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2 changes in sbcl-0.9.19 (1.0.0?) relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
3 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
4 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
5 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
6 core, and restored on startup.
7 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
8 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
9 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
10 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
11 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
12 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
13 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
15 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
16 (thanks to Zach Beane)
17 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
19 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
20 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
21 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
22 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
23 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
24 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
25 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
26 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
28 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
29 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
30 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
31 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
32 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
33 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
34 (reported by Josip Gracin)
35 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
36 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
37 * Improvements to the Windows port:
38 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
39 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
40 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
41 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
43 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
44 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
45 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
46 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
47 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
49 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
50 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
51 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
53 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
54 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
55 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
56 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
57 with non-variable places
58 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
59 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
60 code more stable against memory faults.
61 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
62 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
63 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
64 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
67 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
68 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
69 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
70 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
71 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
72 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
73 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
74 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
75 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
76 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
77 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
78 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
79 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
81 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
82 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
83 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
84 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
85 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
86 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
87 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
89 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
90 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
92 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
93 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
94 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
95 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
96 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
97 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
98 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
99 to the single-stepper REPL.
100 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
101 for a type now works.
102 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
104 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
105 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
106 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
107 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
108 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
109 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
110 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
111 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
113 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
114 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
115 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
116 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
117 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
118 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
119 whose bindings are modified
120 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
121 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
122 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
123 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
125 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
126 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
127 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
128 as specified by AMOP.
129 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
131 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
132 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
133 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
134 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
135 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
136 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
137 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
138 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
139 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
140 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
141 better type inference.
142 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
143 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
144 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
145 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
146 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
147 (reported by Bruno Haible)
148 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
149 initialization of methods can now be used to override
150 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
152 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
153 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
154 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
155 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
156 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
158 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
159 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
160 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
161 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
162 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
163 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
164 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
165 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
166 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
167 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
168 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
169 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
170 (reported by James Y Knight).
171 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
172 argument for shadowing by local functions.
173 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
175 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
176 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
178 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
180 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
181 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
182 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
184 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
185 * thread-safety improvements:
186 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
187 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
188 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
190 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
191 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
193 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
194 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
195 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
197 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
198 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
199 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
200 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
201 class became finalizeable.
202 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
203 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
204 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
205 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
207 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
208 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
209 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
210 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
211 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
212 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
213 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
214 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
215 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
216 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
217 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
218 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
219 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
220 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
221 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
222 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
223 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
224 * minor code generation optimizations:
225 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
226 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
227 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
228 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
229 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
230 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
231 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
234 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
235 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
237 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
239 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
240 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
241 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
242 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
243 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
244 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
245 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
246 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
247 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
248 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
249 the low-level debugger.
250 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
251 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
252 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
253 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
255 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
256 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
257 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
259 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
260 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
261 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
262 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
263 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
264 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
265 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
266 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
267 (reported by James Y Knight)
268 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
269 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
270 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
271 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
272 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
273 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
274 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
275 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
276 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
277 workaround for bug 403.)
278 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
279 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
280 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
281 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
283 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
284 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
285 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
287 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
288 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
289 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
290 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
291 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
293 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
295 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
296 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
297 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
300 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
301 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
302 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
303 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
304 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
305 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
306 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
307 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
308 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
309 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
310 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
311 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
312 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
313 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
314 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
315 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
316 documentation on package locks for details.
317 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
319 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
320 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
321 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
322 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
323 immediately available from the stream
324 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
325 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
326 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
327 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
329 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
330 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
331 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
333 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
334 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
335 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
337 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
338 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
339 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
340 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
342 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
343 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
344 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
345 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
346 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
347 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
348 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
349 ** sb-grovel supported
350 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
351 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
352 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
353 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
354 ** floating-point exception handling support
355 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
356 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
357 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
358 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
359 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
361 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
363 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
364 defaults for optional parameters.
365 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
366 function, which is already optimized.
368 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
369 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
370 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
371 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
372 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
373 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
374 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
375 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
376 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
377 this change is to make it easier to distribute
378 location-independent binaries.
379 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
380 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
382 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
383 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
384 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
385 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
386 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
387 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
388 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
389 Alastair Bridgewater)
390 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
391 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
392 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
393 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
394 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
395 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
396 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
397 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
398 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
399 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
400 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
401 (thanks to James Knight)
402 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
403 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
405 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
406 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
407 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
408 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
409 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
410 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
411 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
412 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
413 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
414 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
415 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
416 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
417 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
418 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
419 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
420 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
421 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
422 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
423 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
424 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
425 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
427 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
428 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
429 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
430 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
431 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
432 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
434 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
435 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
436 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
437 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
438 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
439 many others over the years)
440 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
441 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
442 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
444 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
445 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
446 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
447 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
448 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
449 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
451 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
453 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
454 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
455 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
456 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
457 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
458 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
459 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
460 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
461 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
462 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
463 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
464 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
465 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
466 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
468 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
469 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
470 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
471 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
472 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
473 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
474 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
475 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
476 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
477 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
478 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
479 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
480 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
481 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
482 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
483 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
484 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
485 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
486 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
487 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
489 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
490 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
491 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
492 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
493 index variables in LOOP
494 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
495 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
496 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
497 that don't have a docstring
499 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
500 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
501 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
502 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
503 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
504 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
505 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
506 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
507 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
508 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
509 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
510 Costanza's "Closer" project)
511 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
512 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
514 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
515 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
516 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
517 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
518 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
520 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
521 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
522 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
523 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
524 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
525 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
526 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
527 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
528 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
529 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
530 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
531 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
532 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
533 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
534 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
535 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
536 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
537 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
538 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
540 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
541 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
542 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
543 floating point index variable or a negative step.
545 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
546 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
547 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
548 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
549 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
550 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
551 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
552 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
553 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
554 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
555 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
556 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
557 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
558 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
559 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
560 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
561 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
562 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
563 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
564 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
565 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
566 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
567 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
568 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
569 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
570 and dump core on SIGQUIT
572 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
573 from their parents (see manual)
574 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
575 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
576 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
577 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
578 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
579 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
581 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
582 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
583 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
584 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
586 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
587 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
588 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
590 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
591 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
592 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
593 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
594 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
595 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
596 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
597 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
598 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
599 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
600 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
601 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
602 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
603 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
605 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
606 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
607 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
609 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
610 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
612 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
613 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
614 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
615 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
616 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
617 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
618 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
619 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
620 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
622 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
623 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
624 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
625 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
626 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
627 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
629 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
631 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
632 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
633 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
634 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
635 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
636 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
637 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
638 classes; see the manual for more details;
639 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
640 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
641 requested slot ordering.
643 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
645 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
646 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
648 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
650 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
651 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
652 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
653 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
654 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
655 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
656 the :method-class keyword argument.
658 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
659 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
660 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
661 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
662 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
663 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
664 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
665 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
666 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
667 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
668 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
670 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
671 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
672 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
673 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
674 is switched on or off
675 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
676 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
677 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
679 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
680 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
681 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
682 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
683 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
684 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
685 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
686 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
687 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
689 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
690 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
691 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
692 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
693 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
694 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
695 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
697 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
698 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
699 not prevent gc from running
700 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
701 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
702 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
703 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
704 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
705 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
706 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
707 an inline 32-bit rotation.
709 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
710 there is only one thread in the session
711 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
712 written to in another
713 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
714 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
716 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
717 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
719 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
720 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
721 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
722 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
723 the orignal arguments.
724 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
726 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
727 name a compiled function.
728 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
729 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
730 derivation were fixed.
731 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
732 list-form FUNCTION type.
733 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
734 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
735 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
737 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
738 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
739 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
740 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
741 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
742 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
744 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
745 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
746 of a select system call
747 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
749 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
750 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
752 * various error reporting improvements.
753 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
754 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
755 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
756 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
757 code and foreign data with the same name.
759 ** added x86-64 support
760 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
761 objects instead of thread ids
762 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
763 starting up or going down
764 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
765 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
766 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
767 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
768 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
769 an inappropriate moment
770 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
771 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
772 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
773 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
774 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
775 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
776 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
778 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
779 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
780 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
781 range before calling Unix time functions
783 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
784 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
785 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
786 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
787 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
788 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
789 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
790 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
791 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
792 for more information.
793 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
794 pathname is a directory pathname.
795 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
796 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
798 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
799 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
800 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
801 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
802 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
803 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
805 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
806 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
807 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
808 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
809 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
810 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
811 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
812 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
813 the PowerPC platform.
814 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
815 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
817 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
818 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
819 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
820 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
821 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
822 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
824 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
825 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
826 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
827 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
828 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
829 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
830 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
832 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
833 as the name of a type, or vice versa
834 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
835 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
836 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
837 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
838 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
839 FLET or MACROLET forms
840 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
842 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
844 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
847 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
848 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
849 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
850 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
851 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
852 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
853 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
854 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
855 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
856 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
857 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
858 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
859 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
860 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
861 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
862 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
863 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
864 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
865 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
866 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
867 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
868 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
870 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
871 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
872 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
873 a file has the stream as its datum.
874 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
875 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
876 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
877 a correct expected type
878 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
879 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
880 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
881 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
882 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
883 on broadcast streams.
885 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
886 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
887 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
888 --disable-debugger option instead.
889 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
891 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
892 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
893 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
894 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
895 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
896 has been added to the manual.
897 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
898 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
899 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
900 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
901 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
902 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
903 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
904 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
905 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
906 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
908 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
909 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
910 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
911 (reported by Rajat Datta).
912 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
913 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
915 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
916 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
917 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
918 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
919 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
920 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
921 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
922 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
923 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
924 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
925 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
926 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
927 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
928 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
929 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
930 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
931 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
932 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
933 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
935 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
937 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
938 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
939 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
940 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
941 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
943 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
944 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
945 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
946 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
947 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
948 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
949 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
951 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
952 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
953 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
955 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
956 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
957 types for complex arguments better.
958 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
960 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
961 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
963 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
964 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
965 resulting in GC crashes.
966 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
968 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
971 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
972 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
973 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
974 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
975 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
976 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
977 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
978 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
979 returning to the top level.
980 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
981 global optimization policy.
982 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
983 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
984 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
986 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
987 various incompatible changes.
988 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
989 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
990 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
991 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
992 level local call to FOO".
993 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
994 now have more legible printed representation
995 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
996 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
997 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
998 explicitly requested.
999 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1000 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1001 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1002 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1003 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1005 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1006 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1007 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1008 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1009 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1010 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1011 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1012 the specializer is now possible.
1013 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1014 face of package deletion.
1015 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1016 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1017 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1018 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1019 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1020 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1021 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1022 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1023 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1024 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1026 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1027 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1028 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1029 correctable errors to be signalled.
1030 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1031 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
1034 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
1035 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1036 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
1038 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
1039 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1040 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
1041 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
1042 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
1043 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
1044 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
1045 related to the ~@F format directive.
1046 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
1048 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
1049 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
1050 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
1051 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
1053 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
1055 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
1056 coerce function designators to functions.
1057 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
1058 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
1059 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
1060 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
1061 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
1062 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
1063 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1064 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
1065 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
1066 start of the buffer at the next read.
1067 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
1068 passing it through to OPEN.
1069 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1070 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
1071 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
1072 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
1073 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
1074 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1075 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
1076 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
1078 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
1079 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1080 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1081 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
1082 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1083 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
1085 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1086 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
1087 secondary constituent character trait.
1088 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
1090 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
1092 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
1093 works more reliably.
1094 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
1095 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
1096 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
1098 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
1099 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
1101 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
1102 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
1103 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
1104 and reloading shared object files.
1105 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1106 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
1108 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
1109 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
1110 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
1112 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
1113 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
1115 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
1117 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
1118 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
1119 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
1120 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1121 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
1122 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
1123 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
1125 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
1126 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
1128 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
1129 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
1130 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
1131 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
1132 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
1134 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
1135 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
1136 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1137 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
1138 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
1139 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1140 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
1141 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1142 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
1143 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
1144 lisp characters are not eight bits.
1145 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1146 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
1147 the correct number of arguments.
1148 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
1149 to displaced strings.
1150 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
1151 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
1153 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
1154 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
1155 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
1156 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
1157 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
1158 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
1159 available at runtime.
1160 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
1161 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
1162 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
1163 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1164 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
1165 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
1166 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
1167 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
1168 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
1169 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
1170 of lambda-list keywords.
1171 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
1172 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
1174 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
1175 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
1176 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1177 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
1178 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
1179 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
1180 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
1182 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
1183 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1184 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
1185 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
1186 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
1188 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1189 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
1190 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1191 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
1192 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
1193 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1194 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
1196 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
1197 parameters correctly.
1198 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
1199 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
1200 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
1202 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
1205 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
1206 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
1207 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
1208 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
1210 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
1211 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
1212 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
1213 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
1214 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
1215 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
1216 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
1217 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1218 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
1220 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
1221 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1223 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
1225 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
1226 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
1227 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1228 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
1230 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
1231 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1232 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
1233 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
1234 (reported by David Morse)
1235 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
1236 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1237 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
1238 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1239 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
1240 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1241 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
1242 now exists, an signals an error.
1243 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
1244 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
1245 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1246 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
1247 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1248 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
1249 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
1250 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1251 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
1252 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1253 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
1254 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
1256 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
1257 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
1258 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
1259 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
1260 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1261 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
1262 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
1263 specialized array element types.
1264 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
1265 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1266 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
1267 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1268 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
1269 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
1270 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
1271 Wragg for the simple test case)
1272 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1273 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
1275 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
1276 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
1277 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
1278 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
1279 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
1281 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
1283 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
1284 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
1285 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
1286 references to global functions.
1287 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
1289 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
1291 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
1292 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1293 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
1294 supported platforms.
1295 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
1296 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
1297 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1298 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
1299 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
1300 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1301 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
1302 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1303 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
1304 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
1305 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
1306 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
1307 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
1309 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
1310 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1311 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
1312 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
1313 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
1314 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
1316 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
1317 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
1319 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
1320 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
1321 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
1322 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1323 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
1324 returns the right answer.
1325 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
1327 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
1329 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
1330 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
1332 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
1333 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
1335 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
1336 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
1337 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
1338 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
1339 the supported interface.
1340 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
1341 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
1342 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1343 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
1344 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
1345 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
1346 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
1347 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1348 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
1349 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
1350 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
1351 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
1352 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1353 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
1354 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
1355 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
1356 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
1357 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
1358 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
1359 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
1360 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
1361 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
1362 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
1363 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
1364 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
1365 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
1366 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1367 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
1368 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
1370 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
1371 * incompatible change: the internal functions
1372 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
1373 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
1374 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
1375 instead of the old functions.
1376 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
1377 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
1379 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
1380 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
1382 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
1383 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
1384 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
1385 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
1387 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
1388 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1389 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
1390 (reported by Rick Taube)
1391 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
1392 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
1393 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
1394 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
1396 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
1397 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
1398 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
1399 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
1400 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1401 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
1402 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
1403 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
1404 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
1405 represented relative to default pathnames.
1406 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
1407 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
1408 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
1410 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
1411 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
1412 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
1414 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1415 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
1416 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
1417 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
1419 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
1421 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
1422 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
1423 conditional newlines.
1424 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
1425 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
1426 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
1428 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
1429 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
1431 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
1432 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
1433 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
1434 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
1435 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
1436 compiled in unconditionally.
1437 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
1438 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
1439 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
1440 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
1441 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
1443 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
1444 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
1445 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
1446 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
1447 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
1448 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
1449 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
1450 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
1451 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
1452 an implementation-internal package.
1453 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
1455 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
1456 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
1457 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
1458 bodies are now more legible.
1459 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
1460 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
1461 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
1462 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
1463 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1464 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
1465 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
1467 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
1468 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
1469 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
1470 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
1471 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
1472 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
1473 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
1474 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
1475 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
1476 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
1478 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
1479 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
1480 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
1481 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
1482 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
1483 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
1484 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
1485 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
1486 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
1487 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
1488 system even when most of them are idle
1489 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
1490 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1491 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
1493 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
1494 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
1495 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
1496 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
1497 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
1499 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
1500 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
1501 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
1502 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
1503 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
1504 string for information on the protocol.
1505 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
1506 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
1508 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
1509 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
1511 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
1512 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
1513 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
1514 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
1515 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
1516 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
1518 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
1519 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
1521 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
1522 move between its address being taken and the call to
1523 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
1524 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
1525 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
1526 instances corresponding to C structs.
1528 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
1529 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
1530 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
1531 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
1532 has implications for memory management of client code
1533 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
1534 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
1535 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
1536 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
1537 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
1538 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
1539 quality should be considered deprecated.
1540 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
1541 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
1542 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
1543 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
1544 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
1546 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
1547 designator as the defaults argument.
1548 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
1549 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
1550 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1551 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
1552 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
1554 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
1556 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
1557 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1558 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
1559 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
1560 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1561 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
1563 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
1564 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1565 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
1566 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
1567 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
1568 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
1569 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1570 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
1571 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
1572 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
1573 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
1574 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1575 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
1576 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
1577 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
1578 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
1579 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
1581 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
1582 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
1583 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
1585 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
1586 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1587 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
1588 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
1589 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
1590 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
1591 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1592 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
1593 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
1595 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
1596 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
1598 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
1599 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
1601 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
1602 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1603 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
1604 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
1606 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
1607 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
1608 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1609 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
1610 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
1611 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
1612 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
1613 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
1615 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
1616 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
1617 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
1619 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
1620 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
1622 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1623 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
1625 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
1626 from local to shared slots.
1627 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
1628 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
1629 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
1630 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
1632 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
1633 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
1634 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
1635 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
1636 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
1637 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
1638 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
1639 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
1640 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
1642 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
1644 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
1646 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
1647 print using #P"..." syntax.
1649 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
1650 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
1651 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
1652 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
1653 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
1654 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
1655 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
1656 * [placeholder for DX summary]
1657 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
1658 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
1659 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
1660 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
1661 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
1662 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
1663 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
1664 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
1665 the test case to Dave Roberts)
1666 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
1667 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
1668 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
1669 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1670 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
1671 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
1672 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
1673 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1674 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
1675 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
1676 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
1677 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
1678 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1679 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
1680 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
1683 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
1684 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
1685 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
1686 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
1687 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
1688 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
1689 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
1690 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
1691 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
1692 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1693 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
1694 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
1695 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
1697 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
1698 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
1700 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
1701 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
1702 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1703 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
1704 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1705 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
1707 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
1708 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
1709 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
1711 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
1713 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
1715 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
1716 their output stream on EOF from read.
1717 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
1718 have been read to end-of-file.
1719 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
1721 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
1722 description of determination of which consecutive characters
1724 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
1725 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
1726 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1727 less than 10 works correctly.
1728 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1729 more than 10 works correctly.
1730 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
1731 the readtable currently in effect.
1733 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
1734 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
1735 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
1736 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
1737 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
1738 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
1739 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
1740 should usually be replaced by
1741 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
1742 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
1743 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
1744 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
1745 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
1746 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
1747 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
1748 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
1750 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
1751 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
1752 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
1753 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
1754 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
1755 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1756 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
1757 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
1758 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
1759 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
1760 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
1761 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
1762 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
1764 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
1765 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
1766 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
1767 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1768 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
1769 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
1770 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
1771 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1772 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
1773 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
1774 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
1775 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
1776 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
1777 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
1778 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1779 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
1780 non-local entry points.
1781 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
1783 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1784 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
1786 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
1787 host is already defined.
1788 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
1790 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
1791 or not a character is whitespace.
1792 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
1793 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
1794 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
1796 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
1797 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
1799 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
1801 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
1802 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
1803 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
1804 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
1805 designator argument does not designate a stream.
1806 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
1807 examining the synonym.
1808 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
1810 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
1811 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
1813 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
1814 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
1815 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
1816 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
1817 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
1818 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
1819 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
1820 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
1821 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
1822 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1823 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
1824 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
1826 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
1827 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
1828 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1829 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
1830 stream position information.
1831 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
1832 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
1833 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
1834 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
1835 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1836 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
1838 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
1839 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
1841 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
1842 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1843 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
1844 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
1845 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
1846 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
1847 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
1849 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
1851 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
1852 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
1853 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
1854 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
1855 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
1856 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
1857 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
1858 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
1859 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
1860 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
1861 the "SYS" logical host.
1862 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
1863 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
1864 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
1865 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1866 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
1867 now each have their own history, command character, and other
1868 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1869 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1870 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
1872 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
1873 shift greater than 32.
1874 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
1875 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
1876 in some circumstances.
1878 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
1879 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
1880 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
1881 environments like SLIME.
1882 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
1883 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
1884 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
1885 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
1886 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
1887 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
1888 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
1889 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
1890 argument types for all arguments.
1891 * various threading fixes
1892 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
1893 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
1894 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
1895 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
1897 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
1898 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
1899 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
1900 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
1901 arguments to a full call.
1902 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
1903 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
1904 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
1905 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
1907 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
1908 inserts a space where necessary.
1909 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
1910 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
1911 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
1912 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
1913 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
1914 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
1915 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
1916 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
1917 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
1918 counter now raises a meaningful error.
1919 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
1920 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
1922 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
1923 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
1924 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
1926 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
1928 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1929 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
1930 argument and negative second.
1931 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
1932 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
1933 interval, containing 0.
1934 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
1936 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
1937 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
1939 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
1940 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
1941 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
1942 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
1943 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
1944 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
1945 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
1946 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
1947 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
1948 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
1949 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
1950 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
1951 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
1952 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
1953 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
1954 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
1955 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
1956 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
1957 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
1958 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
1959 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
1960 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1961 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
1962 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
1963 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
1964 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
1965 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
1966 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
1967 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
1969 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
1970 platform now returns the right answer.
1971 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
1972 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
1973 precomputation is now tunable.
1974 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
1975 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
1976 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
1977 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
1978 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
1979 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
1980 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
1981 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
1982 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
1983 has been added for the alpha.
1984 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
1985 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
1986 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
1987 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
1988 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
1989 MEMBER-types to numeric.
1990 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
1992 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
1993 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
1994 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
1996 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
1997 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1998 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
1999 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2000 might be pseudo-atomic.
2001 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2002 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2004 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2006 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2008 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2009 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2010 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2011 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2012 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2013 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2015 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2016 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2017 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2018 small float arguments.
2019 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2021 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2022 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2023 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2024 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2025 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2026 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2028 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2030 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2031 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
2032 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
2033 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
2034 with negative last argument.
2035 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
2036 an error during type derivation.
2037 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
2039 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
2040 generates a 32-bit binary.
2041 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2042 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
2043 data structures referred to above).
2045 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
2046 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
2047 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
2048 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
2049 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
2050 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
2051 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
2052 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
2053 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
2054 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2055 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
2056 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
2058 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
2059 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
2061 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
2062 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
2063 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
2064 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
2065 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
2066 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
2067 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
2068 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
2069 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
2070 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
2071 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
2072 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2073 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
2074 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
2075 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
2076 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
2077 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
2078 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2079 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
2080 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
2081 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
2082 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
2083 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2084 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
2085 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
2086 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
2087 optimization quality.
2088 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
2089 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
2090 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
2091 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
2092 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2093 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2094 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
2095 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
2096 types form a lattice under type intersection.
2097 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
2098 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
2099 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
2100 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
2101 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
2102 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
2103 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
2104 calling the generic function.
2105 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
2106 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
2107 obscure ANSI requirements
2109 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
2110 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
2111 garbage, confusing the compiler.
2112 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
2113 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
2114 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
2115 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
2116 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
2117 circumstances could go off-by-one.
2118 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
2120 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
2121 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
2122 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
2123 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
2124 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
2125 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
2126 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
2127 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
2128 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
2129 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2130 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
2131 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
2132 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2133 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
2134 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2135 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
2136 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
2137 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
2138 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
2139 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
2141 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
2142 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
2143 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
2144 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
2146 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
2147 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
2148 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
2149 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
2150 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
2151 provide helpful disassembly notes.
2152 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
2153 the class in more cases than previously.
2154 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
2155 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2156 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
2157 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2158 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
2159 without lambda list.
2160 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
2161 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
2162 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2163 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
2164 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
2165 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
2167 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
2168 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
2169 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
2171 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
2172 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
2173 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
2174 were silently accepted).
2175 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
2176 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
2177 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
2178 to warn on static type mismatches and function
2179 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
2180 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
2181 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
2182 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
2183 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
2184 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
2185 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
2186 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
2187 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
2188 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
2190 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
2191 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
2192 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
2193 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
2194 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
2195 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
2197 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
2198 keywords or constants is permissible.
2199 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
2200 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
2201 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2202 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
2203 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
2204 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
2205 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
2206 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
2208 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
2209 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2210 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
2211 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
2212 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2213 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
2214 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
2216 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
2218 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
2219 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
2220 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
2221 respectively change and preserve the value.
2222 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
2223 is now better at handling symbol macros.
2224 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
2225 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
2226 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
2227 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
2228 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
2229 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
2230 their use properly signals an error now.
2231 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
2232 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
2233 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
2234 * fixed simple vector readable printing
2235 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
2236 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
2237 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
2238 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
2239 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
2240 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
2241 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2242 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
2243 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2244 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
2245 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
2246 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2247 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
2248 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
2249 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
2250 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
2251 causes a type error.
2252 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
2253 association between the name and a class.
2254 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
2255 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
2256 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2257 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
2258 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
2259 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
2261 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
2262 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
2263 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
2264 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
2266 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
2267 which its argument is a member.
2268 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
2269 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
2270 otherwise, it creates a new class.
2271 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
2272 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
2273 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
2274 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
2275 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2276 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
2278 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
2279 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
2280 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
2281 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
2282 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
2283 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
2284 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
2286 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
2287 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
2288 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
2289 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
2290 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
2291 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
2292 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
2293 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
2294 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
2295 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
2296 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
2297 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
2298 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2299 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
2301 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
2302 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
2303 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
2304 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
2305 superclasses are applied.
2306 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2307 no method was removed.
2308 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
2309 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
2310 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
2311 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
2313 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
2315 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
2316 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
2317 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
2318 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
2319 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
2320 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
2321 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
2322 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
2323 function lambda list.
2324 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
2326 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
2327 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
2328 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
2329 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
2331 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
2332 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
2333 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
2334 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
2335 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
2336 they look for GNU "make".
2338 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
2339 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
2340 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
2341 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
2343 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
2344 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
2345 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
2346 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
2347 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
2348 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
2349 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
2350 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
2351 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
2352 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
2354 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
2355 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
2356 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
2357 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
2358 libraries, and will know who they are.
2359 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
2360 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
2361 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
2362 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
2363 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
2364 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
2365 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
2366 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
2368 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
2369 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
2370 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2371 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
2372 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
2373 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
2374 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
2375 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
2376 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
2377 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
2378 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2379 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
2381 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
2382 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
2383 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
2384 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
2385 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2386 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
2387 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
2388 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
2389 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
2391 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
2392 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
2393 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
2394 this you were probably losing anyway.
2395 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
2396 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
2397 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
2398 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
2399 with names from the CL package.
2400 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
2401 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
2402 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
2403 documentation string.
2404 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2405 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
2407 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
2408 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
2409 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
2410 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
2412 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
2413 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
2415 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
2416 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2417 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
2419 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
2420 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
2421 arguments contain duplicated elements.
2422 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
2423 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
2424 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
2425 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
2426 in question is unbound.
2427 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
2428 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
2429 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
2430 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
2431 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
2433 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
2435 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
2436 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
2437 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
2438 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
2439 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
2440 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
2441 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
2442 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
2443 by Antonio Martinez)
2444 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
2445 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2446 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
2447 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
2448 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
2449 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
2450 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
2451 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2452 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
2453 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
2454 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
2455 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
2456 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
2457 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
2458 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
2459 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
2460 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
2461 on malformed property lists;
2463 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
2464 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
2465 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
2466 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
2467 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
2468 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
2469 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
2470 modules in this release include:
2471 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
2472 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
2473 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
2474 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2475 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
2477 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
2478 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
2479 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2480 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2481 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
2482 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
2483 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
2484 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
2486 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
2487 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
2488 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
2489 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
2490 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
2491 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
2492 the lexical environment.
2493 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
2494 unprintable packages can now be defined.
2495 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
2496 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2497 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
2498 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2499 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
2500 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
2501 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
2502 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
2503 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
2504 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
2505 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
2506 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
2507 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2508 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
2509 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2510 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
2511 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
2512 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
2513 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2514 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
2515 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
2516 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
2517 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
2519 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
2520 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
2521 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2522 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2523 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
2524 not just nonnegative fixnums;
2525 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
2526 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
2527 freshly-consed result bit-array);
2528 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
2530 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
2531 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
2533 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
2534 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
2535 cases are accurately computed;
2536 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
2537 if it is in the last clause;
2538 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
2540 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
2541 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
2542 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
2543 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
2545 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
2546 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
2547 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
2548 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
2549 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
2551 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
2552 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
2553 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
2554 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
2556 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2557 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
2558 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
2559 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
2560 not cause a type error;
2561 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
2563 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
2564 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
2565 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
2566 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
2567 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
2568 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
2569 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
2570 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
2572 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
2573 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
2574 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
2575 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
2576 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
2577 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
2579 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
2580 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
2582 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
2583 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
2584 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
2585 only for symbols in the CL package.
2586 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
2587 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2588 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
2589 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
2590 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
2592 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2593 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
2594 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
2595 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
2596 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
2597 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
2598 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
2599 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
2600 conditional loop clause;
2601 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
2602 signals a type error iff it should.
2603 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2604 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
2605 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
2606 argument) no longer signals an error;
2607 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
2608 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
2609 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
2611 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
2612 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
2613 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
2615 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
2616 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
2617 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
2618 functionality on said platforms verified.
2619 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
2620 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
2622 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
2623 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
2624 component indicating that directory.
2625 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
2626 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
2627 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
2628 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
2629 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2630 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
2632 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
2633 primary methods with no specializers;
2634 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
2636 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
2637 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
2638 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
2639 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
2641 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
2642 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
2643 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
2645 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
2646 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
2647 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
2648 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
2649 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
2650 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
2651 class STANDARD-CLASS;
2652 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
2653 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2654 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
2655 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
2657 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
2658 value producing form;
2659 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
2660 variables are bound and made to have no value;
2661 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
2663 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
2664 is not a valid sequence index;
2665 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
2666 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
2667 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2668 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
2670 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
2671 symbol-macro places;
2672 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
2673 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
2675 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
2677 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
2679 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
2680 invariant when deleting code.
2681 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
2682 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
2684 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
2685 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2686 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
2688 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
2689 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
2691 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
2692 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
2693 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2694 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
2696 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
2697 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2698 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
2699 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
2701 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
2702 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
2703 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
2704 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
2705 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2706 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
2707 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
2708 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
2709 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
2710 sbcl and .core files.)
2711 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
2712 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
2713 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
2714 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
2715 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
2716 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2717 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
2719 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
2720 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
2721 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
2722 argument precedence order.
2723 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
2724 derived types contradict their declared type.
2725 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
2726 so it can be non-toplevel.
2727 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
2728 implementation of DEFMACRO).
2729 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
2730 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
2731 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
2733 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
2734 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
2735 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
2736 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
2737 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
2738 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
2739 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
2740 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
2741 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
2742 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
2743 symbol macro only once
2744 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
2745 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
2746 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
2749 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
2750 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
2751 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
2752 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
2753 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
2754 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
2755 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
2756 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
2757 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
2758 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2759 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
2760 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
2762 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
2763 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
2764 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
2765 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
2766 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2767 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
2769 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
2771 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
2772 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
2773 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
2774 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
2775 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2776 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
2777 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
2778 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
2779 ways in different special cases
2780 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
2782 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
2783 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
2784 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
2785 are no longer optimized away.
2786 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
2787 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
2788 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
2789 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
2790 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
2791 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
2792 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
2793 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
2796 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
2797 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
2798 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
2799 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
2800 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
2801 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
2802 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
2804 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
2805 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
2806 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
2807 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
2808 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
2809 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
2810 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
2811 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
2812 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
2813 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
2814 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
2815 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
2816 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
2817 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
2818 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
2819 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
2820 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
2821 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2822 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
2823 that are names of constants or global variables.
2824 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
2825 alien routines with docstrings.
2826 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
2827 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
2829 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
2830 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2831 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
2832 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2833 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
2834 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2835 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
2836 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
2837 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
2838 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2839 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
2840 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
2841 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
2842 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
2843 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
2844 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
2845 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
2846 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
2847 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
2848 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
2849 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
2850 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
2851 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
2853 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
2854 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
2856 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
2857 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
2858 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
2859 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
2860 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
2861 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
2862 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
2863 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
2864 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
2865 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
2867 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
2868 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
2869 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
2870 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
2871 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
2872 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
2873 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
2874 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
2875 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
2876 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
2877 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
2878 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
2879 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
2880 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
2881 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
2882 is no longer a static symbol.)
2884 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
2885 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
2886 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
2887 bootstrapping under CLISP.
2888 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
2890 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
2891 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
2893 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
2894 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
2895 to David Lichteblau)
2896 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
2897 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
2898 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
2900 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
2901 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2902 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
2903 count as they should.
2904 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
2905 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2906 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
2907 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
2908 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
2909 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
2910 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
2911 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
2912 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
2913 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
2914 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
2915 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
2916 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
2917 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
2918 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
2920 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
2921 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
2922 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
2924 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
2926 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
2927 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
2928 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
2929 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
2930 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
2931 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
2932 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
2934 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
2935 to Christophe Rhodes)
2936 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
2937 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
2938 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
2939 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
2940 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
2941 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
2942 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
2944 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
2945 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
2946 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
2947 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
2948 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
2949 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2950 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
2951 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
2952 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
2953 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
2954 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
2955 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
2956 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
2958 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
2959 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
2960 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
2961 INFO database to support symbol macros.
2962 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
2963 (thanks to coreythomas)
2964 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
2965 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
2966 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
2967 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
2968 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
2970 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
2971 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
2972 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
2973 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
2974 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
2975 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
2976 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
2977 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
2978 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
2979 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2980 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
2981 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
2982 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
2984 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
2985 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
2988 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
2989 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
2990 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
2991 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
2992 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
2993 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
2994 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
2995 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
2996 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
2997 systems than the old 4M value was)
2998 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
2999 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3000 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3001 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3002 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3003 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3004 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3006 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3007 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3008 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3009 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3010 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3012 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3013 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3014 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3015 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3016 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3017 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3018 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3019 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3021 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3022 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3023 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3024 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3025 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3026 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3027 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3028 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3030 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3031 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3032 * several changes related to debugging:
3033 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
3034 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
3035 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
3036 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
3037 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3038 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
3039 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
3042 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
3044 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
3045 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
3046 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
3047 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
3048 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
3049 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
3050 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
3051 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
3053 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
3054 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
3055 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
3056 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3057 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
3058 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
3059 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
3060 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
3061 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
3062 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
3063 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
3064 file format number to change again.
3066 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
3067 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
3068 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
3069 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
3071 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
3072 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
3073 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
3074 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
3075 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
3076 FUNCALL on the result.
3077 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
3078 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
3079 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
3080 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
3081 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
3082 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
3083 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
3084 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
3086 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
3087 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
3088 the old compiler produced.
3089 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
3090 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
3091 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
3092 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
3093 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
3094 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
3095 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
3096 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
3097 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
3098 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
3099 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
3100 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
3101 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
3102 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
3103 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
3104 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
3105 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
3106 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
3107 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
3108 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
3109 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
3110 straightened out in some future version.)
3111 * minor incompatible changes:
3112 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
3113 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
3114 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
3115 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
3116 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
3117 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
3118 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
3119 implementation dependent:
3120 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
3121 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
3122 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
3123 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
3124 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
3125 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
3126 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
3127 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
3129 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
3131 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
3132 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
3133 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
3134 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
3135 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
3136 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
3137 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
3138 are no longer used for output.
3139 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
3140 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
3141 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
3142 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
3143 increasing it even more.)
3144 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
3145 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
3146 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
3148 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
3149 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
3150 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
3151 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
3152 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
3153 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
3154 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
3155 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
3156 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
3157 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
3158 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
3159 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
3160 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
3161 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
3162 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
3163 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
3164 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
3165 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
3166 compilation of code which calls such functions.
3167 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
3168 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
3169 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
3170 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
3171 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
3172 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
3173 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
3174 built into the system.
3175 * many other bug fixes
3176 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
3177 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
3178 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
3179 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
3180 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
3182 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
3183 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
3184 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
3185 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
3186 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
3187 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
3188 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
3189 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
3190 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
3191 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
3192 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
3194 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
3195 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
3196 and several other LOOP problems as well
3197 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
3198 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
3199 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
3200 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
3201 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
3202 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
3203 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
3204 *** a bug in APROPOS
3205 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
3206 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
3207 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
3208 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
3209 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
3210 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
3211 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
3212 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
3213 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
3214 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
3215 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
3216 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
3217 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
3218 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
3219 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
3221 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
3222 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
3223 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
3224 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
3225 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
3226 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
3227 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
3228 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
3229 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
3230 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
3231 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
3232 some of which are apparent above.
3234 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
3235 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
3236 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
3237 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
3238 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
3239 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
3240 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
3241 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
3242 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
3243 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
3244 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
3245 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
3246 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
3247 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
3248 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
3249 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
3250 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
3251 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
3252 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
3253 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
3254 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
3255 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
3256 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
3257 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
3258 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
3259 different return types.
3260 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
3261 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
3262 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
3263 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
3264 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
3265 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
3266 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
3267 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
3268 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
3269 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
3271 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
3272 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
3273 does the right thing.
3274 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
3275 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
3276 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3277 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
3278 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3279 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3280 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
3281 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
3282 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
3283 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
3284 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3285 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
3286 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3287 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
3288 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
3289 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
3290 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
3291 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
3292 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
3293 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
3294 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
3295 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
3296 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
3297 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
3298 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
3299 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
3300 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
3301 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
3302 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
3303 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
3304 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
3305 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
3306 since historically most system changes which required version
3307 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
3308 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
3311 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
3312 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
3313 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
3314 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
3315 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
3316 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
3317 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
3318 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
3319 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
3320 half a dozen others elsewhere
3321 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
3322 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
3323 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
3324 as flaky as they were.
3325 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
3326 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
3327 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
3328 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
3329 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
3330 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
3331 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
3332 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
3334 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
3335 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
3336 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
3337 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3338 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
3339 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
3340 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
3341 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
3342 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
3343 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
3344 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
3345 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
3346 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
3347 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
3348 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
3349 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
3350 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
3351 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
3352 more obscure bugs as well
3353 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
3354 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
3355 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
3356 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
3357 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
3358 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
3359 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
3360 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
3361 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
3362 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
3363 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
3365 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
3366 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
3368 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
3370 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3371 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
3372 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
3373 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
3374 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
3375 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
3376 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
3377 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
3378 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
3379 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
3380 are local in this sense.)
3381 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
3382 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
3383 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
3384 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
3385 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
3386 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
3387 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3388 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
3389 system's STREAM objects.
3390 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
3391 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3392 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
3393 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3394 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
3395 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
3396 environment from the original process instead of starting the
3397 new process in an empty environment.
3398 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
3399 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
3400 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
3401 for porting convenience.
3402 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
3403 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
3405 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
3407 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
3408 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
3409 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
3410 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
3411 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
3412 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
3413 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
3414 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
3415 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
3416 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
3417 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
3418 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3419 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
3420 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
3421 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
3422 many fewer weird special cases.
3423 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
3424 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
3425 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3426 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
3427 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
3428 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
3429 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
3430 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
3431 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
3432 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3433 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
3436 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
3438 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
3439 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
3440 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
3442 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
3443 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
3444 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
3445 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
3446 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
3447 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
3448 should be constructed the same way as before.
3449 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
3450 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
3451 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
3452 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
3453 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
3454 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
3455 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
3456 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
3457 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
3458 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
3459 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
3460 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
3461 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
3462 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
3463 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
3464 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
3465 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
3466 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
3467 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
3468 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
3469 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
3470 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
3472 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
3473 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
3474 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
3475 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
3476 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
3477 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
3478 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
3479 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
3481 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
3483 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
3484 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
3485 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
3486 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
3487 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
3489 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
3490 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
3491 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
3492 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
3493 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
3494 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
3495 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
3496 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
3497 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
3498 and Douglas Crosher.
3499 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
3500 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
3501 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
3503 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
3504 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
3505 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
3506 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
3507 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
3508 undefined function error.
3509 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
3510 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
3511 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
3512 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
3513 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
3514 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
3515 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
3516 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
3517 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
3518 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
3519 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
3520 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
3521 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
3523 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
3525 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
3526 CVS repository on my home machine).
3527 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
3528 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
3529 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
3530 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
3531 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
3532 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
3533 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
3534 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
3535 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
3536 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
3537 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
3538 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
3539 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
3540 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
3541 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
3542 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
3543 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
3544 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
3545 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
3546 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
3547 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
3548 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
3550 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
3551 FreeBSD have been added.
3552 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
3553 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
3554 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
3555 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
3556 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
3557 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
3559 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
3560 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
3561 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
3562 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
3563 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
3564 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
3565 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
3566 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
3568 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
3569 away by constant folding
3570 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
3571 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
3572 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
3573 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
3574 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
3575 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
3576 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
3577 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
3578 diff-related operations.
3579 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
3580 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
3582 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
3584 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
3585 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
3586 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
3587 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
3588 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
3589 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
3590 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
3591 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
3592 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
3593 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
3594 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
3595 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
3596 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
3597 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
3598 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
3599 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
3600 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
3601 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
3602 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
3603 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
3604 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
3605 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
3606 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
3607 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
3608 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
3609 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
3610 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
3611 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
3612 instead of (VALUES T T).
3613 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
3614 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
3615 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
3616 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
3617 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
3618 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
3619 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
3620 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
3621 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
3622 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
3623 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
3624 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
3625 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
3626 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
3627 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
3628 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
3629 type will be interpreted at runtime.
3630 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
3631 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
3632 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
3633 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
3634 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
3635 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
3636 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
3637 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
3638 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
3639 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
3640 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
3641 fasl files for cold load.
3642 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
3643 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
3644 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
3645 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
3646 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
3647 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
3648 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
3649 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
3650 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
3651 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
3652 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
3654 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
3655 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
3656 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
3657 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
3658 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
3659 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
3660 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
3661 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
3662 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
3663 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
3664 renamed some files to increase consistency.
3665 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
3666 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
3667 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
3668 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
3669 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
3670 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
3672 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
3674 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
3675 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
3676 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
3677 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
3678 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
3679 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
3680 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
3681 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
3682 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
3683 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
3684 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
3685 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
3686 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
3687 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
3688 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
3689 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
3690 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
3691 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
3693 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
3694 as required by ANSI.
3695 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
3696 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
3697 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
3698 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
3700 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
3701 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
3702 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
3703 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
3704 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
3705 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
3706 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
3707 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
3709 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
3710 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
3711 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
3712 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3714 is now basically equivalent to
3715 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3716 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
3718 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
3719 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
3720 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
3721 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
3722 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
3723 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
3724 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
3725 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
3726 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
3727 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
3728 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
3729 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
3730 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
3731 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
3732 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
3733 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3734 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
3735 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
3736 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
3737 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
3738 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
3739 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
3740 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
3742 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
3744 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
3745 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
3746 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
3747 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
3748 GNUMAKE environment variable.
3749 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
3750 can build without error under CMU CL.
3752 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
3754 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
3755 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
3756 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
3757 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
3758 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
3759 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
3760 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
3761 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
3762 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
3763 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
3764 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
3765 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
3766 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
3767 being initialized before the type system knew the final
3768 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
3769 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
3770 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
3771 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
3772 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
3773 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
3774 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
3775 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
3776 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
3777 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
3779 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
3780 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
3781 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
3782 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
3783 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
3784 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
3785 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
3786 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
3787 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
3788 it were currently supported.
3789 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
3790 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
3791 having to maintain patches.
3792 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
3793 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
3795 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
3797 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
3798 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
3799 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
3800 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
3801 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
3802 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
3803 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
3804 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
3805 * various new style warnings:
3806 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
3807 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
3808 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
3809 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
3810 as specified by ANSI.
3811 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
3812 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
3813 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
3814 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
3815 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
3816 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
3817 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
3818 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
3819 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
3820 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
3821 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
3822 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
3823 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
3824 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
3825 argument types can be determined at compile time.
3826 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
3827 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
3828 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
3829 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
3830 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
3831 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
3832 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
3835 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
3837 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
3838 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
3839 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
3840 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
3841 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
3842 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
3843 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
3844 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
3845 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
3847 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
3848 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
3849 the report form was printed.)
3850 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
3851 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
3852 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
3853 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
3854 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
3855 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
3856 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
3857 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
3858 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
3859 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
3860 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
3861 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
3862 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
3863 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
3864 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
3865 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
3866 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
3867 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
3868 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
3869 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
3870 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
3871 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
3872 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
3873 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
3874 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
3875 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
3876 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
3877 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
3878 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
3879 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
3880 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
3881 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
3882 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
3883 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
3884 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
3885 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
3886 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
3887 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
3888 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
3889 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
3890 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
3891 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
3892 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
3893 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
3894 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
3895 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
3896 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
3897 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
3898 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
3899 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
3900 know more about target types.
3901 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
3902 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
3903 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
3904 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
3905 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
3906 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
3908 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
3909 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
3910 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
3911 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
3912 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
3913 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
3914 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
3915 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
3916 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
3917 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
3918 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
3919 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
3920 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
3922 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
3925 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
3927 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
3928 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
3929 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
3930 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
3931 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
3932 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
3933 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
3934 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
3935 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
3936 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
3937 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
3938 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
3939 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
3940 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
3941 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
3942 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
3943 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
3944 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
3945 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
3946 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
3947 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
3948 invisible at the user level.)
3949 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
3950 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
3951 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
3953 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
3955 * tidied up "make.sh" script
3956 * tidied up system directory structure
3957 * better "clean.sh" behavior
3958 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
3959 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
3960 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
3961 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
3962 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
3963 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
3964 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
3965 * command line argument processing
3966 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
3967 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
3968 terminating SBCL on EOF
3969 * non-verbose GC by default
3970 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
3971 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
3972 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
3974 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
3975 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
3976 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
3977 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
3978 transformed along with everything else.
3979 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
3980 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
3981 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
3982 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
3983 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
3984 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
3985 debugging and testing purposes
3986 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
3987 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
3988 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
3989 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
3990 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
3991 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
3992 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
3994 * regularized formatting of source files
3995 * added an install.sh script
3996 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
3997 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
3998 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
3999 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4000 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4001 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4002 was not implemented)
4003 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4004 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4005 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4006 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4007 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4009 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4010 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4011 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4012 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4013 COMPILE-FILE command)
4014 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4015 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4016 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4017 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4018 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4019 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4020 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4021 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4022 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4023 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4024 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4025 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4026 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4027 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4028 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4030 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4031 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
4032 known to be able to handle the current sources
4033 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
4034 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
4035 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
4036 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
4037 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
4038 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
4039 * removed host-oops.lisp
4040 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
4041 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
4042 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
4043 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
4044 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
4045 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by