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2 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.49:
3 * enhancement: errors from FD handlers now provide a restart to remove
5 * bug fix: bound derivation for floating point operations is now more
6 careful about rounding possibly closing open bounds. (lp#793771)
7 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:SYSCALL-ERROR's argument is now optional. (accidental
8 backwards incompatible change in 1.0.48.27)
9 * bug fix: occasional debugger errors in when a type-error occured in a
10 function with dynamic-extent &rest list.
12 changes in sbcl-1.0.49 relative to sbcl-1.0.48:
13 * minor incompatible change: WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE no longer disables
14 interrupts for its body.
15 * enhancement: source locations are now available for files loaded as
16 source, compile-time-too evaluation, and initialization files.
17 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :SOURCE-NAMESTRING allows providing
18 virtual source-file information, eg. overriding input-file of COMPILE-FILE
19 when a temporary file is used for compilation.
20 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.015.3.
21 * enhancement: backtraces involving frames from the default evaluator are
23 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM works with user-defined binary input and output
25 * enhancement: more informative compile-time warnings and runtime errors for
26 type-errors detected at compile-time.
27 * enhancement: deadlock detection for mutexes and spinlocks.
28 * enhancement: dynamic-extent for &rest lists stack allocate only their
29 spines, not their argumets. While portable code should not rely on this,
30 particularly in combination with inlining, it should make dynamic-extent
32 * enhancement: SB-POSIX improvements:
33 ** WNOHANG and WUNTRACED are exported.
34 ** SYSCALL-ERROR now also provides the name of the failing system call.
35 * enhancement: --script improvements:
36 ** errors on standard input, output, and error streams are handled and
37 cause scripts to exit silently, making them easier to use in shell
39 ** backtraces from scripts now go to standard error instead of the
40 terminal even if one is available.
41 ** --script can be an argument, causing the script to be loaded from
43 * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN-STRING provides an easy way to transport lisp
44 strings to foreign memory.
45 * enhancement: (SETF GC-LOGFILE) allows logging garbage collections to
46 a file, making it easier to understand heap dynamics.
47 * optimization: using a &REST argument only in APPLY or VALUES-LIST calls
48 allows the compiler to automatically elide rest-list allocation so long as
49 the call sites are in functions that the compiler knows cannot escape.
51 * optimization: CALL-NEXT-METHOD using explicit arguments is faster,
52 especially in safe code when none of the required arguments have changed
54 * bug fix: blocking reads from FIFOs created by RUN-PROGRAM were
55 uninterruptible, as well as blocking reads from socket streams created
56 with for which :SERVE-EVENTS NIL. (regression from 1.0.42.43)
57 * bug fix: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR now removes dispatch-macro character syntax
58 from the to-char if the from-char is not a dispatch-macro character.
59 * bug fix: references to undefined variables in function calls that are
60 optimized away now signal a runtime error. (lp#722734)
61 * bug fix: miscompilation of MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL when asserting derived
62 types from a function defined in the same file. (regression from
64 * bug fix: TRULY-THE forms are now macroexpandable and setf-expandable.
66 * bug fix: spurious errors during QUIT when standard streams were closed.
68 changes in sbcl-1.0.48 relative to sbcl-1.0.47:
69 * incompatible change: SB!KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA, deprecated for over five
70 years, is now no longer supported.
71 * enhancement: read() and write() have been added to SB-POSIX.
72 * enhancement: types of DEFSTRUCT constructors are proclaimed more
73 accurately, allowing better typechecking of call-sites.
74 * enhancement: errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
75 are no longer caught. (reverted to pre 1.0.34 behaviour)
76 * optimization: slightly faster ISQRT. (lp#713343)
77 * bug fix: better support for Solaris /bin/sh in sh-based tests.
78 * bug fix: TRACE behaves better when attempting to trace undefined
79 functions. (lp#740717)
80 * bug fix: missed optimizations for (FUNCALL (LAMBDA ...) ...) in comparison
81 to (FUNCALL #'(LAMBDA ...) ...).
82 * bug fix: ((LAMBDA ...) ...) forms with invalid argument counts resulted in
83 a compile-time error. (lp#720382)
84 * bug fix: forms such as (FUNCALL (FUNCTION NAME OOPS) ...) were compiled
86 * bug fix: less verbose source forms for functions from EVAL. (lp#747485)
87 * bug fix: sense of SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS was inverted in a MAKE-INSTANCE
88 optimization. (regression from 1.0.45.18/1.0.46.15)
89 * bug fix: package locks did not protects against compile-time side-effects
91 * bug fix: --dynamic-space-size argument is validated more carefully.
93 * bug fix: memory fault from printing a malformed simple-condition.
95 * bug fix: redefining classes so that slot-definition classes change now
96 engages the obsolete instance protocol. (lp#766271)
97 * bug fix: constant improper lists could break source coverage recording.
99 * bug fix: compiling calls to eg. MEMBER with massive constant list arguments
102 changes in sbcl-1.0.47 relative to sbcl-1.0.46:
103 * bug fix: fix mach port rights leaks in mach exception handling code on
104 darwin/x86 and /x86-64. (thanks to Willem Oudshoorn for motivation and the
106 * enhancement: --script muffles style-warnings and compiler notes. (lp#677779)
107 * enhancement: redefinition warnings for macros from different files. (lp#434657)
108 * enhancement: better MACHINE-VERSION on Darwin x86 and x86-64. (lp#668332)
109 * enhancement: (FORMAT "foo" ...) and similar signal a compile-time warning. (lp#327223)
110 * enhancement: no more "in: LAMBDA NIL" messages from the compiler for forms
111 processed using EVAL -- now the appropriate toplevel form is reported instead.
112 * enhancement: more legible style-warnings for inappropriate IGNORE and IGNORABLE
113 declarations. (lp#726331)
114 * enhancement: :NOT-NULL option has been added to alien C-STRING type to indicate
115 that NIL/NULL is excluded from the type.
116 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:MAP-ROOT allows mapping over pointers contained in
118 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are faster in the presence of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS
120 * optimization: core startup time is reduced by 30% on x86-64. (lp#557357)
121 * bug fix: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST guards against potentially leaking
122 stack-allocated values out of their dynamic-extent. (lp#310175)
123 * bug fix: attempts to use SB-SPROF for wallclock profiling on threaded
124 x86-64 builds caused a type-error.
125 * bug fix: calling COMPILE with something else than a lambda-expression as the
126 second argument reports a more sensible error. (lp#718905)
127 * bug fix: invalid combinations of :PREDICATE and :TYPE options in DEFSTRUCT
128 are detected. (lp#520607)
129 * bug fix: constant keyword argument checking didn't take :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS
131 * bug fix: SLOT-BOUNDP information is correct during MAKE-INSTANCE in the
132 presence of (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS) and SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS
133 methods. (regression from 1.0.45.18)
134 * bug fix: INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods supplying initargs via
135 CALL-NEXT-METHOD work correctly. (regression from 1.0.45.19)
136 * bug fix: several foreign functions accepting string also accepted NIL and
137 consequently caused a memory fault at 0 now signal a type-error instead.
139 * bug fix: under rare circumstances, constraint propagation could rewrite a
140 variable reference to refer to a variable not in scope, causing an error
141 during physical environment analysis when attempting to close over the
142 variable. (lp#551227)
143 * bug fix: SIMPLE-CONDITION :FORMAT-CONTROL defaults to NIL.
145 changes in sbcl-1.0.46 relative to sbcl-1.0.45:
146 * enhancement: largefile support on Solaris.
147 * enhancement: SB-PROFILE:REPORT now supports :LIMIT and :PRINT-NO-CALL-LIST
148 arguments (lp#710017)
149 * enhancement: SB-PCL:+SLOT-UNBOUND+ is exported, making it possible to
150 distinguish unbound instance slots when using STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS
152 * optimization: ERROR and CERROR are approximately 5 times faster.
153 * optimization: optimized constructors are used for MAKE-INSTANCE of classes
154 with applicable non-standard (SETF SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS),
155 SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS, and INITIALIZE-INSTANCE :AROUND methods, speeding
156 up instance creation in those cases.
157 * optimization: arithmetic operations with multiple constant arguments in now
158 have them reduced at compile-time. (lp#676414)
159 * optimization: determining current character position on string-streams for
160 pretty-printing was overly slow.
161 * bug fix: local tail calls to DYNAMIC-EXTENT functions can no longer cause
162 lifetime analysis to overwrite closed-over variables (lp#681092).
163 * bug fix: encoding errors from some multibyte external formats such as EUC-JP
164 were not handled correctly (lp#713063).
165 * bug fix: printing waitqueue objects without setting *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T is now
167 * bug fix: Solaris/x86-64 wasn't getting built with lutex support by
168 mistake. (lp#667297).
169 * bug fix: CONSTANTLY generated functions had bogus lambda-lists. (lp#713626)
170 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM :PTY option was racy on OpenBSD. (lp#669485)
171 * bug fix: UNINTERN takes a symbol, not a symbol designator -- could previously
172 unintern the wrong symbol with the same name. (lp#693796)
173 * bug fix: COPY-PPRINT-DISPATCH always has access to a pristine table,
174 making it possible to restore the initial table if it has been messed up.
177 changes in sbcl-1.0.45 relative to sbcl-1.0.44:
178 * enhancement: ~/ and ~user/ are treated specially in pathnames.
179 Refer to documentation for details.
180 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.010.
181 * optimization: mutated closed-over variables that are only accessed by
182 DYNAMIC-EXTENT closures (currently only FLET and LABELS functions
183 declared to be DYNAMIC-EXTENT) are stored directly in their containing
184 stack frame, rather than allocating a VALUE-CELL (lp#586103).
185 * optimization: UNWIND-PROTECT cleanup functions are now declared
187 * bug fix: backtracing function with &REST arguments now shows the full
188 argument list. (lp#310173)
189 * bug fix: return types for functions with complex lambda-lists are now
190 derived properly (lp#384892)
191 * bug fix: when SPEED > SPACE compiling CONCATENATE 'STRING with constant
192 long string arguments slowed the compiler down to a crawl.
193 * bug fix: closure VALUE-CELLs are no longer stack-allocated (lp#308934).
194 * bug fix: non-standard MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA methods could break RETURN-FROM
195 in the DEFMETHOD body.
196 * bug fix: #<SB-C::DEFINED-FUN ...> should no longer appear in compiler
197 messages, being instead replaced with the corresponding function name.
198 * bug fix: don't derive overly complex unions of numeric types for arithmetic
199 operators. (lp#309448)
201 changes in sbcl-1.0.44 relative to sbcl-1.0.43:
202 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM accepts :EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument to select the
203 external-format for its :INPUT, :OUTPUT, AND :ERROR :STREAMs.
204 * enhancement: ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also provides the page the object
206 * enhancement: default dynamic-space size can be configured at build-time
207 without touching source, using the --dynamic-space-size argument to make.sh.
208 * enhancement: DESCRIBE recognizes symbols naming optimization policy
209 qualities, and mentions ALWAYS-BOUND declarations.
210 * enhancement: ATOMIC-INCF now supports AREF of (SIMPLE-ARRAY SB-EXT:WORD (*))
212 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 2.009.
213 * enhancement: the system detects known type-erros in calls better,
214 signalling a full warning about violated proclaimed FTYPEs and violations
215 of derived FTYPEs within the same file, including self-calls.
216 * enhancement: new function: SB-EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY is now provided.
217 * optimization: constant-folding exploits numeric and character types, in
218 addition member types.
219 * optimization: numeric, character and member types that are inhabited by
220 exactly one value are tested with EQL.
221 * optimization: more conditional branches are eliminated during IR1.
222 Branches are simplified before performing if/if-conversion, and simple
223 equivalent branches (that only read the same constant or variable) are
225 * improvements to the Windows port:
226 ** change: canonical unparsing form for pathname namestrings now uses / as
227 directory separator. NATIVE-NAMESTRING still uses \ as the separator.
228 ** bug fix: stackoverwriting due to incorrect usage of PeekConsoleInput
229 on Windows. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
230 ** bug fix: build now works on cygwin with GCC 4.x installed. (thanks to
232 ** bug fix: run-sbcl.sh now works on Cygwin. (thanks to Kalyanov Dmitry)
233 * bug fix: compiler failed to derive the result-type of MAKE-ARRAY as
234 (AND VECTOR (NOT SIMPLE-ARRAY)) when appropriate. (lp#309130)
235 * bug fix: (THE (VALUES ...)) in LOAD-TIME-VALUE caused a compiler-error.
237 * bug fix: interrupts arriving during CL:OPEN caused an error.
238 * bug fix: overeager character buffering could cause input to block
239 spuriously when reading from a pipe (lp#643686)
240 * bug fix: more efficient timer expiry should avoid starvation on systems
241 where number of SIGALRMs per second is restricted. (lp#375515)
242 * bug fix: non-unicode builds no longer fail (broken since 1.0.36.15).
243 * bug fix: compile-times no longer scale linearly with the size of
244 quoted lists in source-code. (lp#654289)
245 * bug fix: better errors for unknown external-formats in OPEN. (lp#561974)
246 * bug fix: DEBUG>SPEED no longer degrades ALIEN-FUNCALL performance quite
247 so badly. (lp#654485)
248 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCES-BY-NAME no longer signals
249 an error for eg. STRUCTURE. (lp#458015)
250 * bug fix: LOOP WITH NIL = ... signalled an unused variable style-warning.
251 (lp#613871, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
252 * bug fix: more reliable &REST list type derivation. (lp#655203)
253 * bug fix: PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK multiply-evaluated :PER-LINE-PREFIX,
254 and issued pointles code-deletion notes for it, :PREFIX, and :SUFFIX.
255 * bug fix: the compiler didn't utilize the proclaimed ftype for functions
256 also declared NOTINLINE. (lp#655581)
257 * bug fix: the compiler could attempt to emit constant left shifts of
258 greater value than n-word-bits. (lp#309063)
259 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) and (SETF FDEFINITION) clear derived
260 type information for the function being set. (lp#659220)
261 * bug fix: the system used to signal bogus STYLE-WARNINGs when functions
262 containing self-calls were recompiled with a new signature, and failed
263 to warn when a self-call using the old signature was left in. (lp#655126)
264 * bug fix: incorrect FILE-POSITION on streams opened using :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
265 :DEFAULT when the default external had character size other than 8 bits.
267 * bug fix: derived types of functions in the same file were implicitly
268 trusted, leading to potential heap corruption when those function were
269 defined incompatibly. (lp#657499)
270 * bug fix: existing ASDF source registries are ignored when building
272 * bug fix: short-form DEFSETF checks that the second argument is a symbol
273 (lp#655824, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
274 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) clobbered macro-definitions before
275 package-lock violation was detected. (lp#660752)
276 * bug fix: the system can store different docstrings for a single function
277 under different names. (lp#661631, regression from 1.0.29.24)
278 * bug fix: source-locations of DEFGENERIC forms weren't getting recorded
279 properly. (lp#384801)
280 * bug fix: (COERCE X '(SIMPLE-VECTOR 5)) and similar coercions to vectors
281 of specified length could confuse the type derivation in unsafe code.
283 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
284 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made on every platform,
285 not just Darwin. (lp#451111)
286 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS and SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS could leave stale finalizers
287 around when core was saved, which could cause undefined behaviour when the
289 * bug fix: Allow UNTRACE of functions that are no longer defined
290 (lp#667657, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
291 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY calls with invalid keyword argument lists now signal a
292 compile-time warning (lp#664373, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
294 changes in sbcl-1.0.43 relative to sbcl-1.0.42:
295 * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event
296 event-loop by default. (lp#316072)
297 ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this
298 affects streams from CL:OPEN.
299 ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by
300 default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event
301 for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T
303 * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF
305 * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking
306 function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles.
307 * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to
309 * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several
310 error and warning messages which are often associated with package
311 conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai)
312 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497,
313 thanks to Andrew Golding)
314 * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199)
315 * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to
317 * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names,
318 breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable.
319 (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
320 * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators
321 correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
322 * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces
323 on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
324 * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497,
325 lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise)
326 * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492,
327 thanks to Josh Elsasser)
328 * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers
329 without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387)
330 * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC.
332 * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as
333 initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105)
334 * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables
335 (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
336 * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM.
337 (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
338 * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible
339 environments occurs. (lp#308951)
340 * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local
341 function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument.
342 (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames)
343 * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of
344 DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637)
345 * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods
346 when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361)
347 * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914)
348 * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when
349 in frames that do not have sufficient debug information.
350 * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error
352 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks
354 * bug fix: interrupt taking longer than the requested period caused SLEEP
355 to hang on Darwin. (lp#640516, thanks to Joe Lebroco for the analysis)
357 changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41
359 ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using
360 command-line argument --xc-host=<command> instead of a positional
361 argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring)
362 ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line
363 argument --prefix=<path>. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring)
364 * optimization: The default implementation of
365 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work.
366 * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use
367 by multithreaded code. See documentation for details.
368 * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC.
369 * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden)
370 * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second
371 argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
372 * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists.
373 (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak)
374 * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2.
375 (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise)
377 changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40:
378 * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is
379 cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to
380 COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS.
381 * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a
382 CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function
384 * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value.
386 changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39:
387 * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897)
388 * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single
389 call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the
390 package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS).
391 * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64
393 * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux.
395 changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38:
396 * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
398 * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their
399 space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out
401 * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid
402 platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control
403 stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants).
404 * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems.
405 * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767
406 now work on PPC UNICODE builds.
407 * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the
408 high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations,
409 this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic.
410 * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with
411 clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser)
412 * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh
414 * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux.
416 changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
417 * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
418 like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
419 * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
420 contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
421 * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
422 SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
423 * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
424 contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
425 at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
427 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
428 GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
429 :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
431 * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
432 SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
433 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
435 * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
436 conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
437 * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
439 * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
440 NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
441 generic function call.
442 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
443 ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
444 representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
446 ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
448 ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to
449 CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream
450 from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951)
451 * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
452 ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
453 ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
454 ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
455 incurred an off-by-one miscount.
456 * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
457 * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
458 * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
459 x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
460 * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
461 some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
462 * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on
464 * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks
465 to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
466 * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
467 * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
468 * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
469 to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
470 * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
471 * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
472 (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
473 * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
474 * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
475 CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
476 condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
477 up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
478 * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
479 against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
480 END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
481 * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
482 block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
483 * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
484 :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
485 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
486 * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
487 * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
488 * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
490 * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
491 The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
492 * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
494 * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
495 * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures.
497 * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
498 * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
499 * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
500 types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
502 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
503 * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
504 stack frame thrown from.
505 * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
506 compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
507 * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
508 translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
510 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
511 constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
512 access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
513 * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
514 storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
515 for accessing such arrays.
516 * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
517 inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
518 * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
519 arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
520 * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
521 pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
522 * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
523 in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
524 * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
525 functions. (lp#524707)
526 * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
527 WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
528 * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
529 * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
530 all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
531 * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
532 instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
533 * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
534 * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
535 * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
536 upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
537 * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
538 threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
539 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
541 * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
542 SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
543 * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
544 values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
545 * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
547 * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
548 declarations (lp#497321)
549 * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
550 and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
551 * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
553 * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
554 * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
555 due to it, so that handlers can run.
556 * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
558 * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
559 &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
560 * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
561 expanded calls (lp#542174)
562 * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
563 than just at toplevel form.
565 changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
566 * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
567 SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
568 but work on type specifiers.
569 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
570 to name a type specifier.
571 * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
572 specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
573 second argument of TYPEP".
574 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
575 returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
576 * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
577 dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
578 * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
579 provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
580 from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
581 attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
582 PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
583 * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
584 FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
585 * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
586 printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
588 * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
590 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
591 in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
593 * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
594 deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
595 in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
596 * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
597 before reaching the erring stack frame.
598 * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
599 real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
600 * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
601 GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
602 * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
603 (launchpad bug lp#525916)
604 * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
605 (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
607 changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
608 * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
609 is properly inlined when possible.
610 * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
611 conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
612 * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
613 code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
614 * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
615 as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
616 launchpad bug lp#508485)
617 * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
618 properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
619 * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
620 no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
621 * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
622 always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
624 changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
625 * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
627 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
629 * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
630 are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
631 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
632 tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
633 * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
634 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
635 ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
637 ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
638 ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
639 * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
640 in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
641 Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
642 * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
643 loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
644 implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
645 Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
646 * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
647 Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
648 * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
649 from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
650 * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
652 * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
655 changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
656 * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
657 * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
658 x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
659 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
660 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
661 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
662 definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
664 * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
665 about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
666 enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
667 size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
669 * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
670 documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
671 * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
672 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
673 Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
674 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
676 ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
677 errors for fd-stream external formats.
678 ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
679 external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
680 (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
681 automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
682 streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
684 ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
685 *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
686 which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
687 preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
689 ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
690 refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
691 between #xd800 and #xdfff).
692 ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
693 in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
695 ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
696 USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
697 ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
698 restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
699 ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
700 error is near the end of file.
701 ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
702 use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
703 ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
704 ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
705 streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
706 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
707 object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
708 * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
709 fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
710 ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
711 * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
712 the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
713 error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
714 accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
715 Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
716 * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
717 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
718 * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
719 * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
720 (launchpad bug lp#460283)
721 * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
722 standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
723 * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
724 the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
726 * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
727 (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
728 * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
729 complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
730 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
731 type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
732 * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
733 presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
734 Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
736 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
737 * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
738 in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
739 * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
741 * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
742 in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
743 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
745 * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
747 * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
748 removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
750 * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
751 lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
752 * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
753 correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
754 options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
755 * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
756 an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
757 * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
758 * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
759 new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
760 process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
761 * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
762 (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
764 changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
765 * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
766 inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
767 open coded is now considered a bug.
768 * improvements related to Unicode:
769 ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
770 Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
771 characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
773 ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
775 ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
776 (as well as for stream operations).
777 * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
778 be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
780 * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
781 one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
783 * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
785 * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
786 multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
787 * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
788 constant two has been optimized.
789 * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
790 sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
791 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
792 known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
793 * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
794 * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
795 * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
796 clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
797 * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
798 generic function across method addition and removal even in the
799 absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
800 * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
801 but assumed or declared function as well.
802 * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
803 (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
804 * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
805 ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
807 ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
808 ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
809 well as user defined declaration names.
810 ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
811 * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
813 * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
814 (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
815 * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
816 unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
817 * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
819 * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
821 * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
823 * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
824 (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
825 * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
826 as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
827 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
828 leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
829 on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
830 * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
831 designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
833 * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
834 information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
835 * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
836 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
837 * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
838 form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
840 * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
841 was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
842 * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
843 allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
844 be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
845 * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
846 certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
847 * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
849 changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
850 * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
851 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
852 of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
853 * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
854 * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
855 discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
856 * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
857 values in other threads.
858 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
859 about object allocation.
860 * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
861 with a specialised code sequence.
862 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
863 keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
864 * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
865 in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
866 methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
867 are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
868 * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
869 is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
870 * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
871 and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
873 * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
875 * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
876 efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
877 * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
878 * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
879 especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
880 * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
881 unboxed format on x86[-64].
882 * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
883 complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
884 * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
885 and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
886 * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
888 * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
889 * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
890 contains more pertinent information.
891 * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
892 provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
893 note being issued is now considered a bug.)
894 * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
895 FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
896 types. (reported by "abhi")
897 * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
898 upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
899 (thanks to Paul Khuong)
900 * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
901 on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
902 * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
903 from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
904 (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
905 * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
906 directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
907 Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
908 * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
909 (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
910 * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
911 global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
912 * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
913 FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
914 * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
916 * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
917 (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
918 * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
919 SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
920 for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
921 * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
922 at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
924 changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
925 * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
926 https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
927 Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
928 sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
929 (no subscription required.)
930 * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
931 types are weakened less aggressively.
932 * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
933 allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
934 if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
935 was accidentally reused as the exit status.
936 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
937 to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
938 :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
939 * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
941 * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
942 microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
943 * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
944 allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
946 * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
947 the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
948 efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
950 * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
951 * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
952 element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
954 * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
955 is known are 50% faster.
956 * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
957 * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
959 * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
960 information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
961 open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
962 * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
963 (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
965 * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
966 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
967 as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
968 element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
969 length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
970 allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
972 * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
973 :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
974 known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
975 * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
976 requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
977 * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
978 * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
979 to Tobias Rittweiler)
980 * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
981 * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
982 * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
983 pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
984 * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
985 (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
986 * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
987 (reported by Hubert Kauker)
988 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
989 same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
990 efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
992 * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
993 x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
994 * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
995 result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
997 * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
998 than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
999 result register (bug 316325).
1000 * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
1001 not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
1002 * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
1003 generate incorrect code.
1004 * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
1005 wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
1006 * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
1007 could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
1009 * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
1010 evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
1011 * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
1012 * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
1013 directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
1014 thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
1015 * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
1016 from :INITFORM, if any.
1018 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
1019 * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
1020 result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.
1021 * minor incompatible changes: echo-streams now propagate unread-char to the
1022 underlying input stream, and no longer permit unreading more than one
1024 * improvement: on x86/x86-64 Lisp call frames now have the same layout as C
1025 frames, allowing for instance more reliable backtraces.
1026 * improvement: the debugger REPL can now reference lexical variables
1027 by name directly for code compiled with (DEBUG 3).
1028 * improvement: errors from malformed declarations now have better source
1029 paths associated with them. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1030 * optimization: faster local calls on x86/x86-64
1031 * bug fix: some error messages for out-of-bound array indexes confused the
1032 index and the bound. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1033 * bug fix: pretty printing malformed DEFPACKAGE forms (thanks to Sidney
1035 * bug fix: running regressions tests in shells without OSTYPE set now works.
1036 (reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1037 * bug fix: more robust static space exhaustion signalling from
1038 MAKE-STATIC-VECTOR (thanks to Daniel Lowe)
1039 * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) for anonymous function now throws the
1040 docstring away instead of storing it under names such as (LAMBDA (X)).
1041 (reported by Leslie Polzer)
1042 * bug fix: timers could go off in the wrong order, be delayed indefinitely
1043 (thanks to Ole Arndt for the patch)
1044 * bug fix: RESTART-FRAME and RETURN-FROM-FRAME stack corruption
1045 * bug fix: the discriminating function for PRINT-OBJECT no longer preserves
1046 potentially-invalid effective methods in its cache.
1047 * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE now works with funcallable
1048 instances as well (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1049 * bug fix: using RUN-PROGRAM does not interfere with SB-POSIX:WAIT,
1050 SB-POSIX:WAITPID and their C equivalents.
1051 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM does not crash on Darwin when stressed.
1053 changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26:
1054 * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
1055 * new port: support added for x86-64 Solaris. (thanks to Alex Viskovatoff)
1056 * improvement: the system either recovers from stack exhaustion or dies
1057 properly as opposed to leaving the user uncertain of whether the handler
1058 trampled on some random memory next to the stack or having to rely on
1059 --lose-on-corruption (which is still a good idea to use in production
1060 because stack exhaustion can happen in signal handlers which will likely
1062 * bug fix: fix gc related interrupt handling bug on ppc (regression from
1063 1.0.25.37, reported by Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1064 * bug fix: work around signal delivery bug in darwin (regression from
1065 1.0.25.44, reported by Sidney Markowitz)
1066 * bug fix: fix ERROR leaking memory (reported by David Thompson)
1068 changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25:
1069 * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to
1070 INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where
1071 interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use
1072 WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use
1073 WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and
1074 potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence
1075 of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as
1076 acquiring a lock can enable interrupts.
1077 * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were
1078 always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead.
1079 * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb
1080 * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the
1081 slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of
1082 memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory
1083 fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is
1085 * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion
1086 * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64
1087 * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling
1088 * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue,
1089 interruptions are executed in order of arrival
1090 * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has
1091 finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an
1092 expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace
1093 period that may give a chance to other things to run.
1094 * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds
1095 * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING
1096 * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding
1097 important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce
1098 recursive errors or deadlock.
1099 * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more
1100 hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full.
1101 * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory
1103 * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS
1104 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha
1105 * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc
1106 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads
1107 * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms
1108 * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers
1109 * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables
1110 * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl
1112 changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24:
1113 * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be
1114 removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead.
1115 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of
1116 DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1117 * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a
1118 better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems.
1119 Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of
1121 * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE.
1122 * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output
1123 stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and
1124 a writer, for instance, in a pipe.
1125 * improvement: GET-SETF-EXPANDER avoids adding bindings for constant
1126 arguments, making compiler-macros for SETF-functions able to inspect
1127 their constant arguments.
1128 * improvement: COMPILE-FILE reports times with millisecond accuracy
1129 (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1130 * optimization: CHAR-CODE type derivation has been improved, making
1131 TYPEP elimination on subtypes of CHARACTER work better. (reported
1132 by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong)
1133 * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now
1134 computes the right offset for the memory copy.
1135 * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with
1136 result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum)
1137 * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no
1138 longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site.
1139 * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single
1140 unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi)
1141 * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer
1142 cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29.
1143 * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C
1144 code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy)
1145 * improvements to the Windows port:
1146 ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen
1147 Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte)
1149 changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23:
1150 * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data
1151 vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY.
1152 * new feature: the system now signals a continuable error if standard
1153 readtable modification is attempted. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1154 * new feature: DIRECTORY has been extended with a non-standard keyword
1155 argument :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS. (thanks to TC-Rucho)
1156 * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-SOCKET-STREAM keyword argument handling
1157 has been robustified and documented better. (thanks to Robert Goldman)
1158 * optimization: faster generic arithmetic dispatch on x86 and x86-64.
1159 * optimization: FORMAT ~D and ~F are now approximately 5% faster.
1160 * tradeoff: constant FORMAT control strings are now compiled unless
1161 SPACE > SPEED (previously only when SPEED > SPACE.)
1162 * bug fix: Red Hat Enterprise 3 mmap randomization workaround. (thanks
1164 * bug fix: DEFCLASS and ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS are now expected to
1166 * bug fix: lexical type declarations are now correctly reported by
1167 SB-CLTL2. (reported by Larry D'Anna)
1168 * bug fix: STRING-TO-OCTETS did not handle :START properly when
1169 using UTF-8 as external format. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1170 * bug fix: errors from invalid fill-pointer values to (SETF FILL-POINTER)
1171 are signalled correctly. (thanks to Stas Boukarev)
1172 * bug fix: SET-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1173 designator. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1174 * bug fix: SET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHARACTER accepts NIL as the readtable
1175 designator, and returns T instead of the function. (thanks to
1177 * bug fix: direct superclasses of STANDARD-CLASS and
1178 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now default to STANDARD-OBJECT and
1179 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT as required by AMOP.
1180 * bug fix: compiling a call to SLOT-VALUE with a constant slot-name
1181 when no class with the named slot yet exists no longer causes a
1182 compile-time style-warning.
1183 * bug fix: :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are type-checked properly
1184 in safe code. (reported by Didier Verna)
1185 * bug fix: #430; nested structure constructors can stack allocate.
1186 * bug fix: on some 64-bit platforms dynamic space size was truncated
1187 to #xffff0000 bytes. (reported by Benjamin Lambert)
1188 * bug fix: setting *READ-SUPPRESS* to T no longer renders the default
1189 REPL unusable. (reported by Daniel Herring)
1190 * bug fix: return values of READ-SEQUENCE did not take :START into
1191 account on file streams, regressions since 1.0.12.22. (reported by
1192 Thomas Russ, patch by Paul Khuong)
1193 * bug fix: using SET or (SETF SYMBOL-VALUE) to change the value of a
1194 method specializer used to confuse permuation vector optimization.
1195 * bug fix: system inserted bogus implicit type declarations for local
1196 special variables in DEFMETHOD bodies.
1197 * bug fix: #354; duplicated frames in backtraces due to
1198 non-tail-call-optimized XEPs to functions with return type NIL
1200 * bug fix: #357; MAKE-INSTANCE/SHARED-INITIALIZE now
1201 initializes structure object slots according to DEFSTRUCT initforms,
1202 and DEFSTRUCT forms :INCLUDEind structure classes defined using
1203 DEFCLASS :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now inherit their initforms.
1204 (reported by Bruno Haible and Stephen Wilson)
1205 * bug fix: #395; fill-pointer output streams used now support
1206 element-type BASE-CHAR as well.
1207 * bug fix: compiler error when attempting to derive return value of
1208 ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE when the array type was a union of intersection
1210 * bug fix: address-spaces overlapped on OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh
1212 * bug fix: Mac OS X binaries should now be portable between Leopard
1215 changes in sbcl-1.0.23 relative to 1.0.22:
1216 * enhancement: when disassembling method functions, disassembly
1217 for the associated fast function is also produced.
1218 * enhancement: system stores DEFTYPE lambda-lists, so DESCRIBE can
1220 * optimization: printing with *PRINT-PRETTY* true is now more
1221 efficient as long as the object being printed doesn't require
1222 special handling by the pretty printer.
1223 * bug fix: slot symbol-macros from WITH-SLOTS inside DEFMETHOD bodies
1224 now interact correctly with type declarations.
1225 * partial bug fix: PCL detects infinite recursion during wrapper
1226 validation. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1227 * bug fix: #426; nested function calls are inlined properly.
1228 Previously if FOO was an inline function, in calls of the form
1229 (FOO (FOO ...)) the outer call was not inlined.
1230 * bug fix: long long arguments passed in registers to alien
1231 functions on PowerPC Linux and NetBSD are now handled correctly
1232 when preceded by SYSTEM-AREA-POINTERs. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
1234 changes in sbcl-1.0.22 relative to 1.0.21:
1235 * minor incompatible change: LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT no longer by default looks
1236 for the shared object in the current directory, but passes the native
1237 namestring of the designated pathname to the operation system's shared
1238 object loading function as-it.
1239 * minor incompatible change: --disable-debugger toplevel option now takes
1240 effect before processing of initialization files and --eval or --load
1242 * new feature: new commandline argument: --script, which supports
1243 shebang lines. See documentation for details. (based on work by
1245 * new feature: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE can save current values of
1246 --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size in the executable core,
1247 causing it to skip normal runtime option processing. See documentation
1248 for details. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1249 * enhancement: inoccous calls to EVAL or generic functions dispatching
1250 on subclasses of eg. STREAM no longer cause compiler notes to appear.
1251 * enhancement: the system no longer resignals errors from --load and
1252 --eval toplevel arguments as SIMPLE-ERRORS, which caused restarts
1253 associated with the original error to be lost. (thanks to Ariel
1255 * enhancement: :DONT-SAVE keyword argument has been added to
1256 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT for controlling interaction with
1257 SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE, and UNLOAD-SHARED-OBJECT can be used to undo
1258 the effects of an earlier LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT call.
1259 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY on multidimensional arrays used bogusly give
1260 them a fill pointer unless :DISPLACED-TO or :INITIAL-CONTENTS were
1261 provided. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1262 * bug fix: circularity handling in the reader did not treat raw
1263 structure slots correctly. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1264 * bug fix: SERVE-EVENT occasionally signaled an error about bogus
1265 file descriptors when there were none.
1266 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO support of destructuring lambda-lists
1267 was broken. (reporteed by Willem Broekema)
1268 * bug fix: SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING on Windows did not work on
1269 pathnames without a directory.
1270 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE did not warn about undefined variable
1271 references at toplevel, and LOAD of the resulting fasl did
1272 not signal an error.
1273 * bug fix: functions with non-required arguments used to end up with
1274 (SB-C::&OPTIONAL-DISPATCH ...) as their name.
1275 * bug fix: redefining a function with non-required arguments didn't
1276 update the system's knowledge about its call signature properly.
1277 * bug fix: fixed #431; incompatible alien record type redefinitions
1278 are detected and handled. (reported by Neil Haven)
1279 * bug fix: using RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY with DEBUG 3 could cause
1280 PROGV miscompilation. (reported by Matthias Benkard, patch by Juho
1282 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 backtraces were sometimes truncated
1283 after alien stack frames.
1284 * bug fix: strings passed to mk{s,d}temp lacked null termination
1286 changes in sbcl-1.0.21 relative to 1.0.20:
1287 * new feature: the compiler is able to track the effective type of a
1288 generic function across method addition and removal.
1289 * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF allows atomic incrementation of
1290 appropriately typed structure slots without locking.
1291 * new feature: SB-EXT:CALL-WITH-TIMING provides access to timing
1292 information like those gathered by TIME using a programming-friendly
1294 * new feature: TIME reports time taken even if the form performs a
1295 non-local transfer of control.
1296 * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms: on
1297 average 45% less pages pinned (measured from SBCL self build).
1298 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP on SYMBOL-VALUE can no longer
1299 mutate constant symbols or violate declaimed type of the symbol.
1300 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:SIGNAL-SEMAPHORE could fail to wakeup threads
1301 sleeping on the semaphore in heavily contested semaphores.
1302 * bug fix: semaphores and condition variables were not interrupt
1304 * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT doesn't allow waits on mutexes
1305 owned by other threads anymore.
1306 * bug fix: FIND on lists called KEY outside the specified
1307 subsequence. (reported by budden)
1308 * bug fix: LOG doesn't use single-float intermediate results when
1309 given mixed integer and double-float arguments, leading to better
1310 precision. (reported by Bob Felts)
1311 * bug fix: LOG with base zero returned values of inconsistent type.
1313 changes in sbcl-1.0.20 relative to 1.0.19:
1314 * minor incompatible change: OPTIMIZE qualities
1315 SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT, SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VECTOR,
1316 and SB-C::STACK-ALLOCATE-VALUE-CELLS no longer exist. See documentation
1317 and SB-EXT:*STACK-ALLOCATE-DYNAMIC-EXTENT* for details.
1318 * documentation: some slot access efficiency guidelines have been
1319 added to the user manual.
1320 * optimization: ASSOC-IF, ASSOC-IF-NOT, MEMBER-IF, MEMBER-IF-NOT,
1321 RASSOC, RASSOC-IF, and RASSOC-IF-NOT are now equally efficient
1322 as ASSOC and MEMEBER.
1323 * optimization: calls to ASSOC, MEMBER, and RASSOC can be transformed
1324 to more efficient EQ-comparison versions more often.
1325 * optimization: enhanced derivation of DOLIST iteration variable type
1327 * optimization: constant folding of simple (LIST ...) forms as DOLIST
1329 * optimization: runtime lookup of function definitions can be
1330 elided in more cases, eg: (let ((x 'foo)) (funcall foo)).
1331 * optimization: compiler is able to derive the return type of
1332 (AREF (THE STRING X) Y) as being CHARACTER.
1333 * optimization: CLRHASH on empty hash-tables no longer does pointless
1334 work. (thanks to Alec Berryman)
1335 * optimization: REPLACE deftransforms don't punt when :START1 or
1337 * bug fix: compiling DESTRUCTURING-BIND on constant list arguments
1338 no longer emits a code deletion note. (reported by Andrew
1340 * bug fix: bogus odd-number-of-keywords STYLE-WARNINGs from calls to
1341 functions with an odd number of &OPTIONAL arguments, a &REST
1342 argument, and one or more &KEY arguments at the call site.
1343 * bug fix: STYLE-WARNINGs for functions with both &OPTIONAL and &KEY
1344 arguments appeared at call sites as well.
1345 * bug fix: fixed #425; CLOSE drops input buffers from streams, so
1346 READ-LINE &co can no longer read from them afterwards. (reported
1348 * bug fix: fixed #427: unused local aliens no longer cause compiler
1349 breakage. (reported by Stelian Ionescu, Andy Hefner and Stanislaw
1351 * bug fix: non-local exit from a WITH-ALIEN form no longer causes
1352 alien-stack leakage. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1353 * bug fix: PROGV signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1354 type of a variable or bind a constant is made.
1355 * bug fix: SET signals an error when an attempt to violate declared
1356 type of a variable is made.
1357 * bug fix: restart computation during the execution of a restart
1358 test function no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by
1360 * bug fix: calling SB-COVER:REPORT with a non-directory pathname now
1361 signals an error. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1362 * bug fix: EXPORT left symbol unexported in conflict situations.
1363 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1364 * bug fix: correctly handle name conflicts involving CL:NIL.
1365 (thanks to Michael Weber)
1366 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT restart for name conflicts handles
1367 conflicts arising from USEing package with conflicting symbols
1368 correctly. (thanks to Michael Weber)
1370 changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18:
1371 * new feature: user-customizable variable SB-EXT:*MUFFLED-WARNINGS*;
1372 warnings that go otherwise unhandled will be muffled if they are
1373 of the type that's the value of this variable.
1374 * optimization: stack allocation is slightly more efficient on x86
1376 * bug fix: DEFSTRUCT forms with user-specified :CONSTRUCTOR options,
1377 where a raw slot always is initialized using the initform whose
1378 type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled
1379 correctly. (reported by John Morrison)
1380 * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the
1381 presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types.
1382 * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent
1383 arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions.
1384 * improvements to the Windows port:
1385 ** adjusted address spaces for building on both Win32 and
1386 Win64. (thanks for John Connors)
1387 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1388 ** interval arithmetic during type derivation used inexact integer
1389 to single-float coercions.
1390 ** arithmetic operations involving large integers and single
1391 floats give the same results in compiled and interpreted code.
1392 ** deriving the result type of COERCE no longer signals an error
1393 if the derived type of the second argument is a MEMBER type
1394 containing invalid type specifiers.
1395 ** ADJOIN with constant NIL as second argument works correctly.
1396 ** FUNCTION-KEYWORDS was called SB-PCL::FUNCTION-KEYWORD-PARAMETERS.
1398 changes in sbcl-1.0.18 relative to 1.0.17:
1399 * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING now by default
1400 profiles only the current thread.
1401 * minor incompatible change: changes to SYMBOL-VALUE of constants
1402 defined with DEFCONSTANT now signal an error.
1403 * enhancement: SB-SPROF now has support for wallclock profiling,
1404 and is also able to profile specific threads. REPORT output
1405 has also additional sorting options.
1406 * enhancement: better pretty-printing of DEFPACKAGE forms. (Thanks
1408 * optimization: structure allocation has been improved
1409 ** constructors created by non-toplevel DEFSTRUCTs are ~40% faster.
1410 ** out of line constructors are ~10% faster.
1411 ** inline constructors are ~15% faster.
1412 ** inline constructors are capable of dynamic extent allocation
1413 (generally on x86 and x86-64, in some cases on other platforms
1415 * optimization: simple uses of HANDLER-CASE and HANDLER-BIND no
1417 * optimization: file compiler is now able to coalesce non-circular
1418 lists, non-base strings, and bit-vectors. Additionally, constants
1419 are never referenced through SYMBOL-VALUE at runtime.
1420 * optimization: code defining methods on PRINT-OBJECT (and other
1421 generic functions in the COMMON-LISP package) now loads faster.
1422 * bug fix: EAI_NODATA is deprecated since RFC 3493. Stop using it
1424 * bug fix: if COMPILE-FILE aborts due to an unwind, the partial
1425 fasl is now deleted. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1426 * bug fix: READ-LINE always returned NIL for the last line in files.
1427 (reported by Yoshinori Tahara)
1428 * bug fix: more accurate disassembly annotations of foreign function
1429 calls. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1430 * bug fix: trimming non-simple strings and non-string string
1431 designators when the there is nothing to trim works properly.
1432 (thanks to James Knight)
1433 * new feature: SB-POSIX bindings for mlockall, munlockall, and setsid.
1434 (thanks to Travis Cross)
1435 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1436 ** NIL is a valid function name (regression at 1.0.13.38)
1437 ** FILL on lists was missing its return value (regression at 1.0.12.27)
1438 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1439 fill pointers properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1440 ** STRING-TRIM, STRING-LEFT-TRIM, and STRING-RIGHT-TRIM did not respect
1441 displacement indices properly (regression at 1.0.12.23)
1443 changes in sbcl-1.0.17 relative to 1.0.16:
1444 * temporary regression: user code can no longer allocate closure
1445 variable storage on stack, due to bug 419 without explicitly
1446 requesting it. Please consult sbcl-devel for advice if you need to
1447 use this feature in the meanwhile.
1448 * new feature: runtime argument --control-stack-size can be used to
1449 adjust thread default control stack size.
1450 * enhancement: improved TIME output
1451 ** all times are reported using the measured accuracy (milliseconds
1452 for real and GC times, microseconds for everything else.)
1453 ** processor cycle counts on x86 and x86-64.
1454 ** interpreted forms are counted for both evaluator modes.
1455 ** number of lambdas converted by the compiler is reported.
1456 ** CPU percentage report (computed from real and total run time.)
1457 ** more comprehensive run time reporting, using a condenced format
1458 ** interperted form, lambda, and page fault counts are omitted
1460 * optimization: ADJOIN and PUSHNEW are upto ~70% faster in normal
1462 * optimization: APPEND is upto ~10% faster in normal SPEED policies.
1463 * optimization: two argument forms of LAST are upto ~10% faster
1464 in normal SPEED policies.
1465 * optimization: NCONC no longer needs to heap cons its &REST list
1466 in normal SPEED policies.
1467 * bug fix: SB-FLUID build feature no longer breaks the build. (thanks
1468 to Sidney Markowitz)
1469 * bug fix: UNION and NUNION work with :TEST-NOT once more,
1470 regression since 1.0.9.1. (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1471 * bug fix: result of MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated - regression
1472 since 1.0.15.36. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1473 * bug fix: LAST when always returned the whole list when given a bignum
1474 as the second argument.
1475 * bug fix: dynamic extent allocation of nested lists and vectors
1476 could leak to otherwise accessible parts.
1477 * bug fix: invalid optimization of heap-allocated alien variable
1479 * bug fix: fasl header checking is less vulnerable to different
1480 platform word lengths.
1481 * bug fix: more correct assembler syntax for GNU binutils
1482 2.18.50.0.4 support. (thanks to Marijn Schouten)
1483 * bug fix: fix ECASE warnings from CMUCL-as-xc-host. (reported by
1485 * bug fix: the fopcompiler can handle LOCALLY forms (with no
1486 declarations) successfully. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1488 changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
1489 * minor incompatible change: revert the changes to sb-posix's error
1490 signaling added in 1.0.14.
1491 * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
1492 NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
1493 * minor incompatible change: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:NAME-SERVICE-ERROR now
1494 inherits from ERROR instead of just CONDITION.
1495 * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT can provide source locations for instances
1496 as well. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1497 * optimization: binding special variables now generates smaller code
1498 on threaded platforms.
1499 * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
1500 and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
1501 the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1502 * optimization: better LOGNOT on fixnums.
1503 * optimization: modular arithmetic for a particular requested width
1504 is implemented using a tagged representation unless a better
1505 representation is available.
1506 * fixed bug 423: TRULY-THE and *CHECK-CONSISTENCY* interaction.
1507 * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:MAKE-INET-ADDRESS checks the input string
1508 for wellformedness and returns a specialized vector. (reported by
1509 Francois-Rene Rideau)
1510 * bug fix: FIND-CLASS was not thread-safe. (reported by Attila Lendvai)
1511 * bug fix: ~R was broken for vigtillions. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
1512 * bug fix: attempt to obtain *SCHEDULER-LOCK* recursively when
1513 unscheduling timer at the same time as another timer fires.
1514 * bug fix: don't reschedule timers for dead threads.
1515 * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
1516 * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
1517 bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
1518 * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
1520 changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
1521 * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
1522 well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
1523 obscured by interrupt handling frames.
1524 * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
1525 now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
1526 traces SETF-functions as well.
1527 * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
1528 * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
1529 when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
1530 * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
1532 * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
1533 is now more efficient.
1534 * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
1535 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
1536 * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
1537 full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
1538 * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
1539 control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
1540 * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
1541 keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
1542 * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
1543 * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
1544 * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
1546 * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
1547 non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
1548 methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
1549 * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
1550 create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
1551 obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
1552 * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
1553 suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
1554 * improvements to the Windows port:
1555 ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
1556 using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
1558 changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
1559 * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
1560 (see documentation for details.)
1561 * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
1562 * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
1563 (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
1564 * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
1565 bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
1567 * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
1568 DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
1569 the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
1570 * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
1571 no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
1572 * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
1573 no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
1574 * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
1575 is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
1577 * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
1578 single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
1579 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
1580 yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
1581 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
1582 * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
1583 SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
1585 changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
1586 * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
1587 an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
1588 process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
1589 been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
1590 needs that search behavior (see the manual).
1591 * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
1592 checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
1594 * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
1595 unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
1596 SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
1597 filename to parse into a directory pathname.
1598 * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
1599 specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
1600 users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
1601 * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
1602 to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
1603 non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
1604 * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
1605 strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
1606 known at compile-time.
1607 * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
1608 a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
1609 are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
1611 * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
1612 * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
1614 * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
1615 (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
1616 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
1617 * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
1618 with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
1619 * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
1621 * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
1623 * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
1625 * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
1628 changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
1629 * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
1630 :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
1631 concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
1632 SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
1633 SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
1634 * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
1635 in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
1636 * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
1637 * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
1638 * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
1639 END is smaller then START.
1640 * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
1641 calls to profiled functions.
1642 * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
1643 could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
1644 * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
1645 deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
1646 * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
1647 hash-table usage have been fixed.
1648 * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
1649 be returned from its body when the values were being returned
1650 using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
1651 inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
1652 * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
1653 slime to work again.
1655 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
1656 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
1657 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
1658 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
1659 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
1660 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
1661 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
1662 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
1663 * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
1664 and will signal an error at runtime.
1665 * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
1666 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
1667 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
1669 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
1670 platforms providing stack allocation support.
1671 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
1672 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
1674 * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
1675 if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
1676 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
1677 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
1678 * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
1679 * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
1681 * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
1682 instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
1684 * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
1686 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
1687 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
1688 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
1689 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
1690 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
1691 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
1692 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
1693 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
1694 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
1695 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
1696 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
1697 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
1698 a specializer parameter for the method.
1699 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
1700 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
1701 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
1702 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
1703 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
1705 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
1706 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
1708 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
1709 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
1710 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1711 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
1712 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
1713 the CAS operation was being performed.
1714 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
1715 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
1716 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
1717 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
1720 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
1721 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
1722 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
1723 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
1725 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
1726 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
1727 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1728 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
1729 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
1730 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
1731 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
1732 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
1733 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
1734 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
1735 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
1736 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
1737 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
1738 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
1739 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
1741 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
1742 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
1743 the underlying file descriptor.
1744 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
1745 could cause buffer-overflows.
1746 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
1747 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
1748 Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
1750 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
1752 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
1753 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
1754 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
1755 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
1756 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
1757 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
1760 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
1761 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
1762 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
1763 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
1764 allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
1765 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
1766 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
1768 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
1770 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
1771 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
1772 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
1773 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
1774 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
1775 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
1777 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
1778 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
1779 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
1780 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
1781 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
1782 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
1783 objects that can be seen by the GC.
1784 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
1785 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
1786 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
1788 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
1789 as the property-list of a symbol.
1790 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
1791 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
1792 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
1795 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
1796 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
1797 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
1798 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
1799 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
1800 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
1801 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
1802 debugging and introspective support.
1803 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
1804 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
1805 has the owning thread as its value.
1806 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
1807 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
1809 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
1810 "a constant string".
1811 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
1812 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
1813 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
1814 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
1815 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
1816 (depending on the bignum size.)
1817 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
1819 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
1820 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
1822 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
1823 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
1825 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
1826 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
1827 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
1828 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
1829 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
1832 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
1833 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
1834 as a contrib module.
1835 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
1836 significantly faster.
1837 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1838 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
1839 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1840 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1841 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
1842 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
1843 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
1844 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
1845 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1846 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
1847 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
1849 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
1851 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
1852 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
1853 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
1854 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
1855 that use the generational garbage collector
1856 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
1858 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
1859 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
1861 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
1863 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
1864 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
1865 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
1866 system running with GC inhibited.
1867 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
1868 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
1869 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
1870 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
1871 (reported by Peter Graves)
1873 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
1874 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
1875 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
1877 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
1878 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
1879 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
1880 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
1881 documented as unsafe.
1882 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
1883 in multithreaded application code.
1884 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
1885 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
1886 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
1888 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
1889 variants no longer cons.
1890 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
1891 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
1892 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
1893 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
1894 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
1895 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
1896 are significantly faster.
1897 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
1898 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
1899 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
1900 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
1901 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
1902 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
1903 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
1904 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
1905 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
1906 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
1907 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
1909 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
1910 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
1911 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
1912 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1913 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
1914 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1915 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
1916 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
1917 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
1918 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
1919 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
1920 line in a file is unlimited.
1921 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
1922 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
1923 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
1924 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
1925 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
1926 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
1927 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
1928 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1929 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
1930 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
1931 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
1932 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
1933 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
1934 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
1935 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
1936 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
1937 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
1938 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
1939 experimental until this is fixed.
1940 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
1941 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1942 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
1943 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
1944 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
1946 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
1947 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
1948 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
1949 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
1950 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
1951 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
1953 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
1954 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
1955 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1956 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
1957 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
1958 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
1959 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1960 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
1961 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
1963 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
1964 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
1965 (reported by Andras Simon)
1966 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
1967 bugs remain on x86-64.)
1968 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
1969 funcallable instances.
1970 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
1971 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
1973 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
1974 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1975 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
1976 non-base strings as arguments
1977 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
1979 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
1980 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
1982 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
1983 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
1984 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
1985 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
1986 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
1987 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
1988 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
1989 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
1990 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
1992 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
1993 (thanks to Jon Buller)
1994 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
1995 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
1998 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
1999 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
2000 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
2002 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
2003 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
2004 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
2005 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
2006 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
2008 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
2009 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
2010 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
2011 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2012 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
2013 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2014 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
2015 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
2016 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
2017 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
2018 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2019 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
2020 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
2021 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
2022 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
2023 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
2024 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2025 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
2026 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
2027 stack frames from alien callbacks.
2028 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2029 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
2030 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
2031 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
2033 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
2034 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
2035 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
2036 about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
2037 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
2038 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
2039 sb-introspect contrib.
2040 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
2041 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
2042 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
2043 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
2044 users and the general community)
2045 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
2046 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
2047 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
2048 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
2049 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2050 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
2051 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
2052 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2053 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
2054 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2055 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
2056 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
2057 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
2058 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
2059 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
2060 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
2062 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
2063 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
2064 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
2065 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
2066 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
2067 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
2068 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
2070 * improvements to the Windows port:
2071 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
2072 to Alastair Bridgewater)
2073 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
2075 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
2076 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2078 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
2079 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
2080 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2081 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
2082 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
2083 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
2084 core, and restored on startup.
2085 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
2086 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2087 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
2088 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
2089 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
2090 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
2091 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
2093 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
2094 (thanks to Zach Beane)
2095 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
2097 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
2098 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
2099 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
2101 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
2102 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2103 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
2104 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
2105 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
2106 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
2108 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
2109 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
2110 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
2111 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
2112 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
2113 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
2114 (reported by Josip Gracin)
2115 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
2116 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
2117 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
2118 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
2119 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
2120 and don't cause extra consing
2121 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
2122 whose elements types have been declared.
2123 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
2124 ** Support for allocation profiling
2125 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
2126 * Improvements to the Windows port:
2127 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
2128 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
2129 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
2130 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
2132 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
2133 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
2134 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
2135 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
2136 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
2138 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
2139 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
2140 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
2142 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
2143 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
2144 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
2145 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
2146 with non-variable places
2147 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
2148 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
2149 code more stable against memory faults.
2150 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
2151 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
2152 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
2153 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
2156 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
2157 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
2158 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
2159 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
2160 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
2161 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
2162 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
2163 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
2164 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
2165 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2166 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
2167 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
2168 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
2170 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
2171 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
2172 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
2173 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
2174 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
2175 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
2176 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
2178 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
2179 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
2181 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
2182 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
2183 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
2184 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
2185 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
2186 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
2187 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
2188 to the single-stepper REPL.
2189 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
2190 for a type now works.
2191 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
2193 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
2194 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
2195 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
2196 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2197 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
2198 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
2199 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
2200 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
2202 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
2203 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
2204 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
2205 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
2206 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
2207 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
2208 whose bindings are modified
2209 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
2210 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
2211 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
2212 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
2214 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
2215 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
2216 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
2217 as specified by AMOP.
2218 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
2220 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
2221 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2222 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
2223 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
2224 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
2225 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
2226 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
2227 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
2228 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
2229 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
2230 better type inference.
2231 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
2232 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
2233 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
2234 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
2235 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
2236 (reported by Bruno Haible)
2237 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
2238 initialization of methods can now be used to override
2239 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
2241 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
2242 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
2243 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
2244 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
2245 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
2247 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
2248 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
2249 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
2250 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
2251 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
2252 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
2253 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
2254 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
2255 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
2256 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
2257 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
2258 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
2259 (reported by James Y Knight).
2260 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
2261 argument for shadowing by local functions.
2262 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
2264 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
2265 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
2266 with type-inference.
2267 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
2268 types in some cases.
2269 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
2270 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2271 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
2273 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
2274 * thread-safety improvements:
2275 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
2276 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
2277 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
2279 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
2280 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
2282 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
2283 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
2284 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
2286 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
2287 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
2288 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
2289 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
2290 class became finalizeable.
2291 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
2292 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
2293 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
2294 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
2296 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
2297 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
2298 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
2299 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
2300 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
2301 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
2302 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2303 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
2304 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
2305 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
2306 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
2307 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
2308 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
2309 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2310 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
2311 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
2312 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
2313 * minor code generation optimizations:
2314 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
2315 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
2316 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
2317 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
2318 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
2319 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2320 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
2321 return its argument.
2323 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
2324 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
2326 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
2328 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
2329 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
2330 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
2331 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
2332 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
2333 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
2334 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
2335 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
2336 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
2337 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
2338 the low-level debugger.
2339 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
2340 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STREAM provided they can be decomposed
2341 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
2342 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
2344 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
2345 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
2346 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
2348 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
2349 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
2350 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
2351 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
2352 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
2353 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
2354 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
2355 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
2356 (reported by James Y Knight)
2357 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
2358 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
2359 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
2360 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
2361 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
2362 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
2363 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
2364 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
2365 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
2366 workaround for bug 403.)
2367 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
2368 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2369 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2370 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
2372 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2373 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
2374 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
2376 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
2377 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
2378 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
2379 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
2380 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
2382 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
2384 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
2385 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
2386 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
2389 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
2390 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
2391 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
2392 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
2393 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
2394 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
2395 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
2396 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
2397 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
2398 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
2399 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
2400 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2401 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
2402 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
2403 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
2404 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
2405 documentation on package locks for details.
2406 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
2408 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
2409 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
2410 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
2411 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
2412 immediately available from the stream
2413 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
2414 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
2415 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
2416 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
2418 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
2419 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
2420 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
2422 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
2423 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
2424 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
2426 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
2427 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
2428 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
2429 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
2431 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
2432 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
2433 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
2434 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
2435 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
2436 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
2437 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2438 ** sb-grovel supported
2439 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
2440 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
2441 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
2442 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
2443 ** floating-point exception handling support
2444 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
2445 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2446 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2447 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
2448 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
2449 structure accessors.
2450 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
2452 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
2453 defaults for optional parameters.
2454 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
2455 function, which is already optimized.
2457 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
2458 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
2459 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
2460 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
2461 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
2462 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
2463 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
2464 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
2465 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
2466 this change is to make it easier to distribute
2467 location-independent binaries.
2468 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
2469 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
2471 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
2472 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
2473 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
2474 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
2475 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
2476 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
2477 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
2478 Alastair Bridgewater)
2479 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
2480 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
2481 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2482 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
2483 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
2484 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
2485 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
2486 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
2487 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
2488 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
2489 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
2490 (thanks to James Knight)
2491 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
2492 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
2494 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
2495 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
2496 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
2497 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
2498 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
2499 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
2500 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
2501 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
2502 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
2503 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
2504 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
2505 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
2506 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
2507 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
2508 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
2509 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
2510 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
2511 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
2512 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
2513 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
2514 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
2516 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
2517 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
2518 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
2519 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
2520 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
2521 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
2523 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
2524 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
2525 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
2526 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
2527 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
2528 many others over the years)
2529 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
2530 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
2531 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
2533 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
2534 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
2535 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
2536 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
2537 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
2538 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
2540 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
2542 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
2543 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
2544 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
2545 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
2546 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
2547 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
2548 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
2549 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
2550 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
2551 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
2552 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
2553 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2554 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
2555 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2557 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
2558 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2559 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
2560 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
2561 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
2562 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
2563 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
2564 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
2565 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
2566 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2567 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
2568 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
2569 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
2570 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
2571 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
2572 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
2573 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
2574 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
2575 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
2576 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
2578 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
2579 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2580 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
2581 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
2582 index variables in LOOP
2583 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
2584 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2585 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
2586 that don't have a docstring
2588 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
2589 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
2590 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
2591 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
2592 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
2593 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
2594 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
2595 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
2596 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
2597 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
2598 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
2599 Costanza's "Closer" project)
2600 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
2601 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
2603 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
2604 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
2605 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
2606 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
2607 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
2608 and Pascal Costanza)
2609 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
2610 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
2611 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
2612 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
2613 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
2614 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
2615 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
2616 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
2617 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2618 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
2619 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2620 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
2621 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2622 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
2623 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2624 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
2625 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
2626 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
2627 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
2629 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
2630 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2631 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
2632 floating point index variable or a negative step.
2634 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
2635 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
2636 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
2637 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
2638 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
2639 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2640 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
2641 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
2642 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
2643 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
2644 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
2645 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
2646 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
2647 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
2648 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
2649 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
2650 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
2651 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
2652 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
2653 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
2654 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
2655 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2656 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
2657 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
2658 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
2659 and dump core on SIGQUIT
2661 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
2662 from their parents (see manual)
2663 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
2664 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
2665 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
2666 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
2667 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
2668 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
2670 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2671 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
2672 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
2673 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
2675 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
2676 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
2677 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
2679 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
2680 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
2681 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
2682 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
2683 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
2684 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
2685 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
2686 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
2687 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
2688 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
2689 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
2690 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
2691 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
2692 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
2694 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
2695 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
2696 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
2698 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
2699 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
2701 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
2702 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2703 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
2704 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
2705 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
2706 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
2707 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
2708 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
2709 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
2711 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
2712 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
2713 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
2714 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
2715 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
2716 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
2718 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
2720 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
2721 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
2722 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
2723 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
2724 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
2725 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
2726 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
2727 classes; see the manual for more details;
2728 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
2729 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
2730 requested slot ordering.
2732 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
2734 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
2735 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
2737 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
2739 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
2740 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
2741 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
2742 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
2743 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2744 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
2745 the :method-class keyword argument.
2747 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
2748 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
2749 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
2750 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
2751 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
2752 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2753 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
2754 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2755 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
2756 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
2757 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
2759 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
2760 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
2761 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
2762 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
2763 is switched on or off
2764 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
2765 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
2766 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
2768 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
2769 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2770 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
2771 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
2772 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
2773 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
2774 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
2775 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
2776 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
2778 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
2779 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
2780 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
2781 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
2782 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
2783 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
2784 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
2786 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
2787 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
2788 not prevent gc from running
2789 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
2790 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
2791 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
2792 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
2793 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
2794 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
2795 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
2796 an inline 32-bit rotation.
2798 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
2799 there is only one thread in the session
2800 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
2801 written to in another
2802 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
2803 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
2805 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
2806 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
2808 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
2809 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2810 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
2811 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
2812 the orignal arguments.
2813 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
2815 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
2816 name a compiled function.
2817 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
2818 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
2819 derivation were fixed.
2820 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
2821 list-form FUNCTION type.
2822 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
2823 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
2824 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
2826 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
2827 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
2828 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
2829 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
2830 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
2831 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
2833 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
2834 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
2835 of a select system call
2836 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
2838 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
2839 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
2841 * various error reporting improvements.
2842 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
2843 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2844 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
2845 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
2846 code and foreign data with the same name.
2848 ** added x86-64 support
2849 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
2850 objects instead of thread ids
2851 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
2852 starting up or going down
2853 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
2854 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
2855 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
2856 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
2857 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
2858 an inappropriate moment
2859 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
2860 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
2861 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
2862 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2863 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
2864 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
2865 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
2867 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
2868 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
2869 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
2870 range before calling Unix time functions
2872 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
2873 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
2874 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
2875 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
2876 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
2877 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
2878 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
2879 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
2880 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
2881 for more information.
2882 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
2883 pathname is a directory pathname.
2884 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
2885 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
2887 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
2888 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
2889 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
2890 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
2891 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
2892 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
2894 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
2895 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
2896 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
2897 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
2898 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
2899 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
2900 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2901 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
2902 the PowerPC platform.
2903 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
2904 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
2906 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
2907 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
2908 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
2909 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
2910 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
2911 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2913 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
2914 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
2915 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
2916 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
2917 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
2918 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2919 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
2920 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
2921 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
2922 as the name of a type, or vice versa
2923 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
2924 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
2925 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
2926 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
2927 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
2928 FLET or MACROLET forms
2929 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
2931 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
2933 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
2936 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
2937 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
2938 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
2939 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
2940 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
2941 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
2942 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
2943 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
2944 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
2945 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
2946 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
2947 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
2948 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
2949 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
2950 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
2951 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
2952 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
2953 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
2954 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
2955 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
2956 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
2957 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
2959 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2960 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
2961 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
2962 a file has the stream as its datum.
2963 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
2964 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
2965 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
2966 a correct expected type
2967 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
2968 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
2969 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
2970 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
2971 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
2972 on broadcast streams.
2974 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
2975 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
2976 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
2977 --disable-debugger option instead.
2978 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
2980 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
2981 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
2982 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
2983 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
2984 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
2985 has been added to the manual.
2986 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
2987 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
2988 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
2989 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
2990 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
2991 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
2992 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
2993 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
2994 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
2995 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
2997 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
2998 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
2999 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
3000 (reported by Rajat Datta).
3001 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
3002 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
3004 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
3005 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
3006 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
3007 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
3008 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
3009 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
3010 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
3011 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
3012 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
3013 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
3014 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
3015 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
3016 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
3017 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
3018 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
3019 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
3020 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3021 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
3022 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3024 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
3026 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
3027 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
3028 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
3029 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
3030 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
3032 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
3033 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
3034 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
3035 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
3036 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3037 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
3038 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
3040 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3041 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
3042 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
3044 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
3045 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
3046 types for complex arguments better.
3047 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
3049 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
3050 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
3052 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
3053 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
3054 resulting in GC crashes.
3055 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
3057 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
3060 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
3061 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
3062 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
3063 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
3064 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
3065 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
3066 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
3067 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
3068 returning to the top level.
3069 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
3070 global optimization policy.
3071 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
3072 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
3073 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
3075 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
3076 various incompatible changes.
3077 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
3078 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
3079 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
3080 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
3081 level local call to FOO".
3082 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
3083 now have more legible printed representation
3084 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
3085 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
3086 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
3087 explicitly requested.
3088 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
3089 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
3090 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
3091 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
3092 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
3094 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
3095 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
3096 (reported by Lutz Euler)
3097 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
3098 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3099 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
3100 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
3101 the specializer is now possible.
3102 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
3103 face of package deletion.
3104 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
3105 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
3106 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
3107 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
3108 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
3109 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
3110 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
3111 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
3112 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3113 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
3115 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3116 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
3117 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
3118 correctable errors to be signalled.
3119 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
3120 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
3123 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
3124 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
3125 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
3127 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
3128 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3129 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
3130 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
3131 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
3132 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
3133 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
3134 related to the ~@F format directive.
3135 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
3137 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
3138 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
3139 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
3140 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
3142 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
3144 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
3145 coerce function designators to functions.
3146 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
3147 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
3148 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
3149 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
3150 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
3151 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
3152 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3153 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
3154 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
3155 start of the buffer at the next read.
3156 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
3157 passing it through to OPEN.
3158 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
3159 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
3160 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
3161 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
3162 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
3163 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3164 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
3165 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
3167 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
3168 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3169 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
3170 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
3171 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3172 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
3174 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3175 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
3176 secondary constituent character trait.
3177 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
3179 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
3181 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
3182 works more reliably.
3183 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
3184 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
3185 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
3187 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
3188 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
3190 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
3191 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
3192 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
3193 and reloading shared object files.
3194 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3195 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
3197 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
3198 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
3199 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
3201 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
3202 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
3204 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
3206 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
3207 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
3208 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
3209 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3210 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
3211 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
3212 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
3214 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
3215 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
3217 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
3218 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
3219 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
3220 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
3221 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
3223 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
3224 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
3225 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3226 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
3227 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
3228 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
3229 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
3230 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
3231 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
3232 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
3233 lisp characters are not eight bits.
3234 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3235 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
3236 the correct number of arguments.
3237 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
3238 to displaced strings.
3239 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
3240 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
3242 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
3243 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
3244 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
3245 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
3246 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
3247 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
3248 available at runtime.
3249 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
3250 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
3251 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
3252 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3253 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
3254 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
3255 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
3256 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
3257 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
3258 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
3259 of lambda-list keywords.
3260 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
3261 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
3263 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
3264 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
3265 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3266 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
3267 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
3268 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
3269 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
3271 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
3272 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3273 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
3274 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
3275 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
3277 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
3278 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
3279 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3280 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
3281 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
3282 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3283 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
3285 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
3286 parameters correctly.
3287 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
3288 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
3289 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
3291 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
3294 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
3295 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
3296 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
3297 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
3299 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
3300 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
3301 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
3302 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
3303 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
3304 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
3305 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
3306 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3307 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
3309 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
3310 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
3312 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
3314 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
3315 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
3316 (reported by Bruno Haible)
3317 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
3319 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
3320 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3321 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
3322 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
3323 (reported by David Morse)
3324 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
3325 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3326 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
3327 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3328 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
3329 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3330 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
3331 now exists, an signals an error.
3332 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
3333 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
3334 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3335 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
3336 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3337 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
3338 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
3339 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3340 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
3341 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3342 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
3343 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
3345 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
3346 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
3347 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
3348 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
3349 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3350 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
3351 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
3352 specialized array element types.
3353 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
3354 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3355 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
3356 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3357 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
3358 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
3359 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
3360 Wragg for the simple test case)
3361 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3362 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
3364 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
3365 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
3366 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
3367 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
3368 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
3370 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
3372 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
3373 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
3374 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
3375 references to global functions.
3376 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
3378 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
3380 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
3381 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3382 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
3383 supported platforms.
3384 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
3385 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
3386 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
3387 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
3388 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
3389 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
3390 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
3391 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
3392 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
3393 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
3394 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
3395 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
3396 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
3398 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
3399 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
3400 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
3401 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
3402 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
3403 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
3405 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
3406 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
3408 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
3409 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
3410 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
3411 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3412 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
3413 returns the right answer.
3414 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
3416 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
3418 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
3419 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
3421 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
3422 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
3424 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
3425 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
3426 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
3427 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
3428 the supported interface.
3429 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
3430 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
3431 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
3432 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
3433 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
3434 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
3435 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
3436 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3437 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
3438 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
3439 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
3440 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
3441 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
3442 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
3443 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
3444 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
3445 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
3446 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
3447 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
3448 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
3449 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
3450 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
3451 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
3452 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
3453 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
3454 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
3455 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3456 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
3457 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
3459 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
3460 * incompatible change: the internal functions
3461 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
3462 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
3463 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
3464 instead of the old functions.
3465 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
3466 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
3468 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
3469 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
3471 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
3472 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
3473 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
3474 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
3476 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
3477 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3478 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
3479 (reported by Rick Taube)
3480 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
3481 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
3482 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
3483 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
3485 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
3486 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
3487 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
3488 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
3489 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
3490 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
3491 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
3492 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
3493 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
3494 represented relative to default pathnames.
3495 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
3496 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
3497 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
3499 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
3500 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
3501 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
3503 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3504 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
3505 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
3506 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
3508 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
3510 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
3511 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
3512 conditional newlines.
3513 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
3514 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
3515 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
3517 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
3518 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
3520 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
3521 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
3522 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
3523 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
3524 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
3525 compiled in unconditionally.
3526 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
3527 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
3528 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
3529 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
3530 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
3532 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
3533 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
3534 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
3535 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
3536 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
3537 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
3538 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
3539 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
3540 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
3541 an implementation-internal package.
3542 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
3544 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
3545 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
3546 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
3547 bodies are now more legible.
3548 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
3549 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
3550 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
3551 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
3552 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
3553 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
3554 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
3556 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
3557 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
3558 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
3559 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
3560 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
3561 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
3562 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
3563 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
3564 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
3565 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
3567 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
3568 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
3569 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
3570 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
3571 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
3572 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
3573 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
3574 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
3575 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
3576 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
3577 system even when most of them are idle
3578 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
3579 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
3580 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
3582 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
3583 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
3584 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
3585 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
3586 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
3588 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
3589 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
3590 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
3591 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
3592 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
3593 string for information on the protocol.
3594 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
3595 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
3597 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
3598 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
3600 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
3601 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
3602 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
3603 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
3604 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
3605 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
3607 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
3608 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
3610 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
3611 move between its address being taken and the call to
3612 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
3613 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
3614 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
3615 instances corresponding to C structs.
3617 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
3618 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
3619 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
3620 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
3621 has implications for memory management of client code
3622 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
3623 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
3624 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
3625 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
3626 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
3627 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
3628 quality should be considered deprecated.
3629 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
3630 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
3631 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
3632 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
3633 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
3635 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
3636 designator as the defaults argument.
3637 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
3638 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
3639 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3640 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
3641 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
3643 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
3645 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
3646 (thanks to Zach Beane)
3647 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
3648 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
3649 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3650 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
3652 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
3653 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3654 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
3655 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
3656 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
3657 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
3658 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3659 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
3660 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
3661 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
3662 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
3663 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3664 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
3665 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
3666 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
3667 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
3668 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
3670 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
3671 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
3672 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
3674 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
3675 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3676 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
3677 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
3678 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
3679 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
3680 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3681 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
3682 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
3684 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
3685 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
3687 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
3688 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
3690 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
3691 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
3692 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
3693 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
3695 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
3696 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
3697 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
3698 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
3699 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
3700 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
3701 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
3702 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
3704 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
3705 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
3706 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
3708 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
3709 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
3711 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3712 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
3714 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
3715 from local to shared slots.
3716 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
3717 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
3718 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
3719 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
3721 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
3722 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
3723 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
3724 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
3725 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
3726 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
3727 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
3728 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
3729 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
3731 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
3733 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
3735 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
3736 print using #P"..." syntax.
3738 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
3739 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
3740 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
3741 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
3742 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
3743 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
3744 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
3745 * [placeholder for DX summary]
3746 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
3747 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
3748 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
3749 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
3750 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
3751 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
3752 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
3753 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
3754 the test case to Dave Roberts)
3755 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
3756 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
3757 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
3758 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
3759 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
3760 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
3761 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
3762 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
3763 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
3764 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
3765 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
3766 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
3767 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3768 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
3769 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
3772 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
3773 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
3774 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
3775 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
3776 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
3777 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
3778 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
3779 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
3780 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
3781 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3782 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
3783 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
3784 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
3786 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
3787 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
3789 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
3790 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
3791 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3792 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
3793 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3794 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
3796 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
3797 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
3798 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
3800 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
3802 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
3804 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
3805 their output stream on EOF from read.
3806 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
3807 have been read to end-of-file.
3808 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
3810 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
3811 description of determination of which consecutive characters
3813 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
3814 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
3815 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3816 less than 10 works correctly.
3817 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
3818 more than 10 works correctly.
3819 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
3820 the readtable currently in effect.
3822 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
3823 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
3824 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
3825 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
3826 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
3827 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
3828 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
3829 should usually be replaced by
3830 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
3831 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
3832 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
3833 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
3834 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
3835 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
3836 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
3837 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
3839 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
3840 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
3841 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
3842 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
3843 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
3844 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3845 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
3846 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
3847 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
3848 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
3849 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
3850 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
3851 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
3853 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
3854 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
3855 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
3856 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
3857 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
3858 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
3859 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
3860 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
3861 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
3862 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
3863 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
3864 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
3865 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
3866 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
3867 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3868 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
3869 non-local entry points.
3870 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
3872 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
3873 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
3875 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
3876 host is already defined.
3877 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
3879 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
3880 or not a character is whitespace.
3881 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
3882 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
3883 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
3885 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
3886 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
3888 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
3890 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
3891 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
3892 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
3893 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
3894 designator argument does not designate a stream.
3895 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
3896 examining the synonym.
3897 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
3899 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
3900 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
3902 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
3903 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
3904 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
3905 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
3906 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
3907 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
3908 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
3909 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
3910 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
3911 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
3912 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
3913 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
3915 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
3916 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
3917 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
3918 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
3919 stream position information.
3920 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
3921 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
3922 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
3923 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
3924 (reported by Paul Dietz)
3925 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
3927 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
3928 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
3930 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
3931 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3932 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
3933 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
3934 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
3935 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
3936 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
3938 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
3940 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
3941 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
3942 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
3943 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
3944 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
3945 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
3946 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
3947 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
3948 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
3949 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
3950 the "SYS" logical host.
3951 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
3952 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
3953 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
3954 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
3955 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
3956 now each have their own history, command character, and other
3957 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
3958 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3959 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
3961 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
3962 shift greater than 32.
3963 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
3964 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
3965 in some circumstances.
3967 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
3968 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
3969 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
3970 environments like SLIME.
3971 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
3972 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
3973 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
3974 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
3975 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
3976 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
3977 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
3978 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
3979 argument types for all arguments.
3980 * various threading fixes
3981 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
3982 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
3983 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
3984 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
3986 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
3987 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
3988 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
3989 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
3990 arguments to a full call.
3991 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
3992 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
3993 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
3994 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
3996 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
3997 inserts a space where necessary.
3998 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
3999 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
4000 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
4001 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
4002 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
4003 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
4004 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
4005 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
4006 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
4007 counter now raises a meaningful error.
4008 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
4009 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
4011 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
4012 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
4013 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
4015 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
4017 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4018 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
4019 argument and negative second.
4020 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
4021 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
4022 interval, containing 0.
4023 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
4025 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
4026 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
4028 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
4029 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
4030 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
4031 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
4032 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
4033 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
4034 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
4035 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
4036 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
4037 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
4038 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
4039 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
4040 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
4041 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
4042 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
4043 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
4044 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
4045 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
4046 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
4047 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
4048 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
4049 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4050 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
4051 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
4052 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
4053 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
4054 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
4055 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
4056 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
4058 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
4059 platform now returns the right answer.
4060 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
4061 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
4062 precomputation is now tunable.
4063 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
4064 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
4065 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
4066 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
4067 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
4068 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
4069 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
4070 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
4071 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
4072 has been added for the alpha.
4073 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
4074 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
4075 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
4076 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
4077 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
4078 MEMBER-types to numeric.
4079 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
4081 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
4082 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
4083 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
4085 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
4086 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4087 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
4088 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
4089 might be pseudo-atomic.
4090 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
4091 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
4093 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
4095 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
4097 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
4098 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
4099 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
4100 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
4101 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
4102 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
4104 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4105 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
4106 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
4107 small float arguments.
4108 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
4110 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
4111 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
4112 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
4113 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
4114 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
4115 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
4117 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
4119 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
4120 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
4121 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
4122 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
4123 with negative last argument.
4124 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
4125 an error during type derivation.
4126 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
4128 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
4129 generates a 32-bit binary.
4130 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
4131 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
4132 data structures referred to above).
4134 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
4135 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
4136 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
4137 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
4138 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
4139 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
4140 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
4141 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
4142 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
4143 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4144 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
4145 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
4147 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
4148 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
4150 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
4151 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
4152 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
4153 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
4154 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
4155 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
4156 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
4157 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
4158 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
4159 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
4160 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
4161 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4162 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
4163 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
4164 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
4165 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
4166 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
4167 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4168 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
4169 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
4170 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
4171 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
4172 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4173 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
4174 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
4175 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
4176 optimization quality.
4177 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
4178 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
4179 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
4180 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
4181 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
4182 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4183 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
4184 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
4185 types form a lattice under type intersection.
4186 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
4187 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
4188 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
4189 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
4190 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
4191 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
4192 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
4193 calling the generic function.
4194 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
4195 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
4196 obscure ANSI requirements
4198 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
4199 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
4200 garbage, confusing the compiler.
4201 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
4202 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
4203 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
4204 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
4205 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
4206 circumstances could go off-by-one.
4207 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
4209 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
4210 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
4211 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
4212 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
4213 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
4214 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
4215 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
4216 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
4217 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
4218 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
4219 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
4220 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
4221 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
4222 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
4223 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
4224 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
4225 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
4226 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
4227 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
4228 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
4230 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
4231 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
4232 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
4233 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
4235 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
4236 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
4237 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
4238 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
4239 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
4240 provide helpful disassembly notes.
4241 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
4242 the class in more cases than previously.
4243 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
4244 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
4245 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
4246 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4247 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
4248 without lambda list.
4249 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
4250 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
4251 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4252 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
4253 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
4254 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
4256 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
4257 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
4258 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
4260 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
4261 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
4262 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
4263 were silently accepted).
4264 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
4265 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
4266 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
4267 to warn on static type mismatches and function
4268 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
4269 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
4270 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
4271 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
4272 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
4273 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
4274 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
4275 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
4276 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
4277 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
4279 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
4280 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
4281 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
4282 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
4283 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
4284 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
4286 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
4287 keywords or constants is permissible.
4288 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
4289 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
4290 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4291 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
4292 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
4293 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
4294 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
4295 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
4297 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
4298 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
4299 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
4300 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
4301 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4302 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
4303 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
4305 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
4307 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
4308 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
4309 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
4310 respectively change and preserve the value.
4311 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
4312 is now better at handling symbol macros.
4313 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
4314 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
4315 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
4316 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
4317 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
4318 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
4319 their use properly signals an error now.
4320 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
4321 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
4322 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
4323 * fixed simple vector readable printing
4324 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
4325 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
4326 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
4327 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
4328 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
4329 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
4330 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4331 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
4332 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4333 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
4334 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
4335 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4336 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
4337 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
4338 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
4339 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
4340 causes a type error.
4341 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
4342 association between the name and a class.
4343 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
4344 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
4345 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4346 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
4347 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
4348 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
4350 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
4351 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
4352 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
4353 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
4355 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
4356 which its argument is a member.
4357 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
4358 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
4359 otherwise, it creates a new class.
4360 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
4361 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
4362 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
4363 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
4364 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4365 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
4367 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
4368 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
4369 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
4370 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
4371 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
4372 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
4373 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
4375 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
4376 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
4377 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
4378 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
4379 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
4380 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
4381 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
4382 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
4383 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
4384 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
4385 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
4386 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
4387 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4388 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
4390 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
4391 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
4392 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
4393 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
4394 superclasses are applied.
4395 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
4396 no method was removed.
4397 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
4398 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
4399 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
4400 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
4402 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
4404 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
4405 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
4406 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
4407 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
4408 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
4409 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
4410 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
4411 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
4412 function lambda list.
4413 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
4415 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
4416 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
4417 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
4418 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
4420 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
4421 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
4422 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
4423 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
4424 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
4425 they look for GNU "make".
4427 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
4428 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
4429 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
4430 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
4432 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
4433 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
4434 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
4435 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
4436 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
4437 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
4438 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
4439 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
4440 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
4441 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
4443 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
4444 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
4445 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
4446 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
4447 libraries, and will know who they are.
4448 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
4449 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
4450 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
4451 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
4452 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
4453 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
4454 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
4455 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
4457 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
4458 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
4459 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
4460 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
4461 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
4462 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
4463 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
4464 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
4465 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
4466 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
4467 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4468 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
4470 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
4471 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
4472 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
4473 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
4474 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4475 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
4476 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
4477 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
4478 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
4480 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
4481 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
4482 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
4483 this you were probably losing anyway.
4484 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
4485 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
4486 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
4487 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
4488 with names from the CL package.
4489 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
4490 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
4491 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
4492 documentation string.
4493 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4494 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
4496 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
4497 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
4498 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
4499 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
4501 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
4502 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
4504 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
4505 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4506 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
4508 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
4509 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
4510 arguments contain duplicated elements.
4511 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
4512 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
4513 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
4514 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
4515 in question is unbound.
4516 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
4517 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
4518 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
4519 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
4520 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
4522 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
4524 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
4525 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
4526 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
4527 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
4528 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
4529 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
4530 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
4531 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
4532 by Antonio Martinez)
4533 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
4534 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4535 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
4536 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
4537 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
4538 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
4539 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
4540 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4541 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
4542 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
4543 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
4544 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
4545 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
4546 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
4547 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
4548 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
4549 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
4550 on malformed property lists;
4552 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
4553 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
4554 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
4555 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
4556 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
4557 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
4558 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
4559 modules in this release include:
4560 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
4561 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
4562 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
4563 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
4564 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
4566 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
4567 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
4568 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4569 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
4570 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
4571 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
4572 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
4573 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
4575 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
4576 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
4577 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
4578 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
4579 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
4580 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
4581 the lexical environment.
4582 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
4583 unprintable packages can now be defined.
4584 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
4585 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4586 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
4587 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4588 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
4589 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
4590 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
4591 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
4592 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
4593 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
4594 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
4595 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
4596 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
4597 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
4598 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
4599 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
4600 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
4601 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
4602 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
4603 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
4604 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
4605 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
4606 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
4608 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
4609 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
4610 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
4611 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4612 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
4613 not just nonnegative fixnums;
4614 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
4615 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
4616 freshly-consed result bit-array);
4617 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
4619 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
4620 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
4622 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
4623 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
4624 cases are accurately computed;
4625 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
4626 if it is in the last clause;
4627 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
4629 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
4630 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
4631 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
4632 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
4634 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
4635 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
4636 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
4637 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
4638 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
4640 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
4641 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
4642 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
4643 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
4645 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4646 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
4647 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
4648 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
4649 not cause a type error;
4650 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
4652 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
4653 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
4654 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
4655 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
4656 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
4657 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
4658 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
4659 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
4661 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
4662 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
4663 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
4664 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
4665 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
4666 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
4668 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
4669 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
4671 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
4672 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
4673 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
4674 only for symbols in the CL package.
4675 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
4676 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
4677 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
4678 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
4679 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
4681 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4682 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
4683 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
4684 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
4685 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
4686 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
4687 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
4688 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
4689 conditional loop clause;
4690 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
4691 signals a type error iff it should.
4692 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4693 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
4694 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
4695 argument) no longer signals an error;
4696 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
4697 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
4698 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
4700 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
4701 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
4702 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
4704 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
4705 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
4706 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
4707 functionality on said platforms verified.
4708 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
4709 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
4711 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
4712 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
4713 component indicating that directory.
4714 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
4715 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
4716 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
4717 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
4718 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4719 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
4721 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
4722 primary methods with no specializers;
4723 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
4725 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
4726 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
4727 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
4728 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
4730 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
4731 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
4732 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
4734 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
4735 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
4736 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
4737 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
4738 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
4739 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
4740 class STANDARD-CLASS;
4741 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
4742 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
4743 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
4744 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
4746 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
4747 value producing form;
4748 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
4749 variables are bound and made to have no value;
4750 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
4752 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
4753 is not a valid sequence index;
4754 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
4755 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
4756 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4757 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
4759 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
4760 symbol-macro places;
4761 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
4762 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
4764 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
4766 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
4768 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
4769 invariant when deleting code.
4770 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
4771 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
4773 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
4774 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4775 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
4777 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
4778 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
4780 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
4781 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
4782 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
4783 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
4785 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
4786 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
4787 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
4788 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
4790 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
4791 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
4792 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
4793 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
4794 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4795 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
4796 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
4797 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
4798 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
4799 sbcl and .core files.)
4800 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
4801 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
4802 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
4803 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
4804 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
4805 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
4806 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
4808 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
4809 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
4810 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
4811 argument precedence order.
4812 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
4813 derived types contradict their declared type.
4814 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
4815 so it can be non-toplevel.
4816 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
4817 implementation of DEFMACRO).
4818 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
4819 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
4820 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
4822 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
4823 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
4824 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
4825 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
4826 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
4827 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
4828 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
4829 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
4830 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
4831 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
4832 symbol macro only once
4833 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
4834 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
4835 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
4838 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
4839 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
4840 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
4841 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
4842 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
4843 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
4844 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
4845 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
4846 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
4847 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4848 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
4849 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
4851 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
4852 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
4853 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
4854 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
4855 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4856 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
4858 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
4860 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
4861 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
4862 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
4863 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
4864 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4865 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
4866 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
4867 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
4868 ways in different special cases
4869 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
4871 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
4872 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
4873 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
4874 are no longer optimized away.
4875 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
4876 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
4877 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
4878 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
4879 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
4880 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
4881 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
4882 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
4885 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
4886 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
4887 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
4888 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
4889 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
4890 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
4891 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
4893 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
4894 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
4895 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
4896 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
4897 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
4898 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
4899 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
4900 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
4901 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
4902 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
4903 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
4904 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
4905 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
4906 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
4907 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
4908 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
4909 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
4910 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4911 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
4912 that are names of constants or global variables.
4913 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
4914 alien routines with docstrings.
4915 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
4916 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
4918 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
4919 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
4920 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
4921 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
4922 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
4923 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
4924 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
4925 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
4926 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
4927 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
4928 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
4929 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
4930 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
4931 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
4932 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
4933 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
4934 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
4935 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
4936 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
4937 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
4938 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
4939 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
4940 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
4942 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
4943 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
4945 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
4946 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
4947 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
4948 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
4949 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
4950 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
4951 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
4952 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
4953 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
4954 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
4956 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
4957 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
4958 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
4959 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
4960 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
4961 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
4962 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
4963 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
4964 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
4965 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
4966 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
4967 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
4968 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
4969 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
4970 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
4971 is no longer a static symbol.)
4973 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
4974 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
4975 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
4976 bootstrapping under CLISP.
4977 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
4979 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
4980 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
4982 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
4983 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
4984 to David Lichteblau)
4985 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
4986 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
4987 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
4989 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
4990 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
4991 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
4992 count as they should.
4993 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
4994 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
4995 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
4996 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
4997 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
4998 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
4999 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
5000 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
5001 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
5002 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
5003 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
5004 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
5005 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
5006 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
5007 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
5009 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
5010 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
5011 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
5013 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
5015 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
5016 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
5017 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
5018 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
5019 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
5020 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5021 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
5023 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
5024 to Christophe Rhodes)
5025 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
5026 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
5027 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
5028 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
5029 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
5030 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
5031 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
5033 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
5034 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
5035 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
5036 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
5037 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
5038 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5039 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
5040 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
5041 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
5042 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
5043 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
5044 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
5045 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
5047 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
5048 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
5049 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
5050 INFO database to support symbol macros.
5051 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
5052 (thanks to coreythomas)
5053 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
5054 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
5055 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
5056 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
5057 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
5059 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
5060 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
5061 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
5062 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
5063 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
5064 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
5065 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
5066 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
5067 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
5068 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5069 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
5070 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
5071 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
5073 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
5074 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
5077 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
5078 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
5079 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
5080 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
5081 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
5082 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
5083 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
5084 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
5085 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
5086 systems than the old 4M value was)
5087 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
5088 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
5089 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
5090 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
5091 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
5092 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
5093 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
5095 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
5096 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
5097 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
5098 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
5099 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
5101 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
5102 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
5103 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
5104 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
5105 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
5106 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
5107 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
5108 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
5110 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
5111 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5112 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
5113 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5114 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
5115 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
5116 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
5117 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
5119 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
5120 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
5121 * several changes related to debugging:
5122 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
5123 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
5124 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
5125 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
5126 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
5127 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
5128 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
5131 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
5133 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
5134 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
5135 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
5136 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
5137 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
5138 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
5139 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
5140 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
5142 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
5143 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
5144 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
5145 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
5146 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
5147 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
5148 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
5149 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
5150 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
5151 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
5152 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
5153 file format number to change again.
5155 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
5156 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
5157 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
5158 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
5160 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
5161 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
5162 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
5163 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
5164 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
5165 FUNCALL on the result.
5166 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
5167 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
5168 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
5169 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
5170 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
5171 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
5172 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
5173 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
5175 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
5176 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
5177 the old compiler produced.
5178 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
5179 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
5180 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
5181 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
5182 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
5183 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
5184 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
5185 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
5186 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
5187 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
5188 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
5189 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
5190 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
5191 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
5192 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
5193 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
5194 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
5195 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
5196 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
5197 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
5198 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
5199 straightened out in some future version.)
5200 * minor incompatible changes:
5201 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
5202 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
5203 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
5204 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
5205 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
5206 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
5207 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
5208 implementation dependent:
5209 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
5210 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
5211 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
5212 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
5213 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
5214 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
5215 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
5216 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
5218 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
5220 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
5221 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
5222 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
5223 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
5224 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
5225 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
5226 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
5227 are no longer used for output.
5228 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
5229 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
5230 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
5231 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
5232 increasing it even more.)
5233 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
5234 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
5235 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
5237 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
5238 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
5239 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
5240 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
5241 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
5242 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
5243 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
5244 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
5245 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
5246 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
5247 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
5248 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
5249 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
5250 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
5251 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
5252 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
5253 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
5254 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
5255 compilation of code which calls such functions.
5256 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
5257 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
5258 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
5259 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
5260 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
5261 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
5262 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
5263 built into the system.
5264 * many other bug fixes
5265 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
5266 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
5267 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
5268 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
5269 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
5271 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
5272 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
5273 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
5274 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
5275 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
5276 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
5277 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
5278 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
5279 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
5280 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
5281 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
5283 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
5284 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
5285 and several other LOOP problems as well
5286 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
5287 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
5288 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
5289 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
5290 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
5291 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
5292 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
5293 *** a bug in APROPOS
5294 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
5295 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
5296 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
5297 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
5298 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
5299 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
5300 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
5301 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
5302 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
5303 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
5304 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
5305 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
5306 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
5307 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
5308 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
5310 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
5311 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
5312 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
5313 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
5314 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
5315 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
5316 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
5317 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
5318 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
5319 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
5320 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
5321 some of which are apparent above.
5323 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
5324 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
5325 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
5326 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
5327 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
5328 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
5329 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
5330 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
5331 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
5332 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
5333 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
5334 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
5335 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
5336 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
5337 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
5338 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
5339 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
5340 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
5341 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
5342 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
5343 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
5344 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
5345 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
5346 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
5347 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
5348 different return types.
5349 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
5350 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
5351 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
5352 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
5353 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
5354 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
5355 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
5356 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
5357 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
5358 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
5360 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
5361 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
5362 does the right thing.
5363 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
5364 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
5365 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5366 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
5367 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5368 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
5369 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
5370 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
5371 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
5372 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
5373 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5374 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
5375 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
5376 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
5377 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
5378 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
5379 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
5380 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
5381 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
5382 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
5383 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
5384 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
5385 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
5386 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
5387 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
5388 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
5389 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
5390 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
5391 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
5392 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
5393 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
5394 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
5395 since historically most system changes which required version
5396 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
5397 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
5400 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
5401 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
5402 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
5403 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
5404 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
5405 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
5406 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
5407 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
5408 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
5409 half a dozen others elsewhere
5410 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
5411 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
5412 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
5413 as flaky as they were.
5414 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
5415 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
5416 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
5417 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
5418 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
5419 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
5420 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
5421 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
5423 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
5424 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
5425 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
5426 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5427 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
5428 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
5429 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
5430 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
5431 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
5432 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
5433 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
5434 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
5435 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
5436 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
5437 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
5438 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
5439 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
5440 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
5441 more obscure bugs as well
5442 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
5443 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
5444 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
5445 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
5446 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
5447 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
5448 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
5449 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
5450 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
5451 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
5452 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
5454 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
5455 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
5457 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
5459 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
5460 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
5461 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
5462 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
5463 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
5464 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
5465 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
5466 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
5467 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
5468 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
5469 are local in this sense.)
5470 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
5471 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
5472 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
5473 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
5474 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
5475 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
5476 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5477 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
5478 system's STREAM objects.
5479 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
5480 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5481 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
5482 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5483 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
5484 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
5485 environment from the original process instead of starting the
5486 new process in an empty environment.
5487 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
5488 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
5489 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
5490 for porting convenience.
5491 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
5492 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
5494 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
5496 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
5497 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
5498 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
5499 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
5500 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
5501 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
5502 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
5503 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
5504 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
5505 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
5506 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
5507 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
5508 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
5509 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
5510 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
5511 many fewer weird special cases.
5512 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
5513 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
5514 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
5515 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
5516 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
5517 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
5518 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
5519 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
5520 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
5521 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
5522 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
5525 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
5527 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
5528 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
5529 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
5531 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
5532 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
5533 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
5534 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
5535 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
5536 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
5537 should be constructed the same way as before.
5538 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
5539 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
5540 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
5541 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
5542 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
5543 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
5544 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
5545 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
5546 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
5547 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
5548 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
5549 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
5550 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
5551 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
5552 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
5553 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
5554 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
5555 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
5556 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
5557 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
5558 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
5559 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
5561 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
5562 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
5563 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
5564 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
5565 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
5566 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
5567 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
5568 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
5570 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
5572 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
5573 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
5574 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
5575 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
5576 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
5578 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
5579 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
5580 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
5581 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
5582 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
5583 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
5584 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
5585 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
5586 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
5587 and Douglas Crosher.
5588 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
5589 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
5590 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
5592 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
5593 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
5594 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
5595 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
5596 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
5597 undefined function error.
5598 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
5599 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
5600 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
5601 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
5602 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
5603 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
5604 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
5605 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
5606 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
5607 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
5608 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
5609 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
5610 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
5612 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
5614 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
5615 CVS repository on my home machine).
5616 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
5617 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
5618 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
5619 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
5620 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
5621 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
5622 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
5623 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
5624 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
5625 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
5626 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
5627 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
5628 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
5629 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
5630 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
5631 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
5632 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
5633 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
5634 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
5635 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
5636 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
5637 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
5639 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
5640 FreeBSD have been added.
5641 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
5642 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
5643 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
5644 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
5645 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
5646 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
5648 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
5649 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
5650 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
5651 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
5652 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
5653 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
5654 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
5655 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
5657 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
5658 away by constant folding
5659 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
5660 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
5661 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
5662 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
5663 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
5664 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
5665 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
5666 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
5667 diff-related operations.
5668 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
5669 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
5671 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
5673 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
5674 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
5675 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
5676 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
5677 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
5678 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
5679 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
5680 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
5681 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
5682 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
5683 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
5684 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
5685 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
5686 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
5687 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
5688 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
5689 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
5690 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
5691 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
5692 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
5693 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
5694 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
5695 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
5696 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
5697 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
5698 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
5699 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
5700 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
5701 instead of (VALUES T T).
5702 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
5703 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
5704 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
5705 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
5706 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
5707 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
5708 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
5709 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
5710 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
5711 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
5712 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
5713 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
5714 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
5715 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
5716 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
5717 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
5718 type will be interpreted at runtime.
5719 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
5720 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
5721 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
5722 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
5723 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
5724 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
5725 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
5726 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
5727 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
5728 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
5729 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
5730 fasl files for cold load.
5731 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
5732 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
5733 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
5734 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
5735 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
5736 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
5737 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
5738 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
5739 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
5740 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
5741 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
5743 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
5744 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
5745 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
5746 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
5747 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
5748 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
5749 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
5750 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
5751 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
5752 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
5753 renamed some files to increase consistency.
5754 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
5755 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
5756 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
5757 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
5758 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
5759 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
5761 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
5763 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
5764 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
5765 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
5766 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
5767 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
5768 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
5769 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
5770 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
5771 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
5772 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
5773 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
5774 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
5775 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
5776 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
5777 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
5778 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
5779 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
5780 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
5782 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
5783 as required by ANSI.
5784 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
5785 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
5786 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
5787 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
5789 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
5790 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
5791 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
5792 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
5793 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
5794 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
5795 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
5796 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
5798 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
5799 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
5800 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
5801 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5803 is now basically equivalent to
5804 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
5805 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
5807 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
5808 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
5809 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
5810 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
5811 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
5812 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
5813 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
5814 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
5815 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
5816 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
5817 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
5818 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
5819 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
5820 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
5821 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
5822 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
5823 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
5824 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
5825 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
5826 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
5827 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
5828 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
5829 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
5831 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
5833 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
5834 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
5835 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
5836 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
5837 GNUMAKE environment variable.
5838 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
5839 can build without error under CMU CL.
5841 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
5843 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
5844 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
5845 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
5846 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
5847 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
5848 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
5849 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
5850 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
5851 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
5852 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
5853 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
5854 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
5855 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
5856 being initialized before the type system knew the final
5857 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
5858 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
5859 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
5860 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
5861 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
5862 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
5863 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
5864 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
5865 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
5866 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
5868 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
5869 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
5870 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
5871 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
5872 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
5873 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
5874 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
5875 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
5876 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
5877 it were currently supported.
5878 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
5879 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
5880 having to maintain patches.
5881 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
5882 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
5884 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
5886 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
5887 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
5888 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
5889 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
5890 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
5891 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
5892 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
5893 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
5894 * various new style warnings:
5895 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
5896 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
5897 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
5898 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
5899 as specified by ANSI.
5900 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
5901 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
5902 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
5903 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
5904 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
5905 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
5906 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
5907 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
5908 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
5909 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
5910 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
5911 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
5912 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
5913 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
5914 argument types can be determined at compile time.
5915 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
5916 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
5917 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
5918 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
5919 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
5920 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
5921 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
5924 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
5926 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
5927 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
5928 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
5929 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
5930 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
5931 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
5932 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
5933 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
5934 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
5936 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
5937 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
5938 the report form was printed.)
5939 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
5940 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
5941 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
5942 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
5943 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
5944 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
5945 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
5946 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
5947 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
5948 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
5949 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
5950 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
5951 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
5952 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
5953 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
5954 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
5955 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
5956 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
5957 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
5958 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
5959 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
5960 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
5961 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
5962 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
5963 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
5964 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
5965 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
5966 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
5967 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
5968 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
5969 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
5970 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
5971 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
5972 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
5973 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
5974 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
5975 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
5976 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
5977 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
5978 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
5979 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
5980 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
5981 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
5982 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
5983 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
5984 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
5985 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
5986 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
5987 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
5988 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
5989 know more about target types.
5990 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
5991 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
5992 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
5993 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
5994 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
5995 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
5997 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
5998 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
5999 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
6000 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
6001 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
6002 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
6003 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
6004 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
6005 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
6006 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
6007 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
6008 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
6009 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
6011 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
6014 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
6016 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
6017 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
6018 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
6019 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
6020 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
6021 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
6022 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
6023 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
6024 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
6025 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
6026 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
6027 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
6028 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
6029 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
6030 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
6031 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
6032 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
6033 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
6034 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
6035 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
6036 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
6037 invisible at the user level.)
6038 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
6039 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
6040 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
6042 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
6044 * tidied up "make.sh" script
6045 * tidied up system directory structure
6046 * better "clean.sh" behavior
6047 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
6048 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
6049 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
6050 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
6051 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
6052 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
6053 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
6054 * command line argument processing
6055 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
6056 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
6057 terminating SBCL on EOF
6058 * non-verbose GC by default
6059 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
6060 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
6061 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
6063 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
6064 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
6065 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
6066 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
6067 transformed along with everything else.
6068 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
6069 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
6070 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
6071 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
6072 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
6073 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
6074 debugging and testing purposes
6075 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
6076 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
6077 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
6078 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
6079 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
6080 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
6081 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
6083 * regularized formatting of source files
6084 * added an install.sh script
6085 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
6086 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
6087 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
6088 builds nicely on my old laptop.
6089 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
6090 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
6091 was not implemented)
6092 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
6093 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
6094 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
6095 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
6096 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
6098 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
6099 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
6100 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
6101 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
6102 COMPILE-FILE command)
6103 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
6104 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
6105 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
6106 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
6107 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
6108 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
6109 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
6110 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
6111 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
6112 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
6113 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
6114 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
6115 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
6116 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
6117 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
6119 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
6120 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
6121 known to be able to handle the current sources
6122 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
6123 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
6124 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
6125 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
6126 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
6127 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
6128 * removed host-oops.lisp
6129 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
6130 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
6131 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
6132 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
6133 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
6134 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by