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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
3 * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation
4 correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220)
6 changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52:
7 * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,
8 the parameter n-fixnum-tag-bits may now vary from 1 (fixnum =
9 (signed-byte 63)) to 3 (fixnum = (signed-byte 61)) at build-time.
10 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WAIT-FOR allows waiting for arbitrary events.
11 * minor(?) incompatible(?) change: The default fixnum width on 64-bit
12 targets is now 63 bits (up from 61).
13 * enhancement: DESCRIBE now reports a lambda-list and source location
14 for complext setf-expanders.
15 * bug fix: PUSH, PUSHNEW, POP, REMF, INCF, DECF, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO,
16 GETF, LOGBITP, LDB, and MASK-FIELD now arrange for non-primary values
17 of multiple-valued places to be set to NIL, instead of signalling an
18 error (per a careful reading of CLHS 5.1.2.3).
19 * bug fix: floating-point traps now work on darwin/x86 and /x86-64.
20 * bug fix: repair crash in x86oid darwin signal handling emulation
21 when built with certain compilers.
22 * bug fix: SB-ROTATE-BYTE misrotated to the right when using constant
23 rotation arguments on x86-64. (lp#882151)
24 * bug fix: low-level control flow optimisations could result in bogus
25 code in functions with tail and non-tail calls to local functions on
27 * bug fix: on SPARC/:sb-unicode, avoid crashing the assembler by trying
28 to emit literal characters > (code-char 4095), for comparisons with
30 * bug fix: ROOM reported only the low 32 bits of dynamic space usage
31 on 64 bit platforms. (lp#881445)
32 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE did not MERGE-PATHNAMES, making it possible to
33 delete the wrong file when using relative pathnames. (lp#882877)
34 * bug fix: optimized SEARCH of vectors-on-vectors mishandled zero-length
35 sequences and :KEY NIL.
37 changes in sbcl-1.0.52 relative to sbcl-1.0.51:
38 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.017.
39 * enhancement: the --core command line option now accepts binaries with
41 * enhancement: when built with :sb-core-compression, core files (regular
42 or executable) can be compressed with zlib. Use the :COMPRESSION
43 argument to SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE to specify a compression level.
44 * enhancement: --[no-]merge-core-pages determines whether the runtime
45 hints the operating system that identical core pages between SBCL
46 processes should share the same physical memory. Default is to only
47 enable this for compressed cores.
48 * optimization: SLEEP no longer conses.
49 * optimization: *PRINT-PRETTY* no longer slows down printing of strings
50 or bit-vectors when using the standard pretty-print dispatch table.
51 * bug fix: non-function FTYPE declarations no longer cause a compiler-error.
53 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by MEMBER types in conjunction with with
54 AREF, CHAR, etc. (lp#826971)
55 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by integer arguments with composed of
56 multiple ranges to ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P. (lp#826970)
57 * bug fix: ,@ and ,. now signal a read-time error for certain non-list
58 expressions. (lp#770184)
59 * bug fix: complex single float literals are correctly aligned when used
60 as arguments of arithmetic operators.
61 * bug fix: on 32-bit platforms, rounding of double floats larger than a
62 fixnum is correct. (reported by Peter Keller)
63 * bug fix: stray FD-HANDLERs are no longer left lying around after unwinds
64 from RUN-PROGRAM. (lp#840190, reported by Dominic Pearson; fix from Max
66 * bug fix: redefining classes such that slots with custom allocation are
67 added or removed works again.
69 changes in sbcl-1.0.51 relative to sbcl-1.0.50:
70 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKET socket streams no longer
71 participate in SERVE-EVENT by default: pass :SERVE-EVENTS T to
72 MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM if using SERVE-EVENT.
73 * enhancement: added support for socket keepalive timeout intervals
74 and probe counts on Linux.
75 * enhancement: building 32-bit SBCL on Linux/x86-64 now works without a
76 chroot. (Use "SBCL_ARCH=x86 sh make.sh" to build.)
77 * enhancement: added new toplevel options --quit and --non-interactive
79 * enhancement: the Windows port of SBCL now builds and runs on Wine
80 (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
81 * enhancement: more, and more correct, SSE instruction definitions on
82 x86-64 (thanks to Alexander Gavrilov).
83 * enhancement: SB-EXT:SPIN-LOOP-HINT assembles to an instruction designed
84 to help the processor execute spin loops, when applicable. Currently
85 implemented for x86 and x86-64.
86 * optimization: unsigned integer divisions by a constant are implemented
87 using multiplication (affects CEILING, FLOOR, TRUNCATE, MOD, and REM.)
88 * optimization: improved type-derivation for LOAD-TIME-VALUE.
89 * bug fix: correct RIP offset calculation in SSE comparison and shuffle
90 instructions. (lp#814688)
91 * bug fix: COERCE to unfinalized extended sequence classes now works.
92 (reported by Jan Moringen; lp#815155)
93 * bug fix: a compiler error during typecheck generation, reported by Eric
95 * bug fix: obsolete instance protocol fires when shared slots are added
97 * bug fix: fixed-format floating point printing with scaling factors.
99 * bug fix: using GCC >= 4.6 to build SBCL on x86 no longer breaks
100 backtraces. (lp#818460)
101 * bug fix: better backtraces for interrupted syscall frames on x86.
103 * bug fix: SSE comparison instructions can be disassembled even when one
104 operand is in memory. (lp#814702)
105 * bug fix: incomplete writes when not using SERVE-EVENTS. (lp#820599)
106 * bug fix: MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND + VALUES -> LET conversion could lose derived
107 type information associated with the VALUES form.
108 * bug fix: broken warnings/errors for type-errors involving LOAD-TIME-VALUE
110 * bug fix: OPEN :IF-EXISTS :APPEND now returns correct FILE-POSITION before
111 first write (lp#561642).
112 * bug fix: compiled closures from EVAL could not be DESCRIBEd. (lp#824974)
113 * bug fix: bound propagation involving conversion of large bignums to
114 floats no longer signals a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR, reported by Lutz Euler.
116 * bug fix: &REST to &MORE conversion still works in unsafe call to known
117 functions; reported by Lutz Euler (lp#826459).
118 * bug fix: bogus deadlocks from interrupts and GCs. (lp#807475, regression
121 changes in sbcl-1.0.50 relative to sbcl-1.0.49:
122 * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove
123 the offending handler.
124 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works on structure
126 * enhancement: location of user or system initialization file can now easily
127 be customized for saved cores. See: SB-EXT:*USERINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*
128 and SB-EXT:*SYSINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*.
129 * enhancement: SB-EXT:MAKE-THREAD accepts an argument list designator for
130 the thunk, as a keyword argument, :arguments.
131 * enhancement: constraint propagation is simplified (and sped up) when
132 COMPILATION-SPEED > SPEED.
133 * enhancement: SB-ALIEN exports alien type specifiers SIZE-T and OFF-T.
134 * enhancement: debugger understands &MORE arguments better.
135 * optimization: extracting bits of a single-float on x86-64 has been
136 optimized. (lp#555201)
137 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are more efficient for non-simple vectors,
138 when (> SPEED SPACE).
139 * optimization: local call trampolines (x86 and x86-64) are emitted
141 * optimization: implicit value cells for dynamic-extent closed-over bindings
142 on x86 and x86-64 can hold unboxed values as well.
143 * meta-optimization: improved compilation speed, especially for large
144 functions. (lp#792363 and lp#394206)
145 * bug fix: bound derivation for floating point operations is now more
146 careful about rounding possibly closing open bounds. (lp#793771)
147 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:SYSCALL-ERROR's argument is now optional. (accidental
148 backwards incompatible change in 1.0.48.27)
149 * bug fix: occasional debugger errors in when a type-error occured in a
150 function with dynamic-extent &rest list.
151 * bug fix: &optional and &key supplied-p arguments in DEFSTRUCT
152 boa-construtors can be used to initialized structure slots.
153 * bug fix: FMAKUNBOUND removes the MACRO-FUNCTION, should one exist.
154 (lp#795705, regression)
155 * bug fix: DIRECTORY works better on logical pathnames.
156 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM no longer fails spuriously when argument strings
157 are of the order of ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT. (lp#787237)
158 * bug fix: the compiler no longer constant-folds NaNs in
159 MAKE-{SINGLE,DOUBLE}-FLOAT. (lp#486812)
160 * bug fix: FORMAT now handles floating point rounding correct, eg.
161 (format nil "~,1F" 0.01) => "0.0" instead of "0.01" as previously.
163 * bug fix: style warning during lambda-list introspection of generic
164 functions with both optional and key argments.
165 * bug fix: regalloc doesn't barf on unused TNs due to type-directed constant
167 * bug fix: Fixed an off-by-one in MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS that might have caused
170 changes in sbcl-1.0.49 relative to sbcl-1.0.48:
171 * minor incompatible change: WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE no longer disables
172 interrupts for its body.
173 * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as
174 source, compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files.
175 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :SOURCE-NAMESTRING allows providing
176 virtual source-file information, eg. overriding input-file of COMPILE-FILE
177 when a temporary file is used for compilation.
178 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.3.
179 * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator are
181 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM works with user-defined binary input and output
183 * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime errors for
184 type-errors detected at compile-time.
185 * enhancement: deadlock detection for mutexes and spinlocks.
186 * enhancement: dynamic-extent for &rest lists stack allocate only their
187 spines, not their argumets. While portable code should not rely on this,
188 particularly in combination with inlining, it should make dynamic-extent
189 easier to use safely.
190 * enhancement: SB-POSIX improvements:
191 ** WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are exported.
192 ** SYSCALL-ERROR now also provides the name of the failing system call.
193 * enhancement: --script improvements:
194 ** errors on standard input, output, and error streams are handled and
195 cause scripts to exit silently, making them easier to use in shell
197 ** backtraces from scripts now go to standard error instead of the
198 terminal even if one is available.
199 ** --script can be an argument, causing the script to be loaded from
201 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING provides an easy way to transport lisp
202 strings to foreign memory.
203 * enhancement: (SETF GC-LOGFILE) allows logging garbage collections to
204 a file, making it easier to understand heap dynamics.
205 * optimization: using a &REST argument only in APPLY or VALUES-LIST calls
206 allows the compiler to automatically elide rest-list allocation so long as
207 the call sites are in functions that the compiler knows cannot escape.
209 * optimization: CALL-NEXT-METHOD using explicit arguments is faster,
210 especially in safe code when none of the required arguments have changed
212 * bug fix: blocking reads from FIFOs created by RUN-PROGRAM were
213 uninterruptible, as well as blocking reads from socket streams created
214 with for which :SERVE-EVENTS NIL. (regression from 1.0.42.43)
215 * bug fix: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR now removes dispatch-macro character syntax
216 from the to-char if the from-char is not a dispatch-macro character.
217 * bug fix: references to undefined variables in function calls that are
218 optimized away now signal a runtime error. (lp#722734)
219 * bug fix: miscompilation of MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL when asserting derived
220 types from a function defined in the same file. (regression from
222 * bug fix: TRULY-THE forms are now macroexpandable and setf-expandable.
224 * bug fix: spurious errors during QUIT when standard streams were closed.
226 changes in sbcl-1.0.48 relative to sbcl-1.0.47:
227 * incompatible change: SB!KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA, deprecated for over five
228 years, is now no longer supported.
229 * enhancement: read() and write() have been added to SB-POSIX.
230 * enhancement: types of DEFSTRUCT constructors are proclaimed more
231 accurately, allowing better typechecking of call-sites.
232 * enhancement: errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
233 are no longer caught. (reverted to pre 1.0.34 behaviour)
234 * optimization: slightly faster ISQRT. (lp#713343)
235 * bug fix: better support for Solaris /bin/sh in sh-based tests.
236 * bug fix: TRACE behaves better when attempting to trace undefined
237 functions. (lp#740717)
238 * bug fix: missed optimizations for (FUNCALL (LAMBDA ...) ...) in comparison
239 to (FUNCALL #'(LAMBDA ...) ...).
240 * bug fix: ((LAMBDA ...) ...) forms with invalid argument counts resulted in
241 a compile-time error. (lp#720382)
242 * bug fix: forms such as (FUNCALL (FUNCTION NAME OOPS) ...) were compiled
244 * bug fix: less verbose source forms for functions from EVAL. (lp#747485)
245 * bug fix: sense of SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS was inverted in a MAKE-INSTANCE
246 optimization. (regression from 1.0.45.18/1.0.46.15)
247 * bug fix: package locks did not protects against compile-time side-effects
248 of DEFUN. (lp#675584)
249 * bug fix: --dynamic-space-size argument is validated more carefully.
251 * bug fix: memory fault from printing a malformed simple-condition.
253 * bug fix: redefining classes so that slot-definition classes change now
254 engages the obsolete instance protocol. (lp#766271)
255 * bug fix: constant improper lists could break source coverage recording.
257 * bug fix: compiling calls to eg. MEMBER with massive constant list arguments
260 changes in sbcl-1.0.47 relative to sbcl-1.0.46:
261 * bug fix: fix mach port rights leaks in mach exception handling code on
262 darwin/x86 and /x86-64. (thanks to Willem Oudshoorn for motivation and the
264 * enhancement: --script muffles style-warnings and compiler notes. (lp#677779)
265 * enhancement: redefinition warnings for macros from different files. (lp#434657)
266 * enhancement: better MACHINE-VERSION on Darwin x86 and x86-64. (lp#668332)
267 * enhancement: (FORMAT "foo" ...) and similar signal a compile-time warning. (lp#327223)
268 * enhancement: no more "in: LAMBDA NIL" messages from the compiler for forms
269 processed using EVAL -- now the appropriate toplevel form is reported instead.
270 * enhancement: more legible style-warnings for inappropriate IGNORE and IGNORABLE
271 declarations. (lp#726331)
272 * enhancement: :NOT-NULL option has been added to alien C-STRING type to indicate
273 that NIL/NULL is excluded from the type.
274 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:MAP-ROOT allows mapping over pointers contained in
276 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are faster in the presence of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS
278 * optimization: core startup time is reduced by 30% on x86-64. (lp#557357)
279 * bug fix: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST guards against potentially leaking
280 stack-allocated values out of their dynamic-extent. (lp#310175)
281 * bug fix: attempts to use SB-SPROF for wallclock profiling on threaded
282 x86-64 builds caused a type-error.
283 * bug fix: calling COMPILE with something else than a lambda-expression as the
284 second argument reports a more sensible error. (lp#718905)
285 * bug fix: invalid combinations of :PREDICATE and :TYPE options in DEFSTRUCT
286 are detected. (lp#520607)
287 * bug fix: constant keyword argument checking didn't take :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS
289 * bug fix: SLOT-BOUNDP information is correct during MAKE-INSTANCE in the
290 presence of (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS) and SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS
291 methods. (regression from 1.0.45.18)
292 * bug fix: INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods supplying initargs via
293 CALL-NEXT-METHOD work correctly. (regression from 1.0.45.19)
294 * bug fix: several foreign functions accepting string also accepted NIL and
295 consequently caused a memory fault at 0 now signal a type-error instead.
297 * bug fix: under rare circumstances, constraint propagation could rewrite a
298 variable reference to refer to a variable not in scope, causing an error
299 during physical environment analysis when attempting to close over the
300 variable. (lp#551227)
301 * bug fix: SIMPLE-CONDITION :FORMAT-CONTROL defaults to NIL.
303 changes in sbcl-1.0.46 relative to sbcl-1.0.45:
304 * enhancement: largefile support on Solaris.
305 * enhancement: SB-PROFILE:REPORT now supports :LIMIT and :PRINT-NO-CALL-LIST
306 arguments (lp#710017)
307 * enhancement: SB-PCL:+SLOT-UNBOUND+ is exported, making it possible to
308 distinguish unbound instance slots when using STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS
310 * optimization: ERROR and CERROR are approximately 5 times faster.
311 * optimization: optimized constructors are used for MAKE-INSTANCE of classes
312 with applicable non-standard (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS),
313 SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, and INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods, speeding
314 up instance creation in those cases.
315 * optimization: arithmetic operations with multiple constant arguments in now
316 have them reduced at compile-time. (lp#676414)
317 * optimization: determining current character position on string-streams for
318 pretty-printing was overly slow.
319 * bug fix: local tail calls to DYNAMIC-EXTENT functions can no longer cause
320 lifetime analysis to overwrite closed-over variables (lp#681092).
321 * bug fix: encoding errors from some multibyte external formats such as EUC-JP
322 were not handled correctly (lp#713063).
323 * bug fix: printing waitqueue objects without setting *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T is now
325 * bug fix: Solaris/x86-64 wasn't getting built with lutex support by
326 mistake. (lp#667297).
327 * bug fix: CONSTANTLY generated functions had bogus lambda-lists. (lp#713626)
328 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM :PTY option was racy on OpenBSD. (lp#669485)
329 * bug fix: UNINTERN takes a symbol, not a symbol designator -- could previously
330 unintern the wrong symbol with the same name. (lp#693796)
331 * bug fix: COPY-PPRINT-DISPATCH always has access to a pristine table,
332 making it possible to restore the initial table if it has been messed up.
335 changes in sbcl-1.0.45 relative to sbcl-1.0.44:
336 * enhancement: ~/ and ~user/ are treated specially in pathnames.
337 Refer to documentation for details.
338 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.010.
339 * optimization: mutated closed-over variables that are only accessed by
340 DYNAMIC-EXTENT closures (currently only FLET and LABELS functions
341 declared to be DYNAMIC-EXTENT) are stored directly in their containing
342 stack frame, rather than allocating a VALUE-CELL (lp#586103).
343 * optimization: UNWIND-PROTECT cleanup functions are now declared
345 * bug fix: backtracing function with &REST arguments now shows the full
346 argument list. (lp#310173)
347 * bug fix: return types for functions with complex lambda-lists are now
348 derived properly (lp#384892)
349 * bug fix: when SPEED > SPACE compiling CONCATENATE 'STRING with constant
350 long string arguments slowed the compiler down to a crawl.
351 * bug fix: closure VALUE-CELLs are no longer stack-allocated (lp#308934).
352 * bug fix: non-standard MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA methods could break RETURN-FROM
353 in the DEFMETHOD body.
354 * bug fix: #<SB-C::DEFINED-FUN ...> should no longer appear in compiler
355 messages, being instead replaced with the corresponding function name.
356 * bug fix: don't derive overly complex unions of numeric types for arithmetic
357 operators. (lp#309448)
359 changes in sbcl-1.0.44 relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
360 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
361 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
362 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
364 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
365 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
366 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
367 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
368 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
370 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
371 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
372 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
373 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
374 * enhancement: new function: SB-EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY is now provided.
375 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
376 addition member types.
377 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
378 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
379 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
380 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
381 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
383 * improvements to the Windows port:
384 ** change: canonical unparsing form for pathname namestrings now uses / as
385 directory separator. NATIVE-NAMESTRING still uses \ as the separator.
386 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
387 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
388 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
390 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
391 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
392 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
393 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
395 * bug fix: interrupts arriving during CL:OPEN caused an error.
396 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
397 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
398 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
399 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
400 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
401 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
402 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
403 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
404 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
405 so badly. (lp#654485)
406 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
407 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
408 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
409 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
410 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
411 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
412 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
413 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
414 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
415 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
416 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
417 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
418 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
419 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
420 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
421 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
422 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
423 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
425 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
426 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
427 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
428 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
430 * bug fix: short-form DEFSETF checks that the second argument is a symbol
431 (lp#655824, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
432 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) clobbered macro-definitions before
433 package-lock violation was detected. (lp#660752)
434 * bug fix: the system can store different docstrings for a single function
435 under different names. (lp#661631, regression from 1.0.29.24)
436 * bug fix: source-locations of DEFGENERIC forms weren't getting recorded
437 properly. (lp#384801)
438 * bug fix: (COERCE X '(SIMPLE-VECTOR 5)) and similar coercions to vectors
439 of specified length could confuse the type derivation in unsafe code.
441 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
442 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made on every platform,
443 not just Darwin. (lp#451111)
444 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS and SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS could leave stale finalizers
445 around when core was saved, which could cause undefined behaviour when the
447 * bug fix: Allow UNTRACE of functions that are no longer defined
448 (lp#667657, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
449 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY calls with invalid keyword argument lists now signal a
450 compile-time warning (lp#664373, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
452 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
453 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
454 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
455 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
456 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
457 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
458 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
459 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
461 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
463 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
464 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
465 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
467 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
468 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
469 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
470 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
471 thanks to Andrew Golding)
472 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
473 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
475 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
476 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
477 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
478 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
479 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
480 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
481 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
482 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
483 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
484 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
485 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
486 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
487 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
488 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
490 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
491 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
492 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
493 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
494 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
495 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
496 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
497 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
498 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
499 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
500 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
501 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
502 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
503 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
504 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
505 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
506 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
507 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
508 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
510 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
512 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
513 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
515 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
517 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
518 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
519 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
520 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
521 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
522 * optimization: The default implementation of
523 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
524 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
525 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
526 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
527 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
528 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
529 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
530 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
531 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
532 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
533 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
535 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
536 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
537 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
538 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
539 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
540 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
542 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
544 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
545 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
546 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
547 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
548 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
549 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
551 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
553 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
554 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
556 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
557 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
559 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
560 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
561 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
562 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
563 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
564 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
565 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
566 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
567 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
568 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
569 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
570 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
572 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
574 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
575 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
576 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
577 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
578 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
579 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
580 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
581 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
582 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
583 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
585 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
586 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
587 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
589 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
590 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
591 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
593 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
594 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
595 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
597 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
598 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
599 generic function call.
600 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
601 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
602 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
604 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
606 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
607 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
608 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
609 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
610 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
611 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
612 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
613 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
614 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
615 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
616 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
617 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
618 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
619 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
620 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
622 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
623 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
624 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
625 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
626 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
627 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
628 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
629 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
630 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
631 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
632 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
633 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
634 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
635 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
636 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
637 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
638 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
639 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
640 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
641 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
642 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
643 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
644 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
645 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
646 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
648 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
649 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
650 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
652 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
653 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
655 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
656 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
657 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
658 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
660 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
661 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
662 stack frame thrown from.
663 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
664 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
665 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
666 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
668 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
669 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
670 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
671 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
672 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
673 for accessing such arrays.
674 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
675 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
676 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
677 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
678 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
679 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
680 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
681 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
682 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
683 functions. (lp#524707)
684 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
685 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
686 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
687 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
688 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
689 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
690 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
691 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
692 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
693 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
694 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
695 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
696 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
697 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
699 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
700 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
701 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
702 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
703 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
705 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
706 declarations (lp#497321)
707 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
708 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
709 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
711 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
712 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
713 due to it, so that handlers can run.
714 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
716 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
717 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
718 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
719 expanded calls (lp#542174)
720 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
721 than just at toplevel form.
723 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
724 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
725 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
726 but work on type specifiers.
727 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
728 to name a type specifier.
729 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
730 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
731 second argument of TYPEP".
732 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
733 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
734 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
735 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
736 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
737 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
738 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
739 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
740 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
741 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
742 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
743 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
744 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
746 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
748 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
749 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
751 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
752 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
753 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
754 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
755 before reaching the erring stack frame.
756 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
757 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
758 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
759 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
760 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
761 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
762 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
763 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
765 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
766 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
767 is properly inlined when possible.
768 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
769 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
770 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
771 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
772 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
773 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
774 launchpad bug lp#508485)
775 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
776 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
777 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
778 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
779 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
780 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
782 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
783 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
785 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
787 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
788 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
789 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
790 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
791 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
792 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
793 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
795 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
796 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
797 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
798 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
799 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
800 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
801 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
802 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
803 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
804 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
805 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
806 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
807 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
808 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
810 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
813 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
814 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
815 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
816 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
817 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
818 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
819 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
820 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
822 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
823 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
824 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
825 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
827 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
828 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
829 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
830 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
831 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
832 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
834 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
835 errors for fd-stream external formats.
836 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
837 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
838 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
839 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
840 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
842 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
843 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
844 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
845 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
847 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
848 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
849 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
850 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
851 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
853 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
854 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
855 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
856 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
857 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
858 error is near the end of file.
859 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
860 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
861 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
862 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
863 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
864 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
865 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
866 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
867 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
868 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
869 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
870 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
871 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
872 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
873 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
874 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
875 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
876 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
877 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
878 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
879 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
880 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
881 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
882 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
884 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
885 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
886 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
887 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
888 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
889 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
890 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
891 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
892 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
894 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
895 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
896 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
897 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
899 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
900 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
901 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
903 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
905 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
906 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
908 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
909 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
910 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
911 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
912 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
913 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
914 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
915 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
916 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
917 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
918 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
919 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
920 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
922 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
923 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
924 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
925 open coded is now considered a bug.
926 * improvements related to Unicode:
927 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
928 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
929 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
931 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
933 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
934 (as well as for stream operations).
935 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
936 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
938 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
939 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
941 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
943 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
944 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
945 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
946 constant two has been optimized.
947 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
948 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
949 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
950 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
951 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
952 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
953 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
954 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
955 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
956 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
957 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
958 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
959 but assumed or declared function as well.
960 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
961 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
962 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
963 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
965 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
966 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
967 well as user defined declaration names.
968 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
969 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
971 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
972 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
973 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
974 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
975 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
977 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
979 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
981 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
982 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
983 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
984 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
985 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
986 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
987 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
988 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
989 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
991 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
992 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
993 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
994 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
995 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
996 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
998 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
999 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
1000 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
1001 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
1002 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
1003 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
1004 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1005 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
1007 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
1008 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
1009 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
1010 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
1011 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
1012 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
1013 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1014 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
1015 values in other threads.
1016 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
1017 about object allocation.
1018 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
1019 with a specialised code sequence.
1020 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
1021 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
1022 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
1023 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
1024 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
1025 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
1026 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
1027 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
1028 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
1029 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
1031 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
1033 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
1034 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
1035 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
1036 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
1037 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
1038 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
1039 unboxed format on x86[-64].
1040 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
1041 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
1042 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
1043 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
1044 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
1046 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
1047 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
1048 contains more pertinent information.
1049 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
1050 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
1051 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
1052 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
1053 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
1054 types. (reported by "abhi")
1055 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
1056 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
1057 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1058 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
1059 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
1060 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
1061 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
1062 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
1063 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
1064 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
1065 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1066 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
1067 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1068 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
1069 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
1070 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
1071 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
1072 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
1074 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
1075 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
1076 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
1077 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
1078 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1079 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
1080 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1082 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
1083 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
1084 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
1085 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
1086 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
1087 (no subscription required.)
1088 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
1089 types are weakened less aggressively.
1090 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
1091 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
1092 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
1093 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
1094 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
1095 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
1096 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
1097 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
1099 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
1100 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
1101 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
1102 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
1104 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
1105 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
1106 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
1108 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
1109 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
1110 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
1112 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
1113 is known are 50% faster.
1114 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
1115 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
1117 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
1118 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
1119 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
1120 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
1121 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
1123 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
1124 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
1125 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
1126 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
1127 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
1128 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
1130 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
1131 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
1132 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
1133 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
1134 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
1135 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1136 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
1137 to Tobias Rittweiler)
1138 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
1139 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
1140 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
1141 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
1142 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
1143 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1144 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
1145 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
1146 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
1147 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
1148 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
1150 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
1151 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
1152 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
1153 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
1155 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
1156 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
1157 result register (bug 316325).
1158 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
1159 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
1160 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
1161 generate incorrect code.
1162 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
1163 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
1164 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
1165 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
1167 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
1168 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
1169 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
1170 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
1171 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
1172 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
1173 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
1174 from :INITFORM, if any.
1176 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
1177 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
1178 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
1179 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
1180 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
1182 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
1183 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
1184 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
1185 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
1186 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
1187 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1188 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
1189 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
1190 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1191 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
1193 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
1194 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1195 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
1196 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
1197 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
1198 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
1199 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1200 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
1201 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
1202 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
1203 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
1204 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
1205 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
1206 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1207 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
1208 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
1209 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
1211 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
1212 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1213 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
1214 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
1215 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
1216 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
1217 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
1218 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
1220 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
1221 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1222 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
1223 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
1224 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
1226 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
1227 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
1228 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
1229 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
1230 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
1231 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
1232 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
1233 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
1234 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
1235 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
1236 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
1237 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
1238 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
1239 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
1240 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
1241 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
1243 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
1244 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
1245 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
1246 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
1247 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
1248 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
1249 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
1250 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
1251 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
1252 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
1253 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
1254 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
1255 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
1256 recursive errors or deadlock.
1257 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
1258 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
1259 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
1261 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
1262 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
1263 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
1264 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
1265 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
1266 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
1267 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
1268 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
1270 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
1271 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
1272 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
1273 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
1274 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1275 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
1276 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
1277 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
1279 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
1280 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
1281 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
1282 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
1283 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
1284 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
1285 their constant arguments.
1286 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
1287 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1288 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
1289 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
1290 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
1291 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
1292 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
1293 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
1294 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
1295 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
1296 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
1297 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
1298 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
1299 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
1300 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
1301 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
1302 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
1303 * improvements to the Windows port:
1304 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
1305 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
1307 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
1308 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
1309 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
1310 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
1311 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1312 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
1313 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
1314 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
1315 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
1316 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
1317 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
1318 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
1319 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
1320 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
1322 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
1324 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
1325 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
1326 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
1327 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1328 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
1329 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1330 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1331 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1332 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1333 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
1335 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
1336 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
1337 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
1338 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
1339 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
1340 compile-time style-warning.
1341 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
1342 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
1343 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
1344 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
1345 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
1346 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
1347 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
1348 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
1349 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
1350 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
1351 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
1352 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
1353 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
1354 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
1355 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
1356 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
1358 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
1359 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
1360 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
1361 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
1362 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
1363 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
1364 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
1365 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
1366 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
1368 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
1370 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
1373 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
1374 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
1375 for the associated fast function is also produced.
1376 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
1378 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
1379 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
1380 special handling by the pretty printer.
1381 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
1382 now interact correctly with type declarations.
1383 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
1384 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1385 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
1386 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
1387 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
1388 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
1389 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
1390 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1392 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
1393 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
1394 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
1395 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
1396 object loading function as-it.
1397 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
1398 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
1400 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
1401 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
1403 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
1404 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
1405 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
1406 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1407 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
1408 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
1409 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
1410 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
1411 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
1413 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
1414 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
1415 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
1416 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
1417 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
1418 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
1419 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1420 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
1421 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1422 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
1423 file descriptors when there were none.
1424 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
1425 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
1426 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
1427 pathnames without a directory.
1428 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
1429 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
1430 not signal an error.
1431 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
1432 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
1433 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
1434 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
1435 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
1436 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
1437 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
1438 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
1440 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
1441 after alien stack frames.
1442 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
1444 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
1445 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
1446 generic function across method addition and removal.
1447 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
1448 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
1449 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
1450 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
1452 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
1453 non-local transfer of control.
1454 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
1455 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
1456 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
1457 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
1458 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
1459 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
1460 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
1462 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
1463 owned by other threads anymore.
1464 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
1465 subsequence. (reported by budden)
1466 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
1467 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
1468 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
1469 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
1471 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
1472 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
1473 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
1474 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
1475 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
1476 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
1477 added to the user manual.
1478 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
1479 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
1480 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
1481 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
1482 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
1483 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
1485 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
1487 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
1488 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
1489 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
1490 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
1491 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
1492 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
1493 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
1495 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
1496 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
1498 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
1499 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
1500 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
1501 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
1502 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
1503 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
1504 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
1506 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
1507 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
1509 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
1510 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1511 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1512 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
1513 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1514 type of a variable is made.
1515 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
1516 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
1518 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
1519 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1520 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
1521 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1522 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
1523 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1524 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
1525 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
1526 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
1528 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
1529 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
1530 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
1531 of the type that's the value of this variable.
1532 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
1534 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
1535 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
1536 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
1537 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
1538 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
1539 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
1540 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
1541 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
1542 * improvements to the Windows port:
1543 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
1544 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
1545 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1546 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
1547 to single-float coercions.
1548 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
1549 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
1550 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
1551 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
1552 containing invalid type specifiers.
1553 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
1554 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
1556 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
1557 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
1558 profiles only the current thread.
1559 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
1560 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
1561 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
1562 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
1563 has also additional sorting options.
1564 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
1566 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
1567 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
1568 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
1569 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
1570 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
1571 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
1573 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
1575 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
1576 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
1577 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
1578 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
1579 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
1580 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
1582 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
1583 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1584 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
1585 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
1586 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
1587 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1588 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
1589 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
1590 (thanks to James Knight)
1591 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
1592 (thanks to Travis Cross)
1593 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1594 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
1595 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
1596 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1597 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1598 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1599 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1601 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
1602 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
1603 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
1604 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
1605 use this feature in the meanwhile.
1606 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
1607 adjust thread default control stack size.
1608 * enhancement: improved TIME output
1609 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
1610 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
1611 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
1612 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
1613 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
1614 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
1615 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
1616 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
1618 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
1620 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
1621 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
1622 in normal SPEED policies.
1623 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
1624 in normal SPEED policies.
1625 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
1626 to Sidney Markowitz)
1627 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
1628 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1629 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
1630 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1631 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
1632 as the second argument.
1633 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
1634 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
1635 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
1637 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
1638 platform word lengths.
1639 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
1640 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
1641 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
1643 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
1644 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1646 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
1647 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
1648 signaling added in 1.0.14.
1649 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
1650 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
1651 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
1652 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
1653 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
1654 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1655 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
1656 on threaded platforms.
1657 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
1658 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
1659 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1660 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
1661 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
1662 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
1663 representation is available.
1664 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
1665 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
1666 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
1667 Francois-Rene Rideau)
1668 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1669 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1670 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
1671 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
1672 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
1673 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
1674 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
1675 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
1676 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
1678 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
1679 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
1680 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
1681 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
1682 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
1683 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
1684 traces SETF-functions as well.
1685 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
1686 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
1687 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
1688 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
1690 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
1691 is now more efficient.
1692 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
1693 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
1694 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
1695 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
1696 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
1697 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1698 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
1699 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
1700 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
1701 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
1702 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
1704 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
1705 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
1706 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
1707 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
1708 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
1709 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1710 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
1711 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
1712 * improvements to the Windows port:
1713 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
1714 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
1716 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
1717 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
1718 (see documentation for details.)
1719 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
1720 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
1721 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
1722 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
1723 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
1725 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
1726 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
1727 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
1728 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
1729 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1730 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
1731 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
1732 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
1733 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
1735 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
1736 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
1737 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
1738 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
1739 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
1740 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
1741 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
1743 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
1744 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
1745 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
1746 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
1747 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
1748 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
1749 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
1750 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
1752 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
1753 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
1754 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
1755 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
1756 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
1757 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
1758 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
1759 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
1760 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
1761 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1762 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
1763 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
1764 known at compile-time.
1765 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
1766 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
1767 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
1769 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
1770 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
1772 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
1773 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1774 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1775 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
1776 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
1777 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
1779 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
1781 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
1783 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
1786 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
1787 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
1788 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
1789 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
1790 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
1791 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
1792 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
1793 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
1794 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
1795 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
1796 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
1797 END is smaller then START.
1798 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
1799 calls to profiled functions.
1800 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
1801 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
1802 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
1803 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
1804 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
1805 hash-table usage have been fixed.
1806 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
1807 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
1808 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
1809 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
1810 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
1811 slime to work again.
1813 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
1814 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
1815 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
1816 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
1817 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
1818 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
1819 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
1820 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
1821 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
1822 and will signal an error at runtime.
1823 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
1824 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
1825 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
1827 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
1828 platforms providing stack allocation support.
1829 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
1830 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
1832 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
1833 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
1834 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
1835 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1836 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
1837 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
1839 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
1840 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
1842 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
1844 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
1845 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
1846 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
1847 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
1848 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
1849 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
1850 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1851 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
1852 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
1853 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1854 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
1855 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
1856 a specializer parameter for the method.
1857 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
1858 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
1859 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
1860 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
1861 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
1863 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
1864 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
1866 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
1867 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
1868 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1869 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
1870 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
1871 the CAS operation was being performed.
1872 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
1873 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
1874 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
1875 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
1878 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
1879 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
1880 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
1881 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
1883 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
1884 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
1885 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1886 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
1887 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
1888 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1889 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
1890 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
1891 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
1892 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
1893 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
1894 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
1895 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
1896 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
1897 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
1899 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
1900 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
1901 the underlying file descriptor.
1902 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
1903 could cause buffer-overflows.
1904 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
1905 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
1906 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
1908 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
1910 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
1911 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
1912 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
1913 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
1914 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
1915 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
1918 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
1919 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
1920 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
1921 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
1922 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
1923 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
1924 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
1926 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
1928 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
1929 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
1930 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
1931 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
1932 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
1933 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
1935 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
1936 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
1937 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
1938 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
1939 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
1940 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
1941 objects that can be seen by the GC.
1942 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
1943 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
1944 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
1946 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
1947 as the property-list of a symbol.
1948 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
1949 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
1950 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
1953 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
1954 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
1955 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
1956 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
1957 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
1958 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
1959 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
1960 debugging and introspective support.
1961 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
1962 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
1963 has the owning thread as its value.
1964 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
1965 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
1967 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
1968 "a constant string".
1969 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
1970 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
1971 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
1972 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1973 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
1974 (depending on the bignum size.)
1975 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
1977 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
1978 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
1980 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
1981 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
1983 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
1984 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
1985 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
1986 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
1987 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
1990 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
1991 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
1992 as a contrib module.
1993 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
1994 significantly faster.
1995 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1996 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
1997 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1998 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1999 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
2000 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
2001 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
2002 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
2003 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2004 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
2005 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
2007 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
2009 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
2010 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
2011 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
2012 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
2013 that use the generational garbage collector
2014 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
2016 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
2017 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
2019 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
2021 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
2022 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
2023 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
2024 system running with GC inhibited.
2025 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
2026 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
2027 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
2028 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
2029 (reported by Peter Graves)
2031 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
2032 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
2033 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
2035 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
2036 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
2037 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
2038 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
2039 documented as unsafe.
2040 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
2041 in multithreaded application code.
2042 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
2043 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
2044 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
2046 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
2047 variants no longer cons.
2048 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
2049 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
2050 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
2051 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
2052 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
2053 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
2054 are significantly faster.
2055 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
2056 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
2057 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
2058 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
2059 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
2060 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
2061 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
2062 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
2063 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
2064 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
2065 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
2067 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
2068 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
2069 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
2070 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2071 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
2072 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2073 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
2074 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2075 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
2076 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
2077 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
2078 line in a file is unlimited.
2079 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
2080 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
2081 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
2082 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
2083 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
2084 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
2085 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
2086 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2087 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
2088 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
2089 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2090 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
2091 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
2092 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
2093 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
2094 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
2095 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
2096 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
2097 experimental until this is fixed.
2098 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
2099 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2100 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
2101 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
2102 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
2104 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
2105 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
2106 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
2107 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
2108 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
2109 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
2111 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
2112 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
2113 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2114 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
2115 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
2116 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
2117 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2118 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
2119 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
2121 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
2122 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
2123 (reported by Andras Simon)
2124 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
2125 bugs remain on x86-64.)
2126 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
2127 funcallable instances.
2128 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
2129 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
2131 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
2132 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2133 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
2134 non-base strings as arguments
2135 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
2137 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
2138 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
2140 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
2141 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
2142 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2143 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
2144 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2145 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2146 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
2147 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
2148 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
2150 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
2151 (thanks to Jon Buller)
2152 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
2153 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
2156 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
2157 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
2158 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
2160 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
2161 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
2162 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
2163 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
2164 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
2166 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
2167 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
2168 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
2169 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2170 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
2171 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2172 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
2173 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
2174 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
2175 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
2176 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2177 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
2178 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
2179 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
2180 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
2181 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
2182 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2183 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2184 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
2185 stack frames from alien callbacks.
2186 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2187 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
2188 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
2189 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2191 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
2192 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
2193 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
2194 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
2195 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
2196 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
2197 sb-introspect contrib.
2198 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
2199 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
2200 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
2201 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
2202 users and the general community)
2203 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
2204 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
2205 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
2206 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
2207 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2208 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
2209 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
2210 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2211 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
2212 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2213 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
2214 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
2215 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
2216 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
2217 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
2218 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
2220 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
2221 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
2222 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
2223 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
2224 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
2225 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
2226 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
2228 * improvements to the Windows port:
2229 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
2230 to Alastair Bridgewater)
2231 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
2233 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
2234 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2236 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
2237 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
2238 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2239 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
2240 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
2241 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
2242 core, and restored on startup.
2243 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
2244 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2245 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
2246 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
2247 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
2248 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
2249 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
2251 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
2252 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2253 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
2255 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
2256 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
2257 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
2259 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
2260 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2261 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
2262 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2263 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
2264 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
2266 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
2267 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
2268 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
2269 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
2270 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
2271 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
2272 (reported by Josip Gracin)
2273 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
2274 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
2275 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
2276 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
2277 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
2278 and don't cause extra consing
2279 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
2280 whose elements types have been declared.
2281 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
2282 ** Support for allocation profiling
2283 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
2284 * Improvements to the Windows port:
2285 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
2286 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
2287 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2288 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
2290 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
2291 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
2292 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
2293 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
2294 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
2296 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
2297 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
2298 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
2300 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
2301 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
2302 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
2303 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
2304 with non-variable places
2305 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
2306 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
2307 code more stable against memory faults.
2308 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
2309 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
2310 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
2311 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
2314 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
2315 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
2316 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
2317 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
2318 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
2319 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
2320 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
2321 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
2322 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2323 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2324 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
2325 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
2326 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
2328 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
2329 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
2330 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
2331 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
2332 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
2333 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
2334 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
2336 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
2337 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
2339 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
2340 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
2341 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
2342 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
2343 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
2344 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
2345 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
2346 to the single-stepper REPL.
2347 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
2348 for a type now works.
2349 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
2351 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
2352 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2353 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
2354 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2355 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
2356 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
2357 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
2358 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
2360 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
2361 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
2362 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
2363 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
2364 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
2365 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
2366 whose bindings are modified
2367 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
2368 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
2369 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
2370 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
2372 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
2373 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
2374 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
2375 as specified by AMOP.
2376 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
2378 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
2379 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2380 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
2381 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
2382 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
2383 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
2384 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
2385 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
2386 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
2387 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
2388 better type inference.
2389 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
2390 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
2391 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
2392 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
2393 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
2394 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2395 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
2396 initialization of methods can now be used to override
2397 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
2399 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
2400 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
2401 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
2402 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
2403 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
2405 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
2406 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
2407 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
2408 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
2409 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
2410 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
2411 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
2412 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
2413 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
2414 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
2415 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
2416 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
2417 (reported by James Y Knight).
2418 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
2419 argument for shadowing by local functions.
2420 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
2422 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
2423 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
2424 with type-inference.
2425 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
2426 types in some cases.
2427 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
2428 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2429 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
2431 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
2432 * thread-safety improvements:
2433 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
2434 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
2435 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
2437 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
2438 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
2440 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
2441 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
2442 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
2444 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
2445 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
2446 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
2447 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
2448 class became finalizeable.
2449 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
2450 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
2451 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
2452 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
2454 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
2455 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
2456 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
2457 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
2458 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
2459 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
2460 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2461 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
2462 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
2463 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
2464 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
2465 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
2466 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
2467 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2468 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
2469 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
2470 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
2471 * minor code generation optimizations:
2472 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
2473 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
2474 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
2475 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
2476 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
2477 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2478 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
2479 return its argument.
2481 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
2482 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
2484 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
2486 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
2487 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
2488 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
2489 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
2490 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
2491 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
2492 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
2493 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
2494 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
2495 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
2496 the low-level debugger.
2497 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
2498 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
2499 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
2500 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
2502 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
2503 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
2504 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
2506 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
2507 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2508 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
2509 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
2510 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
2511 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
2512 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
2513 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
2514 (reported by James Y Knight)
2515 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
2516 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
2517 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
2518 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
2519 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
2520 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
2521 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
2522 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
2523 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
2524 workaround for bug 403.)
2525 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
2526 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2527 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2528 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
2530 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2531 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
2532 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
2534 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
2535 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
2536 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
2537 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
2538 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
2540 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
2542 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
2543 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
2544 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
2547 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
2548 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
2549 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
2550 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
2551 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
2552 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
2553 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
2554 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
2555 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
2556 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
2557 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
2558 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2559 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
2560 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2561 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
2562 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
2563 documentation on package locks for details.
2564 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
2566 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
2567 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
2568 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
2569 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
2570 immediately available from the stream
2571 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
2572 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
2573 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
2574 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
2576 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
2577 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
2578 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
2580 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
2581 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
2582 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
2584 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
2585 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
2586 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
2587 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
2589 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2590 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
2591 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
2592 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2593 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
2594 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
2595 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2596 ** sb-grovel supported
2597 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
2598 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
2599 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
2600 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
2601 ** floating-point exception handling support
2602 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
2603 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2604 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2605 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
2606 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
2607 structure accessors.
2608 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
2610 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
2611 defaults for optional parameters.
2612 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
2613 function, which is already optimized.
2615 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
2616 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
2617 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
2618 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
2619 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
2620 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
2621 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
2622 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
2623 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
2624 this change is to make it easier to distribute
2625 location-independent binaries.
2626 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
2627 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
2629 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
2630 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
2631 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
2632 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
2633 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
2634 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
2635 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
2636 Alastair Bridgewater)
2637 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
2638 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
2639 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2640 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
2641 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
2642 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
2643 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
2644 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
2645 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
2646 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
2647 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
2648 (thanks to James Knight)
2649 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
2650 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
2652 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
2653 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
2654 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
2655 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
2656 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
2657 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
2658 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
2659 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
2660 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
2661 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
2662 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
2663 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
2664 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
2665 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
2666 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
2667 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
2668 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
2669 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
2670 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
2671 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
2672 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
2674 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
2675 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
2676 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
2677 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2678 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
2679 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
2681 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
2682 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
2683 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
2684 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
2685 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
2686 many others over the years)
2687 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
2688 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
2689 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
2691 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
2692 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
2693 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2694 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
2695 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
2696 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
2698 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
2700 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
2701 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
2702 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
2703 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
2704 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
2705 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
2706 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
2707 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
2708 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
2709 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
2710 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
2711 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2712 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
2713 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2715 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
2716 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2717 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
2718 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
2719 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
2720 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
2721 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
2722 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
2723 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
2724 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2725 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
2726 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
2727 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
2728 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
2729 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
2730 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
2731 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
2732 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2733 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
2734 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
2736 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
2737 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2738 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
2739 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
2740 index variables in LOOP
2741 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
2742 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2743 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
2744 that don't have a docstring
2746 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
2747 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2748 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
2749 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
2750 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
2751 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
2752 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
2753 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
2754 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
2755 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
2756 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
2757 Costanza's "Closer" project)
2758 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
2759 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
2761 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
2762 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
2763 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
2764 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
2765 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
2766 and Pascal Costanza)
2767 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
2768 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
2769 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
2770 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
2771 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2772 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
2773 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
2774 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
2775 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2776 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
2777 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2778 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
2779 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2780 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
2781 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2782 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
2783 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
2784 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
2785 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
2787 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
2788 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2789 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
2790 floating point index variable or a negative step.
2792 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
2793 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
2794 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
2795 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
2796 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
2797 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2798 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
2799 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
2800 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
2801 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2802 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2803 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
2804 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
2805 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
2806 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2807 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
2808 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
2809 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
2810 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
2811 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
2812 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
2813 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2814 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
2815 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2816 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
2817 and dump core on SIGQUIT
2819 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
2820 from their parents (see manual)
2821 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
2822 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
2823 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
2824 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
2825 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
2826 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
2828 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2829 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
2830 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
2831 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
2833 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
2834 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
2835 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
2837 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
2838 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
2839 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
2840 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
2841 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
2842 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
2843 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
2844 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
2845 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
2846 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
2847 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
2848 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
2849 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
2850 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
2852 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
2853 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
2854 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
2856 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
2857 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
2859 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
2860 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2861 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
2862 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
2863 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
2864 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
2865 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
2866 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
2867 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
2869 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
2870 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
2871 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
2872 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
2873 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
2874 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
2876 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
2878 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
2879 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
2880 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
2881 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
2882 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
2883 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
2884 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
2885 classes; see the manual for more details;
2886 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
2887 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
2888 requested slot ordering.
2890 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
2892 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
2893 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
2895 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
2897 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
2898 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
2899 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
2900 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
2901 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2902 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
2903 the :method-class keyword argument.
2905 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
2906 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
2907 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
2908 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2909 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
2910 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2911 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
2912 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2913 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
2914 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
2915 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
2917 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
2918 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
2919 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
2920 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
2921 is switched on or off
2922 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
2923 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
2924 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
2926 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
2927 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2928 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
2929 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
2930 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2931 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
2932 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
2933 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
2934 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
2936 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
2937 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
2938 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
2939 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
2940 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
2941 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
2942 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
2944 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
2945 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
2946 not prevent gc from running
2947 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
2948 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
2949 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
2950 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
2951 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
2952 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
2953 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
2954 an inline 32-bit rotation.
2956 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
2957 there is only one thread in the session
2958 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
2959 written to in another
2960 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
2961 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
2963 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
2964 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
2966 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
2967 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2968 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
2969 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
2970 the orignal arguments.
2971 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
2973 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
2974 name a compiled function.
2975 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
2976 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
2977 derivation were fixed.
2978 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
2979 list-form FUNCTION type.
2980 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
2981 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
2982 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
2984 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
2985 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
2986 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
2987 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
2988 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
2989 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
2991 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
2992 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
2993 of a select system call
2994 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
2996 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
2997 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
2999 * various error reporting improvements.
3000 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
3001 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3002 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
3003 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
3004 code and foreign data with the same name.
3006 ** added x86-64 support
3007 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
3008 objects instead of thread ids
3009 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
3010 starting up or going down
3011 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
3012 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
3013 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
3014 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
3015 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
3016 an inappropriate moment
3017 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
3018 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
3019 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
3020 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3021 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
3022 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
3023 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
3025 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
3026 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
3027 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
3028 range before calling Unix time functions
3030 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
3031 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
3032 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3033 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
3034 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
3035 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
3036 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3037 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
3038 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
3039 for more information.
3040 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
3041 pathname is a directory pathname.
3042 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
3043 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
3045 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
3046 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
3047 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
3048 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
3049 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
3050 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
3052 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
3053 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
3054 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
3055 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
3056 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
3057 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
3058 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3059 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
3060 the PowerPC platform.
3061 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
3062 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
3064 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
3065 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
3066 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
3067 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
3068 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
3069 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3071 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
3072 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
3073 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
3074 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
3075 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
3076 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3077 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
3078 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
3079 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
3080 as the name of a type, or vice versa
3081 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
3082 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
3083 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
3084 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
3085 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
3086 FLET or MACROLET forms
3087 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
3089 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
3091 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
3094 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
3095 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
3096 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
3097 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
3098 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
3099 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
3100 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
3101 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
3102 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
3103 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
3104 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
3105 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
3106 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
3107 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
3108 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
3109 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3110 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
3111 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3112 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
3113 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
3114 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
3115 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
3117 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3118 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
3119 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
3120 a file has the stream as its datum.
3121 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
3122 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
3123 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
3124 a correct expected type
3125 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
3126 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
3127 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
3128 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
3129 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
3130 on broadcast streams.
3132 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
3133 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
3134 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
3135 --disable-debugger option instead.
3136 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
3138 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
3139 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
3140 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
3141 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
3142 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
3143 has been added to the manual.
3144 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
3145 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
3146 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
3147 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
3148 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
3149 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
3150 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
3151 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
3152 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
3153 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
3155 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
3156 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
3157 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
3158 (reported by Rajat Datta).
3159 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
3160 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
3162 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
3163 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
3164 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
3165 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
3166 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
3167 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
3168 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
3169 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
3170 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
3171 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
3172 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3173 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
3174 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3175 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
3176 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
3177 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3178 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3179 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
3180 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3182 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
3184 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
3185 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
3186 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
3187 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
3188 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
3190 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
3191 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
3192 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
3193 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
3194 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3195 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
3196 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
3198 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3199 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
3200 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
3202 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
3203 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
3204 types for complex arguments better.
3205 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
3207 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
3208 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
3210 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
3211 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
3212 resulting in GC crashes.
3213 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
3215 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
3218 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
3219 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
3220 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
3221 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
3222 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
3223 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
3224 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
3225 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
3226 returning to the top level.
3227 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
3228 global optimization policy.
3229 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
3230 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
3231 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
3233 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
3234 various incompatible changes.
3235 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
3236 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
3237 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
3238 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
3239 level local call to FOO".
3240 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
3241 now have more legible printed representation
3242 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
3243 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
3244 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
3245 explicitly requested.
3246 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
3247 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
3248 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
3249 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
3250 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
3252 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
3253 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
3254 (reported by Lutz Euler)
3255 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
3256 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3257 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
3258 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
3259 the specializer is now possible.
3260 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
3261 face of package deletion.
3262 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
3263 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
3264 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
3265 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
3266 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
3267 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
3268 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
3269 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
3270 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3271 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
3273 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3274 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
3275 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
3276 correctable errors to be signalled.
3277 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
3278 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
3281 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
3282 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3283 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
3285 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
3286 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3287 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
3288 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
3289 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
3290 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
3291 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
3292 related to the ~@F format directive.
3293 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
3295 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
3296 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
3297 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
3298 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
3300 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
3302 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
3303 coerce function designators to functions.
3304 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
3305 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
3306 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
3307 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
3308 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
3309 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
3310 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3311 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
3312 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
3313 start of the buffer at the next read.
3314 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
3315 passing it through to OPEN.
3316 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
3317 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
3318 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
3319 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
3320 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
3321 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3322 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
3323 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
3325 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
3326 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3327 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3328 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
3329 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3330 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
3332 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3333 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
3334 secondary constituent character trait.
3335 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
3337 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
3339 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
3340 works more reliably.
3341 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
3342 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
3343 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
3345 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
3346 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
3348 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
3349 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
3350 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
3351 and reloading shared object files.
3352 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3353 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
3355 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
3356 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
3357 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
3359 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
3360 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
3362 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
3364 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
3365 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
3366 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
3367 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3368 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
3369 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
3370 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
3372 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
3373 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
3375 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
3376 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
3377 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
3378 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
3379 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
3381 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
3382 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
3383 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3384 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
3385 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
3386 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3387 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
3388 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3389 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
3390 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
3391 lisp characters are not eight bits.
3392 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3393 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
3394 the correct number of arguments.
3395 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
3396 to displaced strings.
3397 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
3398 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
3400 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
3401 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
3402 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
3403 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
3404 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
3405 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
3406 available at runtime.
3407 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
3408 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
3409 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
3410 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3411 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
3412 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
3413 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
3414 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
3415 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
3416 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
3417 of lambda-list keywords.
3418 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
3419 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
3421 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
3422 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
3423 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3424 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
3425 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
3426 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
3427 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
3429 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
3430 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3431 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
3432 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
3433 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
3435 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3436 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
3437 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3438 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
3439 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
3440 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3441 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
3443 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
3444 parameters correctly.
3445 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
3446 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
3447 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
3449 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
3452 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
3453 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
3454 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
3455 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
3457 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
3458 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
3459 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
3460 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
3461 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
3462 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
3463 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
3464 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3465 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
3467 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
3468 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3470 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
3472 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
3473 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
3474 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3475 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
3477 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
3478 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3479 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
3480 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
3481 (reported by David Morse)
3482 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
3483 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3484 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
3485 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3486 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
3487 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3488 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
3489 now exists, an signals an error.
3490 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
3491 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
3492 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3493 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
3494 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3495 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
3496 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
3497 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3498 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
3499 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3500 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
3501 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
3503 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
3504 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
3505 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
3506 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
3507 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3508 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
3509 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
3510 specialized array element types.
3511 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
3512 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3513 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
3514 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3515 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
3516 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
3517 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
3518 Wragg for the simple test case)
3519 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3520 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
3522 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
3523 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
3524 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
3525 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
3526 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
3528 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
3530 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
3531 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
3532 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
3533 references to global functions.
3534 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
3536 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
3538 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
3539 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3540 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
3541 supported platforms.
3542 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
3543 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
3544 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3545 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
3546 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
3547 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3548 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
3549 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3550 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
3551 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
3552 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
3553 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
3554 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
3556 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
3557 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3558 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
3559 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
3560 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
3561 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
3563 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
3564 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
3566 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
3567 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
3568 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
3569 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3570 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
3571 returns the right answer.
3572 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
3574 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
3576 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
3577 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
3579 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
3580 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
3582 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
3583 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
3584 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
3585 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
3586 the supported interface.
3587 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
3588 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
3589 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3590 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
3591 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
3592 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
3593 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
3594 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3595 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
3596 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
3597 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
3598 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
3599 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3600 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
3601 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
3602 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
3603 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
3604 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
3605 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
3606 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
3607 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
3608 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
3609 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
3610 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
3611 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
3612 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
3613 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3614 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
3615 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
3617 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
3618 * incompatible change: the internal functions
3619 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
3620 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
3621 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
3622 instead of the old functions.
3623 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
3624 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
3626 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
3627 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
3629 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
3630 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
3631 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
3632 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
3634 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
3635 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3636 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
3637 (reported by Rick Taube)
3638 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
3639 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
3640 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
3641 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
3643 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
3644 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
3645 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
3646 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
3647 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3648 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
3649 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
3650 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
3651 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
3652 represented relative to default pathnames.
3653 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
3654 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
3655 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
3657 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
3658 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
3659 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
3661 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3662 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
3663 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
3664 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
3666 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
3668 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
3669 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
3670 conditional newlines.
3671 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
3672 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
3673 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
3675 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
3676 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
3678 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
3679 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
3680 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
3681 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
3682 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
3683 compiled in unconditionally.
3684 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
3685 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
3686 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
3687 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
3688 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
3690 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
3691 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
3692 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
3693 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
3694 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
3695 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
3696 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
3697 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
3698 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
3699 an implementation-internal package.
3700 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
3702 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
3703 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
3704 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
3705 bodies are now more legible.
3706 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
3707 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
3708 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
3709 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
3710 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3711 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
3712 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
3714 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
3715 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
3716 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
3717 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
3718 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
3719 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
3720 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
3721 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
3722 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
3723 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
3725 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
3726 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
3727 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
3728 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
3729 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
3730 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
3731 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
3732 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
3733 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
3734 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
3735 system even when most of them are idle
3736 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
3737 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3738 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
3740 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
3741 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
3742 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
3743 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
3744 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
3746 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
3747 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
3748 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
3749 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
3750 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
3751 string for information on the protocol.
3752 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
3753 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
3755 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
3756 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
3758 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
3759 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
3760 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
3761 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
3762 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
3763 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
3765 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
3766 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
3768 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
3769 move between its address being taken and the call to
3770 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
3771 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
3772 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
3773 instances corresponding to C structs.
3775 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
3776 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
3777 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
3778 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
3779 has implications for memory management of client code
3780 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
3781 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
3782 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
3783 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
3784 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
3785 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
3786 quality should be considered deprecated.
3787 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
3788 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
3789 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
3790 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
3791 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
3793 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
3794 designator as the defaults argument.
3795 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
3796 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
3797 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3798 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
3799 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
3801 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
3803 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
3804 (thanks to Zach Beane)
3805 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
3806 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
3807 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3808 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
3810 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
3811 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3812 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
3813 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
3814 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
3815 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
3816 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3817 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
3818 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
3819 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
3820 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
3821 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3822 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
3823 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
3824 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
3825 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
3826 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
3828 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
3829 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
3830 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
3832 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
3833 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3834 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
3835 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
3836 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
3837 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
3838 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3839 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
3840 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
3842 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
3843 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
3845 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
3846 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
3848 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
3849 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3850 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
3851 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
3853 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
3854 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
3855 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3856 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
3857 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
3858 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
3859 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
3860 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
3862 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
3863 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
3864 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
3866 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
3867 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
3869 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3870 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
3872 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
3873 from local to shared slots.
3874 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
3875 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
3876 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
3877 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
3879 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
3880 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
3881 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
3882 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
3883 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
3884 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
3885 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
3886 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
3887 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
3889 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
3891 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
3893 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
3894 print using #P"..." syntax.
3896 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
3897 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
3898 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
3899 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
3900 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
3901 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
3902 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
3903 * [placeholder for DX summary]
3904 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
3905 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
3906 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
3907 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
3908 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
3909 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
3910 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
3911 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
3912 the test case to Dave Roberts)
3913 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
3914 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
3915 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
3916 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
3917 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
3918 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
3919 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
3920 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3921 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
3922 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
3923 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
3924 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
3925 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3926 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
3927 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
3930 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
3931 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
3932 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
3933 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
3934 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
3935 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
3936 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
3937 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
3938 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
3939 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3940 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
3941 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
3942 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
3944 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
3945 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
3947 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
3948 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
3949 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3950 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
3951 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3952 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
3954 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
3955 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
3956 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
3958 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
3960 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
3962 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
3963 their output stream on EOF from read.
3964 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
3965 have been read to end-of-file.
3966 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
3968 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
3969 description of determination of which consecutive characters
3971 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
3972 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
3973 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3974 less than 10 works correctly.
3975 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3976 more than 10 works correctly.
3977 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
3978 the readtable currently in effect.
3980 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
3981 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
3982 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
3983 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
3984 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
3985 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
3986 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
3987 should usually be replaced by
3988 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
3989 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
3990 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
3991 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
3992 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
3993 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
3994 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
3995 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
3997 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
3998 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
3999 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4000 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
4001 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
4002 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4003 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
4004 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
4005 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
4006 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
4007 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
4008 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
4009 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
4011 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
4012 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
4013 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
4014 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4015 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
4016 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
4017 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
4018 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4019 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
4020 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
4021 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
4022 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
4023 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
4024 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
4025 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4026 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
4027 non-local entry points.
4028 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
4030 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4031 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
4033 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
4034 host is already defined.
4035 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
4037 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
4038 or not a character is whitespace.
4039 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
4040 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
4041 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
4043 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
4044 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
4046 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
4048 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
4049 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
4050 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
4051 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
4052 designator argument does not designate a stream.
4053 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
4054 examining the synonym.
4055 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
4057 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
4058 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
4060 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
4061 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
4062 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
4063 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
4064 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
4065 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
4066 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
4067 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
4068 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
4069 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4070 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
4071 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
4073 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
4074 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
4075 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4076 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
4077 stream position information.
4078 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
4079 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
4080 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
4081 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
4082 (reported by Paul Dietz)
4083 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
4085 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
4086 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
4088 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4089 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4090 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
4091 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
4092 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
4093 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
4094 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
4096 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
4098 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
4099 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
4100 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
4101 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
4102 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
4103 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
4104 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
4105 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
4106 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
4107 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
4108 the "SYS" logical host.
4109 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
4110 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
4111 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
4112 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
4113 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
4114 now each have their own history, command character, and other
4115 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4116 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4117 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
4119 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
4120 shift greater than 32.
4121 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
4122 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
4123 in some circumstances.
4125 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
4126 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
4127 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
4128 environments like SLIME.
4129 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
4130 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
4131 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
4132 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
4133 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
4134 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
4135 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
4136 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
4137 argument types for all arguments.
4138 * various threading fixes
4139 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
4140 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
4141 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
4142 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
4144 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
4145 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
4146 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
4147 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
4148 arguments to a full call.
4149 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
4150 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
4151 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
4152 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
4154 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
4155 inserts a space where necessary.
4156 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
4157 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
4158 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
4159 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
4160 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
4161 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
4162 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
4163 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
4164 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
4165 counter now raises a meaningful error.
4166 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
4167 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
4169 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
4170 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
4171 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
4173 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
4175 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4176 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
4177 argument and negative second.
4178 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
4179 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
4180 interval, containing 0.
4181 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
4183 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
4184 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
4186 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
4187 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
4188 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
4189 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
4190 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
4191 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
4192 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
4193 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
4194 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
4195 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
4196 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
4197 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
4198 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
4199 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
4200 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
4201 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
4202 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
4203 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
4204 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
4205 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
4206 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
4207 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4208 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
4209 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
4210 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
4211 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
4212 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
4213 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
4214 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
4216 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
4217 platform now returns the right answer.
4218 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
4219 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
4220 precomputation is now tunable.
4221 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
4222 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
4223 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
4224 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
4225 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
4226 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
4227 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
4228 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
4229 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
4230 has been added for the alpha.
4231 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
4232 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
4233 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
4234 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
4235 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
4236 MEMBER-types to numeric.
4237 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
4239 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
4240 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
4241 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
4243 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
4244 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4245 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
4246 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
4247 might be pseudo-atomic.
4248 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
4249 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
4251 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
4253 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
4255 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
4256 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
4257 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
4258 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
4259 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
4260 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
4262 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4263 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
4264 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
4265 small float arguments.
4266 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
4268 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
4269 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
4270 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
4271 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
4272 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
4273 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
4275 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
4277 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
4278 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
4279 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
4280 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
4281 with negative last argument.
4282 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
4283 an error during type derivation.
4284 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
4286 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
4287 generates a 32-bit binary.
4288 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
4289 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
4290 data structures referred to above).
4292 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
4293 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
4294 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
4295 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
4296 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
4297 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
4298 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
4299 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
4300 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
4301 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4302 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
4303 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
4305 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
4306 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
4308 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
4309 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
4310 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
4311 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
4312 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
4313 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
4314 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
4315 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
4316 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
4317 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
4318 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
4319 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4320 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
4321 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
4322 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
4323 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
4324 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
4325 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4326 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
4327 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
4328 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
4329 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
4330 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4331 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
4332 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
4333 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
4334 optimization quality.
4335 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
4336 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
4337 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
4338 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
4339 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4340 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4341 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
4342 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
4343 types form a lattice under type intersection.
4344 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
4345 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
4346 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
4347 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
4348 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
4349 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
4350 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
4351 calling the generic function.
4352 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
4353 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
4354 obscure ANSI requirements
4356 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
4357 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
4358 garbage, confusing the compiler.
4359 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
4360 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
4361 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
4362 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
4363 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
4364 circumstances could go off-by-one.
4365 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
4367 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
4368 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
4369 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
4370 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
4371 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
4372 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
4373 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
4374 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
4375 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
4376 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4377 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
4378 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
4379 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
4380 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
4381 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
4382 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
4383 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
4384 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
4385 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
4386 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
4388 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
4389 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
4390 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
4391 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
4393 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
4394 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
4395 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
4396 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
4397 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
4398 provide helpful disassembly notes.
4399 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
4400 the class in more cases than previously.
4401 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
4402 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4403 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
4404 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4405 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
4406 without lambda list.
4407 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
4408 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
4409 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4410 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
4411 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
4412 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
4414 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
4415 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
4416 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
4418 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
4419 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
4420 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
4421 were silently accepted).
4422 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
4423 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
4424 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
4425 to warn on static type mismatches and function
4426 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
4427 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
4428 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
4429 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
4430 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
4431 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
4432 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
4433 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
4434 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
4435 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
4437 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
4438 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
4439 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
4440 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
4441 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
4442 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
4444 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
4445 keywords or constants is permissible.
4446 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
4447 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
4448 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4449 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
4450 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
4451 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
4452 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
4453 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
4455 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
4456 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4457 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
4458 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
4459 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4460 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
4461 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
4463 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
4465 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
4466 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
4467 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
4468 respectively change and preserve the value.
4469 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
4470 is now better at handling symbol macros.
4471 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
4472 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
4473 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
4474 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
4475 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
4476 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
4477 their use properly signals an error now.
4478 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
4479 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
4480 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
4481 * fixed simple vector readable printing
4482 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
4483 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
4484 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
4485 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
4486 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
4487 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
4488 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4489 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
4490 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4491 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
4492 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
4493 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4494 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
4495 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
4496 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
4497 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
4498 causes a type error.
4499 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
4500 association between the name and a class.
4501 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
4502 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
4503 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4504 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
4505 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
4506 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
4508 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
4509 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
4510 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
4511 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
4513 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
4514 which its argument is a member.
4515 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
4516 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
4517 otherwise, it creates a new class.
4518 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
4519 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
4520 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
4521 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
4522 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4523 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
4525 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
4526 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
4527 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
4528 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
4529 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
4530 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
4531 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
4533 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
4534 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
4535 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
4536 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
4537 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
4538 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
4539 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
4540 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
4541 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
4542 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
4543 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
4544 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
4545 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4546 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
4548 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
4549 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
4550 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
4551 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
4552 superclasses are applied.
4553 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
4554 no method was removed.
4555 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
4556 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
4557 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
4558 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
4560 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
4562 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
4563 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
4564 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
4565 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
4566 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
4567 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
4568 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
4569 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
4570 function lambda list.
4571 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
4573 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
4574 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
4575 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
4576 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
4578 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
4579 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
4580 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
4581 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
4582 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
4583 they look for GNU "make".
4585 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
4586 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
4587 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
4588 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
4590 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
4591 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
4592 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
4593 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
4594 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
4595 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
4596 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
4597 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
4598 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
4599 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
4601 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
4602 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
4603 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
4604 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
4605 libraries, and will know who they are.
4606 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
4607 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
4608 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
4609 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
4610 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
4611 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
4612 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
4613 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
4615 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
4616 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
4617 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4618 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
4619 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
4620 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
4621 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
4622 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
4623 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
4624 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
4625 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4626 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
4628 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
4629 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
4630 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
4631 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
4632 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4633 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
4634 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
4635 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
4636 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
4638 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
4639 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
4640 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
4641 this you were probably losing anyway.
4642 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
4643 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
4644 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
4645 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
4646 with names from the CL package.
4647 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
4648 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
4649 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
4650 documentation string.
4651 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4652 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
4654 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
4655 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
4656 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
4657 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
4659 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
4660 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
4662 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
4663 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4664 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
4666 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
4667 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
4668 arguments contain duplicated elements.
4669 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
4670 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
4671 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
4672 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
4673 in question is unbound.
4674 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
4675 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
4676 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
4677 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
4678 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
4680 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
4682 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
4683 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
4684 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
4685 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
4686 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
4687 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
4688 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
4689 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
4690 by Antonio Martinez)
4691 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
4692 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4693 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
4694 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
4695 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
4696 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
4697 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
4698 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4699 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
4700 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
4701 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
4702 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
4703 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
4704 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
4705 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
4706 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
4707 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
4708 on malformed property lists;
4710 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
4711 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
4712 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
4713 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
4714 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
4715 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
4716 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
4717 modules in this release include:
4718 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
4719 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
4720 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
4721 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4722 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
4724 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
4725 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
4726 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4727 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4728 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
4729 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
4730 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
4731 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
4733 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
4734 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
4735 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
4736 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
4737 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
4738 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
4739 the lexical environment.
4740 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
4741 unprintable packages can now be defined.
4742 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
4743 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4744 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
4745 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4746 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
4747 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
4748 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
4749 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
4750 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
4751 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
4752 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
4753 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
4754 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4755 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
4756 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4757 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
4758 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
4759 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
4760 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4761 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
4762 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
4763 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
4764 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
4766 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
4767 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
4768 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
4769 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4770 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
4771 not just nonnegative fixnums;
4772 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
4773 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
4774 freshly-consed result bit-array);
4775 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
4777 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
4778 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
4780 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
4781 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
4782 cases are accurately computed;
4783 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
4784 if it is in the last clause;
4785 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
4787 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
4788 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
4789 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
4790 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
4792 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
4793 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
4794 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
4795 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
4796 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
4798 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
4799 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
4800 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
4801 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
4803 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4804 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
4805 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
4806 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
4807 not cause a type error;
4808 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
4810 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
4811 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
4812 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
4813 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
4814 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
4815 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
4816 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
4817 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
4819 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
4820 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
4821 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
4822 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
4823 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
4824 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
4826 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
4827 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
4829 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
4830 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
4831 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
4832 only for symbols in the CL package.
4833 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
4834 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4835 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
4836 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
4837 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
4839 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4840 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
4841 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
4842 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
4843 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
4844 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
4845 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
4846 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
4847 conditional loop clause;
4848 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
4849 signals a type error iff it should.
4850 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4851 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
4852 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
4853 argument) no longer signals an error;
4854 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
4855 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
4856 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
4858 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
4859 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
4860 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
4862 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
4863 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
4864 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
4865 functionality on said platforms verified.
4866 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
4867 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
4869 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
4870 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
4871 component indicating that directory.
4872 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
4873 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
4874 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
4875 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
4876 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4877 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
4879 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
4880 primary methods with no specializers;
4881 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
4883 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
4884 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
4885 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
4886 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
4888 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
4889 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
4890 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
4892 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
4893 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
4894 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
4895 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
4896 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
4897 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
4898 class STANDARD-CLASS;
4899 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
4900 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4901 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
4902 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
4904 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
4905 value producing form;
4906 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
4907 variables are bound and made to have no value;
4908 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
4910 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
4911 is not a valid sequence index;
4912 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
4913 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
4914 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4915 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
4917 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
4918 symbol-macro places;
4919 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
4920 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
4922 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
4924 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
4926 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
4927 invariant when deleting code.
4928 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
4929 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
4931 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
4932 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4933 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
4935 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
4936 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
4938 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
4939 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
4940 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4941 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
4943 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
4944 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4945 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
4946 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
4948 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
4949 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
4950 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
4951 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
4952 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4953 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
4954 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
4955 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
4956 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
4957 sbcl and .core files.)
4958 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
4959 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
4960 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
4961 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
4962 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
4963 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4964 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
4966 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
4967 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
4968 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
4969 argument precedence order.
4970 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
4971 derived types contradict their declared type.
4972 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
4973 so it can be non-toplevel.
4974 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
4975 implementation of DEFMACRO).
4976 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
4977 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
4978 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
4980 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
4981 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
4982 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
4983 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
4984 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
4985 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
4986 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
4987 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
4988 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
4989 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
4990 symbol macro only once
4991 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
4992 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
4993 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
4996 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
4997 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
4998 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
4999 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
5000 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
5001 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
5002 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
5003 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
5004 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
5005 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5006 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
5007 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
5009 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
5010 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
5011 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
5012 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
5013 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5014 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
5016 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
5018 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
5019 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
5020 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
5021 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
5022 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5023 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
5024 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
5025 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
5026 ways in different special cases
5027 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
5029 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
5030 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
5031 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
5032 are no longer optimized away.
5033 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
5034 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
5035 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
5036 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
5037 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
5038 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
5039 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
5040 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
5043 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
5044 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
5045 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
5046 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
5047 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
5048 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
5049 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
5051 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
5052 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
5053 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
5054 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
5055 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
5056 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
5057 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
5058 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
5059 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
5060 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
5061 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
5062 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
5063 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
5064 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
5065 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
5066 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
5067 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
5068 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5069 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
5070 that are names of constants or global variables.
5071 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
5072 alien routines with docstrings.
5073 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
5074 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
5076 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
5077 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
5078 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
5079 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
5080 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
5081 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5082 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
5083 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
5084 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
5085 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5086 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
5087 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
5088 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
5089 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
5090 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
5091 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
5092 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
5093 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
5094 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
5095 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
5096 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
5097 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
5098 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
5100 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
5101 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
5103 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
5104 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
5105 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
5106 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
5107 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
5108 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
5109 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
5110 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
5111 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
5112 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
5114 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
5115 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
5116 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
5117 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
5118 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
5119 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
5120 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
5121 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
5122 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
5123 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
5124 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
5125 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
5126 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
5127 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
5128 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
5129 is no longer a static symbol.)
5131 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
5132 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
5133 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
5134 bootstrapping under CLISP.
5135 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
5137 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
5138 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
5140 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
5141 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
5142 to David Lichteblau)
5143 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
5144 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
5145 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
5147 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
5148 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5149 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
5150 count as they should.
5151 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
5152 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5153 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
5154 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
5155 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
5156 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
5157 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
5158 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
5159 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
5160 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
5161 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
5162 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
5163 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
5164 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
5165 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
5167 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
5168 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
5169 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
5171 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
5173 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
5174 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
5175 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
5176 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
5177 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
5178 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5179 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
5181 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
5182 to Christophe Rhodes)
5183 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
5184 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
5185 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
5186 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
5187 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
5188 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
5189 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
5191 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
5192 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
5193 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
5194 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
5195 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
5196 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5197 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
5198 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
5199 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
5200 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
5201 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
5202 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
5203 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
5205 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
5206 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
5207 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
5208 INFO database to support symbol macros.
5209 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
5210 (thanks to coreythomas)
5211 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
5212 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
5213 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
5214 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
5215 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
5217 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
5218 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
5219 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
5220 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
5221 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
5222 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
5223 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
5224 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
5225 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
5226 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5227 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
5228 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
5229 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
5231 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
5232 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
5235 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
5236 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
5237 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
5238 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
5239 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
5240 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
5241 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
5242 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
5243 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
5244 systems than the old 4M value was)
5245 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
5246 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
5247 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
5248 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
5249 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
5250 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
5251 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
5253 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
5254 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
5255 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
5256 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
5257 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
5259 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
5260 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
5261 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5262 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
5263 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
5264 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
5265 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
5266 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
5268 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
5269 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5270 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
5271 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5272 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
5273 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
5274 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
5275 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
5277 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5278 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5279 * several changes related to debugging:
5280 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
5281 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
5282 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
5283 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
5284 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
5285 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
5286 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
5289 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
5291 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
5292 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
5293 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
5294 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
5295 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
5296 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
5297 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
5298 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
5300 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
5301 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
5302 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
5303 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5304 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
5305 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
5306 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
5307 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
5308 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
5309 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
5310 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
5311 file format number to change again.
5313 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
5314 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
5315 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
5316 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
5318 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
5319 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
5320 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
5321 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
5322 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
5323 FUNCALL on the result.
5324 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
5325 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
5326 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
5327 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
5328 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
5329 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
5330 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
5331 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
5333 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
5334 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
5335 the old compiler produced.
5336 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
5337 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
5338 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
5339 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
5340 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
5341 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
5342 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
5343 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
5344 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
5345 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
5346 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
5347 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
5348 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
5349 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
5350 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
5351 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
5352 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
5353 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
5354 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
5355 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
5356 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
5357 straightened out in some future version.)
5358 * minor incompatible changes:
5359 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
5360 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
5361 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
5362 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
5363 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
5364 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
5365 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
5366 implementation dependent:
5367 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
5368 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
5369 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
5370 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
5371 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
5372 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
5373 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
5374 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
5376 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
5378 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
5379 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
5380 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
5381 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
5382 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
5383 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
5384 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
5385 are no longer used for output.
5386 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
5387 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
5388 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
5389 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
5390 increasing it even more.)
5391 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
5392 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
5393 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
5395 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
5396 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
5397 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
5398 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
5399 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
5400 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
5401 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
5402 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
5403 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
5404 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
5405 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
5406 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
5407 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
5408 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
5409 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
5410 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
5411 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
5412 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
5413 compilation of code which calls such functions.
5414 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
5415 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
5416 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
5417 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
5418 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
5419 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
5420 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
5421 built into the system.
5422 * many other bug fixes
5423 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
5424 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
5425 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
5426 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
5427 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
5429 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
5430 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
5431 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
5432 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
5433 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
5434 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
5435 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
5436 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
5437 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
5438 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
5439 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
5441 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
5442 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
5443 and several other LOOP problems as well
5444 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
5445 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
5446 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
5447 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
5448 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
5449 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
5450 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
5451 *** a bug in APROPOS
5452 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
5453 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
5454 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
5455 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
5456 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
5457 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
5458 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
5459 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
5460 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
5461 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
5462 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
5463 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
5464 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
5465 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
5466 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
5468 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
5469 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
5470 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
5471 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
5472 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
5473 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
5474 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
5475 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
5476 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
5477 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
5478 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
5479 some of which are apparent above.
5481 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
5482 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
5483 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
5484 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
5485 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
5486 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
5487 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
5488 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
5489 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
5490 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
5491 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
5492 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
5493 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
5494 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
5495 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
5496 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
5497 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
5498 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
5499 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
5500 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
5501 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
5502 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
5503 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
5504 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
5505 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
5506 different return types.
5507 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
5508 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
5509 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
5510 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
5511 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
5512 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
5513 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
5514 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
5515 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
5516 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
5518 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
5519 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
5520 does the right thing.
5521 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
5522 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
5523 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5524 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
5525 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5526 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5527 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
5528 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
5529 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
5530 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
5531 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5532 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
5533 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5534 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
5535 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
5536 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
5537 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
5538 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
5539 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
5540 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
5541 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
5542 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
5543 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
5544 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
5545 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
5546 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
5547 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
5548 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
5549 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
5550 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
5551 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
5552 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
5553 since historically most system changes which required version
5554 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
5555 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
5558 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
5559 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
5560 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
5561 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
5562 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
5563 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
5564 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
5565 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
5566 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
5567 half a dozen others elsewhere
5568 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
5569 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
5570 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
5571 as flaky as they were.
5572 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
5573 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
5574 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
5575 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
5576 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
5577 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
5578 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
5579 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
5581 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
5582 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
5583 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
5584 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5585 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
5586 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
5587 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
5588 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
5589 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
5590 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
5591 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
5592 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
5593 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
5594 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
5595 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
5596 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
5597 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
5598 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
5599 more obscure bugs as well
5600 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
5601 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
5602 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
5603 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
5604 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
5605 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
5606 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
5607 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
5608 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
5609 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
5610 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
5612 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
5613 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
5615 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
5617 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5618 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
5619 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
5620 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
5621 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
5622 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
5623 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
5624 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
5625 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
5626 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
5627 are local in this sense.)
5628 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
5629 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
5630 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
5631 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
5632 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
5633 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
5634 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5635 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
5636 system's STREAM objects.
5637 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
5638 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5639 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
5640 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5641 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
5642 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
5643 environment from the original process instead of starting the
5644 new process in an empty environment.
5645 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
5646 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
5647 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
5648 for porting convenience.
5649 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
5650 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
5652 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
5654 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
5655 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
5656 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
5657 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
5658 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
5659 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
5660 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
5661 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
5662 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
5663 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
5664 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
5665 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5666 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
5667 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
5668 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
5669 many fewer weird special cases.
5670 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
5671 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
5672 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5673 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
5674 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
5675 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
5676 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
5677 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
5678 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
5679 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5680 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
5683 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
5685 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
5686 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
5687 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
5689 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
5690 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
5691 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
5692 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
5693 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
5694 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
5695 should be constructed the same way as before.
5696 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
5697 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
5698 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
5699 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
5700 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
5701 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
5702 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
5703 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
5704 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
5705 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
5706 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
5707 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
5708 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
5709 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
5710 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
5711 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
5712 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
5713 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
5714 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
5715 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
5716 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
5717 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
5719 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
5720 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
5721 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
5722 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
5723 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
5724 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
5725 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
5726 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
5728 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
5730 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
5731 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
5732 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
5733 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
5734 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
5736 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
5737 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
5738 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
5739 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
5740 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
5741 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
5742 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
5743 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
5744 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
5745 and Douglas Crosher.
5746 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
5747 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
5748 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
5750 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
5751 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
5752 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
5753 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
5754 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
5755 undefined function error.
5756 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
5757 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
5758 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
5759 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
5760 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
5761 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
5762 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
5763 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
5764 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
5765 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
5766 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
5767 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
5768 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
5770 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
5772 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
5773 CVS repository on my home machine).
5774 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
5775 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
5776 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
5777 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
5778 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
5779 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
5780 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
5781 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
5782 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
5783 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
5784 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
5785 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
5786 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
5787 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
5788 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
5789 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
5790 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
5791 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
5792 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
5793 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
5794 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
5795 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
5797 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
5798 FreeBSD have been added.
5799 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
5800 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
5801 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
5802 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
5803 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
5804 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
5806 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
5807 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
5808 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
5809 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
5810 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
5811 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
5812 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
5813 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
5815 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
5816 away by constant folding
5817 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
5818 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
5819 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
5820 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
5821 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
5822 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
5823 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
5824 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
5825 diff-related operations.
5826 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
5827 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
5829 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
5831 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
5832 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
5833 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
5834 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
5835 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
5836 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
5837 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
5838 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
5839 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
5840 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
5841 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
5842 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
5843 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
5844 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
5845 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
5846 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
5847 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
5848 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
5849 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
5850 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
5851 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
5852 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
5853 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
5854 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
5855 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
5856 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
5857 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
5858 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
5859 instead of (VALUES T T).
5860 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
5861 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
5862 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
5863 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
5864 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
5865 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
5866 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
5867 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
5868 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
5869 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
5870 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
5871 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
5872 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
5873 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
5874 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
5875 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
5876 type will be interpreted at runtime.
5877 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
5878 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
5879 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
5880 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
5881 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
5882 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
5883 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
5884 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
5885 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
5886 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
5887 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
5888 fasl files for cold load.
5889 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
5890 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
5891 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
5892 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
5893 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
5894 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
5895 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
5896 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
5897 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
5898 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
5899 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
5901 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
5902 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
5903 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
5904 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
5905 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
5906 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
5907 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
5908 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
5909 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
5910 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
5911 renamed some files to increase consistency.
5912 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
5913 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
5914 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
5915 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
5916 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
5917 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
5919 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
5921 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
5922 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
5923 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
5924 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
5925 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
5926 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
5927 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
5928 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
5929 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
5930 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
5931 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
5932 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
5933 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
5934 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
5935 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
5936 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
5937 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
5938 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
5940 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
5941 as required by ANSI.
5942 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
5943 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
5944 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
5945 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
5947 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
5948 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
5949 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
5950 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
5951 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
5952 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
5953 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
5954 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
5956 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
5957 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
5958 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
5959 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5961 is now basically equivalent to
5962 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5963 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
5965 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
5966 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
5967 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
5968 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
5969 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
5970 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
5971 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
5972 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
5973 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
5974 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
5975 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
5976 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
5977 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
5978 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
5979 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
5980 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5981 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
5982 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
5983 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
5984 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
5985 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
5986 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
5987 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
5989 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
5991 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
5992 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
5993 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
5994 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
5995 GNUMAKE environment variable.
5996 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
5997 can build without error under CMU CL.
5999 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
6001 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
6002 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
6003 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
6004 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
6005 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
6006 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
6007 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
6008 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
6009 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
6010 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
6011 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
6012 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
6013 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
6014 being initialized before the type system knew the final
6015 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
6016 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
6017 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
6018 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
6019 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
6020 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
6021 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
6022 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
6023 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
6024 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
6026 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
6027 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
6028 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
6029 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
6030 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
6031 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
6032 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
6033 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
6034 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
6035 it were currently supported.
6036 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
6037 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
6038 having to maintain patches.
6039 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
6040 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
6042 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
6044 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
6045 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
6046 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
6047 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
6048 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
6049 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
6050 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
6051 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
6052 * various new style warnings:
6053 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
6054 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
6055 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
6056 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
6057 as specified by ANSI.
6058 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
6059 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
6060 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
6061 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
6062 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
6063 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
6064 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
6065 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
6066 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
6067 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
6068 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
6069 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
6070 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
6071 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
6072 argument types can be determined at compile time.
6073 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
6074 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
6075 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
6076 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
6077 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
6078 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
6079 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
6082 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
6084 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
6085 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
6086 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
6087 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
6088 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
6089 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
6090 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
6091 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
6092 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
6094 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
6095 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
6096 the report form was printed.)
6097 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
6098 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
6099 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
6100 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
6101 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
6102 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
6103 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
6104 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
6105 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
6106 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
6107 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
6108 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
6109 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
6110 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
6111 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
6112 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
6113 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
6114 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
6115 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
6116 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
6117 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
6118 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
6119 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
6120 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
6121 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
6122 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
6123 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
6124 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
6125 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
6126 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
6127 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
6128 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
6129 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
6130 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
6131 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
6132 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
6133 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
6134 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
6135 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
6136 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
6137 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
6138 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
6139 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
6140 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
6141 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
6142 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
6143 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
6144 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
6145 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
6146 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
6147 know more about target types.
6148 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
6149 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
6150 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
6151 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
6152 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
6153 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
6155 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
6156 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
6157 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
6158 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
6159 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
6160 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
6161 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
6162 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
6163 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
6164 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
6165 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
6166 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
6167 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
6169 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
6172 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
6174 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
6175 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
6176 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
6177 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
6178 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
6179 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
6180 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
6181 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
6182 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
6183 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
6184 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
6185 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
6186 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
6187 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
6188 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
6189 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
6190 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
6191 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
6192 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
6193 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
6194 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
6195 invisible at the user level.)
6196 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
6197 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
6198 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
6200 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
6202 * tidied up "make.sh" script
6203 * tidied up system directory structure
6204 * better "clean.sh" behavior
6205 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
6206 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
6207 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
6208 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
6209 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
6210 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
6211 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
6212 * command line argument processing
6213 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
6214 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
6215 terminating SBCL on EOF
6216 * non-verbose GC by default
6217 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
6218 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
6219 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
6221 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
6222 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
6223 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
6224 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
6225 transformed along with everything else.
6226 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
6227 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
6228 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
6229 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
6230 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
6231 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
6232 debugging and testing purposes
6233 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
6234 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
6235 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
6236 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
6237 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
6238 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
6239 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
6241 * regularized formatting of source files
6242 * added an install.sh script
6243 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
6244 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
6245 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
6246 builds nicely on my old laptop.
6247 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
6248 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
6249 was not implemented)
6250 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
6251 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
6252 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
6253 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
6254 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
6256 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
6257 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
6258 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
6259 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
6260 COMPILE-FILE command)
6261 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
6262 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
6263 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
6264 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
6265 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
6266 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
6267 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
6268 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
6269 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
6270 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
6271 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
6272 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
6273 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
6274 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
6275 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
6277 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
6278 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
6279 known to be able to handle the current sources
6280 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
6281 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
6282 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
6283 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
6284 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
6285 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
6286 * removed host-oops.lisp
6287 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
6288 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
6289 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
6290 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
6291 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
6292 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by