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1014 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1015 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1016 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1017 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1018 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1019 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1020 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1022 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1024 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1025 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1026 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1027 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1028 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1030 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1031 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1032 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1033 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1034 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1035 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1036 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1038 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1039 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1040 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1042 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1043 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
1044 types for complex arguments better.
1045 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
1047 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
1048 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
1050 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
1051 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
1052 resulting in GC crashes.
1053 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
1055 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
1058 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
1059 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
1060 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
1061 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
1062 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
1063 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
1064 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
1065 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
1066 returning to the top level.
1067 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
1068 global optimization policy.
1069 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
1070 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
1071 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
1073 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
1074 various incompatible changes.
1075 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
1076 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
1077 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
1078 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
1079 level local call to FOO".
1080 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
1081 now have more legible printed representation
1082 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
1083 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
1084 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
1085 explicitly requested.
1086 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1087 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1088 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1089 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1090 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1092 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1093 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1094 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1095 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1096 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1097 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1098 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1099 the specializer is now possible.
1100 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1101 face of package deletion.
1102 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1103 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1104 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1105 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1106 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1107 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1108 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1109 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1110 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1111 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1113 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1114 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1115 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1116 correctable errors to be signalled.
1117 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1118 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
1121 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
1122 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1123 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
1125 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
1126 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1127 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
1128 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
1129 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
1130 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
1131 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
1132 related to the ~@F format directive.
1133 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
1135 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
1136 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
1137 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
1138 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
1140 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
1142 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
1143 coerce function designators to functions.
1144 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
1145 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
1146 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
1147 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
1148 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
1149 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
1150 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1151 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
1152 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
1153 start of the buffer at the next read.
1154 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
1155 passing it through to OPEN.
1156 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1157 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
1158 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
1159 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
1160 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
1161 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1162 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
1163 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
1165 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
1166 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1167 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1168 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
1169 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1170 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
1172 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1173 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
1174 secondary constituent character trait.
1175 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
1177 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
1179 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
1180 works more reliably.
1181 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
1182 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
1183 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
1185 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
1186 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
1188 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
1189 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
1190 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
1191 and reloading shared object files.
1192 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1193 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
1195 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
1196 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
1197 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
1199 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
1200 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
1202 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
1204 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
1205 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
1206 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
1207 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1208 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
1209 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
1210 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
1212 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
1213 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
1215 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
1216 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
1217 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
1218 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
1219 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
1221 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
1222 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
1223 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1224 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
1225 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
1226 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1227 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
1228 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1229 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
1230 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
1231 lisp characters are not eight bits.
1232 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1233 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
1234 the correct number of arguments.
1235 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
1236 to displaced strings.
1237 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
1238 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
1240 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
1241 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
1242 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
1243 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
1244 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
1245 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
1246 available at runtime.
1247 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
1248 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
1249 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
1250 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1251 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
1252 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
1253 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
1254 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
1255 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
1256 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
1257 of lambda-list keywords.
1258 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
1259 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
1261 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
1262 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
1263 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1264 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
1265 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
1266 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
1267 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
1269 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
1270 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1271 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
1272 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
1273 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
1275 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1276 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
1277 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1278 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
1279 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
1280 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1281 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
1283 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
1284 parameters correctly.
1285 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
1286 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
1287 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
1289 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
1292 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
1293 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
1294 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
1295 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
1297 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
1298 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
1299 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
1300 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
1301 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
1302 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
1303 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
1304 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1305 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
1307 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
1308 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1310 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
1312 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
1313 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
1314 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1315 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
1317 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
1318 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1319 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
1320 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
1321 (reported by David Morse)
1322 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
1323 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1324 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
1325 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1326 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
1327 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1328 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
1329 now exists, an signals an error.
1330 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
1331 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
1332 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1333 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
1334 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1335 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
1336 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
1337 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1338 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
1339 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1340 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
1341 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
1343 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
1344 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
1345 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
1346 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
1347 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1348 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
1349 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
1350 specialized array element types.
1351 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
1352 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1353 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
1354 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1355 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
1356 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
1357 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
1358 Wragg for the simple test case)
1359 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1360 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
1362 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
1363 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
1364 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
1365 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
1366 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
1368 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
1370 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
1371 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
1372 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
1373 references to global functions.
1374 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
1376 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
1378 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
1379 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1380 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
1381 supported platforms.
1382 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
1383 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
1384 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1385 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
1386 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
1387 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1388 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
1389 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1390 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
1391 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
1392 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
1393 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
1394 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
1396 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
1397 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1398 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
1399 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
1400 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
1401 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
1403 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
1404 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
1406 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
1407 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
1408 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
1409 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1410 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
1411 returns the right answer.
1412 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
1414 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
1416 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
1417 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
1419 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
1420 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
1422 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
1423 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
1424 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
1425 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
1426 the supported interface.
1427 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
1428 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
1429 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1430 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
1431 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
1432 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
1433 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
1434 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1435 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
1436 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
1437 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
1438 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
1439 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1440 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
1441 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
1442 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
1443 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
1444 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
1445 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
1446 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
1447 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
1448 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
1449 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
1450 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
1451 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
1452 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
1453 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1454 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
1455 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
1457 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
1458 * incompatible change: the internal functions
1459 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
1460 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
1461 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
1462 instead of the old functions.
1463 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
1464 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
1466 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
1467 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
1469 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
1470 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
1471 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
1472 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
1474 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
1475 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1476 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
1477 (reported by Rick Taube)
1478 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
1479 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
1480 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
1481 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
1483 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
1484 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
1485 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
1486 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
1487 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1488 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
1489 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
1490 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
1491 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
1492 represented relative to default pathnames.
1493 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
1494 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
1495 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
1497 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
1498 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
1499 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
1501 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1502 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
1503 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
1504 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
1506 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
1508 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
1509 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
1510 conditional newlines.
1511 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
1512 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
1513 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
1515 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
1516 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
1518 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
1519 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
1520 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
1521 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
1522 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
1523 compiled in unconditionally.
1524 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
1525 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
1526 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
1527 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
1528 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
1530 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
1531 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
1532 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
1533 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
1534 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
1535 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
1536 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
1537 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
1538 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
1539 an implementation-internal package.
1540 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
1542 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
1543 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
1544 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
1545 bodies are now more legible.
1546 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
1547 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
1548 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
1549 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
1550 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1551 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
1552 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
1554 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
1555 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
1556 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
1557 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
1558 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
1559 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
1560 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
1561 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
1562 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
1563 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
1565 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
1566 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
1567 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
1568 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
1569 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
1570 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
1571 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
1572 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
1573 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
1574 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
1575 system even when most of them are idle
1576 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
1577 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1578 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
1580 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
1581 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
1582 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
1583 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
1584 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
1586 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
1587 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
1588 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
1589 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
1590 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
1591 string for information on the protocol.
1592 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
1593 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
1595 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
1596 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
1598 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
1599 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
1600 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
1601 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
1602 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
1603 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
1605 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
1606 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
1608 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
1609 move between its address being taken and the call to
1610 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
1611 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
1612 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
1613 instances corresponding to C structs.
1615 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
1616 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
1617 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
1618 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
1619 has implications for memory management of client code
1620 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
1621 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
1622 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
1623 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
1624 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
1625 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
1626 quality should be considered deprecated.
1627 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
1628 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
1629 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
1630 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
1631 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
1633 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
1634 designator as the defaults argument.
1635 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
1636 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
1637 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1638 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
1639 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
1641 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
1643 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
1644 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1645 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
1646 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
1647 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1648 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
1650 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
1651 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1652 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
1653 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
1654 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
1655 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
1656 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1657 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
1658 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
1659 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
1660 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
1661 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1662 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
1663 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
1664 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
1665 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
1666 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
1668 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
1669 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
1670 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
1672 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
1673 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1674 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
1675 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
1676 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
1677 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
1678 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1679 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
1680 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
1682 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
1683 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
1685 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
1686 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
1688 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
1689 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1690 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
1691 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
1693 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
1694 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
1695 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1696 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
1697 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
1698 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
1699 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
1700 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
1702 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
1703 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
1704 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
1706 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
1707 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
1709 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1710 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
1712 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
1713 from local to shared slots.
1714 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
1715 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
1716 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
1717 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
1719 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
1720 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
1721 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
1722 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
1723 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
1724 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
1725 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
1726 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
1727 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
1729 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
1731 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
1733 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
1734 print using #P"..." syntax.
1736 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
1737 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
1738 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
1739 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
1740 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
1741 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
1742 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
1743 * [placeholder for DX summary]
1744 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
1745 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
1746 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
1747 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
1748 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
1749 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
1750 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
1751 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
1752 the test case to Dave Roberts)
1753 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
1754 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
1755 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
1756 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1757 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
1758 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
1759 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
1760 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1761 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
1762 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
1763 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
1764 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
1765 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1766 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
1767 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
1770 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
1771 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
1772 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
1773 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
1774 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
1775 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
1776 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
1777 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
1778 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
1779 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1780 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
1781 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
1782 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
1784 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
1785 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
1787 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
1788 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
1789 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1790 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
1791 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1792 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
1794 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
1795 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
1796 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
1798 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
1800 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
1802 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
1803 their output stream on EOF from read.
1804 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
1805 have been read to end-of-file.
1806 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
1808 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
1809 description of determination of which consecutive characters
1811 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
1812 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
1813 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1814 less than 10 works correctly.
1815 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1816 more than 10 works correctly.
1817 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
1818 the readtable currently in effect.
1820 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
1821 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
1822 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
1823 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
1824 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
1825 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
1826 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
1827 should usually be replaced by
1828 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
1829 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
1830 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
1831 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
1832 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
1833 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
1834 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
1835 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
1837 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
1838 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
1839 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
1840 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
1841 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
1842 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1843 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
1844 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
1845 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
1846 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
1847 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
1848 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
1849 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
1851 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
1852 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
1853 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
1854 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1855 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
1856 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
1857 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
1858 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1859 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
1860 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
1861 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
1862 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
1863 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
1864 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
1865 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1866 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
1867 non-local entry points.
1868 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
1870 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1871 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
1873 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
1874 host is already defined.
1875 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
1877 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
1878 or not a character is whitespace.
1879 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
1880 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
1881 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
1883 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
1884 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
1886 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
1888 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
1889 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
1890 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
1891 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
1892 designator argument does not designate a stream.
1893 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
1894 examining the synonym.
1895 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
1897 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
1898 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
1900 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
1901 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
1902 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
1903 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
1904 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
1905 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
1906 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
1907 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
1908 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
1909 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1910 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
1911 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
1913 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
1914 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
1915 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1916 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
1917 stream position information.
1918 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
1919 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
1920 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
1921 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
1922 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1923 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
1925 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
1926 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
1928 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
1929 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1930 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
1931 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
1932 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
1933 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
1934 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
1936 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
1938 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
1939 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
1940 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
1941 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
1942 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
1943 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
1944 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
1945 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
1946 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
1947 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
1948 the "SYS" logical host.
1949 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
1950 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
1951 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
1952 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1953 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
1954 now each have their own history, command character, and other
1955 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1956 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1957 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
1959 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
1960 shift greater than 32.
1961 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
1962 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
1963 in some circumstances.
1965 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
1966 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
1967 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
1968 environments like SLIME.
1969 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
1970 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
1971 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
1972 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
1973 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
1974 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
1975 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
1976 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
1977 argument types for all arguments.
1978 * various threading fixes
1979 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
1980 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
1981 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
1982 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
1984 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
1985 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
1986 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
1987 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
1988 arguments to a full call.
1989 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
1990 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
1991 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
1992 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
1994 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
1995 inserts a space where necessary.
1996 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
1997 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
1998 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
1999 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2000 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2001 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2002 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2003 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2004 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2005 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2006 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2007 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2009 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2010 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2011 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2013 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2015 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2016 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2017 argument and negative second.
2018 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2019 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2020 interval, containing 0.
2021 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2023 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2024 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2026 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2027 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2028 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2029 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2030 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2031 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2032 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2033 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2034 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2035 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2036 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2037 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2038 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2039 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2040 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2041 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2042 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2043 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
2044 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
2045 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
2046 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
2047 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2048 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
2049 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
2050 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
2051 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
2052 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
2053 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
2054 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
2056 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
2057 platform now returns the right answer.
2058 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
2059 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
2060 precomputation is now tunable.
2061 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
2062 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
2063 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
2064 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
2065 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
2066 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
2067 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
2068 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
2069 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
2070 has been added for the alpha.
2071 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
2072 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
2073 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
2074 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
2075 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
2076 MEMBER-types to numeric.
2077 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
2079 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
2080 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
2081 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
2083 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
2084 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2085 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
2086 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2087 might be pseudo-atomic.
2088 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2089 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2091 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2093 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2095 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2096 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2097 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2098 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2099 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2100 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2102 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2103 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2104 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2105 small float arguments.
2106 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2108 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2109 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2110 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2111 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2112 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2113 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2115 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2117 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2118 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
2119 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
2120 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
2121 with negative last argument.
2122 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
2123 an error during type derivation.
2124 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
2126 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
2127 generates a 32-bit binary.
2128 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2129 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
2130 data structures referred to above).
2132 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
2133 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
2134 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
2135 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
2136 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
2137 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
2138 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
2139 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
2140 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
2141 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2142 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
2143 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
2145 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
2146 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
2148 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
2149 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
2150 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
2151 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
2152 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
2153 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
2154 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
2155 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
2156 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
2157 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
2158 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
2159 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2160 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
2161 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
2162 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
2163 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
2164 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
2165 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2166 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
2167 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
2168 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
2169 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
2170 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2171 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
2172 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
2173 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
2174 optimization quality.
2175 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
2176 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
2177 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
2178 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
2179 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2180 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2181 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
2182 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
2183 types form a lattice under type intersection.
2184 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
2185 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
2186 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
2187 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
2188 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
2189 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
2190 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
2191 calling the generic function.
2192 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
2193 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
2194 obscure ANSI requirements
2196 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
2197 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
2198 garbage, confusing the compiler.
2199 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
2200 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
2201 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
2202 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
2203 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
2204 circumstances could go off-by-one.
2205 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
2207 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
2208 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
2209 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
2210 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
2211 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
2212 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
2213 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
2214 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
2215 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
2216 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2217 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
2218 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
2219 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2220 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
2221 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2222 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
2223 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
2224 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
2225 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
2226 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
2228 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
2229 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
2230 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
2231 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
2233 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
2234 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
2235 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
2236 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
2237 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
2238 provide helpful disassembly notes.
2239 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
2240 the class in more cases than previously.
2241 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
2242 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2243 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
2244 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2245 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
2246 without lambda list.
2247 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
2248 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
2249 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2250 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
2251 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
2252 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
2254 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
2255 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
2256 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
2258 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
2259 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
2260 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
2261 were silently accepted).
2262 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
2263 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
2264 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
2265 to warn on static type mismatches and function
2266 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
2267 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
2268 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
2269 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
2270 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
2271 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
2272 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
2273 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
2274 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
2275 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
2277 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
2278 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
2279 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
2280 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
2281 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
2282 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
2284 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
2285 keywords or constants is permissible.
2286 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
2287 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
2288 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2289 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
2290 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
2291 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
2292 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
2293 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
2295 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
2296 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2297 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
2298 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
2299 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2300 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
2301 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
2303 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
2305 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
2306 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
2307 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
2308 respectively change and preserve the value.
2309 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
2310 is now better at handling symbol macros.
2311 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
2312 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
2313 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
2314 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
2315 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
2316 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
2317 their use properly signals an error now.
2318 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
2319 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
2320 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
2321 * fixed simple vector readable printing
2322 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
2323 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
2324 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
2325 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
2326 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
2327 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
2328 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2329 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
2330 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2331 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
2332 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
2333 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2334 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
2335 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
2336 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
2337 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
2338 causes a type error.
2339 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
2340 association between the name and a class.
2341 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
2342 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
2343 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2344 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
2345 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
2346 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
2348 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
2349 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
2350 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
2351 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
2353 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
2354 which its argument is a member.
2355 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
2356 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
2357 otherwise, it creates a new class.
2358 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
2359 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
2360 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
2361 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
2362 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2363 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
2365 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
2366 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
2367 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
2368 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
2369 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
2370 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
2371 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
2373 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
2374 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
2375 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
2376 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
2377 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
2378 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
2379 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
2380 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
2381 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
2382 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
2383 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
2384 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
2385 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2386 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
2388 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
2389 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
2390 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
2391 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
2392 superclasses are applied.
2393 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2394 no method was removed.
2395 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
2396 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
2397 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
2398 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
2400 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
2402 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
2403 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
2404 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
2405 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
2406 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
2407 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
2408 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
2409 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
2410 function lambda list.
2411 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
2413 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
2414 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
2415 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
2416 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
2418 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
2419 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
2420 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
2421 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
2422 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
2423 they look for GNU "make".
2425 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
2426 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
2427 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
2428 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
2430 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
2431 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
2432 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
2433 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
2434 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
2435 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
2436 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
2437 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
2438 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
2439 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
2441 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
2442 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
2443 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
2444 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
2445 libraries, and will know who they are.
2446 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
2447 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
2448 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
2449 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
2450 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
2451 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
2452 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
2453 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
2455 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
2456 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
2457 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2458 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
2459 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
2460 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
2461 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
2462 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
2463 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
2464 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
2465 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2466 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
2468 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
2469 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
2470 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
2471 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
2472 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2473 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
2474 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
2475 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
2476 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
2478 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
2479 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
2480 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
2481 this you were probably losing anyway.
2482 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
2483 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
2484 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
2485 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
2486 with names from the CL package.
2487 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
2488 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
2489 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
2490 documentation string.
2491 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2492 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
2494 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
2495 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
2496 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
2497 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
2499 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
2500 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
2502 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
2503 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2504 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
2506 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
2507 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
2508 arguments contain duplicated elements.
2509 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
2510 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
2511 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
2512 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
2513 in question is unbound.
2514 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
2515 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
2516 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
2517 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
2518 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
2520 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
2522 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
2523 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
2524 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
2525 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
2526 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
2527 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
2528 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
2529 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
2530 by Antonio Martinez)
2531 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
2532 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2533 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
2534 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
2535 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
2536 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
2537 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
2538 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2539 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
2540 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
2541 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
2542 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
2543 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
2544 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
2545 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
2546 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
2547 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
2548 on malformed property lists;
2550 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
2551 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
2552 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
2553 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
2554 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
2555 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
2556 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
2557 modules in this release include:
2558 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
2559 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
2560 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
2561 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2562 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
2564 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
2565 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
2566 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2567 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2568 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
2569 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
2570 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
2571 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
2573 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
2574 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
2575 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
2576 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
2577 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
2578 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
2579 the lexical environment.
2580 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
2581 unprintable packages can now be defined.
2582 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
2583 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2584 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
2585 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2586 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
2587 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
2588 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
2589 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
2590 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
2591 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
2592 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
2593 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
2594 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2595 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
2596 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2597 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
2598 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
2599 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
2600 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2601 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
2602 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
2603 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
2604 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
2606 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
2607 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
2608 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2609 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2610 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
2611 not just nonnegative fixnums;
2612 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
2613 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
2614 freshly-consed result bit-array);
2615 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
2617 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
2618 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
2620 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
2621 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
2622 cases are accurately computed;
2623 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
2624 if it is in the last clause;
2625 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
2627 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
2628 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
2629 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
2630 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
2632 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
2633 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
2634 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
2635 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
2636 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
2638 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
2639 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
2640 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
2641 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
2643 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2644 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
2645 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
2646 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
2647 not cause a type error;
2648 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
2650 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
2651 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
2652 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
2653 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
2654 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
2655 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
2656 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
2657 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
2659 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
2660 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
2661 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
2662 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
2663 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
2664 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
2666 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
2667 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
2669 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
2670 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
2671 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
2672 only for symbols in the CL package.
2673 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
2674 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2675 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
2676 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
2677 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
2679 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2680 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
2681 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
2682 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
2683 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
2684 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
2685 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
2686 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
2687 conditional loop clause;
2688 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
2689 signals a type error iff it should.
2690 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2691 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
2692 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
2693 argument) no longer signals an error;
2694 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
2695 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
2696 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
2698 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
2699 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
2700 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
2702 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
2703 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
2704 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
2705 functionality on said platforms verified.
2706 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
2707 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
2709 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
2710 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
2711 component indicating that directory.
2712 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
2713 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
2714 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
2715 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
2716 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2717 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
2719 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
2720 primary methods with no specializers;
2721 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
2723 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
2724 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
2725 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
2726 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
2728 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
2729 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
2730 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
2732 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
2733 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
2734 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
2735 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
2736 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
2737 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
2738 class STANDARD-CLASS;
2739 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
2740 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2741 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
2742 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
2744 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
2745 value producing form;
2746 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
2747 variables are bound and made to have no value;
2748 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
2750 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
2751 is not a valid sequence index;
2752 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
2753 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
2754 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2755 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
2757 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
2758 symbol-macro places;
2759 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
2760 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
2762 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
2764 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
2766 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
2767 invariant when deleting code.
2768 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
2769 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
2771 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
2772 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2773 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
2775 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
2776 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
2778 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
2779 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
2780 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2781 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
2783 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
2784 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2785 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
2786 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
2788 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
2789 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
2790 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
2791 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
2792 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2793 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
2794 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
2795 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
2796 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
2797 sbcl and .core files.)
2798 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
2799 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
2800 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
2801 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
2802 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
2803 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2804 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
2806 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
2807 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
2808 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
2809 argument precedence order.
2810 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
2811 derived types contradict their declared type.
2812 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
2813 so it can be non-toplevel.
2814 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
2815 implementation of DEFMACRO).
2816 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
2817 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
2818 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
2820 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
2821 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
2822 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
2823 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
2824 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
2825 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
2826 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
2827 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
2828 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
2829 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
2830 symbol macro only once
2831 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
2832 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
2833 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
2836 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
2837 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
2838 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
2839 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
2840 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
2841 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
2842 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
2843 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
2844 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
2845 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2846 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
2847 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
2849 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
2850 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
2851 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
2852 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
2853 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2854 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
2856 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
2858 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
2859 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
2860 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
2861 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
2862 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2863 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
2864 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
2865 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
2866 ways in different special cases
2867 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
2869 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
2870 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
2871 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
2872 are no longer optimized away.
2873 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
2874 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
2875 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
2876 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
2877 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
2878 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
2879 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
2880 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
2883 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
2884 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
2885 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
2886 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
2887 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
2888 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
2889 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
2891 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
2892 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
2893 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
2894 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
2895 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
2896 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
2897 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
2898 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
2899 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
2900 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
2901 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
2902 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
2903 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
2904 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
2905 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
2906 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
2907 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
2908 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2909 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
2910 that are names of constants or global variables.
2911 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
2912 alien routines with docstrings.
2913 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
2914 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
2916 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
2917 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2918 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
2919 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2920 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
2921 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2922 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
2923 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
2924 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
2925 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2926 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
2927 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
2928 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
2929 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
2930 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
2931 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
2932 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
2933 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
2934 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
2935 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
2936 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
2937 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
2938 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
2940 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
2941 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
2943 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
2944 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
2945 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
2946 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
2947 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
2948 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
2949 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
2950 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
2951 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
2952 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
2954 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
2955 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
2956 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
2957 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
2958 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
2959 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
2960 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
2961 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
2962 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
2963 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
2964 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
2965 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
2966 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
2967 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
2968 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
2969 is no longer a static symbol.)
2971 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
2972 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
2973 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
2974 bootstrapping under CLISP.
2975 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
2977 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
2978 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
2980 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
2981 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
2982 to David Lichteblau)
2983 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
2984 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
2985 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
2987 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
2988 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2989 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
2990 count as they should.
2991 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
2992 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2993 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
2994 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
2995 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
2996 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
2997 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
2998 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
2999 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3000 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3001 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3002 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3003 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3004 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3005 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3007 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3008 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3009 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3011 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3013 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3014 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3015 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3016 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3017 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3018 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3019 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3021 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3022 to Christophe Rhodes)
3023 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3024 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3025 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3026 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3027 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3028 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
3029 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3031 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3032 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3033 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3034 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3035 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3036 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3037 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3038 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3039 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3040 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3041 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3042 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3043 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
3045 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
3046 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
3047 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
3048 INFO database to support symbol macros.
3049 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
3050 (thanks to coreythomas)
3051 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
3052 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
3053 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
3054 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
3055 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
3057 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
3058 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
3059 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
3060 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
3061 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
3062 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
3063 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
3064 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
3065 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
3066 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3067 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
3068 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
3069 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
3071 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
3072 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
3075 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
3076 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
3077 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
3078 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
3079 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
3080 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
3081 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
3082 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
3083 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
3084 systems than the old 4M value was)
3085 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
3086 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3087 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3088 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3089 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3090 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3091 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3093 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3094 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3095 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3096 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3097 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3099 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3100 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3101 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3102 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3103 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3104 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3105 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3106 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3108 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3109 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3110 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3111 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3112 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3113 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3114 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3115 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3117 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3118 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3119 * several changes related to debugging:
3120 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
3121 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
3122 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
3123 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
3124 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3125 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
3126 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
3129 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
3131 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
3132 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
3133 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
3134 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
3135 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
3136 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
3137 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
3138 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
3140 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
3141 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
3142 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
3143 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3144 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
3145 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
3146 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
3147 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
3148 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
3149 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
3150 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
3151 file format number to change again.
3153 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
3154 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
3155 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
3156 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
3158 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
3159 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
3160 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
3161 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
3162 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
3163 FUNCALL on the result.
3164 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
3165 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
3166 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
3167 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
3168 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
3169 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
3170 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
3171 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
3173 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
3174 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
3175 the old compiler produced.
3176 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
3177 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
3178 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
3179 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
3180 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
3181 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
3182 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
3183 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
3184 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
3185 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
3186 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
3187 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
3188 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
3189 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
3190 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
3191 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
3192 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
3193 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
3194 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
3195 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
3196 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
3197 straightened out in some future version.)
3198 * minor incompatible changes:
3199 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
3200 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
3201 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
3202 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
3203 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
3204 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
3205 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
3206 implementation dependent:
3207 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
3208 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
3209 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
3210 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
3211 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
3212 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
3213 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
3214 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
3216 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
3218 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
3219 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
3220 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
3221 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
3222 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
3223 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
3224 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
3225 are no longer used for output.
3226 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
3227 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
3228 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
3229 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
3230 increasing it even more.)
3231 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
3232 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
3233 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
3235 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
3236 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
3237 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
3238 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
3239 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
3240 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
3241 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
3242 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
3243 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
3244 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
3245 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
3246 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
3247 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
3248 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
3249 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
3250 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
3251 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
3252 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
3253 compilation of code which calls such functions.
3254 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
3255 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
3256 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
3257 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
3258 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
3259 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
3260 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
3261 built into the system.
3262 * many other bug fixes
3263 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
3264 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
3265 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
3266 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
3267 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
3269 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
3270 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
3271 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
3272 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
3273 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
3274 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
3275 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
3276 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
3277 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
3278 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
3279 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
3281 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
3282 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
3283 and several other LOOP problems as well
3284 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
3285 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
3286 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
3287 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
3288 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
3289 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
3290 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
3291 *** a bug in APROPOS
3292 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
3293 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
3294 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
3295 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
3296 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
3297 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
3298 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
3299 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
3300 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
3301 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
3302 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
3303 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
3304 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
3305 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
3306 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
3308 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
3309 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
3310 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
3311 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
3312 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
3313 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
3314 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
3315 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
3316 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
3317 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
3318 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
3319 some of which are apparent above.
3321 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
3322 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
3323 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
3324 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
3325 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
3326 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
3327 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
3328 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
3329 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
3330 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
3331 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
3332 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
3333 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
3334 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
3335 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
3336 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
3337 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
3338 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
3339 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
3340 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
3341 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
3342 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
3343 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
3344 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
3345 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
3346 different return types.
3347 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
3348 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
3349 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
3350 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
3351 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
3352 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
3353 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
3354 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
3355 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
3356 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
3358 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
3359 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
3360 does the right thing.
3361 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
3362 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
3363 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3364 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
3365 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3366 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3367 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
3368 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
3369 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
3370 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
3371 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3372 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
3373 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3374 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
3375 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
3376 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
3377 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
3378 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
3379 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
3380 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
3381 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
3382 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
3383 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
3384 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
3385 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
3386 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
3387 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
3388 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
3389 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
3390 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
3391 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
3392 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
3393 since historically most system changes which required version
3394 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
3395 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
3398 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
3399 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
3400 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
3401 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
3402 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
3403 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
3404 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
3405 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
3406 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
3407 half a dozen others elsewhere
3408 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
3409 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
3410 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
3411 as flaky as they were.
3412 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
3413 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
3414 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
3415 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
3416 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
3417 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
3418 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
3419 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
3421 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
3422 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
3423 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
3424 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3425 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
3426 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
3427 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
3428 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
3429 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
3430 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
3431 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
3432 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
3433 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
3434 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
3435 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
3436 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
3437 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
3438 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
3439 more obscure bugs as well
3440 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
3441 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
3442 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
3443 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
3444 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
3445 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
3446 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
3447 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
3448 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
3449 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
3450 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
3452 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
3453 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
3455 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
3457 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3458 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
3459 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
3460 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
3461 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
3462 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
3463 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
3464 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
3465 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
3466 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
3467 are local in this sense.)
3468 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
3469 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
3470 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
3471 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
3472 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
3473 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
3474 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3475 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
3476 system's STREAM objects.
3477 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
3478 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3479 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
3480 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3481 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
3482 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
3483 environment from the original process instead of starting the
3484 new process in an empty environment.
3485 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
3486 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
3487 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
3488 for porting convenience.
3489 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
3490 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
3492 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
3494 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
3495 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
3496 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
3497 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
3498 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
3499 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
3500 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
3501 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
3502 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
3503 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
3504 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
3505 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3506 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
3507 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
3508 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
3509 many fewer weird special cases.
3510 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
3511 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
3512 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3513 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
3514 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
3515 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
3516 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
3517 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
3518 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
3519 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3520 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
3523 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
3525 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
3526 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
3527 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
3529 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
3530 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
3531 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
3532 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
3533 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
3534 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
3535 should be constructed the same way as before.
3536 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
3537 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
3538 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
3539 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
3540 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
3541 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
3542 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
3543 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
3544 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
3545 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
3546 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
3547 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
3548 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
3549 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
3550 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
3551 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
3552 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
3553 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
3554 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
3555 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
3556 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
3557 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
3559 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
3560 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
3561 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
3562 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
3563 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
3564 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
3565 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
3566 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
3568 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
3570 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
3571 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
3572 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
3573 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
3574 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
3576 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
3577 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
3578 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
3579 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
3580 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
3581 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
3582 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
3583 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
3584 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
3585 and Douglas Crosher.
3586 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
3587 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
3588 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
3590 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
3591 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
3592 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
3593 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
3594 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
3595 undefined function error.
3596 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
3597 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
3598 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
3599 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
3600 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
3601 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
3602 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
3603 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
3604 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
3605 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
3606 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
3607 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
3608 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
3610 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
3612 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
3613 CVS repository on my home machine).
3614 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
3615 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
3616 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
3617 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
3618 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
3619 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
3620 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
3621 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
3622 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
3623 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
3624 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
3625 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
3626 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
3627 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
3628 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
3629 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
3630 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
3631 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
3632 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
3633 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
3634 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
3635 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
3637 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
3638 FreeBSD have been added.
3639 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
3640 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
3641 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
3642 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
3643 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
3644 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
3646 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
3647 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
3648 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
3649 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
3650 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
3651 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
3652 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
3653 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
3655 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
3656 away by constant folding
3657 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
3658 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
3659 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
3660 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
3661 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
3662 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
3663 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
3664 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
3665 diff-related operations.
3666 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
3667 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
3669 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
3671 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
3672 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
3673 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
3674 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
3675 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
3676 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
3677 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
3678 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
3679 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
3680 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
3681 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
3682 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
3683 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
3684 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
3685 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
3686 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
3687 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
3688 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
3689 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
3690 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
3691 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
3692 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
3693 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
3694 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
3695 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
3696 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
3697 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
3698 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
3699 instead of (VALUES T T).
3700 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
3701 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
3702 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
3703 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
3704 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
3705 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
3706 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
3707 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
3708 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
3709 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
3710 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
3711 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
3712 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
3713 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
3714 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
3715 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
3716 type will be interpreted at runtime.
3717 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
3718 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
3719 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
3720 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
3721 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
3722 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
3723 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
3724 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
3725 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
3726 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
3727 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
3728 fasl files for cold load.
3729 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
3730 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
3731 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
3732 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
3733 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
3734 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
3735 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
3736 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
3737 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
3738 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
3739 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
3741 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
3742 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
3743 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
3744 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
3745 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
3746 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
3747 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
3748 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
3749 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
3750 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
3751 renamed some files to increase consistency.
3752 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
3753 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
3754 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
3755 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
3756 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
3757 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
3759 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
3761 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
3762 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
3763 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
3764 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
3765 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
3766 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
3767 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
3768 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
3769 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
3770 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
3771 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
3772 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
3773 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
3774 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
3775 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
3776 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
3777 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
3778 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
3780 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
3781 as required by ANSI.
3782 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
3783 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
3784 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
3785 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
3787 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
3788 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
3789 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
3790 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
3791 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
3792 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
3793 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
3794 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
3796 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
3797 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
3798 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
3799 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3801 is now basically equivalent to
3802 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3803 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
3805 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
3806 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
3807 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
3808 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
3809 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
3810 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
3811 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
3812 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
3813 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
3814 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
3815 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
3816 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
3817 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
3818 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
3819 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
3820 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3821 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
3822 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
3823 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
3824 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
3825 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
3826 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
3827 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
3829 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
3831 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
3832 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
3833 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
3834 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
3835 GNUMAKE environment variable.
3836 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
3837 can build without error under CMU CL.
3839 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
3841 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
3842 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
3843 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
3844 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
3845 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
3846 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
3847 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
3848 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
3849 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
3850 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
3851 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
3852 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
3853 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
3854 being initialized before the type system knew the final
3855 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
3856 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
3857 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
3858 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
3859 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
3860 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
3861 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
3862 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
3863 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
3864 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
3866 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
3867 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
3868 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
3869 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
3870 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
3871 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
3872 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
3873 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
3874 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
3875 it were currently supported.
3876 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
3877 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
3878 having to maintain patches.
3879 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
3880 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
3882 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
3884 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
3885 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
3886 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
3887 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
3888 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
3889 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
3890 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
3891 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
3892 * various new style warnings:
3893 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
3894 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
3895 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
3896 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
3897 as specified by ANSI.
3898 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
3899 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
3900 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
3901 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
3902 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
3903 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
3904 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
3905 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
3906 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
3907 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
3908 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
3909 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
3910 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
3911 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
3912 argument types can be determined at compile time.
3913 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
3914 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
3915 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
3916 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
3917 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
3918 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
3919 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
3922 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
3924 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
3925 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
3926 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
3927 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
3928 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
3929 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
3930 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
3931 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
3932 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
3934 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
3935 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
3936 the report form was printed.)
3937 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
3938 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
3939 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
3940 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
3941 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
3942 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
3943 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
3944 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
3945 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
3946 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
3947 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
3948 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
3949 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
3950 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
3951 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
3952 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
3953 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
3954 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
3955 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
3956 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
3957 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
3958 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
3959 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
3960 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
3961 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
3962 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
3963 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
3964 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
3965 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
3966 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
3967 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
3968 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
3969 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
3970 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
3971 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
3972 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
3973 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
3974 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
3975 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
3976 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
3977 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
3978 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
3979 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
3980 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
3981 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
3982 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
3983 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
3984 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
3985 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
3986 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
3987 know more about target types.
3988 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
3989 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
3990 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
3991 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
3992 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
3993 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
3995 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
3996 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
3997 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
3998 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
3999 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4000 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4001 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4002 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4003 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4004 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4005 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4006 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4007 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4009 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4012 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4014 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4015 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4016 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4017 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4018 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4019 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4020 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4021 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4022 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4023 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4024 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4025 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4026 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4027 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4028 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4029 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4030 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4031 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4032 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4033 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4034 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4035 invisible at the user level.)
4036 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4037 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4038 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4040 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4042 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4043 * tidied up system directory structure
4044 * better "clean.sh" behavior
4045 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
4046 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
4047 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
4048 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
4049 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
4050 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
4051 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
4052 * command line argument processing
4053 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
4054 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
4055 terminating SBCL on EOF
4056 * non-verbose GC by default
4057 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
4058 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
4059 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
4061 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
4062 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
4063 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
4064 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
4065 transformed along with everything else.
4066 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
4067 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
4068 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
4069 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
4070 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
4071 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
4072 debugging and testing purposes
4073 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
4074 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
4075 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
4076 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
4077 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
4078 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
4079 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
4081 * regularized formatting of source files
4082 * added an install.sh script
4083 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
4084 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
4085 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
4086 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4087 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4088 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4089 was not implemented)
4090 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4091 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4092 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4093 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4094 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4096 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4097 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4098 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4099 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4100 COMPILE-FILE command)
4101 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4102 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4103 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4104 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4105 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4106 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4107 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4108 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4109 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4110 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4111 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4112 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4113 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4114 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4115 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4117 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4118 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
4119 known to be able to handle the current sources
4120 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
4121 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
4122 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
4123 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
4124 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
4125 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
4126 * removed host-oops.lisp
4127 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
4128 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
4129 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
4130 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
4131 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
4132 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by