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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
3 * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes:
4 ** bug fix: the range and distribution of random integers could be
5 catastrophically wrong when the compiler derived the type of its
6 argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
7 ** bug fix: the distribution of random integers is now completely
8 uniform even when the specified limit is not a power of two.
9 (Previously some values could be about 0.1 % more probable than
10 others in the worst case.)
11 ** RANDOM on large integer arguments is generally faster and conses
12 less than before; this is visible for fixnums above a length of
13 about 24 bits, but extremely so for bignums: the old implementation
14 used time and space quadratical in the size of the argument there,
15 the new one is linear.
16 * enhancement: redesigned protocol for quitting SBCL. SB-EXT:EXIT is the new
17 main entry point, SB-EXT:QUIT is deprecated.
18 * enhancement: additions to the SB-THREAD API: RETURN-FROM-THREAD,
19 ABORT-THREAD, MAIN-THREAD-P, and MAIN-THREAD.
20 * enhancement: FASL loading no longer grabs the world-lock.
21 * enhancement: GENCGC reclaims space more aggressively when objects being
22 allocated are a large fraction of the total available heap space.
24 * enhancement: backtraces show the correct number of arguments for frames
25 called with too many arguments.
26 * enhancement: support for abort(3), exit(3), and _exit(2) has been added to
28 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.21.
29 * optimization: fewer uses of full calls to signed modular functions.
31 * optimization: typechecking alien values is typically 5 x faster.
32 * optimization: FDEFINITION, SYMBOL-FUNCTION, MACRO-FUNCTION, and FBOUNDP
34 * bug fix: file compilation performance issues when dumping subtypes
35 of CHARACTER (lp#994487)
36 * bug fix: fixed disassembly of some SSE instructions on x86-64.
37 * bug fix: SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS signals an error for bogus :CLASS arguments in
38 OPEN. (lp#969352, thanks to Kambiz Darabi)
39 * bug fix: CASE normal-clauses do not allow T and OTHERWISE as keys.
41 * bug fix: (SETF (FIND-CLASS X) NIL) removed proper name of the underlying
42 classoid even if X was not the proper name of the class. (lp#941102)
43 * bug fix: declaration leakage between lexical environments due to careless
44 use of NCONC in MAKE-LEXENV. (lp#924276)
45 * bug fix: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST now works when
46 *default-pathname-defaults* contains NAME or TYPE components.
47 * bug fix: PPRINT couldn't print improper lists with CARs being some symbols
48 from CL package, e.g. (loop . 10).
49 * bug fix: run-program with existent or non-existent files for :output or
50 :input when :if-output-exists or :if-input-does-not-exist are NIL properly
51 returns NIL instead of signalling an obscure error.
52 * bug fix: fix miscompilation of some logand forms with large constant
53 arguments. (lp#974406)
54 * bug fix: account for funcallable-instance objects properly in ROOM.
55 * bug fix: incorrect octets reported for c-string decoding errors.
57 * bug fix: miscompilation of LDB on the PowerPC platform. (thanks to Bruce
59 * bug fix: better input error reporting for COMPILE-FILE. (lp#493380)
60 * bug fix: default size of non-nursery generations has been shrunk on GENCGC,
61 allowing faster release of memory back to the OS. (lp#991293)
62 * bug fix: WITH-DEADLINE (:SECONDS NIL :OVERRIDE T) now drops any
63 existing deadline for the dynamic scope of its body.
64 * bug fix: compiler-internal interval arithmetic needed to be more
65 conservative about open intervals when operated on by monotonic but not
66 strictly-monotonic functions. (lp#975528)
67 * bug fix: copy-tree caused stack exhaustion on long linear lists, and now
68 it's also slightly faster. (lp#998926)
70 ** improved docstrings: REPLACE (lp#965592)
72 changes in sbcl-1.0.56 relative to sbcl-1.0.55:
73 * bug fix: fix copy-structure. When copying from stack to heap, garbage
74 could end up in the heap making GC unhappy.
75 (Thanks to James Knight, lp#911027)
77 ** SBCL can now be built using Clang.
78 ** ASDF has been updated 2.20.
79 * bug fix: compiler errors when weakening hairy integer types. (lp#913232)
80 * bug fix: don't complain about a too-hairy lexical environment for inlining
81 when the function has never been requested for inlining. (lp#963530)
83 changes in sbcl-1.0.55 relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
84 * enhancements to building SBCL using make.sh:
85 ** --fancy can be specified to enable all supported feature enhancements.
86 ** --with-<feature> and --without-<feature> can be used to specify
87 which features to build with.
88 ** --arch option can be used to specify the architecture to build for.
89 (Mainly useful for building 32-bit SBCL's on x86-64 hosts, not
90 full-blows cross-compilation.)
91 * enhancement: extended package prefix syntax <pkgname>::<form-in-package>
92 which allows specifying name of the default interning package for the
94 * enhancement: when *READ-EVAL* is true, arrays with element type other than
95 T can be printed readably using #.-based syntax. (Thanks to Robert Brown)
96 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN signals a storage-condition instead of returning a
97 null alien when malloc() fails. (lp#891268)
98 * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-UNREADABLY restart for PRINT-NOT-READABLE
99 conditions can be conveniently accessed through function with the same
100 name, analogously to CONTINUE.
101 * enhancement: SB-EXT:*SUPPRESS-PRINT-ERRORS* can be used to suppress errors
102 from the printer by type, causing an error marker to be printed instead.
103 (Thanks to Attila Lendvai)
104 * enhancement: BACKTRACE and DESCRIBE now bind *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T, and
105 generally behave better when errors occur during printing.
106 * enhancement: the test runner now takes a --report-skipped-tests argument
107 to report the individual tests skipped as well as the number of skipped
109 * enhancement: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
110 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on x86oids.
111 * enhancement: detected deadlocks no longer cause stderr to be spammed, and
112 deadlock errors are reported in an easier-to-decipher manner.
113 * enhancement: DESCRIBE on type designators reports the expansion in more
115 * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or
116 :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack
117 of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to Luís Oliveira, lp#901661)
118 * enhancement: better disassembly of segment-prefixes on x86 and other
119 instruction prefixes (e.g. LOCK) on x86 and x86-64.
120 * optimization: FIND and POSITION on bit-vectors are orders of magnitude
121 faster (assuming KEY and TEST are not used, or are sufficiently trivial.)
122 * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially
124 * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can
125 be stack-allocated. (lp#902351)
126 * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for
127 floating point constants used in full calls.
128 * optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to
129 single floats inline, except on x86 where this limitation is still
131 * optimization: truncation operations on integers with constant divisor
132 arguments 1 and -1 are optimized away.
133 * bug fix: deadlock detection could report the same deadlock twice, for
134 two different threads. Now a single deadlock is reported exactly once.
135 * bug fix: interval-arithmetic division during type derivation did not
136 account for signed zeros.
137 * bug fix: compiler error when typechecking a call to a function with
138 non-constant keyword arguments.
139 * bug fix: misoptimization of TRUNCATE causing erratic behaviour.
140 * bug fix: condition slot accessors no longer cause undefined function
141 style-warnings when used in the :REPORT clause of the DEFINE-CONDITION
142 form that defines them. (lp#896379)
143 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC warns about unsupported declarations, as specified
145 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP tests involving forward-referenced classes no longer
146 bogusly report NIL, T.
147 * bug fix: bogus style-warnings for DEFMETHOD forms that both declared some
148 required arguments ignored and performed assignments to others.
150 * bug fix: *EVALUATOR-MODE* :COMPILE treated (LET () ...) identically
151 to (LOCALLY ...) leading to internally inconsistent toplevel-formness.
152 * bug fix: non-toplevel DEFSTRUCT signaled a style warning for unknown type.
153 * bug fix: redefining a function whose previous definition contained an
154 unknown type no longer causes a style-warning. (lp#806243)
155 * bug fix: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
156 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on non-x86oids.
157 * bug fix: backtraces are no longer cut off at ("undefined function") when
158 called under certain circumstances (involving a caller-allocated stack
160 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM leaked a file-descriptor per call on non-Windows
161 systems. (regression since 1.0.53)
162 * bug fix: GC deadlocks from dladdr() on certain platforms.
163 * bug fix: broken standard streams no longer automatically cause recursive
164 errors on debugger entry.
165 * bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size=<size> argument to make.sh
166 (regression since 1.0.53)
167 * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with
168 an external entry point caused compiler-errors.
169 * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument
170 no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function.
171 * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to
172 subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312)
173 * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some
174 forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351)
175 * bug fix: some of the compile-time side-effects of DEFCLASS were not caught
177 * bug fix: Proper handling of --dynamic-space-size option on 32 bit platforms.
179 changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
180 * minor incompatible changes:
181 ** RENAME-FILE on a symbolic links used to rename the linked-to file
183 ** DELETE-DIRECTORY on symbolic link to a directory used to delete the
184 directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve the
185 pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE if
186 you wish to delete the
187 ** The internal SB-THREAD::SPINLOCK API has been deprecated, and using
188 symbols associated with it will trigger a compile-time warning.
189 * thread-related enhancements:
190 (This work has been funded by the SBCL Threading 2011 IndieGoGo campaign.
191 Many thanks to generous donors!)
192 ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still don't
193 consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to enable them by
194 default, but they're in a clearly better shape now.
195 ** Deadlines supported now on all platforms.
196 ** All blocking functions in the threading API now have a :TIMEOUT
198 ** Semaphore notification objects have been added to SB-THREAD.
199 ** SB-CONCURRENCY contrib now includes Allegro-style GATE objects.
200 ** SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP has been extended to support SLOT-VALUE,
201 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
202 ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP
203 using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places.
204 * GC-related enhancements and bug fixes:
205 ** --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size now understand Kb, Mb,
206 and Gb suffixes. Default is megabytes as before.
207 ** on GENCGC targets, the default dynamic space size is now 512Mb for
208 32-bit systems, and 1Gb for 64-bit systems. (OpenBSD/x86-64 is the only
209 exception, defaulting to mere 444Mb to fit under default ulimits.) The
210 new defaults are in place to prevent hitting swap on low-end systems.
211 Use build-time option --dynamic-space-size to build an SBCL with
212 another default, or the runtime option to adjust the size at startup: a
213 good size is at most equal to the amount of physical memory the system
215 ** on GENCGC targets, nursery and generation sizes now default to 5% of
217 ** on GENCGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ no longer categorically
218 refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects.
219 ** on 64-bit GENCGC targets, setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works.
221 ** on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does the same
222 validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a
223 comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces.
224 * SB-BSD-SOCKETS bug fixes:
225 ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak.
226 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on
227 systems with getaddrinfo().
228 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt
229 safe outside systems with getaddrinfo().
230 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.019.
231 * enhancement: special-case TCO prevention for functions which never return
232 extended to untrusted types, keeping one more frame's worth of debug
233 information around in many cases.
234 * enhancement: debug-names of anonymous and local function are more
235 descriptive. Affects backtraces and SB-SPROF results. (lp#805100)
236 * enhancement: on win32, ABS of complex floats guards better against
237 overflows. (lp#888410)
238 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM now distinguishes exec() failing from child
239 process exiting with code 1. (lp#676987)
240 * enhancement: convenience function SET-SBCL-SOURCE-LOCATION for informing
241 the system where on the filesystem the SBCL sources themselves are
242 located. (Thanks to Zach Beane)
243 * enhancement: the compiler is now able to derive tighter bounds for
244 floating point numbers in some cases. (Thanks to Lutz Euler, lp#894498)
245 * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation
246 correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220)
247 * bug fix: (DIRECTORY "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that
248 resolved to directories.
249 * bug fix: type mismatch when assigning to lexical variables no longer
250 result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. (lp#890750)
251 * bug fix: type mismatch on (SETF AREF) and function return values no
252 longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects.
253 * bug fix: With several combinations of argument types, for example (EXPT
254 <integer> <(complex double)>), EXPT now uses double-precision throughout
255 instead of partially calculating only to single-precision. (lp#741564;
256 thanks to Lutz Euler)
257 * bug fix: SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD is no longer able to construct bogus
258 objects when interrupted by GC on PPC.
260 changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52:
261 * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,
262 the parameter n-fixnum-tag-bits may now vary from 1 (fixnum =
263 (signed-byte 63)) to 3 (fixnum = (signed-byte 61)) at build-time.
264 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WAIT-FOR allows waiting for arbitrary events.
265 * minor(?) incompatible(?) change: The default fixnum width on 64-bit
266 targets is now 63 bits (up from 61).
267 * enhancement: DESCRIBE now reports a lambda-list and source location
268 for complext setf-expanders.
269 * bug fix: PUSH, PUSHNEW, POP, REMF, INCF, DECF, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO,
270 GETF, LOGBITP, LDB, and MASK-FIELD now arrange for non-primary values
271 of multiple-valued places to be set to NIL, instead of signalling an
272 error (per a careful reading of CLHS 5.1.2.3).
273 * bug fix: floating-point traps now work on darwin/x86 and /x86-64.
274 * bug fix: repair crash in x86oid darwin signal handling emulation
275 when built with certain compilers.
276 * bug fix: SB-ROTATE-BYTE misrotated to the right when using constant
277 rotation arguments on x86-64. (lp#882151)
278 * bug fix: low-level control flow optimisations could result in bogus
279 code in functions with tail and non-tail calls to local functions on
281 * bug fix: on SPARC/:sb-unicode, avoid crashing the assembler by trying
282 to emit literal characters > (code-char 4095), for comparisons with
284 * bug fix: ROOM reported only the low 32 bits of dynamic space usage
285 on 64 bit platforms. (lp#881445)
286 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE did not MERGE-PATHNAMES, making it possible to
287 delete the wrong file when using relative pathnames. (lp#882877)
288 * bug fix: optimized SEARCH of vectors-on-vectors mishandled zero-length
289 sequences and :KEY NIL.
291 changes in sbcl-1.0.52 relative to sbcl-1.0.51:
292 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.017.
293 * enhancement: the --core command line option now accepts binaries with
295 * enhancement: when built with :sb-core-compression, core files (regular
296 or executable) can be compressed with zlib. Use the :COMPRESSION
297 argument to SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE to specify a compression level.
298 * enhancement: --[no-]merge-core-pages determines whether the runtime
299 hints the operating system that identical core pages between SBCL
300 processes should share the same physical memory. Default is to only
301 enable this for compressed cores.
302 * optimization: SLEEP no longer conses.
303 * optimization: *PRINT-PRETTY* no longer slows down printing of strings
304 or bit-vectors when using the standard pretty-print dispatch table.
305 * bug fix: non-function FTYPE declarations no longer cause a compiler-error.
307 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by MEMBER types in conjunction with with
308 AREF, CHAR, etc. (lp#826971)
309 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by integer arguments with composed of
310 multiple ranges to ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P. (lp#826970)
311 * bug fix: ,@ and ,. now signal a read-time error for certain non-list
312 expressions. (lp#770184)
313 * bug fix: complex single float literals are correctly aligned when used
314 as arguments of arithmetic operators.
315 * bug fix: on 32-bit platforms, rounding of double floats larger than a
316 fixnum is correct. (reported by Peter Keller)
317 * bug fix: stray FD-HANDLERs are no longer left lying around after unwinds
318 from RUN-PROGRAM. (lp#840190, reported by Dominic Pearson; fix from Max
320 * bug fix: redefining classes such that slots with custom allocation are
321 added or removed works again.
323 changes in sbcl-1.0.51 relative to sbcl-1.0.50:
324 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKET socket streams no longer
325 participate in SERVE-EVENT by default: pass :SERVE-EVENTS T to
326 MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM if using SERVE-EVENT.
327 * enhancement: added support for socket keepalive timeout intervals
328 and probe counts on Linux.
329 * enhancement: building 32-bit SBCL on Linux/x86-64 now works without a
330 chroot. (Use "SBCL_ARCH=x86 sh make.sh" to build.)
331 * enhancement: added new toplevel options --quit and --non-interactive
333 * enhancement: the Windows port of SBCL now builds and runs on Wine
334 (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
335 * enhancement: more, and more correct, SSE instruction definitions on
336 x86-64 (thanks to Alexander Gavrilov).
337 * enhancement: SB-EXT:SPIN-LOOP-HINT assembles to an instruction designed
338 to help the processor execute spin loops, when applicable. Currently
339 implemented for x86 and x86-64.
340 * optimization: unsigned integer divisions by a constant are implemented
341 using multiplication (affects CEILING, FLOOR, TRUNCATE, MOD, and REM.)
342 * optimization: improved type-derivation for LOAD-TIME-VALUE.
343 * bug fix: correct RIP offset calculation in SSE comparison and shuffle
344 instructions. (lp#814688)
345 * bug fix: COERCE to unfinalized extended sequence classes now works.
346 (reported by Jan Moringen; lp#815155)
347 * bug fix: a compiler error during typecheck generation, reported by Eric
349 * bug fix: obsolete instance protocol fires when shared slots are added
351 * bug fix: fixed-format floating point printing with scaling factors.
353 * bug fix: using GCC >= 4.6 to build SBCL on x86 no longer breaks
354 backtraces. (lp#818460)
355 * bug fix: better backtraces for interrupted syscall frames on x86.
357 * bug fix: SSE comparison instructions can be disassembled even when one
358 operand is in memory. (lp#814702)
359 * bug fix: incomplete writes when not using SERVE-EVENTS. (lp#820599)
360 * bug fix: MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND + VALUES -> LET conversion could lose derived
361 type information associated with the VALUES form.
362 * bug fix: broken warnings/errors for type-errors involving LOAD-TIME-VALUE
364 * bug fix: OPEN :IF-EXISTS :APPEND now returns correct FILE-POSITION before
365 first write (lp#561642).
366 * bug fix: compiled closures from EVAL could not be DESCRIBEd. (lp#824974)
367 * bug fix: bound propagation involving conversion of large bignums to
368 floats no longer signals a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR, reported by Lutz Euler.
370 * bug fix: &REST to &MORE conversion still works in unsafe call to known
371 functions; reported by Lutz Euler (lp#826459).
372 * bug fix: bogus deadlocks from interrupts and GCs. (lp#807475, regression
375 changes in sbcl-1.0.50 relative to sbcl-1.0.49:
376 * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove
377 the offending handler.
378 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works on structure
380 * enhancement: location of user or system initialization file can now easily
381 be customized for saved cores. See: SB-EXT:*USERINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*
382 and SB-EXT:*SYSINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*.
383 * enhancement: SB-EXT:MAKE-THREAD accepts an argument list designator for
384 the thunk, as a keyword argument, :arguments.
385 * enhancement: constraint propagation is simplified (and sped up) when
386 COMPILATION-SPEED > SPEED.
387 * enhancement: SB-ALIEN exports alien type specifiers SIZE-T and OFF-T.
388 * enhancement: debugger understands &MORE arguments better.
389 * optimization: extracting bits of a single-float on x86-64 has been
390 optimized. (lp#555201)
391 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are more efficient for non-simple vectors,
392 when (> SPEED SPACE).
393 * optimization: local call trampolines (x86 and x86-64) are emitted
395 * optimization: implicit value cells for dynamic-extent closed-over bindings
396 on x86 and x86-64 can hold unboxed values as well.
397 * meta-optimization: improved compilation speed, especially for large
398 functions. (lp#792363 and lp#394206)
399 * bug fix: bound derivation for floating point operations is now more
400 careful about rounding possibly closing open bounds. (lp#793771)
401 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:SYSCALL-ERROR's argument is now optional. (accidental
402 backwards incompatible change in 1.0.48.27)
403 * bug fix: occasional debugger errors in when a type-error occured in a
404 function with dynamic-extent &rest list.
405 * bug fix: &optional and &key supplied-p arguments in DEFSTRUCT
406 boa-construtors can be used to initialized structure slots.
407 * bug fix: FMAKUNBOUND removes the MACRO-FUNCTION, should one exist.
408 (lp#795705, regression)
409 * bug fix: DIRECTORY works better on logical pathnames.
410 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM no longer fails spuriously when argument strings
411 are of the order of ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT. (lp#787237)
412 * bug fix: the compiler no longer constant-folds NaNs in
413 MAKE-{SINGLE,DOUBLE}-FLOAT. (lp#486812)
414 * bug fix: FORMAT now handles floating point rounding correct, eg.
415 (format nil "~,1F" 0.01) => "0.0" instead of "0.01" as previously.
417 * bug fix: style warning during lambda-list introspection of generic
418 functions with both optional and key argments.
419 * bug fix: regalloc doesn't barf on unused TNs due to type-directed constant
421 * bug fix: Fixed an off-by-one in MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS that might have caused
424 changes in sbcl-1.0.49 relative to sbcl-1.0.48:
425 * minor incompatible change: WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE no longer disables
426 interrupts for its body.
427 * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as
428 source, compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files.
429 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :SOURCE-NAMESTRING allows providing
430 virtual source-file information, eg. overriding input-file of COMPILE-FILE
431 when a temporary file is used for compilation.
432 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.3.
433 * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator are
435 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM works with user-defined binary input and output
437 * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime errors for
438 type-errors detected at compile-time.
439 * enhancement: deadlock detection for mutexes and spinlocks.
440 * enhancement: dynamic-extent for &rest lists stack allocate only their
441 spines, not their argumets. While portable code should not rely on this,
442 particularly in combination with inlining, it should make dynamic-extent
443 easier to use safely.
444 * enhancement: SB-POSIX improvements:
445 ** WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are exported.
446 ** SYSCALL-ERROR now also provides the name of the failing system call.
447 * enhancement: --script improvements:
448 ** errors on standard input, output, and error streams are handled and
449 cause scripts to exit silently, making them easier to use in shell
451 ** backtraces from scripts now go to standard error instead of the
452 terminal even if one is available.
453 ** --script can be an argument, causing the script to be loaded from
455 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING provides an easy way to transport lisp
456 strings to foreign memory.
457 * enhancement: (SETF GC-LOGFILE) allows logging garbage collections to
458 a file, making it easier to understand heap dynamics.
459 * optimization: using a &REST argument only in APPLY or VALUES-LIST calls
460 allows the compiler to automatically elide rest-list allocation so long as
461 the call sites are in functions that the compiler knows cannot escape.
463 * optimization: CALL-NEXT-METHOD using explicit arguments is faster,
464 especially in safe code when none of the required arguments have changed
466 * bug fix: blocking reads from FIFOs created by RUN-PROGRAM were
467 uninterruptible, as well as blocking reads from socket streams created
468 with for which :SERVE-EVENTS NIL. (regression from 1.0.42.43)
469 * bug fix: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR now removes dispatch-macro character syntax
470 from the to-char if the from-char is not a dispatch-macro character.
471 * bug fix: references to undefined variables in function calls that are
472 optimized away now signal a runtime error. (lp#722734)
473 * bug fix: miscompilation of MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL when asserting derived
474 types from a function defined in the same file. (regression from
476 * bug fix: TRULY-THE forms are now macroexpandable and setf-expandable.
478 * bug fix: spurious errors during QUIT when standard streams were closed.
480 changes in sbcl-1.0.48 relative to sbcl-1.0.47:
481 * incompatible change: SB!KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA, deprecated for over five
482 years, is now no longer supported.
483 * enhancement: read() and write() have been added to SB-POSIX.
484 * enhancement: types of DEFSTRUCT constructors are proclaimed more
485 accurately, allowing better typechecking of call-sites.
486 * enhancement: errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
487 are no longer caught. (reverted to pre 1.0.34 behaviour)
488 * optimization: slightly faster ISQRT. (lp#713343)
489 * bug fix: better support for Solaris /bin/sh in sh-based tests.
490 * bug fix: TRACE behaves better when attempting to trace undefined
491 functions. (lp#740717)
492 * bug fix: missed optimizations for (FUNCALL (LAMBDA ...) ...) in comparison
493 to (FUNCALL #'(LAMBDA ...) ...).
494 * bug fix: ((LAMBDA ...) ...) forms with invalid argument counts resulted in
495 a compile-time error. (lp#720382)
496 * bug fix: forms such as (FUNCALL (FUNCTION NAME OOPS) ...) were compiled
498 * bug fix: less verbose source forms for functions from EVAL. (lp#747485)
499 * bug fix: sense of SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS was inverted in a MAKE-INSTANCE
500 optimization. (regression from 1.0.45.18/1.0.46.15)
501 * bug fix: package locks did not protects against compile-time side-effects
502 of DEFUN. (lp#675584)
503 * bug fix: --dynamic-space-size argument is validated more carefully.
505 * bug fix: memory fault from printing a malformed simple-condition.
507 * bug fix: redefining classes so that slot-definition classes change now
508 engages the obsolete instance protocol. (lp#766271)
509 * bug fix: constant improper lists could break source coverage recording.
511 * bug fix: compiling calls to eg. MEMBER with massive constant list arguments
514 changes in sbcl-1.0.47 relative to sbcl-1.0.46:
515 * bug fix: fix mach port rights leaks in mach exception handling code on
516 darwin/x86 and /x86-64. (thanks to Willem Oudshoorn for motivation and the
518 * enhancement: --script muffles style-warnings and compiler notes. (lp#677779)
519 * enhancement: redefinition warnings for macros from different files. (lp#434657)
520 * enhancement: better MACHINE-VERSION on Darwin x86 and x86-64. (lp#668332)
521 * enhancement: (FORMAT "foo" ...) and similar signal a compile-time warning. (lp#327223)
522 * enhancement: no more "in: LAMBDA NIL" messages from the compiler for forms
523 processed using EVAL -- now the appropriate toplevel form is reported instead.
524 * enhancement: more legible style-warnings for inappropriate IGNORE and IGNORABLE
525 declarations. (lp#726331)
526 * enhancement: :NOT-NULL option has been added to alien C-STRING type to indicate
527 that NIL/NULL is excluded from the type.
528 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:MAP-ROOT allows mapping over pointers contained in
530 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are faster in the presence of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS
532 * optimization: core startup time is reduced by 30% on x86-64. (lp#557357)
533 * bug fix: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST guards against potentially leaking
534 stack-allocated values out of their dynamic-extent. (lp#310175)
535 * bug fix: attempts to use SB-SPROF for wallclock profiling on threaded
536 x86-64 builds caused a type-error.
537 * bug fix: calling COMPILE with something else than a lambda-expression as the
538 second argument reports a more sensible error. (lp#718905)
539 * bug fix: invalid combinations of :PREDICATE and :TYPE options in DEFSTRUCT
540 are detected. (lp#520607)
541 * bug fix: constant keyword argument checking didn't take :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS
543 * bug fix: SLOT-BOUNDP information is correct during MAKE-INSTANCE in the
544 presence of (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS) and SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS
545 methods. (regression from 1.0.45.18)
546 * bug fix: INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods supplying initargs via
547 CALL-NEXT-METHOD work correctly. (regression from 1.0.45.19)
548 * bug fix: several foreign functions accepting string also accepted NIL and
549 consequently caused a memory fault at 0 now signal a type-error instead.
551 * bug fix: under rare circumstances, constraint propagation could rewrite a
552 variable reference to refer to a variable not in scope, causing an error
553 during physical environment analysis when attempting to close over the
554 variable. (lp#551227)
555 * bug fix: SIMPLE-CONDITION :FORMAT-CONTROL defaults to NIL.
557 changes in sbcl-1.0.46 relative to sbcl-1.0.45:
558 * enhancement: largefile support on Solaris.
559 * enhancement: SB-PROFILE:REPORT now supports :LIMIT and :PRINT-NO-CALL-LIST
560 arguments (lp#710017)
561 * enhancement: SB-PCL:+SLOT-UNBOUND+ is exported, making it possible to
562 distinguish unbound instance slots when using STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS
564 * optimization: ERROR and CERROR are approximately 5 times faster.
565 * optimization: optimized constructors are used for MAKE-INSTANCE of classes
566 with applicable non-standard (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS),
567 SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, and INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods, speeding
568 up instance creation in those cases.
569 * optimization: arithmetic operations with multiple constant arguments in now
570 have them reduced at compile-time. (lp#676414)
571 * optimization: determining current character position on string-streams for
572 pretty-printing was overly slow.
573 * bug fix: local tail calls to DYNAMIC-EXTENT functions can no longer cause
574 lifetime analysis to overwrite closed-over variables (lp#681092).
575 * bug fix: encoding errors from some multibyte external formats such as EUC-JP
576 were not handled correctly (lp#713063).
577 * bug fix: printing waitqueue objects without setting *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T is now
579 * bug fix: Solaris/x86-64 wasn't getting built with lutex support by
580 mistake. (lp#667297).
581 * bug fix: CONSTANTLY generated functions had bogus lambda-lists. (lp#713626)
582 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM :PTY option was racy on OpenBSD. (lp#669485)
583 * bug fix: UNINTERN takes a symbol, not a symbol designator -- could previously
584 unintern the wrong symbol with the same name. (lp#693796)
585 * bug fix: COPY-PPRINT-DISPATCH always has access to a pristine table,
586 making it possible to restore the initial table if it has been messed up.
589 changes in sbcl-1.0.45 relative to sbcl-1.0.44:
590 * enhancement: ~/ and ~user/ are treated specially in pathnames.
591 Refer to documentation for details.
592 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.010.
593 * optimization: mutated closed-over variables that are only accessed by
594 DYNAMIC-EXTENT closures (currently only FLET and LABELS functions
595 declared to be DYNAMIC-EXTENT) are stored directly in their containing
596 stack frame, rather than allocating a VALUE-CELL (lp#586103).
597 * optimization: UNWIND-PROTECT cleanup functions are now declared
599 * bug fix: backtracing function with &REST arguments now shows the full
600 argument list. (lp#310173)
601 * bug fix: return types for functions with complex lambda-lists are now
602 derived properly (lp#384892)
603 * bug fix: when SPEED > SPACE compiling CONCATENATE 'STRING with constant
604 long string arguments slowed the compiler down to a crawl.
605 * bug fix: closure VALUE-CELLs are no longer stack-allocated (lp#308934).
606 * bug fix: non-standard MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA methods could break RETURN-FROM
607 in the DEFMETHOD body.
608 * bug fix: #<SB-C::DEFINED-FUN ...> should no longer appear in compiler
609 messages, being instead replaced with the corresponding function name.
610 * bug fix: don't derive overly complex unions of numeric types for arithmetic
611 operators. (lp#309448)
613 changes in sbcl-1.0.44 relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
614 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
615 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
616 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
618 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
619 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
620 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
621 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
622 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
624 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
625 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
626 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
627 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
628 * enhancement: new function: SB-EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY is now provided.
629 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
630 addition member types.
631 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
632 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
633 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
634 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
635 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
637 * improvements to the Windows port:
638 ** change: canonical unparsing form for pathname namestrings now uses / as
639 directory separator. NATIVE-NAMESTRING still uses \ as the separator.
640 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
641 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
642 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
644 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
645 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
646 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
647 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
649 * bug fix: interrupts arriving during CL:OPEN caused an error.
650 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
651 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
652 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
653 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
654 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
655 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
656 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
657 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
658 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
659 so badly. (lp#654485)
660 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
661 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
662 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
663 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
664 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
665 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
666 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
667 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
668 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
669 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
670 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
671 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
672 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
673 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
674 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
675 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
676 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
677 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
679 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
680 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
681 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
682 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
684 * bug fix: short-form DEFSETF checks that the second argument is a symbol
685 (lp#655824, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
686 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) clobbered macro-definitions before
687 package-lock violation was detected. (lp#660752)
688 * bug fix: the system can store different docstrings for a single function
689 under different names. (lp#661631, regression from 1.0.29.24)
690 * bug fix: source-locations of DEFGENERIC forms weren't getting recorded
691 properly. (lp#384801)
692 * bug fix: (COERCE X '(SIMPLE-VECTOR 5)) and similar coercions to vectors
693 of specified length could confuse the type derivation in unsafe code.
695 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
696 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made on every platform,
697 not just Darwin. (lp#451111)
698 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS and SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS could leave stale finalizers
699 around when core was saved, which could cause undefined behaviour when the
701 * bug fix: Allow UNTRACE of functions that are no longer defined
702 (lp#667657, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
703 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY calls with invalid keyword argument lists now signal a
704 compile-time warning (lp#664373, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
706 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
707 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
708 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
709 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
710 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
711 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
712 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
713 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
715 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
717 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
718 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
719 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
721 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
722 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
723 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
724 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
725 thanks to Andrew Golding)
726 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
727 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
729 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
730 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
731 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
732 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
733 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
734 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
735 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
736 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
737 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
738 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
739 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
740 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
741 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
742 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
744 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
745 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
746 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
747 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
748 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
749 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
750 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
751 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
752 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
753 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
754 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
755 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
756 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
757 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
758 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
759 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
760 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
761 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
762 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
764 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
766 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
767 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
769 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
771 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
772 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
773 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
774 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
775 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
776 * optimization: The default implementation of
777 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
778 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
779 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
780 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
781 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
782 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
783 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
784 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
785 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
786 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
787 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
789 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
790 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
791 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
792 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
793 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
794 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
796 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
798 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
799 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
800 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
801 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
802 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
803 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
805 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
807 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
808 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
810 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
811 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
813 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
814 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
815 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
816 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
817 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
818 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
819 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
820 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
821 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
822 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
823 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
824 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
826 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
828 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
829 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
830 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
831 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
832 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
833 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
834 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
835 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
836 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
837 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
839 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
840 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
841 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
843 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
844 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
845 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
847 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
848 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
849 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
851 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
852 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
853 generic function call.
854 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
855 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
856 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
858 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
860 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
861 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
862 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
863 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
864 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
865 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
866 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
867 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
868 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
869 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
870 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
871 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
872 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
873 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
874 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
876 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
877 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
878 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
879 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
880 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
881 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
882 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
883 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
884 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
885 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
886 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
887 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
888 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
889 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
890 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
891 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
892 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
893 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
894 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
895 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
896 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
897 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
898 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
899 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
900 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
902 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
903 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
904 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
906 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
907 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
909 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
910 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
911 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
912 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
914 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
915 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
916 stack frame thrown from.
917 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
918 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
919 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
920 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
922 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
923 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
924 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
925 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
926 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
927 for accessing such arrays.
928 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
929 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
930 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
931 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
932 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
933 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
934 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
935 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
936 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
937 functions. (lp#524707)
938 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
939 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
940 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
941 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
942 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
943 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
944 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
945 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
946 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
947 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
948 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
949 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
950 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
951 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
953 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
954 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
955 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
956 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
957 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
959 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
960 declarations (lp#497321)
961 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
962 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
963 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
965 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
966 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
967 due to it, so that handlers can run.
968 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
970 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
971 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
972 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
973 expanded calls (lp#542174)
974 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
975 than just at toplevel form.
977 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
978 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
979 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
980 but work on type specifiers.
981 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
982 to name a type specifier.
983 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
984 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
985 second argument of TYPEP".
986 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
987 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
988 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
989 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
990 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
991 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
992 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
993 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
994 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
995 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
996 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
997 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
998 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
1000 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
1002 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
1003 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
1005 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
1006 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
1007 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
1008 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
1009 before reaching the erring stack frame.
1010 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
1011 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
1012 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
1013 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
1014 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
1015 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
1016 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
1017 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
1019 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
1020 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
1021 is properly inlined when possible.
1022 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
1023 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
1024 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
1025 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
1026 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
1027 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
1028 launchpad bug lp#508485)
1029 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
1030 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
1031 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
1032 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
1033 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
1034 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
1036 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
1037 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
1039 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
1041 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
1042 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
1043 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
1044 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
1045 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
1046 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
1047 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
1049 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
1050 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
1051 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
1052 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
1053 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
1054 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
1055 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
1056 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
1057 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
1058 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
1059 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
1060 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
1061 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
1062 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
1064 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
1067 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
1068 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
1069 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
1070 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
1071 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
1072 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
1073 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
1074 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
1076 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
1077 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
1078 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
1079 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
1081 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
1082 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
1083 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
1084 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1085 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1086 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1088 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
1089 errors for fd-stream external formats.
1090 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
1091 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
1092 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
1093 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
1094 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
1096 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
1097 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
1098 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
1099 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
1101 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
1102 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
1103 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
1104 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
1105 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
1107 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
1108 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
1109 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
1110 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
1111 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
1112 error is near the end of file.
1113 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
1114 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
1115 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
1116 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
1117 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
1118 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
1119 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
1120 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
1121 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
1122 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1123 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
1124 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
1125 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
1126 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
1127 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
1128 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
1129 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
1130 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
1131 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
1132 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
1133 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
1134 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
1135 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
1136 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
1138 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
1139 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
1140 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
1141 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
1142 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
1143 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
1144 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
1145 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
1146 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
1148 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
1149 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
1150 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
1151 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
1153 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
1154 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
1155 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
1157 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
1159 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
1160 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
1162 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
1163 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
1164 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
1165 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
1166 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
1167 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
1168 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
1169 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
1170 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
1171 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
1172 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1173 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
1174 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
1176 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
1177 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
1178 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
1179 open coded is now considered a bug.
1180 * improvements related to Unicode:
1181 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1182 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1183 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1185 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
1186 syllable characters.
1187 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
1188 (as well as for stream operations).
1189 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
1190 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
1192 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
1193 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
1195 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
1197 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
1198 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
1199 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
1200 constant two has been optimized.
1201 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
1202 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1203 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
1204 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
1205 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
1206 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
1207 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
1208 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
1209 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
1210 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
1211 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
1212 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
1213 but assumed or declared function as well.
1214 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
1215 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1216 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
1217 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
1219 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
1220 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
1221 well as user defined declaration names.
1222 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
1223 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
1225 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
1226 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1227 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
1228 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
1229 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
1231 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
1233 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
1235 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
1236 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1237 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
1238 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1239 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
1240 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
1241 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
1242 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
1243 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
1245 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
1246 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1247 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
1248 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
1249 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
1250 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
1252 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
1253 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
1254 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
1255 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
1256 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
1257 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
1258 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1259 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
1261 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
1262 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
1263 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
1264 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
1265 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
1266 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
1267 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1268 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
1269 values in other threads.
1270 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
1271 about object allocation.
1272 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
1273 with a specialised code sequence.
1274 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
1275 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
1276 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
1277 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
1278 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
1279 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
1280 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
1281 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
1282 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
1283 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
1285 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
1287 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
1288 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
1289 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
1290 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
1291 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
1292 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
1293 unboxed format on x86[-64].
1294 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
1295 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
1296 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
1297 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
1298 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
1300 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
1301 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
1302 contains more pertinent information.
1303 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
1304 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
1305 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
1306 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
1307 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
1308 types. (reported by "abhi")
1309 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
1310 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
1311 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1312 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
1313 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
1314 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
1315 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
1316 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
1317 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
1318 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
1319 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1320 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
1321 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1322 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
1323 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
1324 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
1325 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
1326 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
1328 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
1329 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
1330 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
1331 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
1332 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1333 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
1334 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1336 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
1337 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
1338 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
1339 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
1340 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
1341 (no subscription required.)
1342 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
1343 types are weakened less aggressively.
1344 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
1345 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
1346 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
1347 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
1348 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
1349 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
1350 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
1351 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
1353 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
1354 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
1355 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
1356 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
1358 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
1359 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
1360 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
1362 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
1363 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
1364 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
1366 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
1367 is known are 50% faster.
1368 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
1369 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
1371 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
1372 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
1373 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
1374 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
1375 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
1377 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
1378 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
1379 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
1380 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
1381 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
1382 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
1384 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
1385 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
1386 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
1387 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
1388 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
1389 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1390 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
1391 to Tobias Rittweiler)
1392 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
1393 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
1394 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
1395 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
1396 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
1397 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1398 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
1399 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
1400 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
1401 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
1402 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
1404 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
1405 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
1406 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
1407 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
1409 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
1410 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
1411 result register (bug 316325).
1412 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
1413 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
1414 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
1415 generate incorrect code.
1416 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
1417 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
1418 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
1419 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
1421 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
1422 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
1423 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
1424 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
1425 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
1426 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
1427 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
1428 from :INITFORM, if any.
1430 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
1431 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
1432 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
1433 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
1434 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
1436 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
1437 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
1438 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
1439 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
1440 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
1441 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1442 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
1443 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
1444 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1445 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
1447 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
1448 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1449 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
1450 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
1451 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
1452 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
1453 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1454 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
1455 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
1456 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
1457 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
1458 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
1459 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
1460 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1461 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
1462 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
1463 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
1465 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
1466 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1467 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
1468 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
1469 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
1470 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
1471 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
1472 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
1474 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
1475 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1476 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
1477 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
1478 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
1480 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
1481 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
1482 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
1483 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
1484 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
1485 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
1486 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
1487 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
1488 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
1489 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
1490 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
1491 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
1492 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
1493 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
1494 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
1495 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
1497 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
1498 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
1499 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
1500 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
1501 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
1502 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
1503 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
1504 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
1505 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
1506 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
1507 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
1508 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
1509 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
1510 recursive errors or deadlock.
1511 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
1512 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
1513 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
1515 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
1516 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
1517 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
1518 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
1519 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
1520 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
1521 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
1522 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
1524 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
1525 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
1526 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
1527 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
1528 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1529 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
1530 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
1531 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
1533 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
1534 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
1535 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
1536 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
1537 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
1538 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
1539 their constant arguments.
1540 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
1541 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1542 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
1543 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
1544 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
1545 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
1546 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
1547 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
1548 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
1549 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
1550 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
1551 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
1552 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
1553 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
1554 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
1555 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
1556 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
1557 * improvements to the Windows port:
1558 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
1559 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
1561 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
1562 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
1563 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
1564 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
1565 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1566 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
1567 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
1568 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
1569 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
1570 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
1571 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
1572 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
1573 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
1574 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
1576 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
1578 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
1579 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
1580 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
1581 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1582 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
1583 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1584 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1585 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1586 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1587 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
1589 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
1590 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
1591 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
1592 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
1593 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
1594 compile-time style-warning.
1595 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
1596 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
1597 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
1598 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
1599 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
1600 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
1601 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
1602 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
1603 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
1604 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
1605 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
1606 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
1607 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
1608 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
1609 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
1610 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
1612 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
1613 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
1614 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
1615 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
1616 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
1617 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
1618 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
1619 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
1620 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
1622 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
1624 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
1627 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
1628 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
1629 for the associated fast function is also produced.
1630 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
1632 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
1633 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
1634 special handling by the pretty printer.
1635 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
1636 now interact correctly with type declarations.
1637 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
1638 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1639 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
1640 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
1641 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
1642 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
1643 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
1644 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1646 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
1647 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
1648 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
1649 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
1650 object loading function as-it.
1651 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
1652 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
1654 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
1655 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
1657 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
1658 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
1659 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
1660 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1661 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
1662 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
1663 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
1664 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
1665 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
1667 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
1668 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
1669 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
1670 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
1671 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
1672 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
1673 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1674 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
1675 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1676 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
1677 file descriptors when there were none.
1678 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
1679 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
1680 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
1681 pathnames without a directory.
1682 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
1683 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
1684 not signal an error.
1685 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
1686 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
1687 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
1688 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
1689 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
1690 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
1691 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
1692 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
1694 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
1695 after alien stack frames.
1696 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
1698 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
1699 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
1700 generic function across method addition and removal.
1701 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
1702 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
1703 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
1704 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
1706 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
1707 non-local transfer of control.
1708 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
1709 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
1710 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
1711 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
1712 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
1713 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
1714 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
1716 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
1717 owned by other threads anymore.
1718 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
1719 subsequence. (reported by budden)
1720 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
1721 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
1722 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
1723 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
1725 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
1726 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
1727 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
1728 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
1729 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
1730 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
1731 added to the user manual.
1732 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
1733 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
1734 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
1735 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
1736 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
1737 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
1739 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
1741 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
1742 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
1743 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
1744 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
1745 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
1746 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
1747 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
1749 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
1750 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
1752 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
1753 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
1754 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
1755 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
1756 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
1757 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
1758 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
1760 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
1761 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
1763 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
1764 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1765 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1766 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
1767 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1768 type of a variable is made.
1769 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
1770 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
1772 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
1773 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1774 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
1775 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1776 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
1777 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1778 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
1779 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
1780 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
1782 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
1783 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
1784 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
1785 of the type that's the value of this variable.
1786 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
1788 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
1789 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
1790 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
1791 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
1792 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
1793 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
1794 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
1795 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
1796 * improvements to the Windows port:
1797 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
1798 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
1799 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1800 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
1801 to single-float coercions.
1802 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
1803 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
1804 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
1805 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
1806 containing invalid type specifiers.
1807 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
1808 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
1810 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
1811 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
1812 profiles only the current thread.
1813 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
1814 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
1815 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
1816 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
1817 has also additional sorting options.
1818 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
1820 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
1821 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
1822 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
1823 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
1824 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
1825 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
1827 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
1829 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
1830 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
1831 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
1832 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
1833 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
1834 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
1836 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
1837 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1838 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
1839 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
1840 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
1841 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1842 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
1843 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
1844 (thanks to James Knight)
1845 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
1846 (thanks to Travis Cross)
1847 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1848 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
1849 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
1850 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1851 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1852 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1853 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1855 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
1856 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
1857 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
1858 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
1859 use this feature in the meanwhile.
1860 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
1861 adjust thread default control stack size.
1862 * enhancement: improved TIME output
1863 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
1864 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
1865 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
1866 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
1867 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
1868 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
1869 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
1870 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
1872 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
1874 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
1875 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
1876 in normal SPEED policies.
1877 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
1878 in normal SPEED policies.
1879 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
1880 to Sidney Markowitz)
1881 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
1882 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1883 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
1884 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1885 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
1886 as the second argument.
1887 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
1888 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
1889 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
1891 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
1892 platform word lengths.
1893 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
1894 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
1895 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
1897 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
1898 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1900 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
1901 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
1902 signaling added in 1.0.14.
1903 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
1904 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
1905 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
1906 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
1907 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
1908 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1909 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
1910 on threaded platforms.
1911 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
1912 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
1913 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1914 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
1915 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
1916 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
1917 representation is available.
1918 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
1919 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
1920 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
1921 Francois-Rene Rideau)
1922 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1923 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1924 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
1925 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
1926 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
1927 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
1928 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
1929 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
1930 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
1932 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
1933 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
1934 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
1935 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
1936 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
1937 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
1938 traces SETF-functions as well.
1939 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
1940 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
1941 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
1942 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
1944 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
1945 is now more efficient.
1946 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
1947 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
1948 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
1949 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
1950 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
1951 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1952 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
1953 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
1954 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
1955 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
1956 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
1958 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
1959 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
1960 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
1961 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
1962 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
1963 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1964 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
1965 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
1966 * improvements to the Windows port:
1967 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
1968 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
1970 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
1971 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
1972 (see documentation for details.)
1973 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
1974 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
1975 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
1976 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
1977 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
1979 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
1980 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
1981 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
1982 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
1983 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1984 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
1985 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
1986 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
1987 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
1989 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
1990 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
1991 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
1992 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
1993 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
1994 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
1995 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
1997 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
1998 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
1999 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
2000 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
2001 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
2002 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
2003 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
2004 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
2006 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
2007 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
2008 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
2009 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
2010 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
2011 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
2012 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
2013 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
2014 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
2015 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
2016 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
2017 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
2018 known at compile-time.
2019 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
2020 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
2021 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
2023 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
2024 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
2026 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
2027 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2028 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2029 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
2030 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
2031 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
2033 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
2035 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
2037 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
2040 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
2041 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
2042 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
2043 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
2044 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
2045 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
2046 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
2047 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
2048 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
2049 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
2050 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
2051 END is smaller then START.
2052 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
2053 calls to profiled functions.
2054 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
2055 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
2056 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
2057 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
2058 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
2059 hash-table usage have been fixed.
2060 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
2061 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
2062 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
2063 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
2064 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
2065 slime to work again.
2067 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
2068 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
2069 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
2070 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
2071 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
2072 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
2073 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
2074 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
2075 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
2076 and will signal an error at runtime.
2077 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
2078 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
2079 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
2081 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
2082 platforms providing stack allocation support.
2083 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
2084 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
2086 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
2087 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
2088 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
2089 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2090 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
2091 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
2093 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
2094 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
2096 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
2098 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
2099 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
2100 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
2101 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
2102 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
2103 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
2104 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
2105 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
2106 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
2107 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2108 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
2109 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
2110 a specializer parameter for the method.
2111 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
2112 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
2113 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
2114 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
2115 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
2117 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
2118 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
2120 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
2121 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
2122 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2123 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
2124 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
2125 the CAS operation was being performed.
2126 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
2127 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
2128 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
2129 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
2132 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
2133 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
2134 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
2135 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
2137 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
2138 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
2139 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2140 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
2141 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
2142 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2143 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
2144 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
2145 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
2146 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
2147 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
2148 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
2149 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
2150 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
2151 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
2153 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
2154 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
2155 the underlying file descriptor.
2156 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
2157 could cause buffer-overflows.
2158 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
2159 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
2160 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
2162 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
2164 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
2165 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
2166 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
2167 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
2168 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
2169 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
2172 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
2173 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
2174 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
2175 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
2176 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
2177 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
2178 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
2180 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
2182 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
2183 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
2184 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
2185 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
2186 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
2187 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
2189 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
2190 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
2191 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
2192 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
2193 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
2194 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
2195 objects that can be seen by the GC.
2196 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
2197 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
2198 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
2200 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
2201 as the property-list of a symbol.
2202 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
2203 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
2204 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
2207 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
2208 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
2209 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
2210 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
2211 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
2212 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
2213 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
2214 debugging and introspective support.
2215 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
2216 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
2217 has the owning thread as its value.
2218 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
2219 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
2221 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
2222 "a constant string".
2223 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
2224 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
2225 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
2226 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2227 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
2228 (depending on the bignum size.)
2229 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
2231 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
2232 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
2234 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
2235 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
2237 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
2238 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
2239 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
2240 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
2241 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
2244 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
2245 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
2246 as a contrib module.
2247 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
2248 significantly faster.
2249 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2250 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
2251 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2252 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2253 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
2254 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
2255 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
2256 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
2257 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2258 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
2259 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
2261 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
2263 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
2264 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
2265 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
2266 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
2267 that use the generational garbage collector
2268 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
2270 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
2271 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
2273 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
2275 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
2276 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
2277 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
2278 system running with GC inhibited.
2279 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
2280 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
2281 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
2282 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
2283 (reported by Peter Graves)
2285 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
2286 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
2287 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
2289 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
2290 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
2291 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
2292 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
2293 documented as unsafe.
2294 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
2295 in multithreaded application code.
2296 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
2297 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
2298 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
2300 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
2301 variants no longer cons.
2302 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
2303 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
2304 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
2305 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
2306 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
2307 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
2308 are significantly faster.
2309 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
2310 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
2311 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
2312 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
2313 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
2314 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
2315 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
2316 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
2317 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
2318 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
2319 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
2321 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
2322 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
2323 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
2324 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2325 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
2326 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2327 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
2328 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2329 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
2330 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
2331 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
2332 line in a file is unlimited.
2333 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
2334 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
2335 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
2336 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
2337 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
2338 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
2339 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
2340 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2341 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
2342 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
2343 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2344 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
2345 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
2346 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
2347 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
2348 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
2349 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
2350 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
2351 experimental until this is fixed.
2352 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
2353 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2354 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
2355 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
2356 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
2358 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
2359 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
2360 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
2361 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
2362 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
2363 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
2365 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
2366 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
2367 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2368 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
2369 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
2370 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
2371 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2372 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
2373 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
2375 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
2376 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
2377 (reported by Andras Simon)
2378 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
2379 bugs remain on x86-64.)
2380 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
2381 funcallable instances.
2382 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
2383 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
2385 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
2386 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2387 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
2388 non-base strings as arguments
2389 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
2391 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
2392 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
2394 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
2395 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
2396 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2397 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
2398 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2399 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2400 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
2401 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
2402 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
2404 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
2405 (thanks to Jon Buller)
2406 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
2407 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
2410 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
2411 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
2412 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
2414 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
2415 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
2416 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
2417 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
2418 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
2420 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
2421 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
2422 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
2423 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2424 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
2425 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2426 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
2427 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
2428 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
2429 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
2430 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2431 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
2432 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
2433 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
2434 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
2435 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
2436 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2437 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2438 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
2439 stack frames from alien callbacks.
2440 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2441 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
2442 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
2443 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2445 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
2446 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
2447 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
2448 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
2449 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
2450 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
2451 sb-introspect contrib.
2452 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
2453 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
2454 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
2455 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
2456 users and the general community)
2457 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
2458 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
2459 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
2460 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
2461 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2462 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
2463 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
2464 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2465 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
2466 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2467 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
2468 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
2469 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
2470 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
2471 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
2472 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
2474 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
2475 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
2476 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
2477 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
2478 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
2479 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
2480 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
2482 * improvements to the Windows port:
2483 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
2484 to Alastair Bridgewater)
2485 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
2487 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
2488 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2490 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
2491 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
2492 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2493 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
2494 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
2495 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
2496 core, and restored on startup.
2497 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
2498 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2499 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
2500 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
2501 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
2502 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
2503 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
2505 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
2506 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2507 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
2509 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
2510 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
2511 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
2513 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
2514 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2515 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
2516 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2517 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
2518 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
2520 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
2521 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
2522 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
2523 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
2524 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
2525 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
2526 (reported by Josip Gracin)
2527 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
2528 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
2529 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
2530 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
2531 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
2532 and don't cause extra consing
2533 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
2534 whose elements types have been declared.
2535 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
2536 ** Support for allocation profiling
2537 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
2538 * Improvements to the Windows port:
2539 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
2540 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
2541 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2542 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
2544 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
2545 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
2546 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
2547 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
2548 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
2550 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
2551 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
2552 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
2554 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
2555 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
2556 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
2557 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
2558 with non-variable places
2559 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
2560 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
2561 code more stable against memory faults.
2562 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
2563 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
2564 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
2565 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
2568 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
2569 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
2570 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
2571 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
2572 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
2573 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
2574 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
2575 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
2576 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2577 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2578 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
2579 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
2580 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
2582 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
2583 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
2584 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
2585 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
2586 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
2587 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
2588 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
2590 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
2591 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
2593 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
2594 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
2595 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
2596 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
2597 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
2598 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
2599 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
2600 to the single-stepper REPL.
2601 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
2602 for a type now works.
2603 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
2605 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
2606 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2607 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
2608 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2609 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
2610 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
2611 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
2612 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
2614 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
2615 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
2616 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
2617 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
2618 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
2619 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
2620 whose bindings are modified
2621 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
2622 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
2623 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
2624 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
2626 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
2627 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
2628 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
2629 as specified by AMOP.
2630 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
2632 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
2633 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2634 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
2635 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
2636 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
2637 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
2638 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
2639 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
2640 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
2641 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
2642 better type inference.
2643 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
2644 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
2645 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
2646 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
2647 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
2648 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2649 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
2650 initialization of methods can now be used to override
2651 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
2653 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
2654 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
2655 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
2656 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
2657 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
2659 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
2660 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
2661 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
2662 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
2663 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
2664 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
2665 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
2666 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
2667 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
2668 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
2669 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
2670 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
2671 (reported by James Y Knight).
2672 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
2673 argument for shadowing by local functions.
2674 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
2676 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
2677 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
2678 with type-inference.
2679 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
2680 types in some cases.
2681 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
2682 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2683 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
2685 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
2686 * thread-safety improvements:
2687 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
2688 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
2689 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
2691 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
2692 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
2694 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
2695 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
2696 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
2698 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
2699 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
2700 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
2701 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
2702 class became finalizeable.
2703 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
2704 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
2705 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
2706 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
2708 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
2709 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
2710 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
2711 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
2712 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
2713 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
2714 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2715 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
2716 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
2717 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
2718 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
2719 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
2720 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
2721 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2722 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
2723 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
2724 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
2725 * minor code generation optimizations:
2726 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
2727 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
2728 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
2729 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
2730 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
2731 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2732 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
2733 return its argument.
2735 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
2736 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
2738 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
2740 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
2741 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
2742 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
2743 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
2744 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
2745 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
2746 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
2747 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
2748 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
2749 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
2750 the low-level debugger.
2751 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
2752 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
2753 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
2754 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
2756 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
2757 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
2758 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
2760 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
2761 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2762 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
2763 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
2764 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
2765 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
2766 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
2767 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
2768 (reported by James Y Knight)
2769 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
2770 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
2771 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
2772 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
2773 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
2774 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
2775 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
2776 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
2777 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
2778 workaround for bug 403.)
2779 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
2780 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2781 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2782 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
2784 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2785 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
2786 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
2788 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
2789 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
2790 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
2791 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
2792 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
2794 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
2796 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
2797 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
2798 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
2801 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
2802 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
2803 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
2804 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
2805 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
2806 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
2807 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
2808 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
2809 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
2810 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
2811 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
2812 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2813 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
2814 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2815 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
2816 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
2817 documentation on package locks for details.
2818 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
2820 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
2821 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
2822 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
2823 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
2824 immediately available from the stream
2825 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
2826 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
2827 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
2828 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
2830 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
2831 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
2832 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
2834 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
2835 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
2836 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
2838 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
2839 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
2840 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
2841 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
2843 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2844 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
2845 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
2846 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2847 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
2848 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
2849 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2850 ** sb-grovel supported
2851 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
2852 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
2853 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
2854 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
2855 ** floating-point exception handling support
2856 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
2857 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2858 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2859 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
2860 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
2861 structure accessors.
2862 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
2864 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
2865 defaults for optional parameters.
2866 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
2867 function, which is already optimized.
2869 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
2870 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
2871 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
2872 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
2873 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
2874 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
2875 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
2876 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
2877 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
2878 this change is to make it easier to distribute
2879 location-independent binaries.
2880 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
2881 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
2883 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
2884 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
2885 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
2886 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
2887 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
2888 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
2889 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
2890 Alastair Bridgewater)
2891 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
2892 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
2893 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2894 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
2895 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
2896 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
2897 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
2898 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
2899 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
2900 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
2901 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
2902 (thanks to James Knight)
2903 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
2904 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
2906 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
2907 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
2908 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
2909 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
2910 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
2911 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
2912 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
2913 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
2914 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
2915 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
2916 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
2917 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
2918 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
2919 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
2920 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
2921 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
2922 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
2923 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
2924 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
2925 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
2926 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
2928 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
2929 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
2930 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
2931 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2932 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
2933 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
2935 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
2936 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
2937 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
2938 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
2939 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
2940 many others over the years)
2941 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
2942 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
2943 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
2945 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
2946 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
2947 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2948 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
2949 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
2950 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
2952 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
2954 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
2955 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
2956 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
2957 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
2958 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
2959 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
2960 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
2961 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
2962 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
2963 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
2964 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
2965 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2966 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
2967 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2969 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
2970 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2971 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
2972 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
2973 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
2974 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
2975 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
2976 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
2977 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
2978 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2979 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
2980 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
2981 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
2982 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
2983 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
2984 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
2985 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
2986 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2987 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
2988 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
2990 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
2991 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2992 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
2993 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
2994 index variables in LOOP
2995 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
2996 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2997 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
2998 that don't have a docstring
3000 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
3001 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
3002 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
3003 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
3004 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
3005 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
3006 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
3007 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
3008 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
3009 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
3010 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
3011 Costanza's "Closer" project)
3012 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
3013 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
3015 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
3016 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
3017 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
3018 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
3019 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
3020 and Pascal Costanza)
3021 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
3022 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
3023 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
3024 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
3025 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3026 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
3027 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
3028 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
3029 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3030 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
3031 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3032 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
3033 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3034 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
3035 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3036 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
3037 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
3038 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
3039 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
3041 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
3042 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3043 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
3044 floating point index variable or a negative step.
3046 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
3047 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
3048 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
3049 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
3050 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
3051 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3052 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
3053 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
3054 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
3055 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
3056 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
3057 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
3058 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
3059 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
3060 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3061 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
3062 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
3063 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
3064 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
3065 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
3066 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
3067 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3068 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
3069 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3070 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
3071 and dump core on SIGQUIT
3073 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
3074 from their parents (see manual)
3075 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
3076 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
3077 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
3078 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
3079 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
3080 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
3082 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3083 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
3084 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
3085 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
3087 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
3088 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
3089 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
3091 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
3092 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
3093 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
3094 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
3095 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
3096 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
3097 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
3098 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
3099 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
3100 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
3101 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
3102 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
3103 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
3104 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
3106 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
3107 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
3108 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
3110 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
3111 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
3113 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
3114 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
3115 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
3116 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
3117 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
3118 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
3119 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
3120 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
3121 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
3123 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
3124 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
3125 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
3126 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
3127 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
3128 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
3130 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
3132 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
3133 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
3134 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
3135 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
3136 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
3137 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
3138 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
3139 classes; see the manual for more details;
3140 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
3141 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
3142 requested slot ordering.
3144 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
3146 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
3147 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
3149 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
3151 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
3152 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
3153 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
3154 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
3155 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3156 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
3157 the :method-class keyword argument.
3159 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
3160 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
3161 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
3162 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
3163 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
3164 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3165 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
3166 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3167 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
3168 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
3169 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
3171 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
3172 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
3173 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
3174 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
3175 is switched on or off
3176 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
3177 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
3178 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
3180 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
3181 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3182 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
3183 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
3184 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3185 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
3186 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
3187 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
3188 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
3190 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
3191 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
3192 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
3193 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
3194 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
3195 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
3196 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
3198 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
3199 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
3200 not prevent gc from running
3201 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
3202 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
3203 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
3204 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
3205 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
3206 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
3207 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
3208 an inline 32-bit rotation.
3210 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
3211 there is only one thread in the session
3212 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
3213 written to in another
3214 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
3215 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
3217 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
3218 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
3220 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
3221 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3222 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
3223 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
3224 the orignal arguments.
3225 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
3227 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
3228 name a compiled function.
3229 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
3230 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
3231 derivation were fixed.
3232 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
3233 list-form FUNCTION type.
3234 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
3235 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
3236 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
3238 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
3239 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
3240 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
3241 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
3242 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
3243 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
3245 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
3246 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
3247 of a select system call
3248 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
3250 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
3251 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
3253 * various error reporting improvements.
3254 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
3255 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3256 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
3257 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
3258 code and foreign data with the same name.
3260 ** added x86-64 support
3261 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
3262 objects instead of thread ids
3263 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
3264 starting up or going down
3265 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
3266 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
3267 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
3268 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
3269 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
3270 an inappropriate moment
3271 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
3272 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
3273 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
3274 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3275 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
3276 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
3277 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
3279 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
3280 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
3281 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
3282 range before calling Unix time functions
3284 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
3285 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
3286 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3287 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
3288 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
3289 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
3290 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3291 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
3292 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
3293 for more information.
3294 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
3295 pathname is a directory pathname.
3296 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
3297 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
3299 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
3300 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
3301 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
3302 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
3303 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
3304 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
3306 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
3307 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
3308 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
3309 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
3310 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
3311 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
3312 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3313 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
3314 the PowerPC platform.
3315 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
3316 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
3318 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
3319 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
3320 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
3321 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
3322 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
3323 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3325 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
3326 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
3327 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
3328 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
3329 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
3330 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3331 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
3332 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
3333 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
3334 as the name of a type, or vice versa
3335 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
3336 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
3337 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
3338 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
3339 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
3340 FLET or MACROLET forms
3341 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
3343 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
3345 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
3348 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
3349 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
3350 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
3351 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
3352 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
3353 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
3354 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
3355 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
3356 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
3357 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
3358 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
3359 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
3360 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
3361 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
3362 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
3363 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3364 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
3365 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3366 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
3367 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
3368 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
3369 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
3371 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3372 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
3373 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
3374 a file has the stream as its datum.
3375 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
3376 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
3377 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
3378 a correct expected type
3379 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
3380 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
3381 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
3382 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
3383 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
3384 on broadcast streams.
3386 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
3387 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
3388 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
3389 --disable-debugger option instead.
3390 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
3392 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
3393 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
3394 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
3395 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
3396 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
3397 has been added to the manual.
3398 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
3399 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
3400 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
3401 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
3402 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
3403 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
3404 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
3405 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
3406 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
3407 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
3409 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
3410 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
3411 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
3412 (reported by Rajat Datta).
3413 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
3414 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
3416 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
3417 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
3418 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
3419 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
3420 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
3421 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
3422 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
3423 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
3424 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
3425 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
3426 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3427 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
3428 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3429 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
3430 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
3431 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3432 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3433 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
3434 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3436 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
3438 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
3439 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
3440 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
3441 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
3442 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
3444 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
3445 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
3446 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
3447 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
3448 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3449 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
3450 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
3452 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3453 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
3454 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
3456 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
3457 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
3458 types for complex arguments better.
3459 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
3461 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
3462 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
3464 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
3465 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
3466 resulting in GC crashes.
3467 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
3469 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
3472 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
3473 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
3474 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
3475 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
3476 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
3477 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
3478 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
3479 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
3480 returning to the top level.
3481 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
3482 global optimization policy.
3483 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
3484 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
3485 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
3487 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
3488 various incompatible changes.
3489 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
3490 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
3491 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
3492 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
3493 level local call to FOO".
3494 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
3495 now have more legible printed representation
3496 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
3497 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
3498 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
3499 explicitly requested.
3500 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
3501 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
3502 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
3503 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
3504 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
3506 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
3507 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
3508 (reported by Lutz Euler)
3509 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
3510 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3511 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
3512 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
3513 the specializer is now possible.
3514 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
3515 face of package deletion.
3516 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
3517 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
3518 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
3519 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
3520 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
3521 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
3522 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
3523 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
3524 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3525 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
3527 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3528 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
3529 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
3530 correctable errors to be signalled.
3531 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
3532 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
3535 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
3536 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3537 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
3539 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
3540 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3541 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
3542 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
3543 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
3544 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
3545 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
3546 related to the ~@F format directive.
3547 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
3549 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
3550 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
3551 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
3552 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
3554 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
3556 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
3557 coerce function designators to functions.
3558 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
3559 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
3560 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
3561 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
3562 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
3563 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
3564 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3565 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
3566 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
3567 start of the buffer at the next read.
3568 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
3569 passing it through to OPEN.
3570 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
3571 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
3572 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
3573 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
3574 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
3575 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3576 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
3577 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
3579 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
3580 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3581 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3582 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
3583 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3584 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
3586 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3587 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
3588 secondary constituent character trait.
3589 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
3591 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
3593 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
3594 works more reliably.
3595 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
3596 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
3597 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
3599 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
3600 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
3602 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
3603 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
3604 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
3605 and reloading shared object files.
3606 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3607 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
3609 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
3610 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
3611 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
3613 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
3614 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
3616 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
3618 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
3619 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
3620 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
3621 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3622 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
3623 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
3624 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
3626 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
3627 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
3629 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
3630 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
3631 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
3632 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
3633 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
3635 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
3636 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
3637 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3638 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
3639 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
3640 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3641 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
3642 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3643 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
3644 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
3645 lisp characters are not eight bits.
3646 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3647 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
3648 the correct number of arguments.
3649 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
3650 to displaced strings.
3651 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
3652 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
3654 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
3655 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
3656 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
3657 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
3658 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
3659 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
3660 available at runtime.
3661 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
3662 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
3663 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
3664 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3665 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
3666 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
3667 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
3668 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
3669 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
3670 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
3671 of lambda-list keywords.
3672 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
3673 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
3675 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
3676 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
3677 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3678 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
3679 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
3680 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
3681 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
3683 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
3684 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3685 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
3686 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
3687 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
3689 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3690 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
3691 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3692 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
3693 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
3694 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3695 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
3697 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
3698 parameters correctly.
3699 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
3700 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
3701 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
3703 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
3706 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
3707 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
3708 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
3709 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
3711 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
3712 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
3713 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
3714 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
3715 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
3716 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
3717 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
3718 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3719 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
3721 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
3722 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3724 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
3726 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
3727 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
3728 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3729 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
3731 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
3732 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3733 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
3734 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
3735 (reported by David Morse)
3736 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
3737 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3738 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
3739 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3740 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
3741 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3742 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
3743 now exists, an signals an error.
3744 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
3745 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
3746 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3747 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
3748 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3749 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
3750 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
3751 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3752 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
3753 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3754 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
3755 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
3757 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
3758 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
3759 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
3760 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
3761 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3762 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
3763 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
3764 specialized array element types.
3765 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
3766 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3767 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
3768 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3769 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
3770 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
3771 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
3772 Wragg for the simple test case)
3773 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3774 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
3776 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
3777 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
3778 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
3779 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
3780 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
3782 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
3784 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
3785 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
3786 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
3787 references to global functions.
3788 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
3790 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
3792 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
3793 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3794 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
3795 supported platforms.
3796 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
3797 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
3798 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3799 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
3800 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
3801 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3802 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
3803 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3804 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
3805 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
3806 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
3807 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
3808 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
3810 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
3811 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3812 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
3813 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
3814 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
3815 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
3817 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
3818 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
3820 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
3821 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
3822 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
3823 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3824 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
3825 returns the right answer.
3826 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
3828 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
3830 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
3831 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
3833 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
3834 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
3836 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
3837 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
3838 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
3839 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
3840 the supported interface.
3841 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
3842 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
3843 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3844 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
3845 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
3846 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
3847 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
3848 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3849 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
3850 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
3851 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
3852 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
3853 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3854 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
3855 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
3856 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
3857 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
3858 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
3859 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
3860 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
3861 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
3862 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
3863 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
3864 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
3865 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
3866 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
3867 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3868 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
3869 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
3871 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
3872 * incompatible change: the internal functions
3873 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
3874 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
3875 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
3876 instead of the old functions.
3877 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
3878 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
3880 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
3881 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
3883 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
3884 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
3885 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
3886 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
3888 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
3889 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3890 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
3891 (reported by Rick Taube)
3892 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
3893 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
3894 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
3895 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
3897 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
3898 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
3899 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
3900 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
3901 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3902 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
3903 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
3904 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
3905 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
3906 represented relative to default pathnames.
3907 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
3908 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
3909 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
3911 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
3912 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
3913 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
3915 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3916 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
3917 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
3918 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
3920 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
3922 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
3923 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
3924 conditional newlines.
3925 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
3926 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
3927 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
3929 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
3930 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
3932 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
3933 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
3934 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
3935 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
3936 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
3937 compiled in unconditionally.
3938 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
3939 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
3940 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
3941 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
3942 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
3944 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
3945 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
3946 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
3947 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
3948 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
3949 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
3950 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
3951 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
3952 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
3953 an implementation-internal package.
3954 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
3956 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
3957 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
3958 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
3959 bodies are now more legible.
3960 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
3961 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
3962 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
3963 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
3964 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3965 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
3966 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
3968 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
3969 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
3970 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
3971 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
3972 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
3973 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
3974 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
3975 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
3976 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
3977 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
3979 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
3980 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
3981 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
3982 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
3983 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
3984 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
3985 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
3986 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
3987 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
3988 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
3989 system even when most of them are idle
3990 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
3991 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3992 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
3994 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
3995 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
3996 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
3997 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
3998 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
4000 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
4001 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
4002 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
4003 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
4004 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
4005 string for information on the protocol.
4006 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
4007 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
4009 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
4010 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
4012 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
4013 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
4014 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
4015 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
4016 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
4017 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
4019 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
4020 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
4022 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
4023 move between its address being taken and the call to
4024 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
4025 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
4026 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
4027 instances corresponding to C structs.
4029 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
4030 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
4031 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
4032 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
4033 has implications for memory management of client code
4034 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
4035 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
4036 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
4037 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
4038 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
4039 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
4040 quality should be considered deprecated.
4041 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
4042 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
4043 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
4044 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
4045 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
4047 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
4048 designator as the defaults argument.
4049 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
4050 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
4051 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4052 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
4053 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
4055 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
4057 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
4058 (thanks to Zach Beane)
4059 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
4060 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
4061 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4062 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
4064 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
4065 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4066 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
4067 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
4068 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
4069 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
4070 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4071 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
4072 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
4073 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
4074 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
4075 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4076 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
4077 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
4078 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
4079 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
4080 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
4082 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
4083 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
4084 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
4086 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
4087 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4088 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
4089 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
4090 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
4091 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
4092 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4093 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
4094 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
4096 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
4097 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
4099 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
4100 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
4102 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
4103 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
4104 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
4105 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
4107 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
4108 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
4109 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4110 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
4111 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
4112 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
4113 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
4114 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
4116 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
4117 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
4118 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
4120 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
4121 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
4123 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4124 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
4126 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
4127 from local to shared slots.
4128 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
4129 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
4130 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
4131 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
4133 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
4134 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
4135 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
4136 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
4137 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
4138 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
4139 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
4140 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
4141 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
4143 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
4145 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
4147 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
4148 print using #P"..." syntax.
4150 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
4151 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
4152 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
4153 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
4154 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
4155 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
4156 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
4157 * [placeholder for DX summary]
4158 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
4159 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
4160 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
4161 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
4162 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
4163 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
4164 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
4165 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
4166 the test case to Dave Roberts)
4167 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
4168 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
4169 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
4170 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
4171 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
4172 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
4173 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
4174 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4175 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
4176 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
4177 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
4178 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
4179 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4180 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
4181 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
4184 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
4185 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
4186 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
4187 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
4188 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
4189 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
4190 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
4191 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
4192 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
4193 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4194 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
4195 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
4196 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
4198 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
4199 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
4201 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
4202 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
4203 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4204 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
4205 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4206 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
4208 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
4209 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
4210 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
4212 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
4214 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
4216 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
4217 their output stream on EOF from read.
4218 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
4219 have been read to end-of-file.
4220 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
4222 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
4223 description of determination of which consecutive characters
4225 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
4226 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
4227 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4228 less than 10 works correctly.
4229 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4230 more than 10 works correctly.
4231 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
4232 the readtable currently in effect.
4234 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
4235 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
4236 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
4237 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
4238 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
4239 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
4240 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
4241 should usually be replaced by
4242 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
4243 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
4244 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
4245 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
4246 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
4247 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
4248 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
4249 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
4251 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
4252 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
4253 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4254 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
4255 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
4256 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4257 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
4258 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
4259 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
4260 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
4261 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
4262 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
4263 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
4265 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
4266 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
4267 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
4268 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4269 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
4270 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
4271 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
4272 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4273 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
4274 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
4275 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
4276 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
4277 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
4278 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
4279 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4280 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
4281 non-local entry points.
4282 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
4284 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4285 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
4287 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
4288 host is already defined.
4289 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
4291 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
4292 or not a character is whitespace.
4293 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
4294 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
4295 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
4297 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
4298 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
4300 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
4302 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
4303 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
4304 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
4305 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
4306 designator argument does not designate a stream.
4307 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
4308 examining the synonym.
4309 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
4311 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
4312 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
4314 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
4315 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
4316 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
4317 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
4318 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
4319 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
4320 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
4321 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
4322 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
4323 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4324 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
4325 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
4327 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
4328 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
4329 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4330 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
4331 stream position information.
4332 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
4333 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
4334 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
4335 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
4336 (reported by Paul Dietz)
4337 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
4339 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
4340 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
4342 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4343 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4344 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
4345 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
4346 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
4347 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
4348 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
4350 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
4352 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
4353 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
4354 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
4355 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
4356 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
4357 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
4358 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
4359 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
4360 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
4361 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
4362 the "SYS" logical host.
4363 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
4364 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
4365 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
4366 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
4367 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
4368 now each have their own history, command character, and other
4369 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4370 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4371 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
4373 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
4374 shift greater than 32.
4375 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
4376 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
4377 in some circumstances.
4379 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
4380 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
4381 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
4382 environments like SLIME.
4383 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
4384 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
4385 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
4386 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
4387 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
4388 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
4389 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
4390 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
4391 argument types for all arguments.
4392 * various threading fixes
4393 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
4394 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
4395 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
4396 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
4398 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
4399 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
4400 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
4401 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
4402 arguments to a full call.
4403 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
4404 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
4405 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
4406 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
4408 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
4409 inserts a space where necessary.
4410 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
4411 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
4412 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
4413 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
4414 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
4415 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
4416 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
4417 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
4418 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
4419 counter now raises a meaningful error.
4420 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
4421 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
4423 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
4424 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
4425 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
4427 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
4429 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4430 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
4431 argument and negative second.
4432 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
4433 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
4434 interval, containing 0.
4435 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
4437 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
4438 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
4440 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
4441 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
4442 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
4443 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
4444 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
4445 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
4446 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
4447 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
4448 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
4449 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
4450 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
4451 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
4452 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
4453 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
4454 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
4455 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
4456 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
4457 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
4458 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
4459 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
4460 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
4461 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4462 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
4463 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
4464 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
4465 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
4466 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
4467 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
4468 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
4470 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
4471 platform now returns the right answer.
4472 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
4473 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
4474 precomputation is now tunable.
4475 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
4476 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
4477 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
4478 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
4479 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
4480 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
4481 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
4482 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
4483 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
4484 has been added for the alpha.
4485 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
4486 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
4487 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
4488 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
4489 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
4490 MEMBER-types to numeric.
4491 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
4493 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
4494 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
4495 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
4497 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
4498 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4499 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
4500 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
4501 might be pseudo-atomic.
4502 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
4503 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
4505 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
4507 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
4509 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
4510 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
4511 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
4512 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
4513 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
4514 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
4516 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4517 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
4518 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
4519 small float arguments.
4520 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
4522 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
4523 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
4524 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
4525 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
4526 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
4527 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
4529 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
4531 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
4532 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
4533 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
4534 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
4535 with negative last argument.
4536 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
4537 an error during type derivation.
4538 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
4540 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
4541 generates a 32-bit binary.
4542 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
4543 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
4544 data structures referred to above).
4546 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
4547 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
4548 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
4549 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
4550 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
4551 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
4552 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
4553 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
4554 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
4555 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4556 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
4557 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
4559 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
4560 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
4562 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
4563 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
4564 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
4565 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
4566 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
4567 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
4568 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
4569 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
4570 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
4571 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
4572 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
4573 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4574 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
4575 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
4576 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
4577 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
4578 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
4579 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4580 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
4581 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
4582 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
4583 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
4584 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4585 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
4586 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
4587 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
4588 optimization quality.
4589 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
4590 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
4591 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
4592 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
4593 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4594 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4595 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
4596 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
4597 types form a lattice under type intersection.
4598 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
4599 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
4600 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
4601 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
4602 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
4603 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
4604 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
4605 calling the generic function.
4606 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
4607 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
4608 obscure ANSI requirements
4610 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
4611 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
4612 garbage, confusing the compiler.
4613 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
4614 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
4615 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
4616 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
4617 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
4618 circumstances could go off-by-one.
4619 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
4621 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
4622 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
4623 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
4624 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
4625 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
4626 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
4627 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
4628 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
4629 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
4630 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4631 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
4632 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
4633 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
4634 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
4635 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
4636 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
4637 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
4638 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
4639 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
4640 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
4642 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
4643 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
4644 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
4645 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
4647 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
4648 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
4649 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
4650 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
4651 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
4652 provide helpful disassembly notes.
4653 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
4654 the class in more cases than previously.
4655 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
4656 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4657 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
4658 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4659 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
4660 without lambda list.
4661 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
4662 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
4663 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4664 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
4665 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
4666 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
4668 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
4669 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
4670 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
4672 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
4673 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
4674 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
4675 were silently accepted).
4676 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
4677 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
4678 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
4679 to warn on static type mismatches and function
4680 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
4681 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
4682 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
4683 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
4684 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
4685 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
4686 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
4687 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
4688 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
4689 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
4691 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
4692 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
4693 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
4694 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
4695 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
4696 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
4698 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
4699 keywords or constants is permissible.
4700 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
4701 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
4702 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4703 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
4704 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
4705 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
4706 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
4707 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
4709 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
4710 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4711 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
4712 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
4713 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4714 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
4715 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
4717 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
4719 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
4720 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
4721 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
4722 respectively change and preserve the value.
4723 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
4724 is now better at handling symbol macros.
4725 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
4726 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
4727 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
4728 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
4729 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
4730 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
4731 their use properly signals an error now.
4732 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
4733 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
4734 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
4735 * fixed simple vector readable printing
4736 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
4737 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
4738 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
4739 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
4740 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
4741 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
4742 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4743 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
4744 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4745 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
4746 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
4747 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4748 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
4749 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
4750 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
4751 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
4752 causes a type error.
4753 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
4754 association between the name and a class.
4755 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
4756 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
4757 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4758 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
4759 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
4760 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
4762 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
4763 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
4764 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
4765 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
4767 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
4768 which its argument is a member.
4769 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
4770 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
4771 otherwise, it creates a new class.
4772 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
4773 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
4774 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
4775 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
4776 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4777 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
4779 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
4780 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
4781 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
4782 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
4783 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
4784 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
4785 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
4787 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
4788 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
4789 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
4790 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
4791 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
4792 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
4793 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
4794 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
4795 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
4796 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
4797 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
4798 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
4799 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4800 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
4802 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
4803 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
4804 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
4805 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
4806 superclasses are applied.
4807 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
4808 no method was removed.
4809 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
4810 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
4811 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
4812 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
4814 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
4816 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
4817 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
4818 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
4819 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
4820 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
4821 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
4822 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
4823 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
4824 function lambda list.
4825 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
4827 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
4828 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
4829 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
4830 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
4832 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
4833 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
4834 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
4835 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
4836 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
4837 they look for GNU "make".
4839 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
4840 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
4841 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
4842 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
4844 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
4845 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
4846 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
4847 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
4848 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
4849 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
4850 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
4851 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
4852 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
4853 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
4855 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
4856 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
4857 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
4858 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
4859 libraries, and will know who they are.
4860 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
4861 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
4862 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
4863 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
4864 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
4865 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
4866 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
4867 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
4869 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
4870 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
4871 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4872 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
4873 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
4874 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
4875 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
4876 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
4877 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
4878 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
4879 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4880 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
4882 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
4883 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
4884 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
4885 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
4886 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4887 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
4888 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
4889 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
4890 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
4892 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
4893 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
4894 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
4895 this you were probably losing anyway.
4896 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
4897 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
4898 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
4899 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
4900 with names from the CL package.
4901 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
4902 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
4903 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
4904 documentation string.
4905 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4906 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
4908 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
4909 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
4910 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
4911 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
4913 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
4914 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
4916 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
4917 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4918 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
4920 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
4921 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
4922 arguments contain duplicated elements.
4923 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
4924 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
4925 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
4926 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
4927 in question is unbound.
4928 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
4929 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
4930 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
4931 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
4932 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
4934 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
4936 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
4937 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
4938 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
4939 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
4940 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
4941 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
4942 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
4943 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
4944 by Antonio Martinez)
4945 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
4946 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4947 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
4948 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
4949 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
4950 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
4951 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
4952 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4953 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
4954 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
4955 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
4956 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
4957 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
4958 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
4959 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
4960 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
4961 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
4962 on malformed property lists;
4964 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
4965 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
4966 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
4967 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
4968 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
4969 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
4970 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
4971 modules in this release include:
4972 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
4973 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
4974 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
4975 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4976 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
4978 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
4979 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
4980 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4981 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4982 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
4983 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
4984 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
4985 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
4987 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
4988 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
4989 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
4990 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
4991 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
4992 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
4993 the lexical environment.
4994 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
4995 unprintable packages can now be defined.
4996 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
4997 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4998 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
4999 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
5000 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
5001 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
5002 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
5003 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
5004 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
5005 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
5006 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
5007 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
5008 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5009 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
5010 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
5011 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
5012 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
5013 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
5014 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
5015 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
5016 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
5017 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
5018 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
5020 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
5021 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
5022 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
5023 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5024 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
5025 not just nonnegative fixnums;
5026 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
5027 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
5028 freshly-consed result bit-array);
5029 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
5031 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
5032 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
5034 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
5035 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
5036 cases are accurately computed;
5037 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
5038 if it is in the last clause;
5039 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
5041 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
5042 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
5043 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
5044 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
5046 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
5047 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
5048 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
5049 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
5050 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
5052 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
5053 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
5054 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
5055 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
5057 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5058 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
5059 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
5060 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
5061 not cause a type error;
5062 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
5064 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
5065 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
5066 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
5067 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
5068 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
5069 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
5070 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
5071 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
5073 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
5074 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
5075 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
5076 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
5077 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
5078 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
5080 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
5081 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
5083 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
5084 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
5085 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
5086 only for symbols in the CL package.
5087 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
5088 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
5089 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
5090 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
5091 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
5093 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5094 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
5095 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
5096 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
5097 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
5098 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
5099 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
5100 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
5101 conditional loop clause;
5102 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
5103 signals a type error iff it should.
5104 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5105 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
5106 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
5107 argument) no longer signals an error;
5108 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
5109 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
5110 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
5112 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
5113 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
5114 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
5116 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
5117 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
5118 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
5119 functionality on said platforms verified.
5120 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
5121 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
5123 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
5124 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
5125 component indicating that directory.
5126 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
5127 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
5128 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
5129 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
5130 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5131 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
5133 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
5134 primary methods with no specializers;
5135 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
5137 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
5138 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
5139 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
5140 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
5142 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
5143 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
5144 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
5146 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
5147 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
5148 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
5149 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
5150 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
5151 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
5152 class STANDARD-CLASS;
5153 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
5154 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5155 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
5156 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
5158 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
5159 value producing form;
5160 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
5161 variables are bound and made to have no value;
5162 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
5164 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
5165 is not a valid sequence index;
5166 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
5167 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
5168 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5169 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
5171 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
5172 symbol-macro places;
5173 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
5174 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
5176 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
5178 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
5180 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
5181 invariant when deleting code.
5182 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
5183 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
5185 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
5186 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5187 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
5189 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
5190 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
5192 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
5193 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
5194 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5195 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
5197 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
5198 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5199 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
5200 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
5202 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
5203 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
5204 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
5205 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
5206 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5207 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
5208 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
5209 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
5210 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
5211 sbcl and .core files.)
5212 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
5213 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
5214 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
5215 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
5216 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
5217 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5218 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
5220 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
5221 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
5222 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
5223 argument precedence order.
5224 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
5225 derived types contradict their declared type.
5226 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
5227 so it can be non-toplevel.
5228 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
5229 implementation of DEFMACRO).
5230 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
5231 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
5232 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
5234 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
5235 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
5236 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
5237 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
5238 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
5239 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
5240 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
5241 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
5242 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
5243 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
5244 symbol macro only once
5245 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
5246 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
5247 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
5250 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
5251 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
5252 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
5253 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
5254 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
5255 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
5256 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
5257 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
5258 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
5259 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5260 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
5261 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
5263 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
5264 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
5265 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
5266 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
5267 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5268 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
5270 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
5272 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
5273 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
5274 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
5275 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
5276 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5277 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
5278 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
5279 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
5280 ways in different special cases
5281 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
5283 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
5284 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
5285 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
5286 are no longer optimized away.
5287 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
5288 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
5289 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
5290 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
5291 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
5292 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
5293 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
5294 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
5297 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
5298 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
5299 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
5300 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
5301 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
5302 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
5303 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
5305 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
5306 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
5307 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
5308 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
5309 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
5310 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
5311 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
5312 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
5313 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
5314 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
5315 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
5316 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
5317 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
5318 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
5319 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
5320 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
5321 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
5322 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5323 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
5324 that are names of constants or global variables.
5325 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
5326 alien routines with docstrings.
5327 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
5328 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
5330 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
5331 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
5332 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
5333 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
5334 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
5335 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5336 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
5337 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
5338 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
5339 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5340 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
5341 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
5342 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
5343 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
5344 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
5345 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
5346 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
5347 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
5348 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
5349 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
5350 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
5351 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
5352 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
5354 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
5355 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
5357 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
5358 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
5359 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
5360 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
5361 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
5362 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
5363 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
5364 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
5365 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
5366 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
5368 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
5369 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
5370 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
5371 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
5372 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
5373 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
5374 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
5375 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
5376 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
5377 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
5378 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
5379 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
5380 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
5381 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
5382 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
5383 is no longer a static symbol.)
5385 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
5386 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
5387 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
5388 bootstrapping under CLISP.
5389 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
5391 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
5392 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
5394 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
5395 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
5396 to David Lichteblau)
5397 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
5398 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
5399 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
5401 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
5402 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5403 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
5404 count as they should.
5405 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
5406 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5407 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
5408 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
5409 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
5410 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
5411 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
5412 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
5413 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
5414 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
5415 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
5416 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
5417 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
5418 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
5419 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
5421 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
5422 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
5423 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
5425 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
5427 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
5428 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
5429 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
5430 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
5431 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
5432 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5433 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
5435 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
5436 to Christophe Rhodes)
5437 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
5438 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
5439 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
5440 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
5441 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
5442 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
5443 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
5445 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
5446 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
5447 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
5448 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
5449 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
5450 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5451 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
5452 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
5453 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
5454 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
5455 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
5456 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
5457 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
5459 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
5460 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
5461 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
5462 INFO database to support symbol macros.
5463 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
5464 (thanks to coreythomas)
5465 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
5466 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
5467 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
5468 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
5469 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
5471 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
5472 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
5473 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
5474 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
5475 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
5476 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
5477 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
5478 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
5479 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
5480 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5481 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
5482 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
5483 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
5485 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
5486 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
5489 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
5490 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
5491 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
5492 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
5493 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
5494 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
5495 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
5496 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
5497 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
5498 systems than the old 4M value was)
5499 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
5500 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
5501 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
5502 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
5503 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
5504 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
5505 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
5507 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
5508 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
5509 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
5510 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
5511 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
5513 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
5514 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
5515 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5516 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
5517 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
5518 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
5519 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
5520 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
5522 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
5523 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5524 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
5525 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5526 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
5527 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
5528 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
5529 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
5531 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5532 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5533 * several changes related to debugging:
5534 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
5535 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
5536 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
5537 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
5538 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
5539 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
5540 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
5543 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
5545 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
5546 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
5547 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
5548 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
5549 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
5550 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
5551 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
5552 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
5554 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
5555 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
5556 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
5557 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5558 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
5559 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
5560 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
5561 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
5562 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
5563 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
5564 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
5565 file format number to change again.
5567 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
5568 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
5569 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
5570 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
5572 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
5573 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
5574 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
5575 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
5576 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
5577 FUNCALL on the result.
5578 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
5579 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
5580 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
5581 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
5582 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
5583 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
5584 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
5585 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
5587 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
5588 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
5589 the old compiler produced.
5590 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
5591 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
5592 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
5593 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
5594 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
5595 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
5596 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
5597 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
5598 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
5599 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
5600 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
5601 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
5602 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
5603 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
5604 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
5605 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
5606 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
5607 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
5608 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
5609 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
5610 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
5611 straightened out in some future version.)
5612 * minor incompatible changes:
5613 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
5614 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
5615 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
5616 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
5617 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
5618 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
5619 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
5620 implementation dependent:
5621 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
5622 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
5623 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
5624 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
5625 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
5626 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
5627 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
5628 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
5630 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
5632 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
5633 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
5634 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
5635 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
5636 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
5637 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
5638 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
5639 are no longer used for output.
5640 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
5641 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
5642 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
5643 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
5644 increasing it even more.)
5645 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
5646 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
5647 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
5649 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
5650 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
5651 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
5652 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
5653 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
5654 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
5655 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
5656 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
5657 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
5658 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
5659 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
5660 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
5661 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
5662 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
5663 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
5664 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
5665 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
5666 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
5667 compilation of code which calls such functions.
5668 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
5669 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
5670 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
5671 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
5672 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
5673 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
5674 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
5675 built into the system.
5676 * many other bug fixes
5677 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
5678 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
5679 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
5680 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
5681 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
5683 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
5684 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
5685 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
5686 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
5687 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
5688 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
5689 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
5690 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
5691 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
5692 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
5693 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
5695 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
5696 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
5697 and several other LOOP problems as well
5698 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
5699 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
5700 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
5701 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
5702 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
5703 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
5704 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
5705 *** a bug in APROPOS
5706 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
5707 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
5708 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
5709 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
5710 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
5711 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
5712 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
5713 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
5714 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
5715 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
5716 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
5717 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
5718 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
5719 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
5720 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
5722 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
5723 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
5724 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
5725 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
5726 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
5727 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
5728 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
5729 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
5730 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
5731 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
5732 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
5733 some of which are apparent above.
5735 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
5736 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
5737 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
5738 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
5739 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
5740 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
5741 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
5742 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
5743 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
5744 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
5745 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
5746 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
5747 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
5748 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
5749 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
5750 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
5751 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
5752 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
5753 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
5754 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
5755 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
5756 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
5757 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
5758 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
5759 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
5760 different return types.
5761 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
5762 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
5763 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
5764 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
5765 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
5766 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
5767 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
5768 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
5769 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
5770 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
5772 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
5773 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
5774 does the right thing.
5775 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
5776 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
5777 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5778 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
5779 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5780 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5781 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
5782 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
5783 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
5784 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
5785 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5786 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
5787 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5788 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
5789 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
5790 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
5791 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
5792 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
5793 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
5794 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
5795 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
5796 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
5797 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
5798 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
5799 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
5800 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
5801 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
5802 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
5803 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
5804 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
5805 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
5806 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
5807 since historically most system changes which required version
5808 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
5809 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
5812 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
5813 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
5814 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
5815 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
5816 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
5817 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
5818 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
5819 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
5820 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
5821 half a dozen others elsewhere
5822 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
5823 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
5824 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
5825 as flaky as they were.
5826 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
5827 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
5828 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
5829 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
5830 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
5831 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
5832 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
5833 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
5835 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
5836 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
5837 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
5838 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5839 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
5840 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
5841 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
5842 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
5843 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
5844 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
5845 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
5846 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
5847 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
5848 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
5849 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
5850 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
5851 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
5852 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
5853 more obscure bugs as well
5854 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
5855 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
5856 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
5857 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
5858 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
5859 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
5860 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
5861 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
5862 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
5863 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
5864 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
5866 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
5867 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
5869 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
5871 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5872 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
5873 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
5874 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
5875 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
5876 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
5877 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
5878 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
5879 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
5880 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
5881 are local in this sense.)
5882 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
5883 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
5884 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
5885 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
5886 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
5887 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
5888 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5889 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
5890 system's STREAM objects.
5891 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
5892 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5893 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
5894 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5895 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
5896 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
5897 environment from the original process instead of starting the
5898 new process in an empty environment.
5899 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
5900 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
5901 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
5902 for porting convenience.
5903 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
5904 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
5906 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
5908 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
5909 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
5910 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
5911 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
5912 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
5913 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
5914 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
5915 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
5916 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
5917 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
5918 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
5919 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5920 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
5921 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
5922 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
5923 many fewer weird special cases.
5924 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
5925 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
5926 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5927 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
5928 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
5929 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
5930 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
5931 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
5932 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
5933 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5934 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
5937 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
5939 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
5940 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
5941 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
5943 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
5944 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
5945 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
5946 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
5947 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
5948 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
5949 should be constructed the same way as before.
5950 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
5951 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
5952 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
5953 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
5954 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
5955 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
5956 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
5957 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
5958 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
5959 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
5960 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
5961 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
5962 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
5963 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
5964 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
5965 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
5966 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
5967 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
5968 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
5969 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
5970 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
5971 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
5973 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
5974 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
5975 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
5976 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
5977 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
5978 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
5979 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
5980 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
5982 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
5984 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
5985 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
5986 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
5987 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
5988 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
5990 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
5991 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
5992 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
5993 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
5994 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
5995 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
5996 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
5997 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
5998 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
5999 and Douglas Crosher.
6000 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
6001 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
6002 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
6004 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
6005 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
6006 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
6007 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
6008 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
6009 undefined function error.
6010 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
6011 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
6012 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
6013 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
6014 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
6015 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
6016 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
6017 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
6018 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
6019 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
6020 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
6021 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
6022 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
6024 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
6026 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
6027 CVS repository on my home machine).
6028 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
6029 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
6030 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
6031 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
6032 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
6033 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
6034 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
6035 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
6036 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
6037 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
6038 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
6039 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
6040 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
6041 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
6042 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
6043 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
6044 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
6045 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
6046 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
6047 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
6048 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
6049 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
6051 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
6052 FreeBSD have been added.
6053 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
6054 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
6055 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
6056 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
6057 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
6058 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
6060 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
6061 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
6062 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
6063 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
6064 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
6065 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
6066 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
6067 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
6069 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
6070 away by constant folding
6071 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
6072 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
6073 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
6074 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
6075 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
6076 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
6077 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
6078 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
6079 diff-related operations.
6080 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
6081 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
6083 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
6085 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
6086 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
6087 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
6088 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
6089 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
6090 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
6091 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
6092 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
6093 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
6094 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
6095 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
6096 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
6097 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
6098 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
6099 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
6100 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
6101 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
6102 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
6103 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
6104 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
6105 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
6106 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
6107 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
6108 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
6109 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
6110 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
6111 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
6112 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
6113 instead of (VALUES T T).
6114 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
6115 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
6116 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
6117 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
6118 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
6119 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
6120 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
6121 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
6122 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
6123 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
6124 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
6125 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
6126 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
6127 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
6128 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
6129 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
6130 type will be interpreted at runtime.
6131 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
6132 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
6133 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
6134 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
6135 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
6136 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
6137 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
6138 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
6139 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
6140 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
6141 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
6142 fasl files for cold load.
6143 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
6144 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
6145 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
6146 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
6147 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
6148 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
6149 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
6150 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
6151 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
6152 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
6153 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
6155 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
6156 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
6157 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
6158 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
6159 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
6160 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
6161 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
6162 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
6163 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
6164 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
6165 renamed some files to increase consistency.
6166 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
6167 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
6168 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
6169 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
6170 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
6171 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
6173 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
6175 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
6176 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
6177 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
6178 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
6179 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
6180 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
6181 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
6182 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
6183 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
6184 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
6185 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
6186 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
6187 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
6188 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
6189 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
6190 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
6191 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
6192 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
6194 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
6195 as required by ANSI.
6196 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
6197 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
6198 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
6199 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
6201 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
6202 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
6203 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
6204 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
6205 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
6206 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
6207 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
6208 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
6210 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
6211 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
6212 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
6213 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6215 is now basically equivalent to
6216 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6217 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
6219 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
6220 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
6221 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
6222 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
6223 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
6224 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
6225 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
6226 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
6227 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
6228 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
6229 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
6230 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
6231 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
6232 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
6233 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
6234 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
6235 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
6236 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
6237 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
6238 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
6239 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
6240 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
6241 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
6243 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
6245 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
6246 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
6247 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
6248 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
6249 GNUMAKE environment variable.
6250 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
6251 can build without error under CMU CL.
6253 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
6255 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
6256 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
6257 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
6258 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
6259 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
6260 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
6261 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
6262 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
6263 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
6264 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
6265 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
6266 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
6267 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
6268 being initialized before the type system knew the final
6269 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
6270 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
6271 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
6272 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
6273 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
6274 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
6275 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
6276 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
6277 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
6278 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
6280 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
6281 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
6282 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
6283 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
6284 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
6285 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
6286 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
6287 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
6288 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
6289 it were currently supported.
6290 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
6291 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
6292 having to maintain patches.
6293 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
6294 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
6296 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
6298 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
6299 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
6300 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
6301 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
6302 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
6303 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
6304 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
6305 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
6306 * various new style warnings:
6307 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
6308 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
6309 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
6310 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
6311 as specified by ANSI.
6312 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
6313 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
6314 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
6315 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
6316 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
6317 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
6318 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
6319 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
6320 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
6321 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
6322 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
6323 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
6324 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
6325 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
6326 argument types can be determined at compile time.
6327 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
6328 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
6329 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
6330 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
6331 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
6332 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
6333 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
6336 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
6338 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
6339 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
6340 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
6341 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
6342 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
6343 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
6344 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
6345 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
6346 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
6348 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
6349 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
6350 the report form was printed.)
6351 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
6352 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
6353 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
6354 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
6355 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
6356 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
6357 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
6358 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
6359 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
6360 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
6361 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
6362 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
6363 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
6364 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
6365 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
6366 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
6367 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
6368 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
6369 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
6370 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
6371 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
6372 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
6373 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
6374 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
6375 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
6376 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
6377 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
6378 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
6379 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
6380 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
6381 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
6382 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
6383 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
6384 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
6385 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
6386 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
6387 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
6388 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
6389 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
6390 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
6391 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
6392 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
6393 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
6394 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
6395 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
6396 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
6397 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
6398 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
6399 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
6400 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
6401 know more about target types.
6402 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
6403 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
6404 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
6405 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
6406 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
6407 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
6409 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
6410 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
6411 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
6412 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
6413 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
6414 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
6415 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
6416 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
6417 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
6418 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
6419 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
6420 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
6421 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
6423 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
6426 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
6428 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
6429 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
6430 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
6431 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
6432 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
6433 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
6434 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
6435 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
6436 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
6437 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
6438 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
6439 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
6440 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
6441 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
6442 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
6443 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
6444 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
6445 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
6446 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
6447 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
6448 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
6449 invisible at the user level.)
6450 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
6451 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
6452 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
6454 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
6456 * tidied up "make.sh" script
6457 * tidied up system directory structure
6458 * better "clean.sh" behavior
6459 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
6460 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
6461 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
6462 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
6463 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
6464 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
6465 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
6466 * command line argument processing
6467 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
6468 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
6469 terminating SBCL on EOF
6470 * non-verbose GC by default
6471 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
6472 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
6473 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
6475 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
6476 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
6477 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
6478 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
6479 transformed along with everything else.
6480 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
6481 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
6482 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
6483 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
6484 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
6485 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
6486 debugging and testing purposes
6487 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
6488 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
6489 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
6490 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
6491 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
6492 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
6493 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
6495 * regularized formatting of source files
6496 * added an install.sh script
6497 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
6498 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
6499 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
6500 builds nicely on my old laptop.
6501 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
6502 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
6503 was not implemented)
6504 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
6505 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
6506 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
6507 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
6508 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
6510 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
6511 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
6512 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
6513 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
6514 COMPILE-FILE command)
6515 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
6516 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
6517 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
6518 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
6519 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
6520 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
6521 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
6522 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
6523 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
6524 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
6525 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
6526 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
6527 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
6528 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
6529 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
6531 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
6532 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
6533 known to be able to handle the current sources
6534 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
6535 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
6536 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
6537 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
6538 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
6539 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
6540 * removed host-oops.lisp
6541 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
6542 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
6543 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
6544 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
6545 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
6546 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by
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