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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.45:
3 * enhancement: largefile support on Solaris.
4 * enhancement: SB-PROFILE:REPORT now supports :LIMIT and :PRINT-NO-CALL-LIST
6 * enhancement: forward referenced functions no longer cause STYLE-WARNINGS
7 when running under --script. (lp#677779)
8 * optimization: ERROR and CERROR are approximately 5 times faster.
9 * optimization: optimized constructors are used for MAKE-INSTANCE of classes
10 with applicable non-standard (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS),
11 SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, and INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods, speeding
12 up instance creation in those cases.
13 * optimization: arithmetic operations with multiple constant arguments in now
14 have them reduced at compile-time. (lp#676414)
15 * bug fix: local tail calls to DYNAMIC-EXTENT functions can no longer cause
16 lifetime analysis to overwrite closed-over variables (lp#681092).
17 * bug fix: encoding errors from some multibyte external formats such as EUC-JP
18 were not handled correctly (lp#713063).
19 * bug fix: printing waitqueue objects without setting *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T is now
21 * bug fix: Solaris/x86-64 wasn't getting built with lutex support by
23 * bug fix: CONSTANTLY generated functions had bogus lambda-lists. (lp#713626)
24 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM :PTY option was racy on OpenBSD. (lp#669485)
25 * bug fix: UNINTERN takes a symbol, not a symbol designator -- could previously
26 unintern the wrong symbol with the same name. (lp#693796)
27 * bug fix: COPY-PPRINT-DISPATCH always has access to a pristine table,
28 making it possible to restore the initial table if it has been messed up.
31 changes in sbcl-1.0.45 relative to sbcl-1.0.44:
32 * enhancement: ~/ and ~user/ are treated specially in pathnames.
33 Refer to documentation for details.
34 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.010.
35 * optimization: mutated closed-over variables that are only accessed by
36 DYNAMIC-EXTENT closures (currently only FLET and LABELS functions
37 declared to be DYNAMIC-EXTENT) are stored directly in their containing
38 stack frame, rather than allocating a VALUE-CELL (lp#586103).
39 * optimization: UNWIND-PROTECT cleanup functions are now declared
41 * bug fix: backtracing function with &REST arguments now shows the full
42 argument list. (lp#310173)
43 * bug fix: return types for functions with complex lambda-lists are now
44 derived properly (lp#384892)
45 * bug fix: when SPEED > SPACE compiling CONCATENATE 'STRING with constant
46 long string arguments slowed the compiler down to a crawl.
47 * bug fix: closure VALUE-CELLs are no longer stack-allocated (lp#308934).
48 * bug fix: non-standard MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA methods could break RETURN-FROM
49 in the DEFMETHOD body.
50 * bug fix: #<SB-C::DEFINED-FUN ...> should no longer appear in compiler
51 messages, being instead replaced with the corresponding function name.
52 * bug fix: don't derive overly complex unions of numeric types for arithmetic
53 operators. (lp#309448)
55 changes in sbcl-1.0.44 relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
56 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
57 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
58 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
60 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
61 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
62 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
63 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
64 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
66 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
67 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
68 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
69 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
70 * enhancement: new function: SB-EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY is now provided.
71 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
72 addition member types.
73 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
74 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
75 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
76 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
77 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
79 * improvements to the Windows port:
80 ** change: canonical unparsing form for pathname namestrings now uses / as
81 directory separator. NATIVE-NAMESTRING still uses \ as the separator.
82 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
83 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
84 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
86 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
87 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
88 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
89 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
91 * bug fix: interrupts arriving during CL:OPEN caused an error.
92 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
93 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
94 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
95 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
96 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
97 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
98 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
99 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
100 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
101 so badly. (lp#654485)
102 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
103 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
104 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
105 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
106 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
107 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
108 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
109 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
110 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
111 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
112 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
113 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
114 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
115 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
116 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
117 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
118 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
119 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
121 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
122 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
123 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
124 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
126 * bug fix: short-form DEFSETF checks that the second argument is a symbol
127 (lp#655824, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
128 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) clobbered macro-definitions before
129 package-lock violation was detected. (lp#660752)
130 * bug fix: the system can store different docstrings for a single function
131 under different names. (lp#661631, regression from 1.0.29.24)
132 * bug fix: source-locations of DEFGENERIC forms weren't getting recorded
133 properly. (lp#384801)
134 * bug fix: (COERCE X '(SIMPLE-VECTOR 5)) and similar coercions to vectors
135 of specified length could confuse the type derivation in unsafe code.
137 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
138 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made on every platform,
139 not just Darwin. (lp#451111)
140 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS and SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS could leave stale finalizers
141 around when core was saved, which could cause undefined behaviour when the
143 * bug fix: Allow UNTRACE of functions that are no longer defined
144 (lp#667657, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
145 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY calls with invalid keyword argument lists now signal a
146 compile-time warning (lp#664373, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
148 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
149 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
150 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
151 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
152 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
153 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
154 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
155 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
157 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
159 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
160 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
161 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
163 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
164 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
165 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
166 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
167 thanks to Andrew Golding)
168 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
169 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
171 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
172 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
173 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
174 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
175 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
176 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
177 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
178 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
179 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
180 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
181 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
182 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
183 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
184 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
186 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
187 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
188 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
189 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
190 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
191 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
192 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
193 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
194 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
195 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
196 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
197 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
198 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
199 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
200 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
201 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
202 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
203 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
204 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
206 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
208 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
209 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
211 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
213 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
214 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
215 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
216 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
217 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
218 * optimization: The default implementation of
219 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
220 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
221 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
222 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
223 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
224 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
225 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
226 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
227 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
228 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
229 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
231 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
232 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
233 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
234 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
235 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
236 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
238 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
240 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
241 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
242 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
243 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
244 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
245 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
247 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
249 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
250 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
252 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
253 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
255 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
256 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
257 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
258 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
259 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
260 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
261 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
262 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
263 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
264 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
265 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
266 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
268 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
270 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
271 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
272 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
273 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
274 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
275 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
276 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
277 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
278 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
279 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
281 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
282 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
283 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
285 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
286 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
287 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
289 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
290 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
291 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
293 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
294 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
295 generic function call.
296 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
297 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
298 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
300 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
302 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
303 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
304 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
305 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
306 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
307 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
308 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
309 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
310 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
311 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
312 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
313 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
314 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
315 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
316 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
318 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
319 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
320 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
321 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
322 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
323 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
324 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
325 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
326 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
327 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
328 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
329 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
330 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
331 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
332 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
333 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
334 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
335 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
336 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
337 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
338 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
339 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
340 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
341 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
342 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
344 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
345 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
346 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
348 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
349 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
351 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
352 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
353 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
354 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
356 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
357 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
358 stack frame thrown from.
359 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
360 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
361 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
362 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
364 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
365 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
366 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
367 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
368 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
369 for accessing such arrays.
370 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
371 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
372 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
373 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
374 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
375 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
376 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
377 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
378 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
379 functions. (lp#524707)
380 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
381 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
382 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
383 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
384 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
385 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
386 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
387 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
388 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
389 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
390 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
391 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
392 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
393 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
395 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
396 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
397 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
398 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
399 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
401 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
402 declarations (lp#497321)
403 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
404 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
405 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
407 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
408 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
409 due to it, so that handlers can run.
410 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
412 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
413 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
414 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
415 expanded calls (lp#542174)
416 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
417 than just at toplevel form.
419 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
420 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
421 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
422 but work on type specifiers.
423 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
424 to name a type specifier.
425 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
426 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
427 second argument of TYPEP".
428 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
429 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
430 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
431 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
432 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
433 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
434 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
435 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
436 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
437 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
438 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
439 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
440 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
442 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
444 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
445 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
447 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
448 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
449 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
450 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
451 before reaching the erring stack frame.
452 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
453 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
454 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
455 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
456 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
457 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
458 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
459 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
461 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
462 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
463 is properly inlined when possible.
464 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
465 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
466 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
467 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
468 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
469 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
470 launchpad bug lp#508485)
471 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
472 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
473 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
474 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
475 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
476 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
478 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
479 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
481 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
483 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
484 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
485 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
486 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
487 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
488 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
489 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
491 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
492 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
493 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
494 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
495 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
496 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
497 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
498 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
499 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
500 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
501 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
502 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
503 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
504 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
506 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
509 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
510 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
511 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
512 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
513 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
514 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
515 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
516 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
518 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
519 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
520 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
521 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
523 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
524 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
525 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
526 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
527 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
528 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
530 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
531 errors for fd-stream external formats.
532 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
533 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
534 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
535 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
536 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
538 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
539 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
540 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
541 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
543 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
544 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
545 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
546 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
547 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
549 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
550 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
551 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
552 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
553 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
554 error is near the end of file.
555 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
556 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
557 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
558 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
559 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
560 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
561 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
562 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
563 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
564 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
565 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
566 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
567 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
568 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
569 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
570 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
571 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
572 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
573 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
574 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
575 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
576 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
577 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
578 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
580 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
581 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
582 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
583 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
584 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
585 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
586 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
587 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
588 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
590 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
591 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
592 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
593 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
595 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
596 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
597 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
599 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
601 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
602 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
604 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
605 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
606 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
607 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
608 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
609 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
610 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
611 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
612 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
613 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
614 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
615 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
616 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
618 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
619 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
620 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
621 open coded is now considered a bug.
622 * improvements related to Unicode:
623 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
624 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
625 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
627 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
629 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
630 (as well as for stream operations).
631 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
632 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
634 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
635 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
637 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
639 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
640 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
641 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
642 constant two has been optimized.
643 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
644 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
645 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
646 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
647 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
648 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
649 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
650 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
651 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
652 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
653 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
654 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
655 but assumed or declared function as well.
656 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
657 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
658 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
659 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
661 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
662 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
663 well as user defined declaration names.
664 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
665 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
667 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
668 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
669 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
670 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
671 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
673 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
675 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
677 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
678 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
679 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
680 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
681 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
682 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
683 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
684 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
685 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
687 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
688 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
689 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
690 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
691 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
692 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
694 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
695 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
696 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
697 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
698 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
699 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
700 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
701 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
703 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
704 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
705 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
706 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
707 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
708 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
709 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
710 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
711 values in other threads.
712 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
713 about object allocation.
714 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
715 with a specialised code sequence.
716 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
717 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
718 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
719 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
720 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
721 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
722 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
723 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
724 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
725 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
727 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
729 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
730 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
731 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
732 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
733 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
734 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
735 unboxed format on x86[-64].
736 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
737 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
738 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
739 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
740 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
742 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
743 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
744 contains more pertinent information.
745 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
746 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
747 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
748 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
749 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
750 types. (reported by "abhi")
751 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
752 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
753 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
754 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
755 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
756 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
757 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
758 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
759 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
760 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
761 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
762 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
763 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
764 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
765 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
766 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
767 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
768 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
770 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
771 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
772 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
773 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
774 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
775 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
776 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
778 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
779 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
780 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
781 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
782 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
783 (no subscription required.)
784 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
785 types are weakened less aggressively.
786 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
787 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
788 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
789 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
790 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
791 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
792 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
793 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
795 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
796 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
797 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
798 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
800 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
801 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
802 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
804 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
805 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
806 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
808 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
809 is known are 50% faster.
810 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
811 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
813 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
814 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
815 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
816 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
817 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
819 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
820 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
821 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
822 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
823 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
824 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
826 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
827 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
828 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
829 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
830 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
831 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
832 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
833 to Tobias Rittweiler)
834 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
835 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
836 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
837 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
838 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
839 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
840 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
841 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
842 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
843 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
844 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
846 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
847 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
848 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
849 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
851 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
852 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
853 result register (bug 316325).
854 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
855 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
856 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
857 generate incorrect code.
858 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
859 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
860 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
861 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
863 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
864 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
865 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
866 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
867 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
868 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
869 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
870 from :INITFORM, if any.
872 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
873 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
874 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
875 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
876 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
878 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
879 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
880 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
881 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
882 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
883 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
884 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
885 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
886 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
887 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
889 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
890 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
891 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
892 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
893 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
894 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
895 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
896 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
897 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
898 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
899 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
900 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
901 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
902 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
903 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
904 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
905 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
907 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
908 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
909 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
910 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
911 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
912 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
913 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
914 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
916 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
917 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
918 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
919 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
920 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
922 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
923 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
924 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
925 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
926 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
927 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
928 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
929 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
930 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
931 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
932 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
933 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
934 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
935 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
936 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
937 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
939 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
940 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
941 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
942 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
943 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
944 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
945 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
946 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
947 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
948 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
949 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
950 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
951 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
952 recursive errors or deadlock.
953 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
954 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
955 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
957 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
958 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
959 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
960 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
961 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
962 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
963 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
964 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
966 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
967 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
968 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
969 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
970 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
971 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
972 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
973 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
975 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
976 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
977 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
978 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
979 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
980 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
981 their constant arguments.
982 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
983 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
984 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
985 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
986 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
987 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
988 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
989 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
990 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
991 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
992 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
993 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
994 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
995 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
996 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
997 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
998 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
999 * improvements to the Windows port:
1000 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
1001 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
1003 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
1004 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
1005 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
1006 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
1007 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1008 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
1009 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
1010 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
1011 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
1012 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
1013 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
1014 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
1015 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
1016 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
1018 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
1020 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
1021 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
1022 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
1023 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1024 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
1025 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1026 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1027 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1028 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1029 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
1031 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
1032 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
1033 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
1034 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
1035 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
1036 compile-time style-warning.
1037 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
1038 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
1039 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
1040 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
1041 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
1042 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
1043 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
1044 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
1045 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
1046 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
1047 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
1048 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
1049 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
1050 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
1051 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
1052 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
1054 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
1055 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
1056 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
1057 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
1058 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
1059 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
1060 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
1061 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
1062 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
1064 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
1066 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
1069 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
1070 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
1071 for the associated fast function is also produced.
1072 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
1074 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
1075 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
1076 special handling by the pretty printer.
1077 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
1078 now interact correctly with type declarations.
1079 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
1080 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1081 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
1082 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
1083 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
1084 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
1085 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
1086 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1088 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
1089 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
1090 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
1091 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
1092 object loading function as-it.
1093 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
1094 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
1096 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
1097 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
1099 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
1100 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
1101 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
1102 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1103 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
1104 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
1105 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
1106 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
1107 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
1109 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
1110 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
1111 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
1112 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
1113 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
1114 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
1115 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1116 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
1117 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1118 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
1119 file descriptors when there were none.
1120 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
1121 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
1122 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
1123 pathnames without a directory.
1124 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
1125 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
1126 not signal an error.
1127 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
1128 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
1129 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
1130 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
1131 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
1132 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
1133 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
1134 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
1136 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
1137 after alien stack frames.
1138 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
1140 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
1141 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
1142 generic function across method addition and removal.
1143 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
1144 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
1145 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
1146 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
1148 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
1149 non-local transfer of control.
1150 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
1151 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
1152 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
1153 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
1154 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
1155 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
1156 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
1158 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
1159 owned by other threads anymore.
1160 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
1161 subsequence. (reported by budden)
1162 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
1163 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
1164 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
1165 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
1167 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
1168 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
1169 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
1170 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
1171 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
1172 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
1173 added to the user manual.
1174 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
1175 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
1176 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
1177 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
1178 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
1179 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
1181 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
1183 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
1184 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
1185 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
1186 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
1187 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
1188 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
1189 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
1191 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
1192 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
1194 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
1195 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
1196 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
1197 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
1198 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
1199 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
1200 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
1202 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
1203 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
1205 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
1206 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1207 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1208 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
1209 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1210 type of a variable is made.
1211 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
1212 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
1214 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
1215 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1216 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
1217 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1218 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
1219 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1220 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
1221 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
1222 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
1224 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
1225 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
1226 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
1227 of the type that's the value of this variable.
1228 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
1230 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
1231 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
1232 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
1233 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
1234 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
1235 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
1236 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
1237 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
1238 * improvements to the Windows port:
1239 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
1240 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
1241 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1242 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
1243 to single-float coercions.
1244 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
1245 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
1246 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
1247 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
1248 containing invalid type specifiers.
1249 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
1250 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
1252 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
1253 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
1254 profiles only the current thread.
1255 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
1256 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
1257 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
1258 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
1259 has also additional sorting options.
1260 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
1262 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
1263 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
1264 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
1265 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
1266 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
1267 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
1269 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
1271 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
1272 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
1273 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
1274 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
1275 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
1276 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
1278 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
1279 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1280 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
1281 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
1282 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
1283 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1284 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
1285 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
1286 (thanks to James Knight)
1287 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
1288 (thanks to Travis Cross)
1289 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1290 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
1291 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
1292 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1293 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1294 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1295 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1297 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
1298 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
1299 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
1300 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
1301 use this feature in the meanwhile.
1302 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
1303 adjust thread default control stack size.
1304 * enhancement: improved TIME output
1305 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
1306 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
1307 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
1308 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
1309 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
1310 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
1311 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
1312 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
1314 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
1316 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
1317 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
1318 in normal SPEED policies.
1319 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
1320 in normal SPEED policies.
1321 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
1322 to Sidney Markowitz)
1323 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
1324 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1325 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
1326 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1327 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
1328 as the second argument.
1329 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
1330 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
1331 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
1333 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
1334 platform word lengths.
1335 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
1336 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
1337 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
1339 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
1340 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1342 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
1343 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
1344 signaling added in 1.0.14.
1345 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
1346 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
1347 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
1348 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
1349 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
1350 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1351 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
1352 on threaded platforms.
1353 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
1354 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
1355 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1356 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
1357 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
1358 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
1359 representation is available.
1360 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
1361 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
1362 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
1363 Francois-Rene Rideau)
1364 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1365 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1366 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
1367 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
1368 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
1369 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
1370 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
1371 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
1372 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
1374 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
1375 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
1376 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
1377 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
1378 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
1379 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
1380 traces SETF-functions as well.
1381 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
1382 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
1383 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
1384 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
1386 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
1387 is now more efficient.
1388 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
1389 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
1390 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
1391 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
1392 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
1393 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1394 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
1395 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
1396 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
1397 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
1398 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
1400 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
1401 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
1402 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
1403 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
1404 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
1405 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1406 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
1407 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
1408 * improvements to the Windows port:
1409 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
1410 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
1412 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
1413 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
1414 (see documentation for details.)
1415 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
1416 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
1417 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
1418 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
1419 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
1421 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
1422 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
1423 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
1424 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
1425 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1426 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
1427 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
1428 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
1429 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
1431 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
1432 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
1433 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
1434 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
1435 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
1436 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
1437 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
1439 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
1440 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
1441 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
1442 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
1443 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
1444 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
1445 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
1446 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
1448 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
1449 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
1450 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
1451 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
1452 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
1453 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
1454 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
1455 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
1456 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
1457 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1458 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
1459 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
1460 known at compile-time.
1461 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
1462 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
1463 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
1465 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
1466 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
1468 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
1469 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1470 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1471 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
1472 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
1473 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
1475 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
1477 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
1479 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
1482 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
1483 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
1484 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
1485 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
1486 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
1487 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
1488 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
1489 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
1490 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
1491 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
1492 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
1493 END is smaller then START.
1494 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
1495 calls to profiled functions.
1496 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
1497 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
1498 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
1499 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
1500 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
1501 hash-table usage have been fixed.
1502 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
1503 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
1504 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
1505 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
1506 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
1507 slime to work again.
1509 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
1510 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
1511 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
1512 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
1513 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
1514 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
1515 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
1516 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
1517 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
1518 and will signal an error at runtime.
1519 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
1520 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
1521 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
1523 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
1524 platforms providing stack allocation support.
1525 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
1526 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
1528 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
1529 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
1530 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
1531 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1532 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
1533 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
1535 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
1536 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
1538 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
1540 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
1541 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
1542 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
1543 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
1544 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
1545 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
1546 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1547 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
1548 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
1549 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1550 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
1551 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
1552 a specializer parameter for the method.
1553 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
1554 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
1555 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
1556 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
1557 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
1559 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
1560 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
1562 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
1563 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
1564 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1565 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
1566 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
1567 the CAS operation was being performed.
1568 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
1569 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
1570 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
1571 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
1574 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
1575 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
1576 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
1577 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
1579 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
1580 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
1581 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1582 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
1583 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
1584 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1585 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
1586 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
1587 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
1588 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
1589 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
1590 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
1591 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
1592 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
1593 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
1595 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
1596 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
1597 the underlying file descriptor.
1598 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
1599 could cause buffer-overflows.
1600 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
1601 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
1602 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
1604 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
1606 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
1607 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
1608 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
1609 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
1610 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
1611 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
1614 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
1615 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
1616 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
1617 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
1618 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
1619 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
1620 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
1622 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
1624 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
1625 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
1626 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
1627 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
1628 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
1629 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
1631 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
1632 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
1633 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
1634 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
1635 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
1636 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
1637 objects that can be seen by the GC.
1638 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
1639 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
1640 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
1642 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
1643 as the property-list of a symbol.
1644 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
1645 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
1646 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
1649 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
1650 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
1651 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
1652 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
1653 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
1654 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
1655 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
1656 debugging and introspective support.
1657 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
1658 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
1659 has the owning thread as its value.
1660 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
1661 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
1663 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
1664 "a constant string".
1665 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
1666 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
1667 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
1668 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1669 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
1670 (depending on the bignum size.)
1671 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
1673 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
1674 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
1676 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
1677 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
1679 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
1680 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
1681 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
1682 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
1683 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
1686 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
1687 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
1688 as a contrib module.
1689 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
1690 significantly faster.
1691 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1692 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
1693 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1694 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1695 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
1696 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
1697 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
1698 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
1699 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1700 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
1701 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
1703 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
1705 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
1706 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
1707 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
1708 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
1709 that use the generational garbage collector
1710 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
1712 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
1713 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
1715 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
1717 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
1718 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
1719 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
1720 system running with GC inhibited.
1721 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
1722 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
1723 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
1724 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
1725 (reported by Peter Graves)
1727 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
1728 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
1729 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
1731 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
1732 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
1733 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
1734 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
1735 documented as unsafe.
1736 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
1737 in multithreaded application code.
1738 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
1739 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
1740 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
1742 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
1743 variants no longer cons.
1744 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
1745 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
1746 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
1747 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
1748 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
1749 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
1750 are significantly faster.
1751 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
1752 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
1753 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
1754 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
1755 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
1756 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
1757 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
1758 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
1759 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
1760 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
1761 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
1763 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
1764 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
1765 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
1766 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1767 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
1768 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1769 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
1770 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
1771 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
1772 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
1773 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
1774 line in a file is unlimited.
1775 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
1776 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
1777 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
1778 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
1779 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
1780 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
1781 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
1782 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1783 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
1784 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
1785 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1786 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
1787 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
1788 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
1789 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
1790 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
1791 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
1792 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
1793 experimental until this is fixed.
1794 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
1795 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1796 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
1797 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
1798 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
1800 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
1801 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
1802 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
1803 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
1804 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
1805 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
1807 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
1808 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
1809 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1810 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
1811 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
1812 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
1813 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1814 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
1815 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
1817 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
1818 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
1819 (reported by Andras Simon)
1820 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
1821 bugs remain on x86-64.)
1822 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
1823 funcallable instances.
1824 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
1825 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
1827 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
1828 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1829 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
1830 non-base strings as arguments
1831 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
1833 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
1834 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
1836 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
1837 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
1838 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1839 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
1840 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1841 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1842 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
1843 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
1844 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
1846 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
1847 (thanks to Jon Buller)
1848 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
1849 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
1852 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
1853 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
1854 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
1856 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
1857 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
1858 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
1859 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
1860 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
1862 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
1863 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
1864 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
1865 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1866 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
1867 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1868 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
1869 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
1870 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
1871 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
1872 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1873 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
1874 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
1875 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
1876 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
1877 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
1878 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
1879 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
1880 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
1881 stack frames from alien callbacks.
1882 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1883 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
1884 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
1885 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1887 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
1888 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
1889 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
1890 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
1891 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
1892 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
1893 sb-introspect contrib.
1894 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
1895 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
1896 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
1897 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
1898 users and the general community)
1899 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
1900 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
1901 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
1902 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
1903 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
1904 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
1905 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
1906 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1907 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
1908 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
1909 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
1910 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
1911 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
1912 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
1913 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
1914 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
1916 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
1917 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
1918 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
1919 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
1920 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
1921 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
1922 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
1924 * improvements to the Windows port:
1925 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
1926 to Alastair Bridgewater)
1927 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
1929 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
1930 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
1932 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
1933 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
1934 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1935 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
1936 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
1937 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
1938 core, and restored on startup.
1939 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
1940 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1941 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
1942 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
1943 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
1944 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
1945 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
1947 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
1948 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1949 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
1951 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
1952 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
1953 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
1955 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
1956 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
1957 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
1958 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
1959 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
1960 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
1962 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
1963 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
1964 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
1965 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
1966 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
1967 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
1968 (reported by Josip Gracin)
1969 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
1970 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
1971 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
1972 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
1973 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
1974 and don't cause extra consing
1975 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
1976 whose elements types have been declared.
1977 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
1978 ** Support for allocation profiling
1979 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
1980 * Improvements to the Windows port:
1981 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
1982 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
1983 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
1984 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
1986 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
1987 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
1988 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
1989 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
1990 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
1992 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
1993 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
1994 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
1996 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
1997 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
1998 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
1999 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
2000 with non-variable places
2001 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
2002 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
2003 code more stable against memory faults.
2004 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
2005 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
2006 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
2007 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
2010 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
2011 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
2012 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
2013 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
2014 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
2015 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
2016 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
2017 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
2018 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2019 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2020 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
2021 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
2022 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
2024 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
2025 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
2026 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
2027 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
2028 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
2029 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
2030 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
2032 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
2033 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
2035 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
2036 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
2037 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
2038 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
2039 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
2040 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
2041 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
2042 to the single-stepper REPL.
2043 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
2044 for a type now works.
2045 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
2047 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
2048 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2049 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
2050 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2051 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
2052 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
2053 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
2054 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
2056 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
2057 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
2058 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
2059 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
2060 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
2061 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
2062 whose bindings are modified
2063 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
2064 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
2065 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
2066 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
2068 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
2069 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
2070 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
2071 as specified by AMOP.
2072 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
2074 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
2075 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2076 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
2077 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
2078 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
2079 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
2080 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
2081 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
2082 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
2083 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
2084 better type inference.
2085 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
2086 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
2087 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
2088 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
2089 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
2090 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2091 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
2092 initialization of methods can now be used to override
2093 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
2095 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
2096 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
2097 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
2098 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
2099 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
2101 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
2102 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
2103 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
2104 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
2105 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
2106 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
2107 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
2108 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
2109 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
2110 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
2111 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
2112 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
2113 (reported by James Y Knight).
2114 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
2115 argument for shadowing by local functions.
2116 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
2118 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
2119 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
2120 with type-inference.
2121 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
2122 types in some cases.
2123 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
2124 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2125 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
2127 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
2128 * thread-safety improvements:
2129 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
2130 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
2131 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
2133 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
2134 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
2136 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
2137 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
2138 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
2140 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
2141 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
2142 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
2143 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
2144 class became finalizeable.
2145 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
2146 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
2147 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
2148 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
2150 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
2151 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
2152 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
2153 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
2154 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
2155 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
2156 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2157 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
2158 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
2159 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
2160 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
2161 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
2162 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
2163 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2164 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
2165 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
2166 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
2167 * minor code generation optimizations:
2168 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
2169 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
2170 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
2171 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
2172 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
2173 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2174 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
2175 return its argument.
2177 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
2178 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
2180 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
2182 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
2183 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
2184 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
2185 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
2186 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
2187 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
2188 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
2189 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
2190 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
2191 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
2192 the low-level debugger.
2193 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
2194 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
2195 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
2196 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
2198 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
2199 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
2200 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
2202 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
2203 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2204 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
2205 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
2206 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
2207 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
2208 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
2209 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
2210 (reported by James Y Knight)
2211 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
2212 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
2213 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
2214 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
2215 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
2216 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
2217 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
2218 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
2219 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
2220 workaround for bug 403.)
2221 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
2222 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2223 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2224 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
2226 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2227 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
2228 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
2230 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
2231 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
2232 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
2233 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
2234 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
2236 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
2238 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
2239 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
2240 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
2243 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
2244 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
2245 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
2246 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
2247 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
2248 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
2249 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
2250 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
2251 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
2252 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
2253 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
2254 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2255 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
2256 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2257 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
2258 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
2259 documentation on package locks for details.
2260 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
2262 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
2263 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
2264 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
2265 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
2266 immediately available from the stream
2267 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
2268 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
2269 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
2270 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
2272 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
2273 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
2274 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
2276 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
2277 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
2278 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
2280 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
2281 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
2282 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
2283 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
2285 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2286 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
2287 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
2288 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2289 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
2290 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
2291 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2292 ** sb-grovel supported
2293 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
2294 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
2295 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
2296 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
2297 ** floating-point exception handling support
2298 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
2299 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2300 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2301 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
2302 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
2303 structure accessors.
2304 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
2306 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
2307 defaults for optional parameters.
2308 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
2309 function, which is already optimized.
2311 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
2312 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
2313 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
2314 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
2315 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
2316 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
2317 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
2318 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
2319 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
2320 this change is to make it easier to distribute
2321 location-independent binaries.
2322 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
2323 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
2325 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
2326 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
2327 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
2328 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
2329 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
2330 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
2331 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
2332 Alastair Bridgewater)
2333 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
2334 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
2335 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2336 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
2337 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
2338 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
2339 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
2340 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
2341 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
2342 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
2343 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
2344 (thanks to James Knight)
2345 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
2346 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
2348 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
2349 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
2350 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
2351 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
2352 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
2353 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
2354 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
2355 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
2356 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
2357 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
2358 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
2359 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
2360 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
2361 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
2362 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
2363 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
2364 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
2365 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
2366 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
2367 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
2368 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
2370 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
2371 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
2372 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
2373 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2374 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
2375 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
2377 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
2378 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
2379 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
2380 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
2381 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
2382 many others over the years)
2383 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
2384 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
2385 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
2387 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
2388 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
2389 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2390 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
2391 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
2392 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
2394 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
2396 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
2397 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
2398 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
2399 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
2400 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
2401 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
2402 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
2403 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
2404 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
2405 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
2406 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
2407 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2408 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
2409 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2411 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
2412 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2413 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
2414 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
2415 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
2416 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
2417 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
2418 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
2419 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
2420 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2421 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
2422 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
2423 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
2424 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
2425 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
2426 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
2427 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
2428 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2429 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
2430 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
2432 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
2433 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2434 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
2435 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
2436 index variables in LOOP
2437 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
2438 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2439 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
2440 that don't have a docstring
2442 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
2443 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2444 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
2445 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
2446 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
2447 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
2448 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
2449 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
2450 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
2451 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
2452 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
2453 Costanza's "Closer" project)
2454 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
2455 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
2457 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
2458 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
2459 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
2460 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
2461 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
2462 and Pascal Costanza)
2463 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
2464 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
2465 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
2466 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
2467 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2468 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
2469 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
2470 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
2471 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2472 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
2473 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2474 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
2475 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2476 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
2477 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2478 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
2479 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
2480 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
2481 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
2483 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
2484 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2485 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
2486 floating point index variable or a negative step.
2488 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
2489 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
2490 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
2491 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
2492 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
2493 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2494 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
2495 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
2496 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
2497 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2498 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2499 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
2500 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
2501 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
2502 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2503 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
2504 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
2505 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
2506 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
2507 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
2508 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
2509 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2510 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
2511 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2512 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
2513 and dump core on SIGQUIT
2515 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
2516 from their parents (see manual)
2517 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
2518 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
2519 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
2520 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
2521 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
2522 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
2524 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2525 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
2526 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
2527 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
2529 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
2530 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
2531 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
2533 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
2534 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
2535 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
2536 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
2537 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
2538 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
2539 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
2540 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
2541 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
2542 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
2543 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
2544 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
2545 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
2546 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
2548 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
2549 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
2550 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
2552 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
2553 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
2555 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
2556 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2557 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
2558 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
2559 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
2560 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
2561 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
2562 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
2563 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
2565 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
2566 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
2567 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
2568 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
2569 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
2570 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
2572 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
2574 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
2575 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
2576 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
2577 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
2578 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
2579 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
2580 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
2581 classes; see the manual for more details;
2582 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
2583 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
2584 requested slot ordering.
2586 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
2588 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
2589 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
2591 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
2593 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
2594 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
2595 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
2596 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
2597 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2598 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
2599 the :method-class keyword argument.
2601 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
2602 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
2603 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
2604 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2605 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
2606 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2607 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
2608 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2609 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
2610 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
2611 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
2613 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
2614 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
2615 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
2616 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
2617 is switched on or off
2618 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
2619 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
2620 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
2622 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
2623 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2624 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
2625 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
2626 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2627 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
2628 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
2629 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
2630 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
2632 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
2633 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
2634 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
2635 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
2636 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
2637 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
2638 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
2640 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
2641 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
2642 not prevent gc from running
2643 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
2644 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
2645 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
2646 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
2647 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
2648 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
2649 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
2650 an inline 32-bit rotation.
2652 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
2653 there is only one thread in the session
2654 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
2655 written to in another
2656 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
2657 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
2659 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
2660 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
2662 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
2663 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2664 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
2665 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
2666 the orignal arguments.
2667 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
2669 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
2670 name a compiled function.
2671 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
2672 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
2673 derivation were fixed.
2674 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
2675 list-form FUNCTION type.
2676 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
2677 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
2678 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
2680 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
2681 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
2682 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
2683 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
2684 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
2685 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
2687 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
2688 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
2689 of a select system call
2690 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
2692 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
2693 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
2695 * various error reporting improvements.
2696 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
2697 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2698 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
2699 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
2700 code and foreign data with the same name.
2702 ** added x86-64 support
2703 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
2704 objects instead of thread ids
2705 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
2706 starting up or going down
2707 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
2708 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
2709 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
2710 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
2711 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
2712 an inappropriate moment
2713 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
2714 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
2715 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
2716 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2717 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
2718 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
2719 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
2721 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
2722 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
2723 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
2724 range before calling Unix time functions
2726 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
2727 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
2728 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2729 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
2730 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
2731 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
2732 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
2733 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
2734 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
2735 for more information.
2736 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
2737 pathname is a directory pathname.
2738 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
2739 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
2741 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
2742 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
2743 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
2744 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
2745 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
2746 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
2748 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
2749 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
2750 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
2751 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
2752 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
2753 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
2754 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2755 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
2756 the PowerPC platform.
2757 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
2758 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
2760 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
2761 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
2762 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
2763 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
2764 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
2765 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2767 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
2768 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
2769 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
2770 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
2771 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
2772 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2773 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
2774 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
2775 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
2776 as the name of a type, or vice versa
2777 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
2778 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
2779 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
2780 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
2781 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
2782 FLET or MACROLET forms
2783 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
2785 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
2787 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
2790 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
2791 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
2792 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
2793 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
2794 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
2795 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
2796 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
2797 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
2798 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
2799 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
2800 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
2801 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
2802 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
2803 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
2804 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
2805 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
2806 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
2807 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
2808 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
2809 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
2810 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
2811 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
2813 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2814 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
2815 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
2816 a file has the stream as its datum.
2817 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
2818 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
2819 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
2820 a correct expected type
2821 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
2822 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
2823 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
2824 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
2825 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
2826 on broadcast streams.
2828 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
2829 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
2830 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
2831 --disable-debugger option instead.
2832 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
2834 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
2835 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
2836 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
2837 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
2838 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
2839 has been added to the manual.
2840 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
2841 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
2842 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
2843 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
2844 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
2845 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
2846 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
2847 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
2848 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
2849 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
2851 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
2852 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
2853 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
2854 (reported by Rajat Datta).
2855 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
2856 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
2858 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
2859 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
2860 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
2861 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
2862 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
2863 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
2864 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
2865 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
2866 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
2867 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
2868 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2869 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
2870 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2871 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
2872 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
2873 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2874 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2875 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
2876 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
2878 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
2880 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
2881 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
2882 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
2883 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
2884 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
2886 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
2887 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
2888 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
2889 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
2890 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
2891 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
2892 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
2894 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2895 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
2896 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
2898 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
2899 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
2900 types for complex arguments better.
2901 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
2903 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
2904 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
2906 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
2907 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
2908 resulting in GC crashes.
2909 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
2911 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
2914 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
2915 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
2916 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
2917 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
2918 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
2919 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
2920 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
2921 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
2922 returning to the top level.
2923 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
2924 global optimization policy.
2925 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
2926 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
2927 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
2929 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
2930 various incompatible changes.
2931 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
2932 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
2933 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
2934 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
2935 level local call to FOO".
2936 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
2937 now have more legible printed representation
2938 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
2939 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
2940 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
2941 explicitly requested.
2942 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
2943 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
2944 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
2945 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
2946 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
2948 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
2949 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
2950 (reported by Lutz Euler)
2951 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
2952 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2953 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
2954 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
2955 the specializer is now possible.
2956 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
2957 face of package deletion.
2958 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
2959 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
2960 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
2961 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
2962 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
2963 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
2964 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
2965 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
2966 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2967 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
2969 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2970 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
2971 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
2972 correctable errors to be signalled.
2973 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
2974 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
2977 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
2978 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2979 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
2981 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
2982 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
2983 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
2984 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
2985 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
2986 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
2987 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
2988 related to the ~@F format directive.
2989 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
2991 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
2992 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
2993 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
2994 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
2996 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
2998 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
2999 coerce function designators to functions.
3000 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
3001 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
3002 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
3003 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
3004 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
3005 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
3006 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3007 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
3008 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
3009 start of the buffer at the next read.
3010 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
3011 passing it through to OPEN.
3012 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
3013 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
3014 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
3015 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
3016 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
3017 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3018 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
3019 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
3021 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
3022 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3023 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3024 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
3025 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3026 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
3028 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3029 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
3030 secondary constituent character trait.
3031 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
3033 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
3035 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
3036 works more reliably.
3037 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
3038 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
3039 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
3041 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
3042 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
3044 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
3045 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
3046 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
3047 and reloading shared object files.
3048 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3049 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
3051 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
3052 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
3053 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
3055 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
3056 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
3058 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
3060 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
3061 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
3062 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
3063 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3064 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
3065 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
3066 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
3068 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
3069 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
3071 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
3072 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
3073 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
3074 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
3075 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
3077 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
3078 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
3079 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3080 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
3081 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
3082 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3083 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
3084 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3085 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
3086 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
3087 lisp characters are not eight bits.
3088 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3089 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
3090 the correct number of arguments.
3091 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
3092 to displaced strings.
3093 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
3094 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
3096 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
3097 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
3098 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
3099 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
3100 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
3101 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
3102 available at runtime.
3103 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
3104 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
3105 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
3106 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3107 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
3108 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
3109 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
3110 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
3111 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
3112 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
3113 of lambda-list keywords.
3114 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
3115 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
3117 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
3118 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
3119 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3120 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
3121 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
3122 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
3123 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
3125 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
3126 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3127 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
3128 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
3129 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
3131 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3132 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
3133 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3134 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
3135 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
3136 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3137 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
3139 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
3140 parameters correctly.
3141 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
3142 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
3143 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
3145 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
3148 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
3149 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
3150 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
3151 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
3153 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
3154 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
3155 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
3156 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
3157 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
3158 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
3159 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
3160 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3161 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
3163 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
3164 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3166 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
3168 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
3169 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
3170 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3171 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
3173 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
3174 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3175 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
3176 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
3177 (reported by David Morse)
3178 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
3179 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3180 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
3181 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3182 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
3183 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3184 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
3185 now exists, an signals an error.
3186 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
3187 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
3188 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3189 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
3190 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3191 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
3192 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
3193 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3194 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
3195 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3196 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
3197 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
3199 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
3200 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
3201 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
3202 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
3203 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3204 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
3205 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
3206 specialized array element types.
3207 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
3208 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3209 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
3210 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3211 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
3212 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
3213 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
3214 Wragg for the simple test case)
3215 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3216 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
3218 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
3219 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
3220 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
3221 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
3222 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
3224 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
3226 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
3227 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
3228 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
3229 references to global functions.
3230 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
3232 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
3234 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
3235 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3236 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
3237 supported platforms.
3238 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
3239 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
3240 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3241 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
3242 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
3243 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3244 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
3245 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3246 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
3247 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
3248 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
3249 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
3250 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
3252 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
3253 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3254 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
3255 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
3256 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
3257 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
3259 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
3260 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
3262 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
3263 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
3264 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
3265 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3266 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
3267 returns the right answer.
3268 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
3270 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
3272 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
3273 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
3275 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
3276 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
3278 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
3279 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
3280 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
3281 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
3282 the supported interface.
3283 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
3284 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
3285 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3286 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
3287 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
3288 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
3289 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
3290 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3291 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
3292 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
3293 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
3294 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
3295 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3296 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
3297 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
3298 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
3299 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
3300 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
3301 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
3302 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
3303 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
3304 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
3305 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
3306 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
3307 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
3308 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
3309 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3310 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
3311 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
3313 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
3314 * incompatible change: the internal functions
3315 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
3316 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
3317 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
3318 instead of the old functions.
3319 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
3320 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
3322 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
3323 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
3325 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
3326 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
3327 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
3328 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
3330 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
3331 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3332 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
3333 (reported by Rick Taube)
3334 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
3335 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
3336 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
3337 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
3339 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
3340 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
3341 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
3342 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
3343 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3344 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
3345 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
3346 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
3347 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
3348 represented relative to default pathnames.
3349 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
3350 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
3351 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
3353 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
3354 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
3355 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
3357 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3358 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
3359 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
3360 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
3362 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
3364 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
3365 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
3366 conditional newlines.
3367 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
3368 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
3369 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
3371 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
3372 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
3374 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
3375 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
3376 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
3377 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
3378 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
3379 compiled in unconditionally.
3380 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
3381 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
3382 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
3383 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
3384 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
3386 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
3387 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
3388 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
3389 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
3390 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
3391 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
3392 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
3393 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
3394 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
3395 an implementation-internal package.
3396 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
3398 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
3399 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
3400 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
3401 bodies are now more legible.
3402 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
3403 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
3404 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
3405 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
3406 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3407 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
3408 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
3410 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
3411 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
3412 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
3413 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
3414 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
3415 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
3416 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
3417 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
3418 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
3419 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
3421 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
3422 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
3423 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
3424 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
3425 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
3426 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
3427 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
3428 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
3429 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
3430 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
3431 system even when most of them are idle
3432 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
3433 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3434 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
3436 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
3437 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
3438 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
3439 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
3440 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
3442 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
3443 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
3444 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
3445 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
3446 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
3447 string for information on the protocol.
3448 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
3449 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
3451 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
3452 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
3454 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
3455 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
3456 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
3457 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
3458 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
3459 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
3461 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
3462 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
3464 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
3465 move between its address being taken and the call to
3466 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
3467 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
3468 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
3469 instances corresponding to C structs.
3471 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
3472 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
3473 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
3474 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
3475 has implications for memory management of client code
3476 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
3477 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
3478 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
3479 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
3480 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
3481 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
3482 quality should be considered deprecated.
3483 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
3484 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
3485 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
3486 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
3487 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
3489 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
3490 designator as the defaults argument.
3491 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
3492 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
3493 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3494 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
3495 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
3497 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
3499 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
3500 (thanks to Zach Beane)
3501 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
3502 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
3503 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3504 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
3506 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
3507 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3508 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
3509 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
3510 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
3511 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
3512 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3513 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
3514 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
3515 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
3516 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
3517 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3518 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
3519 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
3520 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
3521 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
3522 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
3524 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
3525 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
3526 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
3528 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
3529 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3530 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
3531 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
3532 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
3533 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
3534 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3535 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
3536 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
3538 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
3539 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
3541 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
3542 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
3544 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
3545 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3546 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
3547 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
3549 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
3550 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
3551 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3552 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
3553 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
3554 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
3555 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
3556 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
3558 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
3559 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
3560 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
3562 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
3563 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
3565 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3566 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
3568 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
3569 from local to shared slots.
3570 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
3571 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
3572 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
3573 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
3575 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
3576 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
3577 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
3578 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
3579 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
3580 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
3581 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
3582 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
3583 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
3585 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
3587 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
3589 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
3590 print using #P"..." syntax.
3592 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
3593 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
3594 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
3595 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
3596 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
3597 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
3598 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
3599 * [placeholder for DX summary]
3600 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
3601 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
3602 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
3603 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
3604 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
3605 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
3606 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
3607 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
3608 the test case to Dave Roberts)
3609 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
3610 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
3611 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
3612 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
3613 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
3614 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
3615 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
3616 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3617 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
3618 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
3619 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
3620 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
3621 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3622 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
3623 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
3626 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
3627 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
3628 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
3629 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
3630 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
3631 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
3632 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
3633 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
3634 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
3635 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3636 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
3637 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
3638 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
3640 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
3641 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
3643 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
3644 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
3645 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3646 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
3647 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3648 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
3650 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
3651 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
3652 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
3654 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
3656 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
3658 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
3659 their output stream on EOF from read.
3660 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
3661 have been read to end-of-file.
3662 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
3664 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
3665 description of determination of which consecutive characters
3667 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
3668 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
3669 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3670 less than 10 works correctly.
3671 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3672 more than 10 works correctly.
3673 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
3674 the readtable currently in effect.
3676 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
3677 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
3678 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
3679 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
3680 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
3681 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
3682 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
3683 should usually be replaced by
3684 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
3685 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
3686 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
3687 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
3688 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
3689 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
3690 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
3691 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
3693 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
3694 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
3695 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
3696 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
3697 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
3698 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3699 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
3700 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
3701 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
3702 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
3703 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
3704 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
3705 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
3707 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
3708 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
3709 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
3710 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3711 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
3712 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
3713 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
3714 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3715 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
3716 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
3717 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
3718 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
3719 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
3720 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
3721 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3722 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
3723 non-local entry points.
3724 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
3726 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
3727 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
3729 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
3730 host is already defined.
3731 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
3733 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
3734 or not a character is whitespace.
3735 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
3736 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
3737 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
3739 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
3740 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
3742 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
3744 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
3745 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
3746 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
3747 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
3748 designator argument does not designate a stream.
3749 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
3750 examining the synonym.
3751 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
3753 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
3754 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
3756 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
3757 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
3758 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
3759 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
3760 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
3761 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
3762 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
3763 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
3764 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
3765 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3766 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
3767 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
3769 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
3770 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
3771 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3772 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
3773 stream position information.
3774 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
3775 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
3776 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
3777 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
3778 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3779 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
3781 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
3782 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
3784 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
3785 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3786 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
3787 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
3788 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
3789 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
3790 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
3792 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
3794 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
3795 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
3796 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
3797 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
3798 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
3799 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
3800 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
3801 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
3802 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
3803 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
3804 the "SYS" logical host.
3805 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
3806 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
3807 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
3808 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3809 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
3810 now each have their own history, command character, and other
3811 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3812 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3813 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
3815 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
3816 shift greater than 32.
3817 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
3818 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
3819 in some circumstances.
3821 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
3822 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
3823 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
3824 environments like SLIME.
3825 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
3826 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
3827 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
3828 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
3829 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
3830 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
3831 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
3832 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
3833 argument types for all arguments.
3834 * various threading fixes
3835 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
3836 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
3837 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
3838 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
3840 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
3841 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
3842 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
3843 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
3844 arguments to a full call.
3845 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
3846 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
3847 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
3848 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
3850 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
3851 inserts a space where necessary.
3852 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
3853 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
3854 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
3855 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
3856 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
3857 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
3858 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
3859 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
3860 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
3861 counter now raises a meaningful error.
3862 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
3863 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
3865 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
3866 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
3867 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
3869 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
3871 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3872 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
3873 argument and negative second.
3874 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
3875 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
3876 interval, containing 0.
3877 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
3879 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
3880 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
3882 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
3883 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
3884 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
3885 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
3886 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
3887 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
3888 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
3889 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
3890 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
3891 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
3892 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
3893 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
3894 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
3895 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
3896 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
3897 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
3898 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
3899 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
3900 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
3901 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
3902 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
3903 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
3904 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
3905 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
3906 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
3907 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
3908 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
3909 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
3910 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
3912 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
3913 platform now returns the right answer.
3914 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
3915 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
3916 precomputation is now tunable.
3917 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
3918 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
3919 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
3920 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
3921 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
3922 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
3923 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
3924 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
3925 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
3926 has been added for the alpha.
3927 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
3928 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
3929 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
3930 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
3931 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
3932 MEMBER-types to numeric.
3933 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
3935 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
3936 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
3937 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
3939 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
3940 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3941 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
3942 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
3943 might be pseudo-atomic.
3944 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
3945 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
3947 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
3949 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
3951 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
3952 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
3953 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
3954 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
3955 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
3956 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
3958 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3959 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
3960 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
3961 small float arguments.
3962 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
3964 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
3965 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
3966 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
3967 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
3968 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
3969 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
3971 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
3973 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
3974 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
3975 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
3976 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
3977 with negative last argument.
3978 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
3979 an error during type derivation.
3980 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
3982 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
3983 generates a 32-bit binary.
3984 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3985 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
3986 data structures referred to above).
3988 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
3989 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
3990 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
3991 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
3992 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
3993 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
3994 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
3995 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
3996 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
3997 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3998 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
3999 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
4001 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
4002 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
4004 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
4005 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
4006 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
4007 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
4008 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
4009 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
4010 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
4011 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
4012 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
4013 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
4014 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
4015 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4016 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
4017 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
4018 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
4019 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
4020 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
4021 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4022 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
4023 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
4024 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
4025 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
4026 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4027 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
4028 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
4029 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
4030 optimization quality.
4031 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
4032 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
4033 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
4034 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
4035 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4036 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4037 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
4038 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
4039 types form a lattice under type intersection.
4040 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
4041 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
4042 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
4043 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
4044 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
4045 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
4046 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
4047 calling the generic function.
4048 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
4049 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
4050 obscure ANSI requirements
4052 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
4053 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
4054 garbage, confusing the compiler.
4055 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
4056 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
4057 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
4058 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
4059 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
4060 circumstances could go off-by-one.
4061 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
4063 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
4064 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
4065 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
4066 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
4067 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
4068 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
4069 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
4070 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
4071 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
4072 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4073 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
4074 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
4075 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
4076 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
4077 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
4078 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
4079 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
4080 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
4081 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
4082 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
4084 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
4085 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
4086 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
4087 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
4089 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
4090 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
4091 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
4092 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
4093 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
4094 provide helpful disassembly notes.
4095 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
4096 the class in more cases than previously.
4097 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
4098 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4099 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
4100 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4101 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
4102 without lambda list.
4103 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
4104 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
4105 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4106 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
4107 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
4108 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
4110 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
4111 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
4112 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
4114 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
4115 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
4116 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
4117 were silently accepted).
4118 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
4119 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
4120 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
4121 to warn on static type mismatches and function
4122 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
4123 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
4124 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
4125 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
4126 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
4127 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
4128 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
4129 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
4130 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
4131 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
4133 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
4134 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
4135 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
4136 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
4137 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
4138 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
4140 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
4141 keywords or constants is permissible.
4142 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
4143 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
4144 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4145 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
4146 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
4147 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
4148 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
4149 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
4151 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
4152 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4153 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
4154 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
4155 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4156 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
4157 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
4159 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
4161 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
4162 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
4163 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
4164 respectively change and preserve the value.
4165 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
4166 is now better at handling symbol macros.
4167 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
4168 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
4169 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
4170 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
4171 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
4172 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
4173 their use properly signals an error now.
4174 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
4175 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
4176 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
4177 * fixed simple vector readable printing
4178 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
4179 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
4180 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
4181 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
4182 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
4183 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
4184 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4185 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
4186 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4187 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
4188 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
4189 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4190 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
4191 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
4192 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
4193 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
4194 causes a type error.
4195 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
4196 association between the name and a class.
4197 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
4198 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
4199 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4200 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
4201 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
4202 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
4204 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
4205 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
4206 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
4207 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
4209 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
4210 which its argument is a member.
4211 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
4212 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
4213 otherwise, it creates a new class.
4214 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
4215 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
4216 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
4217 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
4218 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4219 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
4221 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
4222 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
4223 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
4224 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
4225 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
4226 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
4227 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
4229 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
4230 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
4231 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
4232 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
4233 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
4234 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
4235 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
4236 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
4237 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
4238 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
4239 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
4240 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
4241 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4242 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
4244 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
4245 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
4246 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
4247 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
4248 superclasses are applied.
4249 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
4250 no method was removed.
4251 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
4252 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
4253 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
4254 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
4256 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
4258 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
4259 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
4260 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
4261 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
4262 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
4263 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
4264 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
4265 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
4266 function lambda list.
4267 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
4269 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
4270 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
4271 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
4272 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
4274 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
4275 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
4276 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
4277 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
4278 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
4279 they look for GNU "make".
4281 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
4282 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
4283 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
4284 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
4286 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
4287 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
4288 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
4289 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
4290 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
4291 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
4292 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
4293 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
4294 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
4295 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
4297 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
4298 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
4299 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
4300 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
4301 libraries, and will know who they are.
4302 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
4303 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
4304 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
4305 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
4306 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
4307 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
4308 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
4309 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
4311 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
4312 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
4313 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4314 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
4315 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
4316 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
4317 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
4318 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
4319 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
4320 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
4321 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4322 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
4324 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
4325 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
4326 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
4327 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
4328 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4329 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
4330 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
4331 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
4332 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
4334 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
4335 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
4336 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
4337 this you were probably losing anyway.
4338 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
4339 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
4340 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
4341 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
4342 with names from the CL package.
4343 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
4344 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
4345 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
4346 documentation string.
4347 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4348 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
4350 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
4351 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
4352 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
4353 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
4355 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
4356 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
4358 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
4359 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4360 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
4362 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
4363 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
4364 arguments contain duplicated elements.
4365 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
4366 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
4367 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
4368 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
4369 in question is unbound.
4370 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
4371 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
4372 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
4373 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
4374 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
4376 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
4378 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
4379 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
4380 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
4381 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
4382 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
4383 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
4384 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
4385 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
4386 by Antonio Martinez)
4387 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
4388 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4389 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
4390 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
4391 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
4392 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
4393 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
4394 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4395 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
4396 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
4397 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
4398 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
4399 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
4400 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
4401 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
4402 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
4403 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
4404 on malformed property lists;
4406 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
4407 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
4408 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
4409 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
4410 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
4411 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
4412 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
4413 modules in this release include:
4414 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
4415 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
4416 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
4417 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4418 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
4420 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
4421 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
4422 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4423 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4424 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
4425 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
4426 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
4427 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
4429 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
4430 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
4431 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
4432 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
4433 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
4434 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
4435 the lexical environment.
4436 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
4437 unprintable packages can now be defined.
4438 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
4439 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4440 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
4441 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4442 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
4443 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
4444 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
4445 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
4446 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
4447 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
4448 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
4449 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
4450 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4451 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
4452 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4453 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
4454 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
4455 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
4456 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4457 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
4458 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
4459 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
4460 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
4462 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
4463 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
4464 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
4465 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4466 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
4467 not just nonnegative fixnums;
4468 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
4469 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
4470 freshly-consed result bit-array);
4471 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
4473 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
4474 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
4476 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
4477 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
4478 cases are accurately computed;
4479 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
4480 if it is in the last clause;
4481 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
4483 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
4484 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
4485 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
4486 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
4488 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
4489 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
4490 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
4491 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
4492 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
4494 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
4495 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
4496 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
4497 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
4499 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4500 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
4501 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
4502 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
4503 not cause a type error;
4504 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
4506 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
4507 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
4508 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
4509 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
4510 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
4511 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
4512 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
4513 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
4515 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
4516 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
4517 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
4518 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
4519 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
4520 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
4522 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
4523 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
4525 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
4526 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
4527 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
4528 only for symbols in the CL package.
4529 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
4530 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4531 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
4532 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
4533 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
4535 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4536 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
4537 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
4538 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
4539 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
4540 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
4541 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
4542 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
4543 conditional loop clause;
4544 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
4545 signals a type error iff it should.
4546 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4547 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
4548 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
4549 argument) no longer signals an error;
4550 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
4551 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
4552 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
4554 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
4555 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
4556 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
4558 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
4559 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
4560 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
4561 functionality on said platforms verified.
4562 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
4563 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
4565 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
4566 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
4567 component indicating that directory.
4568 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
4569 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
4570 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
4571 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
4572 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4573 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
4575 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
4576 primary methods with no specializers;
4577 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
4579 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
4580 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
4581 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
4582 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
4584 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
4585 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
4586 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
4588 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
4589 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
4590 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
4591 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
4592 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
4593 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
4594 class STANDARD-CLASS;
4595 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
4596 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4597 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
4598 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
4600 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
4601 value producing form;
4602 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
4603 variables are bound and made to have no value;
4604 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
4606 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
4607 is not a valid sequence index;
4608 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
4609 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
4610 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4611 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
4613 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
4614 symbol-macro places;
4615 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
4616 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
4618 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
4620 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
4622 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
4623 invariant when deleting code.
4624 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
4625 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
4627 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
4628 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4629 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
4631 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
4632 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
4634 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
4635 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
4636 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4637 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
4639 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
4640 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4641 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
4642 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
4644 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
4645 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
4646 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
4647 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
4648 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4649 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
4650 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
4651 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
4652 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
4653 sbcl and .core files.)
4654 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
4655 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
4656 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
4657 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
4658 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
4659 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4660 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
4662 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
4663 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
4664 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
4665 argument precedence order.
4666 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
4667 derived types contradict their declared type.
4668 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
4669 so it can be non-toplevel.
4670 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
4671 implementation of DEFMACRO).
4672 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
4673 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
4674 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
4676 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
4677 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
4678 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
4679 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
4680 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
4681 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
4682 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
4683 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
4684 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
4685 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
4686 symbol macro only once
4687 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
4688 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
4689 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
4692 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
4693 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
4694 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
4695 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
4696 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
4697 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
4698 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
4699 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
4700 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
4701 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4702 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
4703 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
4705 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
4706 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
4707 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
4708 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
4709 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4710 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
4712 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
4714 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
4715 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
4716 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
4717 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
4718 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4719 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
4720 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
4721 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
4722 ways in different special cases
4723 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
4725 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
4726 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
4727 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
4728 are no longer optimized away.
4729 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
4730 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
4731 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
4732 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
4733 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
4734 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
4735 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
4736 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
4739 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
4740 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
4741 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
4742 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
4743 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
4744 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
4745 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
4747 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
4748 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
4749 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
4750 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
4751 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
4752 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
4753 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
4754 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
4755 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
4756 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
4757 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
4758 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
4759 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
4760 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
4761 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
4762 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
4763 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
4764 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4765 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
4766 that are names of constants or global variables.
4767 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
4768 alien routines with docstrings.
4769 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
4770 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
4772 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
4773 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
4774 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
4775 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4776 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
4777 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4778 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
4779 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
4780 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
4781 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4782 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
4783 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
4784 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
4785 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
4786 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
4787 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
4788 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
4789 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
4790 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
4791 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
4792 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
4793 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
4794 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
4796 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
4797 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
4799 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
4800 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
4801 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
4802 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
4803 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
4804 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
4805 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
4806 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
4807 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
4808 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
4810 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
4811 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
4812 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
4813 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
4814 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
4815 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
4816 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
4817 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
4818 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
4819 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
4820 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
4821 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
4822 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
4823 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
4824 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
4825 is no longer a static symbol.)
4827 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
4828 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
4829 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
4830 bootstrapping under CLISP.
4831 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
4833 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
4834 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
4836 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
4837 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
4838 to David Lichteblau)
4839 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
4840 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
4841 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
4843 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
4844 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
4845 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
4846 count as they should.
4847 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
4848 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
4849 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
4850 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
4851 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
4852 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
4853 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
4854 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
4855 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
4856 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
4857 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
4858 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
4859 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
4860 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
4861 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
4863 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
4864 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
4865 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
4867 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
4869 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
4870 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
4871 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
4872 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
4873 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
4874 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
4875 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
4877 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
4878 to Christophe Rhodes)
4879 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
4880 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
4881 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
4882 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
4883 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
4884 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
4885 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
4887 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
4888 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
4889 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
4890 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
4891 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
4892 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4893 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
4894 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
4895 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
4896 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
4897 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
4898 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
4899 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
4901 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
4902 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
4903 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
4904 INFO database to support symbol macros.
4905 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
4906 (thanks to coreythomas)
4907 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
4908 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
4909 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
4910 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
4911 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
4913 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
4914 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
4915 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
4916 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
4917 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
4918 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
4919 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
4920 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
4921 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
4922 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4923 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
4924 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
4925 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
4927 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
4928 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
4931 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
4932 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
4933 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
4934 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
4935 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
4936 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
4937 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
4938 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
4939 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
4940 systems than the old 4M value was)
4941 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
4942 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
4943 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
4944 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
4945 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
4946 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
4947 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
4949 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
4950 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
4951 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
4952 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
4953 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
4955 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
4956 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
4957 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
4958 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
4959 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
4960 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
4961 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
4962 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
4964 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
4965 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
4966 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
4967 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4968 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
4969 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
4970 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
4971 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
4973 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
4974 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
4975 * several changes related to debugging:
4976 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
4977 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
4978 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
4979 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
4980 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
4981 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
4982 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
4985 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
4987 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
4988 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
4989 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
4990 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
4991 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
4992 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
4993 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
4994 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
4996 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
4997 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
4998 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
4999 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5000 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
5001 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
5002 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
5003 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
5004 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
5005 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
5006 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
5007 file format number to change again.
5009 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
5010 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
5011 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
5012 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
5014 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
5015 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
5016 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
5017 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
5018 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
5019 FUNCALL on the result.
5020 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
5021 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
5022 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
5023 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
5024 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
5025 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
5026 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
5027 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
5029 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
5030 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
5031 the old compiler produced.
5032 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
5033 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
5034 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
5035 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
5036 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
5037 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
5038 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
5039 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
5040 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
5041 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
5042 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
5043 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
5044 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
5045 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
5046 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
5047 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
5048 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
5049 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
5050 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
5051 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
5052 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
5053 straightened out in some future version.)
5054 * minor incompatible changes:
5055 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
5056 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
5057 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
5058 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
5059 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
5060 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
5061 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
5062 implementation dependent:
5063 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
5064 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
5065 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
5066 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
5067 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
5068 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
5069 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
5070 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
5072 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
5074 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
5075 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
5076 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
5077 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
5078 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
5079 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
5080 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
5081 are no longer used for output.
5082 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
5083 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
5084 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
5085 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
5086 increasing it even more.)
5087 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
5088 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
5089 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
5091 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
5092 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
5093 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
5094 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
5095 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
5096 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
5097 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
5098 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
5099 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
5100 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
5101 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
5102 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
5103 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
5104 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
5105 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
5106 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
5107 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
5108 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
5109 compilation of code which calls such functions.
5110 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
5111 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
5112 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
5113 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
5114 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
5115 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
5116 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
5117 built into the system.
5118 * many other bug fixes
5119 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
5120 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
5121 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
5122 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
5123 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
5125 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
5126 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
5127 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
5128 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
5129 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
5130 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
5131 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
5132 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
5133 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
5134 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
5135 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
5137 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
5138 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
5139 and several other LOOP problems as well
5140 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
5141 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
5142 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
5143 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
5144 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
5145 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
5146 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
5147 *** a bug in APROPOS
5148 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
5149 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
5150 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
5151 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
5152 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
5153 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
5154 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
5155 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
5156 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
5157 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
5158 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
5159 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
5160 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
5161 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
5162 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
5164 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
5165 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
5166 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
5167 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
5168 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
5169 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
5170 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
5171 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
5172 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
5173 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
5174 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
5175 some of which are apparent above.
5177 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
5178 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
5179 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
5180 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
5181 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
5182 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
5183 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
5184 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
5185 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
5186 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
5187 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
5188 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
5189 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
5190 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
5191 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
5192 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
5193 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
5194 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
5195 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
5196 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
5197 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
5198 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
5199 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
5200 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
5201 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
5202 different return types.
5203 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
5204 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
5205 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
5206 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
5207 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
5208 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
5209 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
5210 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
5211 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
5212 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
5214 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
5215 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
5216 does the right thing.
5217 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
5218 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
5219 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5220 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
5221 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5222 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5223 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
5224 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
5225 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
5226 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
5227 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5228 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
5229 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5230 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
5231 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
5232 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
5233 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
5234 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
5235 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
5236 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
5237 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
5238 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
5239 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
5240 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
5241 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
5242 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
5243 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
5244 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
5245 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
5246 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
5247 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
5248 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
5249 since historically most system changes which required version
5250 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
5251 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
5254 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
5255 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
5256 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
5257 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
5258 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
5259 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
5260 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
5261 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
5262 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
5263 half a dozen others elsewhere
5264 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
5265 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
5266 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
5267 as flaky as they were.
5268 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
5269 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
5270 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
5271 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
5272 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
5273 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
5274 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
5275 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
5277 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
5278 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
5279 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
5280 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5281 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
5282 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
5283 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
5284 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
5285 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
5286 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
5287 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
5288 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
5289 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
5290 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
5291 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
5292 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
5293 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
5294 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
5295 more obscure bugs as well
5296 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
5297 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
5298 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
5299 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
5300 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
5301 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
5302 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
5303 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
5304 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
5305 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
5306 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
5308 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
5309 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
5311 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
5313 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5314 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
5315 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
5316 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
5317 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
5318 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
5319 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
5320 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
5321 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
5322 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
5323 are local in this sense.)
5324 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
5325 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
5326 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
5327 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
5328 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
5329 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
5330 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5331 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
5332 system's STREAM objects.
5333 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
5334 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5335 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
5336 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5337 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
5338 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
5339 environment from the original process instead of starting the
5340 new process in an empty environment.
5341 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
5342 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
5343 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
5344 for porting convenience.
5345 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
5346 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
5348 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
5350 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
5351 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
5352 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
5353 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
5354 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
5355 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
5356 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
5357 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
5358 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
5359 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
5360 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
5361 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5362 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
5363 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
5364 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
5365 many fewer weird special cases.
5366 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
5367 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
5368 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5369 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
5370 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
5371 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
5372 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
5373 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
5374 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
5375 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5376 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
5379 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
5381 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
5382 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
5383 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
5385 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
5386 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
5387 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
5388 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
5389 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
5390 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
5391 should be constructed the same way as before.
5392 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
5393 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
5394 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
5395 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
5396 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
5397 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
5398 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
5399 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
5400 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
5401 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
5402 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
5403 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
5404 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
5405 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
5406 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
5407 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
5408 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
5409 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
5410 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
5411 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
5412 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
5413 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
5415 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
5416 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
5417 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
5418 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
5419 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
5420 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
5421 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
5422 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
5424 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
5426 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
5427 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
5428 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
5429 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
5430 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
5432 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
5433 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
5434 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
5435 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
5436 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
5437 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
5438 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
5439 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
5440 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
5441 and Douglas Crosher.
5442 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
5443 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
5444 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
5446 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
5447 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
5448 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
5449 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
5450 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
5451 undefined function error.
5452 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
5453 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
5454 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
5455 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
5456 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
5457 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
5458 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
5459 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
5460 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
5461 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
5462 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
5463 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
5464 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
5466 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
5468 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
5469 CVS repository on my home machine).
5470 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
5471 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
5472 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
5473 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
5474 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
5475 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
5476 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
5477 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
5478 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
5479 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
5480 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
5481 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
5482 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
5483 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
5484 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
5485 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
5486 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
5487 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
5488 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
5489 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
5490 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
5491 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
5493 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
5494 FreeBSD have been added.
5495 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
5496 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
5497 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
5498 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
5499 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
5500 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
5502 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
5503 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
5504 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
5505 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
5506 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
5507 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
5508 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
5509 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
5511 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
5512 away by constant folding
5513 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
5514 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
5515 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
5516 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
5517 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
5518 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
5519 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
5520 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
5521 diff-related operations.
5522 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
5523 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
5525 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
5527 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
5528 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
5529 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
5530 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
5531 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
5532 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
5533 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
5534 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
5535 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
5536 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
5537 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
5538 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
5539 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
5540 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
5541 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
5542 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
5543 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
5544 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
5545 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
5546 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
5547 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
5548 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
5549 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
5550 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
5551 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
5552 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
5553 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
5554 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
5555 instead of (VALUES T T).
5556 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
5557 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
5558 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
5559 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
5560 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
5561 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
5562 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
5563 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
5564 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
5565 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
5566 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
5567 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
5568 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
5569 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
5570 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
5571 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
5572 type will be interpreted at runtime.
5573 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
5574 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
5575 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
5576 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
5577 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
5578 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
5579 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
5580 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
5581 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
5582 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
5583 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
5584 fasl files for cold load.
5585 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
5586 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
5587 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
5588 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
5589 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
5590 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
5591 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
5592 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
5593 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
5594 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
5595 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
5597 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
5598 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
5599 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
5600 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
5601 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
5602 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
5603 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
5604 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
5605 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
5606 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
5607 renamed some files to increase consistency.
5608 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
5609 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
5610 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
5611 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
5612 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
5613 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
5615 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
5617 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
5618 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
5619 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
5620 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
5621 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
5622 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
5623 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
5624 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
5625 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
5626 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
5627 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
5628 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
5629 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
5630 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
5631 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
5632 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
5633 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
5634 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
5636 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
5637 as required by ANSI.
5638 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
5639 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
5640 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
5641 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
5643 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
5644 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
5645 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
5646 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
5647 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
5648 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
5649 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
5650 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
5652 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
5653 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
5654 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
5655 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5657 is now basically equivalent to
5658 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5659 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
5661 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
5662 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
5663 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
5664 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
5665 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
5666 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
5667 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
5668 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
5669 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
5670 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
5671 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
5672 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
5673 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
5674 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
5675 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
5676 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5677 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
5678 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
5679 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
5680 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
5681 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
5682 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
5683 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
5685 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
5687 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
5688 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
5689 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
5690 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
5691 GNUMAKE environment variable.
5692 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
5693 can build without error under CMU CL.
5695 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
5697 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
5698 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
5699 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
5700 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
5701 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
5702 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
5703 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
5704 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
5705 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
5706 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
5707 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
5708 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
5709 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
5710 being initialized before the type system knew the final
5711 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
5712 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
5713 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
5714 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
5715 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
5716 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
5717 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
5718 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
5719 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
5720 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
5722 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
5723 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
5724 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
5725 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
5726 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
5727 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
5728 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
5729 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
5730 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
5731 it were currently supported.
5732 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
5733 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
5734 having to maintain patches.
5735 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
5736 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
5738 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
5740 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
5741 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
5742 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
5743 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
5744 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
5745 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
5746 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
5747 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
5748 * various new style warnings:
5749 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
5750 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
5751 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
5752 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
5753 as specified by ANSI.
5754 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
5755 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
5756 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
5757 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
5758 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
5759 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
5760 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
5761 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
5762 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
5763 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
5764 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
5765 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
5766 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
5767 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
5768 argument types can be determined at compile time.
5769 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
5770 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
5771 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
5772 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
5773 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
5774 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
5775 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
5778 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
5780 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
5781 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
5782 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
5783 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
5784 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
5785 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
5786 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
5787 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
5788 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
5790 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
5791 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
5792 the report form was printed.)
5793 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
5794 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
5795 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
5796 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
5797 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
5798 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
5799 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
5800 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
5801 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
5802 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
5803 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
5804 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
5805 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
5806 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
5807 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
5808 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
5809 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
5810 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
5811 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
5812 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
5813 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
5814 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
5815 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
5816 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
5817 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
5818 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
5819 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
5820 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
5821 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
5822 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
5823 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
5824 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
5825 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
5826 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
5827 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
5828 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
5829 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
5830 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
5831 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
5832 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
5833 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
5834 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
5835 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
5836 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
5837 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
5838 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
5839 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
5840 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
5841 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
5842 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
5843 know more about target types.
5844 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
5845 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
5846 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
5847 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
5848 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
5849 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
5851 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
5852 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
5853 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
5854 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
5855 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
5856 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
5857 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
5858 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
5859 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
5860 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
5861 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
5862 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
5863 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
5865 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
5868 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
5870 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
5871 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
5872 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
5873 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
5874 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
5875 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
5876 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
5877 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
5878 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
5879 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
5880 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
5881 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
5882 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
5883 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
5884 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
5885 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
5886 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
5887 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
5888 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
5889 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
5890 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
5891 invisible at the user level.)
5892 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
5893 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
5894 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
5896 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
5898 * tidied up "make.sh" script
5899 * tidied up system directory structure
5900 * better "clean.sh" behavior
5901 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
5902 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
5903 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
5904 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
5905 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
5906 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
5907 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
5908 * command line argument processing
5909 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
5910 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
5911 terminating SBCL on EOF
5912 * non-verbose GC by default
5913 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
5914 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
5915 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
5917 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
5918 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
5919 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
5920 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
5921 transformed along with everything else.
5922 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
5923 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
5924 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
5925 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
5926 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
5927 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
5928 debugging and testing purposes
5929 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
5930 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
5931 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
5932 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
5933 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
5934 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
5935 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
5937 * regularized formatting of source files
5938 * added an install.sh script
5939 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
5940 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
5941 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
5942 builds nicely on my old laptop.
5943 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
5944 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
5945 was not implemented)
5946 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
5947 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
5948 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
5949 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
5950 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
5952 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
5953 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
5954 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
5955 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
5956 COMPILE-FILE command)
5957 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
5958 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
5959 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
5960 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
5961 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
5962 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
5963 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
5964 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
5965 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
5966 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
5967 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
5968 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
5969 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
5970 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
5971 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
5973 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
5974 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
5975 known to be able to handle the current sources
5976 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
5977 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
5978 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
5979 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
5980 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
5981 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
5982 * removed host-oops.lisp
5983 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
5984 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
5985 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
5986 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
5987 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
5988 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by