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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.58:
3 * enhancement: New variable, sb-ext:*disassemble-annotate* for controlling
4 source annotation of DISASSEMBLE output. Defaults to T.
5 * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT of lists are faster and use fewer
6 comparisons, particularly on almost-sorted inputs.
7 * documentation: a section on random number generation has been added to the
10 changes in sbcl-1.0.58 relative to sbcl-1.0.57:
11 * enhancement: implicit generic function warnings now specify the package
12 in which the new generic function is being created.
13 * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-UPDATE makes it easy to perform non-destructive
14 updates of CAS-able places (similar to Clojure's swap!).
15 * enhancement: run-program no longer decodes and re-encodes environment when
16 :environment argument is not provided. (lp#985904)
17 * enhancement: errors during compiler-macro expansion no longer cause
18 runtime errors, only a compile-time warning, otherwise behaving as if
19 the compiler macro had declined to expand.
20 * optimization: On x86-64, code alignment of block headers is done with
21 multi-byte NOPs now instead of repetitions of the single-byte NOP.
22 * optimization: MAP-INTO is substantially faster when the target sequence is
23 of unknown type; mapping into lists is no longer O(N^2). (lp#1001043,
24 thanks to James M. Lawrence)
25 * optimization: the compiler no longer heap-conses to check exits in cases
26 where the exit function is dynamic extent, or when it can prove the exit
27 function cannot escape. (lp#1002534)
28 * optimization: SB-SEQUENCE:DOSEQUENCE is faster on vectors of unknown
29 element type, and vectors that aren't SIMPLE-ARRAYs.
30 * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT are more efficient in execution
31 speed (around 1/3 the time in some cases), and a little better in terms of
32 comparison calls. (Thanks to Takeru Ohta)
33 * bug fix: On SPARC, a limitation on the number of code constants emittable
34 by the compiler has been lifted, allowing certain long functions to
35 compiled and assembled which had previously been unsupported; fixes
36 cl-bench on this ISA (lp#1008996).
37 * bug fix: potential for infinite recursion during compilation of CLOS slot
38 typechecks when dependency graph had loops. (lp#1001799)
39 * bug fix: error forms reported with some program-errors were not escaped
41 * bug fix: functions from EVAL are now on more equal footing with functions
42 from COMPILE. (lp#1000783, lp#851170, lp#922408)
43 * bug fix: ENSURE-GENERIC-METHOD-COMBINATION accepts method combination
44 objects as its :METHOD-COMBINATION argument, not just lists designating
45 method combinations. (lp#936513)
46 * bug fix: run-program no longer unconditionally uses /tmp/ for temporary
48 * bug fix: restore build on solaris/sparc. (lp#1008506)
49 * bug fix: an issue with LDB in the PowerPC backend has been resolved;
50 this fixes an issue found with cl-postgres (thanks to Tomas Hlavaty).
51 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-lists specifying non-keyword symbols
52 as keyword arguments no longer accidentally match unevaluated symbols
54 * bug fix: FORMAT used to loop infinitely in some cases when a COLINC
55 parameter was zero, now it signals an error. (lp#905817, fixed since
57 * bug fix: run-program with :pty t no longer makes the pty as the process's
59 * bug fix: spawning threads on OS X 10.8 no longer crashes the process
62 changes in sbcl-1.0.57 relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
63 * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes:
64 ** bug fix: the range and distribution of random integers could be
65 catastrophically wrong when the compiler derived the type of its
66 argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
67 ** bug fix: the distribution of random integers is now completely
68 uniform even when the specified limit is not a power of two.
69 (Previously some values could be about 0.1 % more probable than
70 others in the worst case.) (lp#309467)
71 ** RANDOM on large integer arguments is generally faster and conses
72 less than before; this is visible for fixnums above a length of
73 about 24 bits, but extremely so for bignums: the old implementation
74 used time and space quadratical in the size of the argument there,
75 the new one is linear.
76 * enhancement: redesigned protocol for quitting SBCL. SB-EXT:EXIT is the new
77 main entry point, SB-EXT:QUIT is deprecated.
78 * enhancement: additions to the SB-THREAD API: RETURN-FROM-THREAD,
79 ABORT-THREAD, MAIN-THREAD-P, and MAIN-THREAD.
80 * enhancement: FASL loading no longer grabs the world-lock.
81 * enhancement: GENCGC reclaims space more aggressively when objects being
82 allocated are a large fraction of the total available heap space.
84 * enhancement: backtraces show the correct number of arguments for frames
85 called with too many arguments.
86 * enhancement: support for abort(3), exit(3), and _exit(2) has been added to
88 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.21.
89 * optimization: fewer uses of full calls to signed modular functions.
91 * optimization: typechecking alien values is typically 5 x faster.
92 * optimization: FDEFINITION, SYMBOL-FUNCTION, MACRO-FUNCTION, and FBOUNDP
94 * bug fix: file compilation performance issues when dumping subtypes
95 of CHARACTER (lp#994487)
96 * bug fix: fixed disassembly of some SSE instructions on x86-64.
97 * bug fix: SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS signals an error for bogus :CLASS arguments in
98 OPEN. (lp#969352, thanks to Kambiz Darabi)
99 * bug fix: CASE normal-clauses do not allow T and OTHERWISE as keys.
101 * bug fix: (SETF (FIND-CLASS X) NIL) removed proper name of the underlying
102 classoid even if X was not the proper name of the class. (lp#941102)
103 * bug fix: declaration leakage between lexical environments due to careless
104 use of NCONC in MAKE-LEXENV. (lp#924276)
105 * bug fix: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST now works when
106 *default-pathname-defaults* contains NAME or TYPE components.
107 * bug fix: PPRINT couldn't print improper lists with CARs being some symbols
108 from CL package, e.g. (loop . 10).
109 * bug fix: run-program with existent or non-existent files for :output or
110 :input when :if-output-exists or :if-input-does-not-exist are NIL properly
111 returns NIL instead of signalling an obscure error.
112 * bug fix: fix miscompilation of some logand forms with large constant
113 arguments. (lp#974406)
114 * bug fix: account for funcallable-instance objects properly in ROOM.
115 * bug fix: incorrect octets reported for c-string decoding errors.
117 * bug fix: miscompilation of LDB on the PowerPC platform. (thanks to Bruce
119 * bug fix: better input error reporting for COMPILE-FILE. (lp#493380)
120 * bug fix: default size of non-nursery generations has been shrunk on GENCGC,
121 allowing faster release of memory back to the OS. (lp#991293)
122 * bug fix: WITH-DEADLINE (:SECONDS NIL :OVERRIDE T) now drops any
123 existing deadline for the dynamic scope of its body.
124 * bug fix: compiler-internal interval arithmetic needed to be more
125 conservative about open intervals when operated on by monotonic but not
126 strictly-monotonic functions. (lp#975528)
127 * bug fix: copy-tree caused stack exhaustion on long linear lists, and now
128 it's also slightly faster. (lp#998926)
129 * bug fix: better error messages for malformed declarations.
131 * bug fix: define-condition didn't return the name of the defined condition.
133 ** improved docstrings: REPLACE (lp#965592)
135 changes in sbcl-1.0.56 relative to sbcl-1.0.55:
136 * bug fix: fix copy-structure. When copying from stack to heap, garbage
137 could end up in the heap making GC unhappy.
138 (Thanks to James Knight, lp#911027)
140 ** SBCL can now be built using Clang.
141 ** ASDF has been updated 2.20.
142 * bug fix: compiler errors when weakening hairy integer types. (lp#913232)
143 * bug fix: don't complain about a too-hairy lexical environment for inlining
144 when the function has never been requested for inlining. (lp#963530)
146 changes in sbcl-1.0.55 relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
147 * enhancements to building SBCL using make.sh:
148 ** --fancy can be specified to enable all supported feature enhancements.
149 ** --with-<feature> and --without-<feature> can be used to specify
150 which features to build with.
151 ** --arch option can be used to specify the architecture to build for.
152 (Mainly useful for building 32-bit SBCL's on x86-64 hosts, not
153 full-blows cross-compilation.)
154 * enhancement: extended package prefix syntax <pkgname>::<form-in-package>
155 which allows specifying name of the default interning package for the
157 * enhancement: when *READ-EVAL* is true, arrays with element type other than
158 T can be printed readably using #.-based syntax. (Thanks to Robert Brown)
159 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN signals a storage-condition instead of returning a
160 null alien when malloc() fails. (lp#891268)
161 * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-UNREADABLY restart for PRINT-NOT-READABLE
162 conditions can be conveniently accessed through function with the same
163 name, analogously to CONTINUE.
164 * enhancement: SB-EXT:*SUPPRESS-PRINT-ERRORS* can be used to suppress errors
165 from the printer by type, causing an error marker to be printed instead.
166 (Thanks to Attila Lendvai)
167 * enhancement: BACKTRACE and DESCRIBE now bind *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T, and
168 generally behave better when errors occur during printing.
169 * enhancement: the test runner now takes a --report-skipped-tests argument
170 to report the individual tests skipped as well as the number of skipped
172 * enhancement: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
173 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on x86oids.
174 * enhancement: detected deadlocks no longer cause stderr to be spammed, and
175 deadlock errors are reported in an easier-to-decipher manner.
176 * enhancement: DESCRIBE on type designators reports the expansion in more
178 * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or
179 :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack
180 of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to Luís Oliveira, lp#901661)
181 * enhancement: better disassembly of segment-prefixes on x86 and other
182 instruction prefixes (e.g. LOCK) on x86 and x86-64.
183 * optimization: FIND and POSITION on bit-vectors are orders of magnitude
184 faster (assuming KEY and TEST are not used, or are sufficiently trivial.)
185 * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially
187 * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can
188 be stack-allocated. (lp#902351)
189 * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for
190 floating point constants used in full calls.
191 * optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to
192 single floats inline, except on x86 where this limitation is still
194 * optimization: truncation operations on integers with constant divisor
195 arguments 1 and -1 are optimized away.
196 * bug fix: deadlock detection could report the same deadlock twice, for
197 two different threads. Now a single deadlock is reported exactly once.
198 * bug fix: interval-arithmetic division during type derivation did not
199 account for signed zeros.
200 * bug fix: compiler error when typechecking a call to a function with
201 non-constant keyword arguments.
202 * bug fix: misoptimization of TRUNCATE causing erratic behaviour.
203 * bug fix: condition slot accessors no longer cause undefined function
204 style-warnings when used in the :REPORT clause of the DEFINE-CONDITION
205 form that defines them. (lp#896379)
206 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC warns about unsupported declarations, as specified
208 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP tests involving forward-referenced classes no longer
209 bogusly report NIL, T.
210 * bug fix: bogus style-warnings for DEFMETHOD forms that both declared some
211 required arguments ignored and performed assignments to others.
213 * bug fix: *EVALUATOR-MODE* :COMPILE treated (LET () ...) identically
214 to (LOCALLY ...) leading to internally inconsistent toplevel-formness.
215 * bug fix: non-toplevel DEFSTRUCT signaled a style warning for unknown type.
216 * bug fix: redefining a function whose previous definition contained an
217 unknown type no longer causes a style-warning. (lp#806243)
218 * bug fix: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
219 function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on non-x86oids.
220 * bug fix: backtraces are no longer cut off at ("undefined function") when
221 called under certain circumstances (involving a caller-allocated stack
223 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM leaked a file-descriptor per call on non-Windows
224 systems. (regression since 1.0.53)
225 * bug fix: GC deadlocks from dladdr() on certain platforms.
226 * bug fix: broken standard streams no longer automatically cause recursive
227 errors on debugger entry.
228 * bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size=<size> argument to make.sh
229 (regression since 1.0.53)
230 * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with
231 an external entry point caused compiler-errors.
232 * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument
233 no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function.
234 * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to
235 subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312)
236 * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some
237 forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351)
238 * bug fix: some of the compile-time side-effects of DEFCLASS were not caught
240 * bug fix: Proper handling of --dynamic-space-size option on 32 bit platforms.
242 changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
243 * minor incompatible changes:
244 ** RENAME-FILE on a symbolic links used to rename the linked-to file
246 ** DELETE-DIRECTORY on symbolic link to a directory used to delete the
247 directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve the
248 pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE if
249 you wish to delete the
250 ** The internal SB-THREAD::SPINLOCK API has been deprecated, and using
251 symbols associated with it will trigger a compile-time warning.
252 * thread-related enhancements:
253 (This work has been funded by the SBCL Threading 2011 IndieGoGo campaign.
254 Many thanks to generous donors!)
255 ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still don't
256 consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to enable them by
257 default, but they're in a clearly better shape now.
258 ** Deadlines supported now on all platforms.
259 ** All blocking functions in the threading API now have a :TIMEOUT
261 ** Semaphore notification objects have been added to SB-THREAD.
262 ** SB-CONCURRENCY contrib now includes Allegro-style GATE objects.
263 ** SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP has been extended to support SLOT-VALUE,
264 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
265 ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP
266 using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places.
267 * GC-related enhancements and bug fixes:
268 ** --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size now understand Kb, Mb,
269 and Gb suffixes. Default is megabytes as before.
270 ** on GENCGC targets, the default dynamic space size is now 512Mb for
271 32-bit systems, and 1Gb for 64-bit systems. (OpenBSD/x86-64 is the only
272 exception, defaulting to mere 444Mb to fit under default ulimits.) The
273 new defaults are in place to prevent hitting swap on low-end systems.
274 Use build-time option --dynamic-space-size to build an SBCL with
275 another default, or the runtime option to adjust the size at startup: a
276 good size is at most equal to the amount of physical memory the system
278 ** on GENCGC targets, nursery and generation sizes now default to 5% of
280 ** on GENCGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ no longer categorically
281 refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects.
282 ** on 64-bit GENCGC targets, setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works.
284 ** on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does the same
285 validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a
286 comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces.
287 * SB-BSD-SOCKETS bug fixes:
288 ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak.
289 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on
290 systems with getaddrinfo().
291 ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt
292 safe outside systems with getaddrinfo().
293 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated 2.019.
294 * enhancement: special-case TCO prevention for functions which never return
295 extended to untrusted types, keeping one more frame's worth of debug
296 information around in many cases.
297 * enhancement: debug-names of anonymous and local function are more
298 descriptive. Affects backtraces and SB-SPROF results. (lp#805100)
299 * enhancement: on win32, ABS of complex floats guards better against
300 overflows. (lp#888410)
301 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM now distinguishes exec() failing from child
302 process exiting with code 1. (lp#676987)
303 * enhancement: convenience function SET-SBCL-SOURCE-LOCATION for informing
304 the system where on the filesystem the SBCL sources themselves are
305 located. (Thanks to Zach Beane)
306 * enhancement: the compiler is now able to derive tighter bounds for
307 floating point numbers in some cases. (Thanks to Lutz Euler, lp#894498)
308 * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation
309 correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220)
310 * bug fix: (DIRECTORY "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that
311 resolved to directories.
312 * bug fix: type mismatch when assigning to lexical variables no longer
313 result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. (lp#890750)
314 * bug fix: type mismatch on (SETF AREF) and function return values no
315 longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects.
316 * bug fix: With several combinations of argument types, for example (EXPT
317 <integer> <(complex double)>), EXPT now uses double-precision throughout
318 instead of partially calculating only to single-precision. (lp#741564;
319 thanks to Lutz Euler)
320 * bug fix: SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD is no longer able to construct bogus
321 objects when interrupted by GC on PPC.
323 changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52:
324 * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,
325 the parameter n-fixnum-tag-bits may now vary from 1 (fixnum =
326 (signed-byte 63)) to 3 (fixnum = (signed-byte 61)) at build-time.
327 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WAIT-FOR allows waiting for arbitrary events.
328 * minor(?) incompatible(?) change: The default fixnum width on 64-bit
329 targets is now 63 bits (up from 61).
330 * enhancement: DESCRIBE now reports a lambda-list and source location
331 for complext setf-expanders.
332 * bug fix: PUSH, PUSHNEW, POP, REMF, INCF, DECF, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO,
333 GETF, LOGBITP, LDB, and MASK-FIELD now arrange for non-primary values
334 of multiple-valued places to be set to NIL, instead of signalling an
335 error (per a careful reading of CLHS 5.1.2.3).
336 * bug fix: floating-point traps now work on darwin/x86 and /x86-64.
337 * bug fix: repair crash in x86oid darwin signal handling emulation
338 when built with certain compilers.
339 * bug fix: SB-ROTATE-BYTE misrotated to the right when using constant
340 rotation arguments on x86-64. (lp#882151)
341 * bug fix: low-level control flow optimisations could result in bogus
342 code in functions with tail and non-tail calls to local functions on
344 * bug fix: on SPARC/:sb-unicode, avoid crashing the assembler by trying
345 to emit literal characters > (code-char 4095), for comparisons with
347 * bug fix: ROOM reported only the low 32 bits of dynamic space usage
348 on 64 bit platforms. (lp#881445)
349 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE did not MERGE-PATHNAMES, making it possible to
350 delete the wrong file when using relative pathnames. (lp#882877)
351 * bug fix: optimized SEARCH of vectors-on-vectors mishandled zero-length
352 sequences and :KEY NIL.
354 changes in sbcl-1.0.52 relative to sbcl-1.0.51:
355 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.017.
356 * enhancement: the --core command line option now accepts binaries with
358 * enhancement: when built with :sb-core-compression, core files (regular
359 or executable) can be compressed with zlib. Use the :COMPRESSION
360 argument to SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE to specify a compression level.
361 * enhancement: --[no-]merge-core-pages determines whether the runtime
362 hints the operating system that identical core pages between SBCL
363 processes should share the same physical memory. Default is to only
364 enable this for compressed cores.
365 * optimization: SLEEP no longer conses.
366 * optimization: *PRINT-PRETTY* no longer slows down printing of strings
367 or bit-vectors when using the standard pretty-print dispatch table.
368 * bug fix: non-function FTYPE declarations no longer cause a compiler-error.
370 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by MEMBER types in conjunction with with
371 AREF, CHAR, etc. (lp#826971)
372 * bug fix: compiler-errors causes by integer arguments with composed of
373 multiple ranges to ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P. (lp#826970)
374 * bug fix: ,@ and ,. now signal a read-time error for certain non-list
375 expressions. (lp#770184)
376 * bug fix: complex single float literals are correctly aligned when used
377 as arguments of arithmetic operators.
378 * bug fix: on 32-bit platforms, rounding of double floats larger than a
379 fixnum is correct. (reported by Peter Keller)
380 * bug fix: stray FD-HANDLERs are no longer left lying around after unwinds
381 from RUN-PROGRAM. (lp#840190, reported by Dominic Pearson; fix from Max
383 * bug fix: redefining classes such that slots with custom allocation are
384 added or removed works again.
386 changes in sbcl-1.0.51 relative to sbcl-1.0.50:
387 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKET socket streams no longer
388 participate in SERVE-EVENT by default: pass :SERVE-EVENTS T to
389 MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM if using SERVE-EVENT.
390 * enhancement: added support for socket keepalive timeout intervals
391 and probe counts on Linux.
392 * enhancement: building 32-bit SBCL on Linux/x86-64 now works without a
393 chroot. (Use "SBCL_ARCH=x86 sh make.sh" to build.)
394 * enhancement: added new toplevel options --quit and --non-interactive
396 * enhancement: the Windows port of SBCL now builds and runs on Wine
397 (thanks to Anton Kovalenko).
398 * enhancement: more, and more correct, SSE instruction definitions on
399 x86-64 (thanks to Alexander Gavrilov).
400 * enhancement: SB-EXT:SPIN-LOOP-HINT assembles to an instruction designed
401 to help the processor execute spin loops, when applicable. Currently
402 implemented for x86 and x86-64.
403 * optimization: unsigned integer divisions by a constant are implemented
404 using multiplication (affects CEILING, FLOOR, TRUNCATE, MOD, and REM.)
405 * optimization: improved type-derivation for LOAD-TIME-VALUE.
406 * bug fix: correct RIP offset calculation in SSE comparison and shuffle
407 instructions. (lp#814688)
408 * bug fix: COERCE to unfinalized extended sequence classes now works.
409 (reported by Jan Moringen; lp#815155)
410 * bug fix: a compiler error during typecheck generation, reported by Eric
412 * bug fix: obsolete instance protocol fires when shared slots are added
414 * bug fix: fixed-format floating point printing with scaling factors.
416 * bug fix: using GCC >= 4.6 to build SBCL on x86 no longer breaks
417 backtraces. (lp#818460)
418 * bug fix: better backtraces for interrupted syscall frames on x86.
420 * bug fix: SSE comparison instructions can be disassembled even when one
421 operand is in memory. (lp#814702)
422 * bug fix: incomplete writes when not using SERVE-EVENTS. (lp#820599)
423 * bug fix: MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND + VALUES -> LET conversion could lose derived
424 type information associated with the VALUES form.
425 * bug fix: broken warnings/errors for type-errors involving LOAD-TIME-VALUE
427 * bug fix: OPEN :IF-EXISTS :APPEND now returns correct FILE-POSITION before
428 first write (lp#561642).
429 * bug fix: compiled closures from EVAL could not be DESCRIBEd. (lp#824974)
430 * bug fix: bound propagation involving conversion of large bignums to
431 floats no longer signals a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR, reported by Lutz Euler.
433 * bug fix: &REST to &MORE conversion still works in unsafe call to known
434 functions; reported by Lutz Euler (lp#826459).
435 * bug fix: bogus deadlocks from interrupts and GCs. (lp#807475, regression
438 changes in sbcl-1.0.50 relative to sbcl-1.0.49:
439 * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove
440 the offending handler.
441 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works on structure
443 * enhancement: location of user or system initialization file can now easily
444 be customized for saved cores. See: SB-EXT:*USERINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*
445 and SB-EXT:*SYSINIT-PATHNAME-FUNCTION*.
446 * enhancement: SB-EXT:MAKE-THREAD accepts an argument list designator for
447 the thunk, as a keyword argument, :arguments.
448 * enhancement: constraint propagation is simplified (and sped up) when
449 COMPILATION-SPEED > SPEED.
450 * enhancement: SB-ALIEN exports alien type specifiers SIZE-T and OFF-T.
451 * enhancement: debugger understands &MORE arguments better.
452 * optimization: extracting bits of a single-float on x86-64 has been
453 optimized. (lp#555201)
454 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are more efficient for non-simple vectors,
455 when (> SPEED SPACE).
456 * optimization: local call trampolines (x86 and x86-64) are emitted
458 * optimization: implicit value cells for dynamic-extent closed-over bindings
459 on x86 and x86-64 can hold unboxed values as well.
460 * meta-optimization: improved compilation speed, especially for large
461 functions. (lp#792363 and lp#394206)
462 * bug fix: bound derivation for floating point operations is now more
463 careful about rounding possibly closing open bounds. (lp#793771)
464 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:SYSCALL-ERROR's argument is now optional. (accidental
465 backwards incompatible change in 1.0.48.27)
466 * bug fix: occasional debugger errors in when a type-error occured in a
467 function with dynamic-extent &rest list.
468 * bug fix: &optional and &key supplied-p arguments in DEFSTRUCT
469 boa-construtors can be used to initialized structure slots.
470 * bug fix: FMAKUNBOUND removes the MACRO-FUNCTION, should one exist.
471 (lp#795705, regression)
472 * bug fix: DIRECTORY works better on logical pathnames.
473 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM no longer fails spuriously when argument strings
474 are of the order of ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT. (lp#787237)
475 * bug fix: the compiler no longer constant-folds NaNs in
476 MAKE-{SINGLE,DOUBLE}-FLOAT. (lp#486812)
477 * bug fix: FORMAT now handles floating point rounding correct, eg.
478 (format nil "~,1F" 0.01) => "0.0" instead of "0.01" as previously.
480 * bug fix: style warning during lambda-list introspection of generic
481 functions with both optional and key argments.
482 * bug fix: regalloc doesn't barf on unused TNs due to type-directed constant
484 * bug fix: Fixed an off-by-one in MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS that might have caused
487 changes in sbcl-1.0.49 relative to sbcl-1.0.48:
488 * minor incompatible change: WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE no longer disables
489 interrupts for its body.
490 * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as
491 source, compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files.
492 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :SOURCE-NAMESTRING allows providing
493 virtual source-file information, eg. overriding input-file of COMPILE-FILE
494 when a temporary file is used for compilation.
495 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.3.
496 * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator are
498 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM works with user-defined binary input and output
500 * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime errors for
501 type-errors detected at compile-time.
502 * enhancement: deadlock detection for mutexes and spinlocks.
503 * enhancement: dynamic-extent for &rest lists stack allocate only their
504 spines, not their argumets. While portable code should not rely on this,
505 particularly in combination with inlining, it should make dynamic-extent
506 easier to use safely.
507 * enhancement: SB-POSIX improvements:
508 ** WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are exported.
509 ** SYSCALL-ERROR now also provides the name of the failing system call.
510 * enhancement: --script improvements:
511 ** errors on standard input, output, and error streams are handled and
512 cause scripts to exit silently, making them easier to use in shell
514 ** backtraces from scripts now go to standard error instead of the
515 terminal even if one is available.
516 ** --script can be an argument, causing the script to be loaded from
518 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING provides an easy way to transport lisp
519 strings to foreign memory.
520 * enhancement: (SETF GC-LOGFILE) allows logging garbage collections to
521 a file, making it easier to understand heap dynamics.
522 * optimization: using a &REST argument only in APPLY or VALUES-LIST calls
523 allows the compiler to automatically elide rest-list allocation so long as
524 the call sites are in functions that the compiler knows cannot escape.
526 * optimization: CALL-NEXT-METHOD using explicit arguments is faster,
527 especially in safe code when none of the required arguments have changed
529 * bug fix: blocking reads from FIFOs created by RUN-PROGRAM were
530 uninterruptible, as well as blocking reads from socket streams created
531 with for which :SERVE-EVENTS NIL. (regression from 1.0.42.43)
532 * bug fix: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR now removes dispatch-macro character syntax
533 from the to-char if the from-char is not a dispatch-macro character.
534 * bug fix: references to undefined variables in function calls that are
535 optimized away now signal a runtime error. (lp#722734)
536 * bug fix: miscompilation of MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL when asserting derived
537 types from a function defined in the same file. (regression from
539 * bug fix: TRULY-THE forms are now macroexpandable and setf-expandable.
541 * bug fix: spurious errors during QUIT when standard streams were closed.
543 changes in sbcl-1.0.48 relative to sbcl-1.0.47:
544 * incompatible change: SB!KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA, deprecated for over five
545 years, is now no longer supported.
546 * enhancement: read() and write() have been added to SB-POSIX.
547 * enhancement: types of DEFSTRUCT constructors are proclaimed more
548 accurately, allowing better typechecking of call-sites.
549 * enhancement: errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
550 are no longer caught. (reverted to pre 1.0.34 behaviour)
551 * optimization: slightly faster ISQRT. (lp#713343)
552 * bug fix: better support for Solaris /bin/sh in sh-based tests.
553 * bug fix: TRACE behaves better when attempting to trace undefined
554 functions. (lp#740717)
555 * bug fix: missed optimizations for (FUNCALL (LAMBDA ...) ...) in comparison
556 to (FUNCALL #'(LAMBDA ...) ...).
557 * bug fix: ((LAMBDA ...) ...) forms with invalid argument counts resulted in
558 a compile-time error. (lp#720382)
559 * bug fix: forms such as (FUNCALL (FUNCTION NAME OOPS) ...) were compiled
561 * bug fix: less verbose source forms for functions from EVAL. (lp#747485)
562 * bug fix: sense of SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS was inverted in a MAKE-INSTANCE
563 optimization. (regression from 1.0.45.18/1.0.46.15)
564 * bug fix: package locks did not protects against compile-time side-effects
565 of DEFUN. (lp#675584)
566 * bug fix: --dynamic-space-size argument is validated more carefully.
568 * bug fix: memory fault from printing a malformed simple-condition.
570 * bug fix: redefining classes so that slot-definition classes change now
571 engages the obsolete instance protocol. (lp#766271)
572 * bug fix: constant improper lists could break source coverage recording.
574 * bug fix: compiling calls to eg. MEMBER with massive constant list arguments
577 changes in sbcl-1.0.47 relative to sbcl-1.0.46:
578 * bug fix: fix mach port rights leaks in mach exception handling code on
579 darwin/x86 and /x86-64. (thanks to Willem Oudshoorn for motivation and the
581 * enhancement: --script muffles style-warnings and compiler notes. (lp#677779)
582 * enhancement: redefinition warnings for macros from different files. (lp#434657)
583 * enhancement: better MACHINE-VERSION on Darwin x86 and x86-64. (lp#668332)
584 * enhancement: (FORMAT "foo" ...) and similar signal a compile-time warning. (lp#327223)
585 * enhancement: no more "in: LAMBDA NIL" messages from the compiler for forms
586 processed using EVAL -- now the appropriate toplevel form is reported instead.
587 * enhancement: more legible style-warnings for inappropriate IGNORE and IGNORABLE
588 declarations. (lp#726331)
589 * enhancement: :NOT-NULL option has been added to alien C-STRING type to indicate
590 that NIL/NULL is excluded from the type.
591 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:MAP-ROOT allows mapping over pointers contained in
593 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are faster in the presence of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS
595 * optimization: core startup time is reduced by 30% on x86-64. (lp#557357)
596 * bug fix: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST guards against potentially leaking
597 stack-allocated values out of their dynamic-extent. (lp#310175)
598 * bug fix: attempts to use SB-SPROF for wallclock profiling on threaded
599 x86-64 builds caused a type-error.
600 * bug fix: calling COMPILE with something else than a lambda-expression as the
601 second argument reports a more sensible error. (lp#718905)
602 * bug fix: invalid combinations of :PREDICATE and :TYPE options in DEFSTRUCT
603 are detected. (lp#520607)
604 * bug fix: constant keyword argument checking didn't take :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS
606 * bug fix: SLOT-BOUNDP information is correct during MAKE-INSTANCE in the
607 presence of (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS) and SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS
608 methods. (regression from 1.0.45.18)
609 * bug fix: INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods supplying initargs via
610 CALL-NEXT-METHOD work correctly. (regression from 1.0.45.19)
611 * bug fix: several foreign functions accepting string also accepted NIL and
612 consequently caused a memory fault at 0 now signal a type-error instead.
614 * bug fix: under rare circumstances, constraint propagation could rewrite a
615 variable reference to refer to a variable not in scope, causing an error
616 during physical environment analysis when attempting to close over the
617 variable. (lp#551227)
618 * bug fix: SIMPLE-CONDITION :FORMAT-CONTROL defaults to NIL.
620 changes in sbcl-1.0.46 relative to sbcl-1.0.45:
621 * enhancement: largefile support on Solaris.
622 * enhancement: SB-PROFILE:REPORT now supports :LIMIT and :PRINT-NO-CALL-LIST
623 arguments (lp#710017)
624 * enhancement: SB-PCL:+SLOT-UNBOUND+ is exported, making it possible to
625 distinguish unbound instance slots when using STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS
627 * optimization: ERROR and CERROR are approximately 5 times faster.
628 * optimization: optimized constructors are used for MAKE-INSTANCE of classes
629 with applicable non-standard (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS),
630 SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, and INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods, speeding
631 up instance creation in those cases.
632 * optimization: arithmetic operations with multiple constant arguments in now
633 have them reduced at compile-time. (lp#676414)
634 * optimization: determining current character position on string-streams for
635 pretty-printing was overly slow.
636 * bug fix: local tail calls to DYNAMIC-EXTENT functions can no longer cause
637 lifetime analysis to overwrite closed-over variables (lp#681092).
638 * bug fix: encoding errors from some multibyte external formats such as EUC-JP
639 were not handled correctly (lp#713063).
640 * bug fix: printing waitqueue objects without setting *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T is now
642 * bug fix: Solaris/x86-64 wasn't getting built with lutex support by
643 mistake. (lp#667297).
644 * bug fix: CONSTANTLY generated functions had bogus lambda-lists. (lp#713626)
645 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM :PTY option was racy on OpenBSD. (lp#669485)
646 * bug fix: UNINTERN takes a symbol, not a symbol designator -- could previously
647 unintern the wrong symbol with the same name. (lp#693796)
648 * bug fix: COPY-PPRINT-DISPATCH always has access to a pristine table,
649 making it possible to restore the initial table if it has been messed up.
652 changes in sbcl-1.0.45 relative to sbcl-1.0.44:
653 * enhancement: ~/ and ~user/ are treated specially in pathnames.
654 Refer to documentation for details.
655 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.010.
656 * optimization: mutated closed-over variables that are only accessed by
657 DYNAMIC-EXTENT closures (currently only FLET and LABELS functions
658 declared to be DYNAMIC-EXTENT) are stored directly in their containing
659 stack frame, rather than allocating a VALUE-CELL (lp#586103).
660 * optimization: UNWIND-PROTECT cleanup functions are now declared
662 * bug fix: backtracing function with &REST arguments now shows the full
663 argument list. (lp#310173)
664 * bug fix: return types for functions with complex lambda-lists are now
665 derived properly (lp#384892)
666 * bug fix: when SPEED > SPACE compiling CONCATENATE 'STRING with constant
667 long string arguments slowed the compiler down to a crawl.
668 * bug fix: closure VALUE-CELLs are no longer stack-allocated (lp#308934).
669 * bug fix: non-standard MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA methods could break RETURN-FROM
670 in the DEFMETHOD body.
671 * bug fix: #<SB-C::DEFINED-FUN ...> should no longer appear in compiler
672 messages, being instead replaced with the corresponding function name.
673 * bug fix: don't derive overly complex unions of numeric types for arithmetic
674 operators. (lp#309448)
676 changes in sbcl-1.0.44 relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
677 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
678 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
679 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
681 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
682 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
683 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
684 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
685 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
687 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
688 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
689 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
690 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
691 * enhancement: new function: SB-EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY is now provided.
692 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
693 addition member types.
694 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
695 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
696 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
697 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
698 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
700 * improvements to the Windows port:
701 ** change: canonical unparsing form for pathname namestrings now uses / as
702 directory separator. NATIVE-NAMESTRING still uses \ as the separator.
703 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
704 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
705 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
707 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
708 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
709 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
710 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
712 * bug fix: interrupts arriving during CL:OPEN caused an error.
713 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
714 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
715 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
716 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
717 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
718 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
719 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
720 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
721 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
722 so badly. (lp#654485)
723 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
724 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
725 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
726 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
727 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
728 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
729 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
730 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
731 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
732 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
733 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
734 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
735 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
736 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
737 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
738 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
739 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
740 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
742 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
743 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
744 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
745 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
747 * bug fix: short-form DEFSETF checks that the second argument is a symbol
748 (lp#655824, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
749 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) clobbered macro-definitions before
750 package-lock violation was detected. (lp#660752)
751 * bug fix: the system can store different docstrings for a single function
752 under different names. (lp#661631, regression from 1.0.29.24)
753 * bug fix: source-locations of DEFGENERIC forms weren't getting recorded
754 properly. (lp#384801)
755 * bug fix: (COERCE X '(SIMPLE-VECTOR 5)) and similar coercions to vectors
756 of specified length could confuse the type derivation in unsafe code.
758 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
759 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made on every platform,
760 not just Darwin. (lp#451111)
761 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS and SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS could leave stale finalizers
762 around when core was saved, which could cause undefined behaviour when the
764 * bug fix: Allow UNTRACE of functions that are no longer defined
765 (lp#667657, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
766 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY calls with invalid keyword argument lists now signal a
767 compile-time warning (lp#664373, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
769 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
770 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
771 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
772 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
773 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
774 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
775 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
776 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
778 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
780 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
781 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
782 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
784 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
785 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
786 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
787 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
788 thanks to Andrew Golding)
789 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
790 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
792 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
793 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
794 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
795 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
796 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
797 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
798 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
799 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
800 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
801 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
802 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
803 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
804 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
805 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
807 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
808 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
809 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
810 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
811 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
812 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
813 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
814 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
815 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
816 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
817 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
818 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
819 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
820 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
821 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
822 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
823 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
824 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
825 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
827 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
829 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
830 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
832 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
834 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
835 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
836 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
837 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
838 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
839 * optimization: The default implementation of
840 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
841 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
842 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
843 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
844 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
845 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
846 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
847 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
848 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
849 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
850 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
852 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
853 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
854 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
855 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
856 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
857 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
859 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
861 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
862 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
863 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
864 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
865 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
866 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
868 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
870 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
871 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
873 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
874 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
876 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
877 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
878 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
879 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
880 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
881 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
882 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
883 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
884 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
885 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
886 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
887 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
889 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
891 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
892 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
893 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
894 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
895 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
896 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
897 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
898 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
899 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
900 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
902 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
903 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
904 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
906 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
907 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
908 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
910 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
911 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
912 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
914 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
915 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
916 generic function call.
917 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
918 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
919 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
921 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
923 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
924 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
925 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
926 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
927 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
928 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
929 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
930 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
931 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
932 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
933 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
934 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
935 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
936 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
937 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
939 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
940 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
941 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
942 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
943 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
944 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
945 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
946 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
947 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
948 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
949 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
950 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
951 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
952 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
953 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
954 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
955 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
956 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
957 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
958 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
959 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
960 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
961 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
962 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
963 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
965 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
966 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
967 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
969 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
970 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
972 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
973 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
974 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
975 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
977 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
978 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
979 stack frame thrown from.
980 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
981 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
982 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
983 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
985 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
986 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
987 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
988 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
989 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
990 for accessing such arrays.
991 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
992 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
993 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
994 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
995 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
996 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
997 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
998 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
999 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
1000 functions. (lp#524707)
1001 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1002 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
1003 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
1004 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
1005 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
1006 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
1007 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
1008 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
1009 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
1010 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
1011 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
1012 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
1013 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
1014 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
1016 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
1017 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
1018 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
1019 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
1020 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
1022 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
1023 declarations (lp#497321)
1024 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
1025 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
1026 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
1028 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
1029 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
1030 due to it, so that handlers can run.
1031 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
1032 parsing. (lp#309128)
1033 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
1034 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
1035 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
1036 expanded calls (lp#542174)
1037 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
1038 than just at toplevel form.
1040 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
1041 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
1042 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
1043 but work on type specifiers.
1044 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
1045 to name a type specifier.
1046 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
1047 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
1048 second argument of TYPEP".
1049 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
1050 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
1051 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
1052 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
1053 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
1054 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
1055 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
1056 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
1057 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
1058 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
1059 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
1060 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
1061 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
1063 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
1065 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
1066 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
1068 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
1069 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
1070 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
1071 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
1072 before reaching the erring stack frame.
1073 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
1074 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
1075 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
1076 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
1077 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
1078 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
1079 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
1080 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
1082 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
1083 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
1084 is properly inlined when possible.
1085 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
1086 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
1087 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
1088 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
1089 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
1090 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
1091 launchpad bug lp#508485)
1092 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
1093 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
1094 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
1095 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
1096 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
1097 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
1099 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
1100 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
1102 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
1104 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
1105 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
1106 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
1107 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
1108 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
1109 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
1110 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
1112 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
1113 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
1114 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
1115 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
1116 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
1117 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
1118 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
1119 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
1120 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
1121 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
1122 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
1123 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
1124 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
1125 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
1127 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
1130 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
1131 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
1132 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
1133 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
1134 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
1135 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
1136 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
1137 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
1139 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
1140 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
1141 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
1142 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
1144 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
1145 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
1146 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
1147 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1148 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1149 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1151 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
1152 errors for fd-stream external formats.
1153 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
1154 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
1155 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
1156 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
1157 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
1159 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
1160 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
1161 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
1162 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
1164 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
1165 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
1166 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
1167 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
1168 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
1170 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
1171 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
1172 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
1173 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
1174 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
1175 error is near the end of file.
1176 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
1177 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
1178 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
1179 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
1180 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
1181 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
1182 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
1183 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
1184 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
1185 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1186 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
1187 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
1188 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
1189 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
1190 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
1191 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
1192 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
1193 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
1194 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
1195 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
1196 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
1197 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
1198 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
1199 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
1201 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
1202 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
1203 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
1204 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
1205 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
1206 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
1207 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
1208 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
1209 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
1211 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
1212 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
1213 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
1214 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
1216 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
1217 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
1218 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
1220 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
1222 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
1223 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
1225 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
1226 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
1227 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
1228 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
1229 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
1230 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
1231 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
1232 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
1233 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
1234 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
1235 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1236 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
1237 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
1239 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
1240 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
1241 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
1242 open coded is now considered a bug.
1243 * improvements related to Unicode:
1244 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
1245 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
1246 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
1248 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
1249 syllable characters.
1250 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
1251 (as well as for stream operations).
1252 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
1253 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
1255 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
1256 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
1258 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
1260 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
1261 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
1262 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
1263 constant two has been optimized.
1264 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
1265 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1266 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
1267 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
1268 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
1269 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
1270 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
1271 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
1272 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
1273 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
1274 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
1275 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
1276 but assumed or declared function as well.
1277 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
1278 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1279 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
1280 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
1282 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
1283 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
1284 well as user defined declaration names.
1285 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
1286 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
1288 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
1289 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1290 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
1291 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
1292 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
1294 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
1296 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
1298 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
1299 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1300 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
1301 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1302 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
1303 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
1304 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
1305 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
1306 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
1308 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
1309 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1310 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
1311 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
1312 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
1313 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
1315 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
1316 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
1317 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
1318 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
1319 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
1320 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
1321 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1322 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
1324 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
1325 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
1326 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
1327 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
1328 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
1329 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
1330 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
1331 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
1332 values in other threads.
1333 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
1334 about object allocation.
1335 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
1336 with a specialised code sequence.
1337 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
1338 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
1339 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
1340 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
1341 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
1342 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
1343 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
1344 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
1345 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
1346 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
1348 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
1350 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
1351 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
1352 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
1353 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
1354 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
1355 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
1356 unboxed format on x86[-64].
1357 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
1358 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
1359 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
1360 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
1361 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
1363 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
1364 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
1365 contains more pertinent information.
1366 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
1367 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
1368 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
1369 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
1370 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
1371 types. (reported by "abhi")
1372 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
1373 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
1374 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1375 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
1376 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
1377 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
1378 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
1379 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
1380 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
1381 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
1382 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1383 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
1384 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1385 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
1386 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
1387 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
1388 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
1389 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
1391 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
1392 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
1393 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
1394 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
1395 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1396 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
1397 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1399 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
1400 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
1401 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
1402 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
1403 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
1404 (no subscription required.)
1405 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
1406 types are weakened less aggressively.
1407 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
1408 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
1409 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
1410 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
1411 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
1412 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
1413 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
1414 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
1416 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
1417 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
1418 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
1419 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
1421 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
1422 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
1423 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
1425 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
1426 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
1427 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
1429 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
1430 is known are 50% faster.
1431 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
1432 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
1434 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
1435 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
1436 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
1437 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
1438 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
1440 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
1441 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
1442 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
1443 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
1444 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
1445 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
1447 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
1448 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
1449 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
1450 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
1451 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
1452 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1453 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
1454 to Tobias Rittweiler)
1455 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
1456 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
1457 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
1458 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
1459 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
1460 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1461 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
1462 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
1463 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
1464 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
1465 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
1467 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
1468 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
1469 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
1470 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
1472 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
1473 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
1474 result register (bug 316325).
1475 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
1476 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
1477 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
1478 generate incorrect code.
1479 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
1480 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
1481 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
1482 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
1484 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
1485 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
1486 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
1487 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
1488 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
1489 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
1490 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
1491 from :INITFORM, if any.
1493 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
1494 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
1495 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
1496 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
1497 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
1499 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
1500 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
1501 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
1502 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
1503 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
1504 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1505 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
1506 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
1507 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1508 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
1510 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
1511 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1512 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
1513 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
1514 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
1515 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
1516 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1517 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
1518 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
1519 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
1520 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
1521 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
1522 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
1523 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1524 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
1525 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
1526 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
1528 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
1529 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1530 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
1531 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
1532 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
1533 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
1534 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
1535 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
1537 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
1538 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1539 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
1540 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
1541 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
1543 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
1544 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
1545 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
1546 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
1547 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
1548 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
1549 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
1550 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
1551 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
1552 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
1553 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
1554 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
1555 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
1556 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
1557 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
1558 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
1560 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
1561 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
1562 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
1563 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
1564 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
1565 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
1566 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
1567 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
1568 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
1569 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
1570 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
1571 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
1572 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
1573 recursive errors or deadlock.
1574 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
1575 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
1576 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
1578 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
1579 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
1580 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
1581 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
1582 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
1583 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
1584 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
1585 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
1587 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
1588 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
1589 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
1590 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
1591 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1592 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
1593 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
1594 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
1596 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
1597 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
1598 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
1599 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
1600 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
1601 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
1602 their constant arguments.
1603 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
1604 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1605 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
1606 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
1607 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
1608 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
1609 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
1610 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
1611 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
1612 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
1613 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
1614 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
1615 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
1616 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
1617 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
1618 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
1619 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
1620 * improvements to the Windows port:
1621 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
1622 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
1624 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
1625 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
1626 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
1627 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
1628 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1629 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
1630 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
1631 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
1632 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
1633 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
1634 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
1635 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
1636 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
1637 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
1639 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
1641 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
1642 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
1643 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
1644 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1645 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
1646 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1647 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1648 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1649 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1650 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
1652 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
1653 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
1654 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
1655 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
1656 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
1657 compile-time style-warning.
1658 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
1659 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
1660 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
1661 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
1662 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
1663 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
1664 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
1665 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
1666 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
1667 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
1668 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
1669 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
1670 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
1671 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
1672 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
1673 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
1675 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
1676 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
1677 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
1678 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
1679 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
1680 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
1681 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
1682 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
1683 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
1685 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
1687 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
1690 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
1691 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
1692 for the associated fast function is also produced.
1693 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
1695 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
1696 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
1697 special handling by the pretty printer.
1698 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
1699 now interact correctly with type declarations.
1700 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
1701 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1702 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
1703 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
1704 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
1705 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
1706 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
1707 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1709 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
1710 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
1711 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
1712 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
1713 object loading function as-it.
1714 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
1715 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
1717 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
1718 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
1720 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
1721 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
1722 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
1723 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1724 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
1725 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
1726 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
1727 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
1728 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
1730 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
1731 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
1732 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
1733 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
1734 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
1735 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
1736 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1737 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
1738 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1739 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
1740 file descriptors when there were none.
1741 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
1742 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
1743 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
1744 pathnames without a directory.
1745 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
1746 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
1747 not signal an error.
1748 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
1749 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
1750 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
1751 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
1752 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
1753 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
1754 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
1755 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
1757 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
1758 after alien stack frames.
1759 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
1761 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
1762 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
1763 generic function across method addition and removal.
1764 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
1765 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
1766 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
1767 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
1769 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
1770 non-local transfer of control.
1771 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
1772 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
1773 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
1774 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
1775 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
1776 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
1777 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
1779 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
1780 owned by other threads anymore.
1781 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
1782 subsequence. (reported by budden)
1783 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
1784 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
1785 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
1786 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
1788 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
1789 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
1790 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
1791 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
1792 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
1793 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
1794 added to the user manual.
1795 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
1796 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
1797 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
1798 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
1799 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
1800 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
1802 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
1804 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
1805 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
1806 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
1807 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
1808 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
1809 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
1810 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
1812 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
1813 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
1815 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
1816 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
1817 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
1818 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
1819 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
1820 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
1821 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
1823 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
1824 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
1826 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
1827 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1828 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1829 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
1830 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1831 type of a variable is made.
1832 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
1833 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
1835 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
1836 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1837 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
1838 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1839 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
1840 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1841 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
1842 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
1843 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
1845 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
1846 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
1847 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
1848 of the type that's the value of this variable.
1849 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
1851 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
1852 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
1853 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
1854 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
1855 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
1856 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
1857 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
1858 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
1859 * improvements to the Windows port:
1860 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
1861 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
1862 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1863 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
1864 to single-float coercions.
1865 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
1866 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
1867 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
1868 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
1869 containing invalid type specifiers.
1870 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
1871 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
1873 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
1874 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
1875 profiles only the current thread.
1876 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
1877 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
1878 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
1879 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
1880 has also additional sorting options.
1881 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
1883 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
1884 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
1885 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
1886 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
1887 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
1888 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
1890 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
1892 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
1893 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
1894 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
1895 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
1896 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
1897 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
1899 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
1900 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1901 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
1902 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
1903 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
1904 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1905 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
1906 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
1907 (thanks to James Knight)
1908 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
1909 (thanks to Travis Cross)
1910 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1911 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
1912 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
1913 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1914 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1915 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1916 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1918 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
1919 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
1920 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
1921 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
1922 use this feature in the meanwhile.
1923 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
1924 adjust thread default control stack size.
1925 * enhancement: improved TIME output
1926 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
1927 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
1928 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
1929 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
1930 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
1931 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
1932 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
1933 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
1935 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
1937 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
1938 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
1939 in normal SPEED policies.
1940 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
1941 in normal SPEED policies.
1942 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
1943 to Sidney Markowitz)
1944 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
1945 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1946 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
1947 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1948 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
1949 as the second argument.
1950 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
1951 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
1952 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
1954 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
1955 platform word lengths.
1956 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
1957 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
1958 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
1960 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
1961 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1963 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
1964 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
1965 signaling added in 1.0.14.
1966 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
1967 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
1968 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
1969 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
1970 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
1971 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1972 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
1973 on threaded platforms.
1974 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
1975 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
1976 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1977 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
1978 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
1979 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
1980 representation is available.
1981 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
1982 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
1983 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
1984 Francois-Rene Rideau)
1985 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1986 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1987 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
1988 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
1989 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
1990 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
1991 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
1992 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
1993 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
1995 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
1996 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
1997 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
1998 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
1999 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
2000 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
2001 traces SETF-functions as well.
2002 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
2003 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
2004 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
2005 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
2007 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
2008 is now more efficient.
2009 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
2010 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
2011 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
2012 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
2013 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
2014 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
2015 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
2016 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
2017 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
2018 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
2019 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
2021 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
2022 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
2023 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
2024 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
2025 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
2026 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
2027 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
2028 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
2029 * improvements to the Windows port:
2030 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
2031 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
2033 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
2034 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
2035 (see documentation for details.)
2036 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
2037 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
2038 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
2039 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
2040 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
2042 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
2043 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
2044 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
2045 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
2046 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
2047 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
2048 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
2049 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
2050 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
2052 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
2053 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
2054 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
2055 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
2056 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
2057 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
2058 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
2060 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
2061 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
2062 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
2063 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
2064 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
2065 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
2066 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
2067 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
2069 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
2070 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
2071 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
2072 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
2073 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
2074 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
2075 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
2076 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
2077 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
2078 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
2079 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
2080 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
2081 known at compile-time.
2082 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
2083 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
2084 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
2086 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
2087 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
2089 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
2090 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2091 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2092 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
2093 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
2094 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
2096 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
2098 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
2100 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
2103 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
2104 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
2105 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
2106 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
2107 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
2108 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
2109 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
2110 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
2111 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
2112 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
2113 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
2114 END is smaller then START.
2115 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
2116 calls to profiled functions.
2117 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
2118 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
2119 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
2120 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
2121 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
2122 hash-table usage have been fixed.
2123 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
2124 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
2125 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
2126 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
2127 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
2128 slime to work again.
2130 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
2131 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
2132 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
2133 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
2134 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
2135 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
2136 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
2137 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
2138 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
2139 and will signal an error at runtime.
2140 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
2141 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
2142 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
2144 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
2145 platforms providing stack allocation support.
2146 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
2147 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
2149 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
2150 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
2151 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
2152 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
2153 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
2154 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
2156 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
2157 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
2159 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
2161 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
2162 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
2163 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
2164 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
2165 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
2166 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
2167 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
2168 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
2169 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
2170 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
2171 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
2172 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
2173 a specializer parameter for the method.
2174 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
2175 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
2176 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
2177 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
2178 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
2180 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
2181 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
2183 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
2184 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
2185 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2186 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
2187 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
2188 the CAS operation was being performed.
2189 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
2190 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
2191 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
2192 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
2195 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
2196 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
2197 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
2198 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
2200 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
2201 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
2202 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2203 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
2204 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
2205 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
2206 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
2207 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
2208 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
2209 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
2210 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
2211 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
2212 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
2213 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
2214 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
2216 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
2217 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
2218 the underlying file descriptor.
2219 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
2220 could cause buffer-overflows.
2221 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
2222 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
2223 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
2225 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
2227 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
2228 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
2229 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
2230 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
2231 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
2232 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
2235 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
2236 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
2237 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
2238 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
2239 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
2240 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
2241 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
2243 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
2245 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
2246 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
2247 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
2248 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
2249 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
2250 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
2252 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
2253 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
2254 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
2255 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
2256 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
2257 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
2258 objects that can be seen by the GC.
2259 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
2260 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
2261 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
2263 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
2264 as the property-list of a symbol.
2265 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
2266 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
2267 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
2270 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
2271 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
2272 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
2273 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
2274 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
2275 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
2276 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
2277 debugging and introspective support.
2278 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
2279 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
2280 has the owning thread as its value.
2281 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
2282 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
2284 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
2285 "a constant string".
2286 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
2287 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
2288 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
2289 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
2290 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
2291 (depending on the bignum size.)
2292 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
2294 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
2295 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
2297 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
2298 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
2300 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
2301 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
2302 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
2303 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
2304 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
2307 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
2308 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
2309 as a contrib module.
2310 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
2311 significantly faster.
2312 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2313 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
2314 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2315 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2316 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
2317 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
2318 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
2319 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
2320 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2321 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
2322 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
2324 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
2326 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
2327 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
2328 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
2329 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
2330 that use the generational garbage collector
2331 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
2333 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
2334 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
2336 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
2338 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
2339 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
2340 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
2341 system running with GC inhibited.
2342 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
2343 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
2344 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
2345 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
2346 (reported by Peter Graves)
2348 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
2349 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
2350 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
2352 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
2353 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
2354 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
2355 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
2356 documented as unsafe.
2357 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
2358 in multithreaded application code.
2359 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
2360 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
2361 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
2363 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
2364 variants no longer cons.
2365 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
2366 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
2367 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
2368 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
2369 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
2370 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
2371 are significantly faster.
2372 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
2373 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
2374 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
2375 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
2376 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
2377 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
2378 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
2379 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
2380 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
2381 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
2382 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
2384 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
2385 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
2386 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
2387 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2388 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
2389 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2390 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
2391 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2392 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
2393 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
2394 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
2395 line in a file is unlimited.
2396 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
2397 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
2398 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
2399 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
2400 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
2401 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
2402 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
2403 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2404 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
2405 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
2406 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
2407 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
2408 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
2409 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
2410 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
2411 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
2412 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
2413 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
2414 experimental until this is fixed.
2415 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
2416 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2417 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
2418 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
2419 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
2421 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
2422 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
2423 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
2424 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
2425 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
2426 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
2428 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
2429 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
2430 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2431 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
2432 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
2433 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
2434 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2435 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
2436 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
2438 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
2439 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
2440 (reported by Andras Simon)
2441 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
2442 bugs remain on x86-64.)
2443 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
2444 funcallable instances.
2445 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
2446 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
2448 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
2449 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2450 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
2451 non-base strings as arguments
2452 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
2454 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
2455 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
2457 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
2458 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
2459 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
2460 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
2461 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
2462 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
2463 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
2464 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
2465 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
2467 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
2468 (thanks to Jon Buller)
2469 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
2470 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
2473 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
2474 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
2475 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
2477 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
2478 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
2479 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
2480 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
2481 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
2483 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
2484 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
2485 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
2486 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2487 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
2488 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2489 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
2490 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
2491 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
2492 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
2493 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2494 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
2495 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
2496 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
2497 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
2498 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
2499 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2500 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2501 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
2502 stack frames from alien callbacks.
2503 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2504 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
2505 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
2506 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2508 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
2509 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
2510 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
2511 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
2512 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
2513 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
2514 sb-introspect contrib.
2515 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
2516 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
2517 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
2518 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
2519 users and the general community)
2520 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
2521 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
2522 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
2523 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
2524 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2525 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
2526 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
2527 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2528 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
2529 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2530 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
2531 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
2532 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
2533 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
2534 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
2535 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
2537 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
2538 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
2539 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
2540 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
2541 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
2542 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
2543 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
2545 * improvements to the Windows port:
2546 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
2547 to Alastair Bridgewater)
2548 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
2550 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
2551 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2553 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
2554 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
2555 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2556 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
2557 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
2558 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
2559 core, and restored on startup.
2560 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
2561 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2562 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
2563 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
2564 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
2565 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
2566 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
2568 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
2569 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2570 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
2572 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
2573 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
2574 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
2576 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
2577 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2578 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
2579 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2580 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
2581 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
2583 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
2584 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
2585 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
2586 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
2587 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
2588 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
2589 (reported by Josip Gracin)
2590 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
2591 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
2592 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
2593 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
2594 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
2595 and don't cause extra consing
2596 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
2597 whose elements types have been declared.
2598 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
2599 ** Support for allocation profiling
2600 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
2601 * Improvements to the Windows port:
2602 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
2603 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
2604 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2605 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
2607 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
2608 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
2609 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
2610 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
2611 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
2613 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
2614 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
2615 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
2617 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
2618 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
2619 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
2620 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
2621 with non-variable places
2622 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
2623 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
2624 code more stable against memory faults.
2625 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
2626 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
2627 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
2628 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
2631 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
2632 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
2633 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
2634 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
2635 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
2636 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
2637 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
2638 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
2639 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2640 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2641 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
2642 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
2643 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
2645 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
2646 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
2647 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
2648 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
2649 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
2650 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
2651 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
2653 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
2654 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
2656 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
2657 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
2658 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
2659 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
2660 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
2661 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
2662 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
2663 to the single-stepper REPL.
2664 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
2665 for a type now works.
2666 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
2668 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
2669 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2670 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
2671 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2672 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
2673 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
2674 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
2675 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
2677 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
2678 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
2679 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
2680 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
2681 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
2682 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
2683 whose bindings are modified
2684 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
2685 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
2686 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
2687 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
2689 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
2690 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
2691 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
2692 as specified by AMOP.
2693 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
2695 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
2696 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2697 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
2698 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
2699 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
2700 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
2701 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
2702 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
2703 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
2704 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
2705 better type inference.
2706 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
2707 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
2708 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
2709 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
2710 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
2711 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2712 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
2713 initialization of methods can now be used to override
2714 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
2716 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
2717 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
2718 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
2719 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
2720 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
2722 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
2723 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
2724 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
2725 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
2726 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
2727 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
2728 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
2729 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
2730 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
2731 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
2732 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
2733 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
2734 (reported by James Y Knight).
2735 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
2736 argument for shadowing by local functions.
2737 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
2739 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
2740 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
2741 with type-inference.
2742 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
2743 types in some cases.
2744 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
2745 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2746 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
2748 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
2749 * thread-safety improvements:
2750 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
2751 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
2752 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
2754 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
2755 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
2757 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
2758 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
2759 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
2761 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
2762 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
2763 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
2764 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
2765 class became finalizeable.
2766 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
2767 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
2768 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
2769 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
2771 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
2772 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
2773 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
2774 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
2775 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
2776 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
2777 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2778 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
2779 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
2780 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
2781 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
2782 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
2783 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
2784 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2785 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
2786 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
2787 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
2788 * minor code generation optimizations:
2789 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
2790 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
2791 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
2792 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
2793 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
2794 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2795 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
2796 return its argument.
2798 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
2799 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
2801 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
2803 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
2804 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
2805 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
2806 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
2807 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
2808 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
2809 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
2810 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
2811 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
2812 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
2813 the low-level debugger.
2814 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
2815 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
2816 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
2817 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
2819 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
2820 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
2821 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
2823 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
2824 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2825 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
2826 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
2827 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
2828 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
2829 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
2830 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
2831 (reported by James Y Knight)
2832 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
2833 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
2834 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
2835 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
2836 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
2837 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
2838 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
2839 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
2840 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
2841 workaround for bug 403.)
2842 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
2843 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2844 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2845 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
2847 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2848 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
2849 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
2851 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
2852 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
2853 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
2854 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
2855 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
2857 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
2859 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
2860 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
2861 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
2864 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
2865 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
2866 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
2867 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
2868 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
2869 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
2870 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
2871 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
2872 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
2873 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
2874 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
2875 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2876 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
2877 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2878 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
2879 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
2880 documentation on package locks for details.
2881 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
2883 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
2884 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
2885 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
2886 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
2887 immediately available from the stream
2888 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
2889 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
2890 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
2891 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
2893 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
2894 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
2895 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
2897 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
2898 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
2899 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
2901 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
2902 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
2903 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
2904 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
2906 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2907 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
2908 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
2909 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2910 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
2911 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
2912 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2913 ** sb-grovel supported
2914 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
2915 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
2916 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
2917 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
2918 ** floating-point exception handling support
2919 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
2920 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2921 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2922 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
2923 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
2924 structure accessors.
2925 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
2927 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
2928 defaults for optional parameters.
2929 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
2930 function, which is already optimized.
2932 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
2933 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
2934 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
2935 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
2936 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
2937 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
2938 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
2939 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
2940 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
2941 this change is to make it easier to distribute
2942 location-independent binaries.
2943 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
2944 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
2946 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
2947 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
2948 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
2949 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
2950 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
2951 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
2952 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
2953 Alastair Bridgewater)
2954 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
2955 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
2956 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2957 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
2958 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
2959 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
2960 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
2961 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
2962 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
2963 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
2964 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
2965 (thanks to James Knight)
2966 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
2967 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
2969 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
2970 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
2971 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
2972 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
2973 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
2974 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
2975 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
2976 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
2977 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
2978 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
2979 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
2980 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
2981 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
2982 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
2983 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
2984 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
2985 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
2986 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
2987 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
2988 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
2989 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
2991 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
2992 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
2993 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
2994 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2995 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
2996 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
2998 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
2999 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
3000 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
3001 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
3002 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
3003 many others over the years)
3004 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
3005 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
3006 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
3008 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
3009 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
3010 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
3011 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
3012 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
3013 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
3015 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
3017 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
3018 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
3019 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
3020 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
3021 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
3022 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
3023 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
3024 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
3025 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
3026 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
3027 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
3028 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3029 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
3030 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3032 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
3033 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
3034 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
3035 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
3036 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
3037 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
3038 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
3039 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
3040 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
3041 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
3042 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
3043 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
3044 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
3045 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
3046 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
3047 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
3048 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
3049 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3050 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
3051 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
3053 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
3054 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
3055 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
3056 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
3057 index variables in LOOP
3058 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
3059 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3060 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
3061 that don't have a docstring
3063 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
3064 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
3065 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
3066 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
3067 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
3068 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
3069 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
3070 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
3071 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
3072 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
3073 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
3074 Costanza's "Closer" project)
3075 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
3076 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
3078 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
3079 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
3080 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
3081 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
3082 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
3083 and Pascal Costanza)
3084 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
3085 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
3086 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
3087 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
3088 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3089 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
3090 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
3091 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
3092 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3093 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
3094 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3095 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
3096 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3097 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
3098 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3099 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
3100 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
3101 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
3102 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
3104 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
3105 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3106 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
3107 floating point index variable or a negative step.
3109 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
3110 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
3111 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
3112 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
3113 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
3114 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3115 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
3116 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
3117 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
3118 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
3119 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
3120 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
3121 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
3122 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
3123 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3124 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
3125 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
3126 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
3127 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
3128 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
3129 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
3130 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3131 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
3132 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3133 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
3134 and dump core on SIGQUIT
3136 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
3137 from their parents (see manual)
3138 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
3139 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
3140 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
3141 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
3142 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
3143 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
3145 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3146 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
3147 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
3148 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
3150 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
3151 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
3152 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
3154 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
3155 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
3156 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
3157 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
3158 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
3159 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
3160 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
3161 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
3162 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
3163 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
3164 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
3165 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
3166 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
3167 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
3169 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
3170 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
3171 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
3173 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
3174 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
3176 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
3177 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
3178 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
3179 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
3180 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
3181 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
3182 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
3183 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
3184 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
3186 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
3187 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
3188 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
3189 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
3190 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
3191 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
3193 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
3195 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
3196 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
3197 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
3198 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
3199 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
3200 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
3201 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
3202 classes; see the manual for more details;
3203 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
3204 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
3205 requested slot ordering.
3207 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
3209 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
3210 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
3212 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
3214 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
3215 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
3216 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
3217 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
3218 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3219 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
3220 the :method-class keyword argument.
3222 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
3223 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
3224 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
3225 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
3226 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
3227 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3228 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
3229 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3230 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
3231 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
3232 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
3234 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
3235 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
3236 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
3237 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
3238 is switched on or off
3239 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
3240 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
3241 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
3243 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
3244 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3245 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
3246 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
3247 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
3248 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
3249 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
3250 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
3251 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
3253 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
3254 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
3255 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
3256 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
3257 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
3258 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
3259 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
3261 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
3262 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
3263 not prevent gc from running
3264 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
3265 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
3266 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
3267 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
3268 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
3269 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
3270 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
3271 an inline 32-bit rotation.
3273 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
3274 there is only one thread in the session
3275 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
3276 written to in another
3277 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
3278 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
3280 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
3281 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
3283 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
3284 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3285 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
3286 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
3287 the orignal arguments.
3288 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
3290 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
3291 name a compiled function.
3292 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
3293 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
3294 derivation were fixed.
3295 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
3296 list-form FUNCTION type.
3297 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
3298 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
3299 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
3301 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
3302 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
3303 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
3304 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
3305 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
3306 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
3308 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
3309 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
3310 of a select system call
3311 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
3313 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
3314 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
3316 * various error reporting improvements.
3317 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
3318 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3319 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
3320 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
3321 code and foreign data with the same name.
3323 ** added x86-64 support
3324 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
3325 objects instead of thread ids
3326 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
3327 starting up or going down
3328 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
3329 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
3330 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
3331 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
3332 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
3333 an inappropriate moment
3334 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
3335 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
3336 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
3337 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3338 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
3339 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
3340 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
3342 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
3343 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
3344 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
3345 range before calling Unix time functions
3347 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
3348 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
3349 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
3350 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
3351 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
3352 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
3353 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3354 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
3355 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
3356 for more information.
3357 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
3358 pathname is a directory pathname.
3359 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
3360 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
3362 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
3363 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
3364 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
3365 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
3366 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
3367 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
3369 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
3370 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
3371 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
3372 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
3373 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
3374 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
3375 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3376 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
3377 the PowerPC platform.
3378 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
3379 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
3381 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
3382 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
3383 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
3384 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
3385 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
3386 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
3388 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
3389 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
3390 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
3391 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
3392 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
3393 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3394 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
3395 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
3396 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
3397 as the name of a type, or vice versa
3398 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
3399 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
3400 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
3401 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
3402 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
3403 FLET or MACROLET forms
3404 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
3406 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
3408 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
3411 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
3412 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
3413 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
3414 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
3415 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
3416 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
3417 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
3418 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
3419 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
3420 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
3421 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
3422 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
3423 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
3424 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
3425 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
3426 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3427 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
3428 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
3429 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
3430 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
3431 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
3432 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
3434 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3435 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
3436 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
3437 a file has the stream as its datum.
3438 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
3439 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
3440 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
3441 a correct expected type
3442 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
3443 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
3444 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
3445 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
3446 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
3447 on broadcast streams.
3449 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
3450 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
3451 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
3452 --disable-debugger option instead.
3453 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
3455 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
3456 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
3457 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
3458 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
3459 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
3460 has been added to the manual.
3461 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
3462 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
3463 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
3464 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
3465 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
3466 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
3467 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
3468 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
3469 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
3470 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
3472 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
3473 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
3474 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
3475 (reported by Rajat Datta).
3476 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
3477 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
3479 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
3480 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
3481 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
3482 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
3483 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
3484 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
3485 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
3486 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
3487 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
3488 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
3489 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3490 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
3491 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3492 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
3493 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
3494 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3495 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3496 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
3497 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3499 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
3501 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
3502 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
3503 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
3504 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
3505 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
3507 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
3508 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
3509 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
3510 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
3511 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3512 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
3513 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
3515 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3516 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
3517 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
3519 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
3520 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
3521 types for complex arguments better.
3522 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
3524 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
3525 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
3527 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
3528 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
3529 resulting in GC crashes.
3530 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
3532 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
3535 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
3536 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
3537 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
3538 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
3539 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
3540 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
3541 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
3542 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
3543 returning to the top level.
3544 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
3545 global optimization policy.
3546 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
3547 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
3548 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
3550 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
3551 various incompatible changes.
3552 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
3553 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
3554 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
3555 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
3556 level local call to FOO".
3557 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
3558 now have more legible printed representation
3559 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
3560 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
3561 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
3562 explicitly requested.
3563 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
3564 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
3565 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
3566 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
3567 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
3569 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
3570 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
3571 (reported by Lutz Euler)
3572 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
3573 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3574 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
3575 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
3576 the specializer is now possible.
3577 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
3578 face of package deletion.
3579 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
3580 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
3581 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
3582 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
3583 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
3584 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
3585 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
3586 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
3587 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3588 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
3590 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3591 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
3592 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
3593 correctable errors to be signalled.
3594 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
3595 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
3598 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
3599 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3600 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
3602 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
3603 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3604 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
3605 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
3606 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
3607 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
3608 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
3609 related to the ~@F format directive.
3610 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
3612 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
3613 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
3614 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
3615 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
3617 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
3619 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
3620 coerce function designators to functions.
3621 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
3622 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
3623 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
3624 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
3625 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
3626 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
3627 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3628 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
3629 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
3630 start of the buffer at the next read.
3631 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
3632 passing it through to OPEN.
3633 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
3634 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
3635 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
3636 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
3637 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
3638 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3639 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
3640 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
3642 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
3643 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3644 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3645 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
3646 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3647 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
3649 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3650 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
3651 secondary constituent character trait.
3652 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
3654 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
3656 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
3657 works more reliably.
3658 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
3659 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
3660 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
3662 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
3663 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
3665 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
3666 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
3667 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
3668 and reloading shared object files.
3669 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3670 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
3672 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
3673 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
3674 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
3676 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
3677 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
3679 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
3681 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
3682 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
3683 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
3684 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3685 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
3686 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
3687 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
3689 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
3690 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
3692 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
3693 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
3694 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
3695 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
3696 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
3698 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
3699 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
3700 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3701 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
3702 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
3703 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3704 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
3705 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3706 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
3707 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
3708 lisp characters are not eight bits.
3709 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3710 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
3711 the correct number of arguments.
3712 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
3713 to displaced strings.
3714 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
3715 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
3717 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
3718 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
3719 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
3720 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
3721 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
3722 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
3723 available at runtime.
3724 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
3725 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
3726 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
3727 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3728 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
3729 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
3730 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
3731 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
3732 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
3733 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
3734 of lambda-list keywords.
3735 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
3736 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
3738 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
3739 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
3740 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3741 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
3742 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
3743 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
3744 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
3746 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
3747 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3748 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
3749 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
3750 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
3752 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3753 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
3754 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3755 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
3756 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
3757 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3758 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
3760 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
3761 parameters correctly.
3762 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
3763 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
3764 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
3766 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
3769 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
3770 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
3771 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
3772 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
3774 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
3775 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
3776 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
3777 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
3778 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
3779 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
3780 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
3781 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3782 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
3784 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
3785 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3787 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
3789 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
3790 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
3791 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3792 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
3794 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
3795 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3796 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
3797 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
3798 (reported by David Morse)
3799 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
3800 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3801 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
3802 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3803 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
3804 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3805 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
3806 now exists, an signals an error.
3807 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
3808 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
3809 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3810 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
3811 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3812 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
3813 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
3814 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3815 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
3816 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3817 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
3818 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
3820 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
3821 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
3822 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
3823 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
3824 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3825 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
3826 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
3827 specialized array element types.
3828 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
3829 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3830 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
3831 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3832 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
3833 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
3834 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
3835 Wragg for the simple test case)
3836 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3837 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
3839 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
3840 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
3841 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
3842 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
3843 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
3845 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
3847 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
3848 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
3849 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
3850 references to global functions.
3851 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
3853 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
3855 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
3856 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3857 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
3858 supported platforms.
3859 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
3860 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
3861 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3862 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
3863 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
3864 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3865 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
3866 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3867 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
3868 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
3869 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
3870 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
3871 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
3873 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
3874 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3875 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
3876 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
3877 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
3878 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
3880 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
3881 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
3883 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
3884 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
3885 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
3886 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3887 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
3888 returns the right answer.
3889 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
3891 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
3893 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
3894 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
3896 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
3897 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
3899 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
3900 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
3901 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
3902 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
3903 the supported interface.
3904 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
3905 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
3906 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3907 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
3908 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
3909 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
3910 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
3911 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3912 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
3913 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
3914 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
3915 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
3916 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3917 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
3918 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
3919 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
3920 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
3921 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
3922 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
3923 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
3924 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
3925 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
3926 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
3927 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
3928 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
3929 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
3930 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3931 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
3932 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
3934 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
3935 * incompatible change: the internal functions
3936 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
3937 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
3938 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
3939 instead of the old functions.
3940 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
3941 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
3943 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
3944 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
3946 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
3947 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
3948 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
3949 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
3951 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
3952 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3953 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
3954 (reported by Rick Taube)
3955 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
3956 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
3957 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
3958 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
3960 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
3961 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
3962 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
3963 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
3964 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3965 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
3966 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
3967 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
3968 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
3969 represented relative to default pathnames.
3970 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
3971 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
3972 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
3974 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
3975 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
3976 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
3978 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3979 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
3980 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
3981 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
3983 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
3985 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
3986 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
3987 conditional newlines.
3988 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
3989 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
3990 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
3992 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
3993 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
3995 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
3996 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
3997 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
3998 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
3999 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
4000 compiled in unconditionally.
4001 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
4002 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
4003 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
4004 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
4005 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
4007 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
4008 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
4009 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
4010 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
4011 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
4012 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
4013 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
4014 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
4015 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
4016 an implementation-internal package.
4017 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
4019 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
4020 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
4021 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
4022 bodies are now more legible.
4023 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
4024 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
4025 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
4026 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
4027 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4028 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
4029 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
4031 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
4032 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
4033 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
4034 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
4035 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
4036 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
4037 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
4038 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
4039 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
4040 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
4042 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
4043 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
4044 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
4045 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
4046 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
4047 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
4048 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
4049 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
4050 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
4051 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
4052 system even when most of them are idle
4053 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
4054 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
4055 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
4057 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
4058 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
4059 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
4060 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
4061 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
4063 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
4064 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
4065 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
4066 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
4067 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
4068 string for information on the protocol.
4069 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
4070 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
4072 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
4073 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
4075 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
4076 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
4077 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
4078 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
4079 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
4080 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
4082 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
4083 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
4085 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
4086 move between its address being taken and the call to
4087 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
4088 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
4089 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
4090 instances corresponding to C structs.
4092 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
4093 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
4094 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
4095 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
4096 has implications for memory management of client code
4097 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
4098 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
4099 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
4100 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
4101 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
4102 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
4103 quality should be considered deprecated.
4104 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
4105 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
4106 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
4107 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
4108 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
4110 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
4111 designator as the defaults argument.
4112 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
4113 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
4114 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4115 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
4116 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
4118 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
4120 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
4121 (thanks to Zach Beane)
4122 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
4123 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
4124 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4125 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
4127 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
4128 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4129 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
4130 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
4131 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
4132 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
4133 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4134 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
4135 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
4136 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
4137 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
4138 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4139 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
4140 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
4141 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
4142 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
4143 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
4145 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
4146 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
4147 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
4149 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
4150 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4151 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
4152 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
4153 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
4154 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
4155 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4156 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
4157 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
4159 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
4160 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
4162 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
4163 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
4165 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
4166 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
4167 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
4168 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
4170 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
4171 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
4172 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
4173 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
4174 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
4175 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
4176 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
4177 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
4179 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
4180 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
4181 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
4183 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
4184 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
4186 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4187 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
4189 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
4190 from local to shared slots.
4191 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
4192 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
4193 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
4194 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
4196 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
4197 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
4198 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
4199 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
4200 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
4201 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
4202 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
4203 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
4204 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
4206 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
4208 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
4210 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
4211 print using #P"..." syntax.
4213 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
4214 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
4215 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
4216 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
4217 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
4218 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
4219 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
4220 * [placeholder for DX summary]
4221 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
4222 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
4223 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
4224 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
4225 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
4226 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
4227 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
4228 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
4229 the test case to Dave Roberts)
4230 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
4231 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
4232 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
4233 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
4234 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
4235 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
4236 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
4237 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
4238 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
4239 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
4240 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
4241 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
4242 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4243 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
4244 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
4247 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
4248 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
4249 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
4250 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
4251 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
4252 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
4253 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
4254 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
4255 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
4256 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4257 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
4258 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
4259 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
4261 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
4262 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
4264 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
4265 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
4266 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4267 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
4268 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4269 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
4271 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
4272 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
4273 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
4275 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
4277 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
4279 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
4280 their output stream on EOF from read.
4281 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
4282 have been read to end-of-file.
4283 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
4285 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
4286 description of determination of which consecutive characters
4288 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
4289 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
4290 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4291 less than 10 works correctly.
4292 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
4293 more than 10 works correctly.
4294 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
4295 the readtable currently in effect.
4297 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
4298 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
4299 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
4300 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
4301 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
4302 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
4303 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
4304 should usually be replaced by
4305 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
4306 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
4307 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
4308 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
4309 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
4310 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
4311 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
4312 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
4314 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
4315 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
4316 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4317 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
4318 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
4319 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4320 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
4321 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
4322 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
4323 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
4324 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
4325 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
4326 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
4328 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
4329 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
4330 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
4331 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
4332 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
4333 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
4334 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
4335 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
4336 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
4337 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
4338 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
4339 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
4340 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
4341 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
4342 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4343 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
4344 non-local entry points.
4345 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
4347 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4348 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
4350 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
4351 host is already defined.
4352 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
4354 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
4355 or not a character is whitespace.
4356 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
4357 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
4358 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
4360 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
4361 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
4363 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
4365 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
4366 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
4367 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
4368 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
4369 designator argument does not designate a stream.
4370 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
4371 examining the synonym.
4372 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
4374 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
4375 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
4377 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
4378 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
4379 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
4380 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
4381 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
4382 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
4383 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
4384 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
4385 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
4386 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4387 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
4388 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
4390 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
4391 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
4392 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4393 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
4394 stream position information.
4395 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
4396 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
4397 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
4398 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
4399 (reported by Paul Dietz)
4400 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
4402 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
4403 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
4405 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
4406 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4407 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
4408 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
4409 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
4410 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
4411 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
4413 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
4415 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
4416 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
4417 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
4418 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
4419 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
4420 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
4421 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
4422 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
4423 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
4424 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
4425 the "SYS" logical host.
4426 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
4427 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
4428 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
4429 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
4430 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
4431 now each have their own history, command character, and other
4432 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4433 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4434 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
4436 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
4437 shift greater than 32.
4438 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
4439 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
4440 in some circumstances.
4442 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
4443 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
4444 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
4445 environments like SLIME.
4446 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
4447 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
4448 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
4449 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
4450 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
4451 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
4452 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
4453 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
4454 argument types for all arguments.
4455 * various threading fixes
4456 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
4457 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
4458 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
4459 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
4461 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
4462 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
4463 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
4464 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
4465 arguments to a full call.
4466 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
4467 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
4468 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
4469 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
4471 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
4472 inserts a space where necessary.
4473 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
4474 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
4475 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
4476 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
4477 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
4478 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
4479 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
4480 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
4481 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
4482 counter now raises a meaningful error.
4483 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
4484 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
4486 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
4487 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
4488 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
4490 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
4492 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4493 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
4494 argument and negative second.
4495 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
4496 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
4497 interval, containing 0.
4498 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
4500 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
4501 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
4503 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
4504 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
4505 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
4506 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
4507 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
4508 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
4509 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
4510 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
4511 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
4512 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
4513 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
4514 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
4515 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
4516 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
4517 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
4518 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
4519 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
4520 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
4521 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
4522 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
4523 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
4524 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4525 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
4526 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
4527 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
4528 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
4529 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
4530 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
4531 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
4533 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
4534 platform now returns the right answer.
4535 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
4536 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
4537 precomputation is now tunable.
4538 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
4539 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
4540 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
4541 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
4542 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
4543 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
4544 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
4545 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
4546 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
4547 has been added for the alpha.
4548 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
4549 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
4550 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
4551 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
4552 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
4553 MEMBER-types to numeric.
4554 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
4556 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
4557 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
4558 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
4560 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
4561 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4562 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
4563 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
4564 might be pseudo-atomic.
4565 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
4566 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
4568 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
4570 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
4572 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
4573 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
4574 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
4575 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
4576 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
4577 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
4579 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4580 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
4581 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
4582 small float arguments.
4583 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
4585 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
4586 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
4587 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
4588 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
4589 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
4590 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
4592 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
4594 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
4595 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
4596 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
4597 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
4598 with negative last argument.
4599 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
4600 an error during type derivation.
4601 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
4603 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
4604 generates a 32-bit binary.
4605 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
4606 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
4607 data structures referred to above).
4609 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
4610 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
4611 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
4612 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
4613 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
4614 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
4615 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
4616 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
4617 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
4618 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4619 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
4620 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
4622 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
4623 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
4625 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
4626 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
4627 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
4628 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
4629 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
4630 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
4631 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
4632 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
4633 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
4634 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
4635 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
4636 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4637 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
4638 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
4639 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
4640 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
4641 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
4642 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4643 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
4644 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
4645 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
4646 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
4647 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4648 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
4649 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
4650 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
4651 optimization quality.
4652 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
4653 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
4654 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
4655 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
4656 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4657 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4658 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
4659 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
4660 types form a lattice under type intersection.
4661 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
4662 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
4663 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
4664 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
4665 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
4666 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
4667 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
4668 calling the generic function.
4669 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
4670 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
4671 obscure ANSI requirements
4673 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
4674 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
4675 garbage, confusing the compiler.
4676 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
4677 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
4678 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
4679 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
4680 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
4681 circumstances could go off-by-one.
4682 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
4684 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
4685 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
4686 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
4687 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
4688 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
4689 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
4690 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
4691 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
4692 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
4693 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4694 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
4695 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
4696 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
4697 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
4698 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
4699 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
4700 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
4701 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
4702 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
4703 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
4705 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
4706 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
4707 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
4708 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
4710 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
4711 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
4712 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
4713 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
4714 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
4715 provide helpful disassembly notes.
4716 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
4717 the class in more cases than previously.
4718 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
4719 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4720 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
4721 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4722 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
4723 without lambda list.
4724 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
4725 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
4726 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4727 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
4728 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
4729 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
4731 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
4732 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
4733 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
4735 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
4736 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
4737 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
4738 were silently accepted).
4739 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
4740 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
4741 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
4742 to warn on static type mismatches and function
4743 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
4744 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
4745 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
4746 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
4747 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
4748 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
4749 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
4750 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
4751 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
4752 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
4754 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
4755 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
4756 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
4757 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
4758 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
4759 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
4761 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
4762 keywords or constants is permissible.
4763 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
4764 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
4765 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4766 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
4767 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
4768 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
4769 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
4770 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
4772 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
4773 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4774 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
4775 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
4776 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4777 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
4778 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
4780 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
4782 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
4783 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
4784 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
4785 respectively change and preserve the value.
4786 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
4787 is now better at handling symbol macros.
4788 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
4789 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
4790 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
4791 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
4792 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
4793 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
4794 their use properly signals an error now.
4795 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
4796 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
4797 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
4798 * fixed simple vector readable printing
4799 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
4800 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
4801 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
4802 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
4803 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
4804 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
4805 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4806 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
4807 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4808 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
4809 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
4810 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4811 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
4812 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
4813 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
4814 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
4815 causes a type error.
4816 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
4817 association between the name and a class.
4818 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
4819 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
4820 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4821 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
4822 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
4823 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
4825 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
4826 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
4827 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
4828 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
4830 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
4831 which its argument is a member.
4832 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
4833 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
4834 otherwise, it creates a new class.
4835 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
4836 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
4837 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
4838 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
4839 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4840 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
4842 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
4843 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
4844 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
4845 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
4846 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
4847 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
4848 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
4850 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
4851 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
4852 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
4853 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
4854 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
4855 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
4856 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
4857 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
4858 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
4859 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
4860 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
4861 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
4862 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4863 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
4865 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
4866 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
4867 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
4868 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
4869 superclasses are applied.
4870 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
4871 no method was removed.
4872 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
4873 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
4874 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
4875 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
4877 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
4879 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
4880 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
4881 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
4882 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
4883 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
4884 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
4885 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
4886 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
4887 function lambda list.
4888 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
4890 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
4891 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
4892 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
4893 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
4895 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
4896 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
4897 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
4898 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
4899 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
4900 they look for GNU "make".
4902 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
4903 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
4904 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
4905 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
4907 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
4908 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
4909 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
4910 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
4911 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
4912 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
4913 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
4914 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
4915 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
4916 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
4918 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
4919 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
4920 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
4921 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
4922 libraries, and will know who they are.
4923 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
4924 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
4925 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
4926 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
4927 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
4928 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
4929 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
4930 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
4932 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
4933 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
4934 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4935 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
4936 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
4937 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
4938 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
4939 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
4940 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
4941 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
4942 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4943 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
4945 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
4946 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
4947 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
4948 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
4949 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4950 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
4951 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
4952 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
4953 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
4955 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
4956 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
4957 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
4958 this you were probably losing anyway.
4959 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
4960 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
4961 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
4962 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
4963 with names from the CL package.
4964 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
4965 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
4966 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
4967 documentation string.
4968 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4969 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
4971 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
4972 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
4973 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
4974 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
4976 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
4977 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
4979 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
4980 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4981 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
4983 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
4984 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
4985 arguments contain duplicated elements.
4986 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
4987 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
4988 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
4989 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
4990 in question is unbound.
4991 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
4992 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
4993 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
4994 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
4995 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
4997 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
4999 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
5000 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
5001 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
5002 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
5003 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
5004 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
5005 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
5006 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
5007 by Antonio Martinez)
5008 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
5009 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5010 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
5011 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
5012 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
5013 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
5014 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
5015 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5016 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
5017 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
5018 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
5019 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
5020 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
5021 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
5022 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
5023 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
5024 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
5025 on malformed property lists;
5027 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
5028 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
5029 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
5030 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
5031 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
5032 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
5033 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
5034 modules in this release include:
5035 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
5036 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
5037 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
5038 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
5039 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
5041 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
5042 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
5043 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5044 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
5045 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
5046 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
5047 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
5048 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
5050 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
5051 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
5052 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
5053 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
5054 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
5055 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
5056 the lexical environment.
5057 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
5058 unprintable packages can now be defined.
5059 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
5060 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5061 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
5062 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
5063 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
5064 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
5065 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
5066 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
5067 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
5068 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
5069 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
5070 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
5071 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
5072 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
5073 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
5074 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
5075 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
5076 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
5077 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
5078 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
5079 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
5080 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
5081 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
5083 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
5084 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
5085 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
5086 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5087 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
5088 not just nonnegative fixnums;
5089 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
5090 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
5091 freshly-consed result bit-array);
5092 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
5094 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
5095 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
5097 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
5098 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
5099 cases are accurately computed;
5100 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
5101 if it is in the last clause;
5102 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
5104 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
5105 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
5106 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
5107 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
5109 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
5110 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
5111 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
5112 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
5113 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
5115 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
5116 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
5117 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
5118 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
5120 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5121 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
5122 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
5123 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
5124 not cause a type error;
5125 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
5127 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
5128 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
5129 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
5130 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
5131 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
5132 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
5133 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
5134 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
5136 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
5137 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
5138 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
5139 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
5140 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
5141 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
5143 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
5144 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
5146 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
5147 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
5148 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
5149 only for symbols in the CL package.
5150 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
5151 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
5152 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
5153 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
5154 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
5156 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5157 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
5158 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
5159 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
5160 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
5161 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
5162 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
5163 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
5164 conditional loop clause;
5165 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
5166 signals a type error iff it should.
5167 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5168 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
5169 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
5170 argument) no longer signals an error;
5171 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
5172 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
5173 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
5175 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
5176 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
5177 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
5179 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
5180 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
5181 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
5182 functionality on said platforms verified.
5183 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
5184 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
5186 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
5187 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
5188 component indicating that directory.
5189 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
5190 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
5191 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
5192 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
5193 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5194 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
5196 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
5197 primary methods with no specializers;
5198 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
5200 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
5201 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
5202 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
5203 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
5205 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
5206 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
5207 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
5209 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
5210 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
5211 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
5212 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
5213 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
5214 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
5215 class STANDARD-CLASS;
5216 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
5217 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
5218 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
5219 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
5221 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
5222 value producing form;
5223 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
5224 variables are bound and made to have no value;
5225 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
5227 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
5228 is not a valid sequence index;
5229 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
5230 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
5231 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5232 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
5234 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
5235 symbol-macro places;
5236 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
5237 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
5239 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
5241 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
5243 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
5244 invariant when deleting code.
5245 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
5246 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
5248 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
5249 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5250 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
5252 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
5253 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
5255 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
5256 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
5257 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
5258 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
5260 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
5261 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
5262 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
5263 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
5265 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
5266 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
5267 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
5268 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
5269 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5270 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
5271 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
5272 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
5273 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
5274 sbcl and .core files.)
5275 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
5276 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
5277 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
5278 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
5279 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
5280 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
5281 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
5283 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
5284 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
5285 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
5286 argument precedence order.
5287 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
5288 derived types contradict their declared type.
5289 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
5290 so it can be non-toplevel.
5291 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
5292 implementation of DEFMACRO).
5293 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
5294 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
5295 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
5297 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
5298 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
5299 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
5300 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
5301 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
5302 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
5303 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
5304 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
5305 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
5306 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
5307 symbol macro only once
5308 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
5309 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
5310 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
5313 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
5314 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
5315 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
5316 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
5317 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
5318 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
5319 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
5320 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
5321 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
5322 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5323 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
5324 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
5326 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
5327 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
5328 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
5329 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
5330 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5331 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
5333 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
5335 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
5336 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
5337 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
5338 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
5339 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5340 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
5341 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
5342 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
5343 ways in different special cases
5344 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
5346 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
5347 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
5348 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
5349 are no longer optimized away.
5350 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
5351 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
5352 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
5353 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
5354 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
5355 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
5356 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
5357 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
5360 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
5361 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
5362 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
5363 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
5364 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
5365 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
5366 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
5368 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
5369 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
5370 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
5371 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
5372 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
5373 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
5374 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
5375 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
5376 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
5377 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
5378 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
5379 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
5380 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
5381 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
5382 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
5383 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
5384 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
5385 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5386 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
5387 that are names of constants or global variables.
5388 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
5389 alien routines with docstrings.
5390 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
5391 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
5393 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
5394 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
5395 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
5396 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
5397 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
5398 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
5399 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
5400 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
5401 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
5402 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5403 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
5404 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
5405 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
5406 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
5407 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
5408 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
5409 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
5410 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
5411 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
5412 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
5413 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
5414 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
5415 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
5417 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
5418 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
5420 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
5421 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
5422 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
5423 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
5424 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
5425 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
5426 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
5427 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
5428 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
5429 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
5431 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
5432 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
5433 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
5434 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
5435 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
5436 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
5437 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
5438 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
5439 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
5440 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
5441 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
5442 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
5443 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
5444 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
5445 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
5446 is no longer a static symbol.)
5448 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
5449 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
5450 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
5451 bootstrapping under CLISP.
5452 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
5454 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
5455 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
5457 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
5458 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
5459 to David Lichteblau)
5460 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
5461 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
5462 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
5464 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
5465 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5466 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
5467 count as they should.
5468 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
5469 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
5470 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
5471 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
5472 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
5473 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
5474 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
5475 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
5476 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
5477 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
5478 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
5479 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
5480 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
5481 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
5482 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
5484 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
5485 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
5486 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
5488 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
5490 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
5491 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
5492 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
5493 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
5494 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
5495 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5496 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
5498 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
5499 to Christophe Rhodes)
5500 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
5501 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
5502 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
5503 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
5504 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
5505 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
5506 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
5508 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
5509 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
5510 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
5511 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
5512 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
5513 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5514 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
5515 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
5516 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
5517 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
5518 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
5519 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
5520 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
5522 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
5523 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
5524 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
5525 INFO database to support symbol macros.
5526 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
5527 (thanks to coreythomas)
5528 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
5529 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
5530 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
5531 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
5532 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
5534 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
5535 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
5536 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
5537 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
5538 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
5539 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
5540 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
5541 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
5542 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
5543 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5544 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
5545 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
5546 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
5548 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
5549 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
5552 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
5553 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
5554 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
5555 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
5556 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
5557 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
5558 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
5559 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
5560 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
5561 systems than the old 4M value was)
5562 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
5563 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
5564 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
5565 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
5566 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
5567 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
5568 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
5570 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
5571 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
5572 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
5573 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
5574 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
5576 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
5577 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
5578 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5579 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
5580 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
5581 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
5582 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
5583 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
5585 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
5586 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5587 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
5588 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5589 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
5590 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
5591 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
5592 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
5594 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5595 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5596 * several changes related to debugging:
5597 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
5598 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
5599 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
5600 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
5601 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
5602 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
5603 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
5606 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
5608 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
5609 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
5610 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
5611 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
5612 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
5613 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
5614 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
5615 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
5617 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
5618 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
5619 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
5620 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5621 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
5622 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
5623 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
5624 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
5625 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
5626 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
5627 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
5628 file format number to change again.
5630 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
5631 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
5632 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
5633 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
5635 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
5636 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
5637 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
5638 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
5639 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
5640 FUNCALL on the result.
5641 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
5642 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
5643 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
5644 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
5645 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
5646 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
5647 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
5648 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
5650 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
5651 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
5652 the old compiler produced.
5653 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
5654 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
5655 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
5656 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
5657 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
5658 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
5659 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
5660 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
5661 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
5662 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
5663 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
5664 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
5665 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
5666 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
5667 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
5668 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
5669 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
5670 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
5671 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
5672 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
5673 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
5674 straightened out in some future version.)
5675 * minor incompatible changes:
5676 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
5677 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
5678 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
5679 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
5680 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
5681 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
5682 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
5683 implementation dependent:
5684 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
5685 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
5686 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
5687 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
5688 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
5689 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
5690 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
5691 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
5693 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
5695 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
5696 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
5697 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
5698 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
5699 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
5700 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
5701 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
5702 are no longer used for output.
5703 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
5704 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
5705 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
5706 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
5707 increasing it even more.)
5708 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
5709 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
5710 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
5712 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
5713 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
5714 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
5715 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
5716 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
5717 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
5718 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
5719 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
5720 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
5721 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
5722 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
5723 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
5724 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
5725 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
5726 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
5727 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
5728 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
5729 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
5730 compilation of code which calls such functions.
5731 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
5732 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
5733 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
5734 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
5735 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
5736 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
5737 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
5738 built into the system.
5739 * many other bug fixes
5740 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
5741 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
5742 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
5743 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
5744 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
5746 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
5747 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
5748 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
5749 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
5750 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
5751 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
5752 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
5753 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
5754 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
5755 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
5756 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
5758 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
5759 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
5760 and several other LOOP problems as well
5761 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
5762 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
5763 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
5764 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
5765 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
5766 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
5767 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
5768 *** a bug in APROPOS
5769 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
5770 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
5771 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
5772 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
5773 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
5774 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
5775 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
5776 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
5777 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
5778 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
5779 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
5780 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
5781 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
5782 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
5783 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
5785 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
5786 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
5787 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
5788 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
5789 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
5790 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
5791 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
5792 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
5793 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
5794 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
5795 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
5796 some of which are apparent above.
5798 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
5799 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
5800 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
5801 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
5802 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
5803 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
5804 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
5805 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
5806 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
5807 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
5808 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
5809 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
5810 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
5811 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
5812 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
5813 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
5814 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
5815 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
5816 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
5817 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
5818 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
5819 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
5820 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
5821 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
5822 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
5823 different return types.
5824 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
5825 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
5826 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
5827 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
5828 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
5829 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
5830 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
5831 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
5832 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
5833 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
5835 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
5836 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
5837 does the right thing.
5838 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
5839 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
5840 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5841 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
5842 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5843 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5844 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
5845 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
5846 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
5847 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
5848 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5849 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
5850 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5851 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
5852 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
5853 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
5854 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
5855 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
5856 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
5857 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
5858 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
5859 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
5860 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
5861 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
5862 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
5863 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
5864 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
5865 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
5866 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
5867 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
5868 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
5869 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
5870 since historically most system changes which required version
5871 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
5872 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
5875 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
5876 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
5877 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
5878 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
5879 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
5880 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
5881 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
5882 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
5883 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
5884 half a dozen others elsewhere
5885 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
5886 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
5887 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
5888 as flaky as they were.
5889 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
5890 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
5891 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
5892 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
5893 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
5894 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
5895 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
5896 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
5898 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
5899 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
5900 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
5901 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5902 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
5903 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
5904 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
5905 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
5906 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
5907 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
5908 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
5909 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
5910 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
5911 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
5912 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
5913 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
5914 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
5915 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
5916 more obscure bugs as well
5917 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
5918 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
5919 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
5920 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
5921 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
5922 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
5923 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
5924 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
5925 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
5926 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
5927 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
5929 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
5930 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
5932 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
5934 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5935 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
5936 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
5937 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
5938 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
5939 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
5940 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
5941 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
5942 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
5943 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
5944 are local in this sense.)
5945 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
5946 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
5947 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
5948 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
5949 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
5950 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
5951 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5952 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
5953 system's STREAM objects.
5954 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
5955 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5956 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
5957 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5958 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
5959 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
5960 environment from the original process instead of starting the
5961 new process in an empty environment.
5962 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
5963 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
5964 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
5965 for porting convenience.
5966 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
5967 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
5969 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
5971 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
5972 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
5973 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
5974 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
5975 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
5976 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
5977 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
5978 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
5979 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
5980 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
5981 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
5982 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5983 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
5984 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
5985 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
5986 many fewer weird special cases.
5987 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
5988 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
5989 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5990 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
5991 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
5992 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
5993 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
5994 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
5995 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
5996 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5997 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
6000 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
6002 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
6003 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
6004 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
6006 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
6007 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
6008 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
6009 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
6010 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
6011 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
6012 should be constructed the same way as before.
6013 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
6014 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
6015 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
6016 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
6017 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
6018 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
6019 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
6020 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
6021 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
6022 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
6023 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
6024 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
6025 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
6026 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
6027 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
6028 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
6029 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
6030 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
6031 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
6032 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
6033 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
6034 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
6036 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
6037 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
6038 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
6039 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
6040 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
6041 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
6042 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
6043 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
6045 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
6047 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
6048 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
6049 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
6050 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
6051 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
6053 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
6054 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
6055 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
6056 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
6057 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
6058 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
6059 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
6060 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
6061 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
6062 and Douglas Crosher.
6063 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
6064 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
6065 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
6067 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
6068 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
6069 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
6070 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
6071 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
6072 undefined function error.
6073 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
6074 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
6075 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
6076 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
6077 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
6078 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
6079 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
6080 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
6081 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
6082 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
6083 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
6084 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
6085 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
6087 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
6089 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
6090 CVS repository on my home machine).
6091 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
6092 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
6093 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
6094 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
6095 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
6096 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
6097 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
6098 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
6099 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
6100 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
6101 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
6102 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
6103 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
6104 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
6105 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
6106 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
6107 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
6108 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
6109 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
6110 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
6111 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
6112 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
6114 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
6115 FreeBSD have been added.
6116 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
6117 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
6118 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
6119 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
6120 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
6121 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
6123 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
6124 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
6125 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
6126 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
6127 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
6128 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
6129 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
6130 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
6132 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
6133 away by constant folding
6134 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
6135 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
6136 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
6137 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
6138 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
6139 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
6140 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
6141 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
6142 diff-related operations.
6143 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
6144 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
6146 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
6148 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
6149 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
6150 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
6151 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
6152 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
6153 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
6154 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
6155 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
6156 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
6157 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
6158 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
6159 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
6160 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
6161 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
6162 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
6163 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
6164 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
6165 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
6166 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
6167 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
6168 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
6169 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
6170 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
6171 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
6172 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
6173 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
6174 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
6175 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
6176 instead of (VALUES T T).
6177 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
6178 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
6179 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
6180 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
6181 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
6182 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
6183 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
6184 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
6185 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
6186 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
6187 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
6188 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
6189 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
6190 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
6191 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
6192 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
6193 type will be interpreted at runtime.
6194 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
6195 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
6196 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
6197 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
6198 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
6199 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
6200 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
6201 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
6202 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
6203 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
6204 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
6205 fasl files for cold load.
6206 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
6207 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
6208 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
6209 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
6210 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
6211 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
6212 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
6213 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
6214 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
6215 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
6216 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
6218 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
6219 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
6220 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
6221 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
6222 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
6223 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
6224 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
6225 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
6226 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
6227 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
6228 renamed some files to increase consistency.
6229 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
6230 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
6231 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
6232 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
6233 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
6234 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
6236 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
6238 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
6239 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
6240 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
6241 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
6242 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
6243 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
6244 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
6245 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
6246 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
6247 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
6248 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
6249 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
6250 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
6251 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
6252 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
6253 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
6254 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
6255 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
6257 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
6258 as required by ANSI.
6259 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
6260 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
6261 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
6262 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
6264 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
6265 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
6266 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
6267 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
6268 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
6269 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
6270 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
6271 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
6273 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
6274 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
6275 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
6276 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6278 is now basically equivalent to
6279 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
6280 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
6282 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
6283 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
6284 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
6285 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
6286 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
6287 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
6288 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
6289 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
6290 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
6291 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
6292 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
6293 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
6294 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
6295 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
6296 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
6297 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
6298 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
6299 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
6300 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
6301 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
6302 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
6303 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
6304 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
6306 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
6308 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
6309 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
6310 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
6311 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
6312 GNUMAKE environment variable.
6313 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
6314 can build without error under CMU CL.
6316 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
6318 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
6319 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
6320 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
6321 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
6322 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
6323 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
6324 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
6325 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
6326 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
6327 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
6328 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
6329 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
6330 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
6331 being initialized before the type system knew the final
6332 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
6333 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
6334 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
6335 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
6336 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
6337 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
6338 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
6339 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
6340 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
6341 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
6343 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
6344 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
6345 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
6346 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
6347 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
6348 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
6349 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
6350 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
6351 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
6352 it were currently supported.
6353 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
6354 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
6355 having to maintain patches.
6356 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
6357 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
6359 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
6361 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
6362 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
6363 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
6364 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
6365 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
6366 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
6367 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
6368 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
6369 * various new style warnings:
6370 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
6371 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
6372 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
6373 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
6374 as specified by ANSI.
6375 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
6376 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
6377 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
6378 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
6379 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
6380 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
6381 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
6382 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
6383 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
6384 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
6385 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
6386 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
6387 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
6388 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
6389 argument types can be determined at compile time.
6390 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
6391 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
6392 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
6393 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
6394 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
6395 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
6396 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
6399 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
6401 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
6402 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
6403 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
6404 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
6405 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
6406 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
6407 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
6408 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
6409 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
6411 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
6412 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
6413 the report form was printed.)
6414 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
6415 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
6416 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
6417 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
6418 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
6419 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
6420 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
6421 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
6422 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
6423 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
6424 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
6425 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
6426 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
6427 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
6428 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
6429 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
6430 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
6431 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
6432 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
6433 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
6434 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
6435 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
6436 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
6437 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
6438 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
6439 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
6440 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
6441 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
6442 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
6443 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
6444 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
6445 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
6446 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
6447 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
6448 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
6449 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
6450 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
6451 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
6452 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
6453 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
6454 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
6455 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
6456 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
6457 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
6458 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
6459 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
6460 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
6461 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
6462 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
6463 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
6464 know more about target types.
6465 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
6466 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
6467 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
6468 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
6469 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
6470 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
6472 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
6473 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
6474 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
6475 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
6476 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
6477 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
6478 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
6479 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
6480 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
6481 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
6482 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
6483 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
6484 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
6486 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
6489 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
6491 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
6492 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
6493 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
6494 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
6495 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
6496 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
6497 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
6498 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
6499 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
6500 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
6501 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
6502 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
6503 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
6504 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
6505 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
6506 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
6507 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
6508 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
6509 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
6510 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
6511 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
6512 invisible at the user level.)
6513 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
6514 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
6515 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
6517 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
6519 * tidied up "make.sh" script
6520 * tidied up system directory structure
6521 * better "clean.sh" behavior
6522 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
6523 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
6524 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
6525 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
6526 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
6527 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
6528 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
6529 * command line argument processing
6530 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
6531 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
6532 terminating SBCL on EOF
6533 * non-verbose GC by default
6534 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
6535 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
6536 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
6538 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
6539 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
6540 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
6541 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
6542 transformed along with everything else.
6543 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
6544 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
6545 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
6546 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
6547 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
6548 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
6549 debugging and testing purposes
6550 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
6551 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
6552 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
6553 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
6554 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
6555 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
6556 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
6558 * regularized formatting of source files
6559 * added an install.sh script
6560 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
6561 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
6562 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
6563 builds nicely on my old laptop.
6564 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
6565 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
6566 was not implemented)
6567 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
6568 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
6569 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
6570 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
6571 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
6573 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
6574 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
6575 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
6576 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
6577 COMPILE-FILE command)
6578 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
6579 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
6580 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
6581 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
6582 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
6583 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
6584 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
6585 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
6586 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
6587 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
6588 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
6589 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
6590 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
6591 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
6592 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
6594 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
6595 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
6596 known to be able to handle the current sources
6597 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
6598 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
6599 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
6600 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
6601 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
6602 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
6603 * removed host-oops.lisp
6604 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
6605 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
6606 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
6607 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
6608 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
6609 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by