1 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
2 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
3 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
4 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
5 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
6 level local call to FOO".
7 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
8 now have more legible printed representation
9 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
10 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
11 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
13 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
14 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
15 (reported by Lutz Euler)
16 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
17 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
18 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
19 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
20 the specializer is now possible.
21 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
22 face of package deletion.
23 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
24 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
25 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
26 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
27 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
29 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
30 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
31 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
33 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
34 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
35 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
36 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
37 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
38 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
39 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
40 related to the ~@F format directive.
41 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
43 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
44 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
45 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
46 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
48 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
50 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
51 coerce function designators to functions.
52 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
53 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
54 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
55 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
56 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
57 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
58 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
59 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
60 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
61 start of the buffer at the next read.
62 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
63 passing it through to OPEN.
64 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
65 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
66 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
67 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
68 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
69 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
70 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
71 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
73 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
74 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
75 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
76 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
77 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
78 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
80 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
81 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
82 secondary constituent character trait.
83 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
85 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
87 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
89 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
90 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
91 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
93 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
94 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
96 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
97 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
98 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
99 and reloading shared object files.
100 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
101 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
103 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
104 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
105 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
107 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
108 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
110 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
112 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
113 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
114 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
115 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
116 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
117 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
118 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
120 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
121 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
123 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
124 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
125 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
126 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
127 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
129 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
130 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
131 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
132 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
133 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
134 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
135 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
136 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
137 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
138 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
139 lisp characters are not eight bits.
140 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
141 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
142 the correct number of arguments.
143 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
144 to displaced strings.
145 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
146 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
148 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
149 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
150 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
151 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
152 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
153 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
154 available at runtime.
155 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
156 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
157 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
158 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
159 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
160 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
161 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
162 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
163 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
164 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
165 of lambda-list keywords.
166 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
167 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
169 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
170 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
171 (reported by Paul Dietz)
172 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
173 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
174 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
175 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
177 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
178 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
179 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
180 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
181 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
183 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
184 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
185 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
186 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
187 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
188 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
189 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
191 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
192 parameters correctly.
193 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
194 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
195 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
197 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
200 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
201 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
202 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
203 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
205 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
206 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
207 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
208 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
209 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
210 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
211 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
212 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
213 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
215 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
216 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
218 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
220 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
221 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
222 (reported by Bruno Haible)
223 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
225 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
226 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
227 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
228 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
229 (reported by David Morse)
230 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
231 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
232 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
233 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
234 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
235 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
236 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
237 now exists, an signals an error.
238 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
239 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
240 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
241 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
242 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
243 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
244 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
245 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
246 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
247 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
248 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
249 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
251 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
252 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
253 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
254 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
255 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
256 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
257 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
258 specialized array element types.
259 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
260 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
261 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
262 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
263 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
264 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
265 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
266 Wragg for the simple test case)
267 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
268 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
270 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
271 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
272 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
273 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
274 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
276 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
278 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
279 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
280 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
281 references to global functions.
282 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
284 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
286 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
287 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
288 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
290 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
291 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
292 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
293 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
294 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
295 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
296 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
297 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
298 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
299 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
300 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
301 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
302 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
304 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
305 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
306 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
307 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
308 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
309 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
311 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
312 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
314 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
315 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
316 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
317 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
318 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
319 returns the right answer.
320 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
322 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
324 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
325 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
327 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
328 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
330 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
331 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
332 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
333 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
334 the supported interface.
335 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
336 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
337 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
338 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
339 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
340 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
341 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
342 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
343 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
344 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
345 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
346 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
347 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
348 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
349 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
350 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
351 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
352 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
353 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
354 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
355 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
356 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
357 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
358 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
359 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
360 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
361 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
362 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
363 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
365 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
366 * incompatible change: the internal functions
367 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
368 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
369 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
370 instead of the old functions.
371 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
372 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
374 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
375 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
377 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
378 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
379 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
380 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
382 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
383 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
384 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
385 (reported by Rick Taube)
386 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
387 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
388 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
389 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
391 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
392 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
393 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
394 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
395 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
396 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
397 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
398 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
399 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
400 represented relative to default pathnames.
401 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
402 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
403 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
405 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
406 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
407 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
409 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
410 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
411 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
412 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
414 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
416 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
417 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
418 conditional newlines.
419 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
420 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
421 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
423 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
424 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
426 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
427 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
428 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
429 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
430 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
431 compiled in unconditionally.
432 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
433 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
434 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
435 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
436 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
438 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
439 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
440 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
441 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
442 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
443 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
444 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
445 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
446 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
447 an implementation-internal package.
448 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
450 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
451 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
452 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
453 bodies are now more legible.
454 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
455 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
456 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
457 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
458 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
459 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
460 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
462 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
463 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
464 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
465 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
466 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
467 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
468 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
470 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
471 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
473 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
474 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
475 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
476 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
477 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
478 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
479 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
480 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
481 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
482 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
483 system even when most of them are idle
484 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
485 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
486 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
488 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
489 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
490 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
491 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
492 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
494 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
495 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
496 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
497 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
498 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
499 string for information on the protocol.
500 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
501 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
503 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
504 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
506 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
507 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
508 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
509 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
510 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
511 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
513 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
514 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
516 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
517 move between its address being taken and the call to
518 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
519 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
520 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
521 instances corresponding to C structs.
523 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
524 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
525 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
526 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
527 has implications for memory management of client code
528 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
529 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
530 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
531 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
532 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
533 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
534 quality should be considered deprecated.
535 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
536 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
537 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
538 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
539 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
541 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
542 designator as the defaults argument.
543 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
544 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
545 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
546 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
547 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
549 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
551 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
552 (thanks to Zach Beane)
553 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
554 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
555 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
556 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
558 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
559 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
560 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
561 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
562 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
563 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
564 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
565 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
566 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
567 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
568 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
569 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
570 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
571 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
572 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
573 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
574 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
576 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
577 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
578 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
580 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
581 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
582 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
583 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
584 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
585 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
586 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
587 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
588 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
590 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
591 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
593 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
594 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
596 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
597 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
598 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
599 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
601 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
602 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
603 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
604 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
605 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
606 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
607 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
608 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
610 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
611 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
612 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
614 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
615 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
617 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
618 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
620 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
621 from local to shared slots.
622 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
623 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
624 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
625 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
627 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
628 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
629 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
630 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
631 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
632 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
633 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
634 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
635 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
637 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
639 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
641 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
642 print using #P"..." syntax.
644 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
645 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
646 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
647 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
648 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
649 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
650 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
651 * [placeholder for DX summary]
652 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
653 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
654 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
655 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
656 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
657 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
658 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
659 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
660 the test case to Dave Roberts)
661 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
662 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
663 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
664 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
665 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
666 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
667 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
668 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
669 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
670 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
671 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
672 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
673 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
674 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
675 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
678 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
679 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
680 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
681 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
682 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
683 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
684 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
685 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
686 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
687 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
688 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
689 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
690 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
692 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
693 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
695 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
696 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
697 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
698 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
699 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
700 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
702 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
703 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
704 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
706 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
708 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
710 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
711 their output stream on EOF from read.
712 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
713 have been read to end-of-file.
714 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
716 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
717 description of determination of which consecutive characters
719 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
720 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
721 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
722 less than 10 works correctly.
723 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
724 more than 10 works correctly.
725 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
726 the readtable currently in effect.
728 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
729 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
730 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
731 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
732 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
733 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
734 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
735 should usually be replaced by
736 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
737 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
738 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
739 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
740 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
741 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
742 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
743 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
745 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
746 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
747 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
748 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
749 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
750 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
751 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
752 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
753 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
754 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
755 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
756 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
757 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
759 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
760 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
761 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
762 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
763 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
764 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
765 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
766 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
767 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
768 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
769 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
770 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
771 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
772 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
773 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
774 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
775 non-local entry points.
776 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
778 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
779 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
781 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
782 host is already defined.
783 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
785 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
786 or not a character is whitespace.
787 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
788 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
789 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
791 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
792 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
794 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
796 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
797 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
798 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
799 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
800 designator argument does not designate a stream.
801 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
802 examining the synonym.
803 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
805 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
806 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
808 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
809 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
810 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
811 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
812 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
813 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
814 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
815 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
816 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
817 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
818 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
819 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
821 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
822 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
823 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
824 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
825 stream position information.
826 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
827 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
828 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
829 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
830 (reported by Paul Dietz)
831 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
833 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
834 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
836 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
837 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
838 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
839 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
840 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
841 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
842 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
844 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
846 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
847 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
848 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
849 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
850 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
851 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
852 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
853 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
854 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
855 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
856 the "SYS" logical host.
857 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
858 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
859 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
860 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
861 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
862 now each have their own history, command character, and other
863 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
864 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
865 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
867 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
868 shift greater than 32.
869 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
870 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
871 in some circumstances.
873 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
874 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
875 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
876 environments like SLIME.
877 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
878 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
879 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
880 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
881 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
882 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
883 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
884 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
885 argument types for all arguments.
886 * various threading fixes
887 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
888 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
889 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
890 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
892 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
893 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
894 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
895 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
896 arguments to a full call.
897 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
898 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
899 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
900 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
902 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
903 inserts a space where necessary.
904 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
905 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
906 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
907 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
908 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
909 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
910 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
911 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
912 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
913 counter now raises a meaningful error.
914 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
915 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
917 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
918 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
919 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
921 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
923 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
924 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
925 argument and negative second.
926 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
927 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
928 interval, containing 0.
929 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
931 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
932 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
934 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
935 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
936 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
937 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
938 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
939 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
940 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
941 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
942 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
943 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
944 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
945 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
946 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
947 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
948 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
949 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
950 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
951 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
952 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
953 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
954 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
955 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
956 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
957 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
958 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
959 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
960 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
961 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
962 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
964 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
965 platform now returns the right answer.
966 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
967 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
968 precomputation is now tunable.
969 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
970 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
971 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
972 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
973 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
974 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
975 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
976 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
977 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
978 has been added for the alpha.
979 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
980 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
981 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
982 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
983 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
984 MEMBER-types to numeric.
985 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
987 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
988 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
989 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
991 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
992 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
993 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
994 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
995 might be pseudo-atomic.
996 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
997 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
999 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
1001 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
1003 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
1004 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
1005 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
1006 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
1007 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
1008 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
1010 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1011 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
1012 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
1013 small float arguments.
1014 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
1016 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
1017 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
1018 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
1019 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
1020 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
1021 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
1023 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
1025 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
1026 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
1027 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
1028 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
1029 with negative last argument.
1030 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
1031 an error during type derivation.
1032 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
1034 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
1035 generates a 32-bit binary.
1036 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1037 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
1038 data structures referred to above).
1040 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
1041 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
1042 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
1043 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
1044 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
1045 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
1046 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
1047 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
1048 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
1049 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1050 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
1051 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
1053 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
1054 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
1056 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
1057 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
1058 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
1059 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
1060 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
1061 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
1062 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
1063 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
1064 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
1065 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
1066 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
1067 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1068 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
1069 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
1070 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
1071 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
1072 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
1073 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1074 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
1075 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
1076 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
1077 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
1078 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1079 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
1080 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
1081 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
1082 optimization quality.
1083 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
1084 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
1085 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
1086 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
1087 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1088 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1089 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
1090 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
1091 types form a lattice under type intersection.
1092 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
1093 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
1094 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
1095 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
1096 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
1097 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
1098 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
1099 calling the generic function.
1100 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
1101 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
1102 obscure ANSI requirements
1104 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
1105 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
1106 garbage, confusing the compiler.
1107 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
1108 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
1109 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
1110 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
1111 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
1112 circumstances could go off-by-one.
1113 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
1115 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
1116 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
1117 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
1118 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
1119 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
1120 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
1121 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
1122 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
1123 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
1124 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1125 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
1126 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
1127 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1128 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
1129 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1130 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
1131 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
1132 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
1133 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
1134 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
1136 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
1137 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
1138 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
1139 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
1141 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
1142 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
1143 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
1144 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
1145 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
1146 provide helpful disassembly notes.
1147 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
1148 the class in more cases than previously.
1149 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
1150 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1151 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
1152 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1153 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
1154 without lambda list.
1155 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
1156 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
1157 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1158 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
1159 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
1160 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
1162 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
1163 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
1164 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
1166 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
1167 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
1168 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
1169 were silently accepted).
1170 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
1171 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
1172 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
1173 to warn on static type mismatches and function
1174 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
1175 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
1176 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
1177 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
1178 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
1179 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
1180 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
1181 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
1182 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
1183 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
1185 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
1186 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
1187 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
1188 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
1189 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
1190 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
1192 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
1193 keywords or constants is permissible.
1194 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
1195 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
1196 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1197 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
1198 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
1199 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
1200 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
1201 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
1203 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
1204 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1205 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
1206 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
1207 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1208 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
1209 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
1211 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
1213 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
1214 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
1215 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
1216 respectively change and preserve the value.
1217 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
1218 is now better at handling symbol macros.
1219 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
1220 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
1221 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
1222 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
1223 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
1224 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
1225 their use properly signals an error now.
1226 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
1227 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
1228 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
1229 * fixed simple vector readable printing
1230 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
1231 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
1232 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
1233 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
1234 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
1235 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
1236 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1237 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
1238 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1239 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
1240 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
1241 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1242 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
1243 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
1244 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
1245 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
1246 causes a type error.
1247 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
1248 association between the name and a class.
1249 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
1250 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
1251 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1252 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
1253 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
1254 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
1256 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
1257 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
1258 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
1259 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
1261 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
1262 which its argument is a member.
1263 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
1264 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
1265 otherwise, it creates a new class.
1266 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
1267 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
1268 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
1269 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
1270 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1271 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
1273 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
1274 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
1275 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
1276 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
1277 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
1278 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
1279 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
1281 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
1282 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
1283 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
1284 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
1285 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
1286 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
1287 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
1288 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
1289 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
1290 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
1291 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
1292 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
1293 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1294 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
1296 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
1297 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
1298 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
1299 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
1300 superclasses are applied.
1301 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1302 no method was removed.
1303 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
1304 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
1305 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
1306 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
1308 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
1310 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
1311 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
1312 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
1313 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
1314 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
1315 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
1316 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
1317 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
1318 function lambda list.
1319 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
1321 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
1322 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
1323 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
1324 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
1326 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
1327 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
1328 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
1329 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
1330 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
1331 they look for GNU "make".
1333 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
1334 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
1335 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
1336 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
1338 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
1339 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
1340 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
1341 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
1342 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
1343 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
1344 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
1345 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
1346 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
1347 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
1349 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
1350 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
1351 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
1352 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
1353 libraries, and will know who they are.
1354 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
1355 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
1356 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
1357 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
1358 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
1359 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
1360 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
1361 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
1363 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
1364 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
1365 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1366 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
1367 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
1368 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
1369 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
1370 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
1371 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
1372 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
1373 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1374 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
1376 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
1377 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
1378 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
1379 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
1380 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1381 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
1382 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
1383 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
1384 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
1386 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
1387 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
1388 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
1389 this you were probably losing anyway.
1390 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
1391 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
1392 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
1393 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
1394 with names from the CL package.
1395 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
1396 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
1397 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
1398 documentation string.
1399 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1400 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
1402 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
1403 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
1404 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
1405 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
1407 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
1408 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
1410 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
1411 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1412 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
1414 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
1415 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
1416 arguments contain duplicated elements.
1417 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
1418 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
1419 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
1420 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
1421 in question is unbound.
1422 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
1423 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
1424 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
1425 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
1426 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
1428 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
1430 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
1431 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
1432 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
1433 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
1434 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
1435 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
1436 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
1437 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
1438 by Antonio Martinez)
1439 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
1440 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1441 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
1442 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
1443 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
1444 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
1445 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
1446 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1447 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
1448 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
1449 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
1450 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
1451 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
1452 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
1453 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
1454 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
1455 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
1456 on malformed property lists;
1458 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
1459 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
1460 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
1461 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
1462 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
1463 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
1464 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
1465 modules in this release include:
1466 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
1467 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
1468 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
1469 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1470 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
1472 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
1473 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
1474 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1475 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1476 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
1477 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
1478 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
1479 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
1481 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
1482 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
1483 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
1484 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
1485 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
1486 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
1487 the lexical environment.
1488 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
1489 unprintable packages can now be defined.
1490 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
1491 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1492 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
1493 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1494 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
1495 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
1496 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
1497 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
1498 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
1499 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
1500 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
1501 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
1502 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1503 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
1504 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1505 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
1506 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
1507 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
1508 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1509 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
1510 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
1511 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
1512 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
1514 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
1515 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
1516 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1517 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1518 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
1519 not just nonnegative fixnums;
1520 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
1521 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
1522 freshly-consed result bit-array);
1523 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
1525 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
1526 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
1528 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
1529 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
1530 cases are accurately computed;
1531 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
1532 if it is in the last clause;
1533 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
1535 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
1536 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
1537 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
1538 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
1540 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
1541 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
1542 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
1543 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
1544 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
1546 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
1547 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
1548 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
1549 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
1551 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1552 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
1553 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
1554 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
1555 not cause a type error;
1556 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
1558 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
1559 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
1560 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
1561 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
1562 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
1563 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
1564 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
1565 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
1567 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
1568 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
1569 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
1570 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
1571 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
1572 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
1574 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
1575 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
1577 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
1578 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
1579 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
1580 only for symbols in the CL package.
1581 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
1582 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1583 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
1584 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
1585 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
1587 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1588 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
1589 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
1590 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
1591 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
1592 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
1593 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
1594 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
1595 conditional loop clause;
1596 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
1597 signals a type error iff it should.
1598 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1599 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
1600 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
1601 argument) no longer signals an error;
1602 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
1603 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
1604 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
1606 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
1607 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
1608 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
1610 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
1611 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
1612 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
1613 functionality on said platforms verified.
1614 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
1615 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
1617 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
1618 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
1619 component indicating that directory.
1620 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
1621 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
1622 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
1623 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
1624 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1625 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
1627 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
1628 primary methods with no specializers;
1629 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
1631 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
1632 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
1633 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
1634 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
1636 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
1637 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
1638 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
1640 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
1641 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
1642 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
1643 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
1644 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
1645 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
1646 class STANDARD-CLASS;
1647 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
1648 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1649 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
1650 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
1652 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
1653 value producing form;
1654 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
1655 variables are bound and made to have no value;
1656 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
1658 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
1659 is not a valid sequence index;
1660 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
1661 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
1662 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1663 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
1665 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
1666 symbol-macro places;
1667 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
1668 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
1670 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
1672 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
1674 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
1675 invariant when deleting code.
1676 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
1677 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
1679 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
1680 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1681 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
1683 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
1684 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
1686 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
1687 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
1688 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1689 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
1691 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
1692 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
1693 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
1694 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
1696 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
1697 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
1698 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
1699 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
1700 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
1701 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
1702 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
1703 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
1704 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
1705 sbcl and .core files.)
1706 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
1707 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
1708 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
1709 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
1710 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
1711 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
1712 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
1714 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
1715 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
1716 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
1717 argument precedence order.
1718 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
1719 derived types contradict their declared type.
1720 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
1721 so it can be non-toplevel.
1722 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
1723 implementation of DEFMACRO).
1724 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
1725 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
1726 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
1728 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
1729 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
1730 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
1731 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
1732 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
1733 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
1734 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
1735 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
1736 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
1737 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
1738 symbol macro only once
1739 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
1740 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
1741 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
1744 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
1745 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
1746 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
1747 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
1748 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
1749 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
1750 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
1751 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
1752 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
1753 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1754 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
1755 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
1757 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
1758 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
1759 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
1760 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
1761 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1762 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
1764 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
1766 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
1767 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
1768 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
1769 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
1770 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1771 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
1772 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
1773 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
1774 ways in different special cases
1775 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
1777 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
1778 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
1779 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
1780 are no longer optimized away.
1781 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
1782 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
1783 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
1784 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
1785 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
1786 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
1787 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
1788 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
1791 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
1792 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
1793 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
1794 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
1795 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
1796 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
1797 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
1799 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
1800 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
1801 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
1802 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
1803 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
1804 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
1805 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
1806 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
1807 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
1808 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
1809 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
1810 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
1811 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
1812 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
1813 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
1814 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
1815 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
1816 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1817 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
1818 that are names of constants or global variables.
1819 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
1820 alien routines with docstrings.
1821 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
1822 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
1824 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
1825 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
1826 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
1827 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1828 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
1829 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1830 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
1831 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
1832 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
1833 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1834 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
1835 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
1836 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
1837 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
1838 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
1839 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
1840 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
1841 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
1842 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
1843 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
1844 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
1845 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
1846 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
1848 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
1849 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
1851 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
1852 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
1853 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
1854 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
1855 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
1856 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
1857 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
1858 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
1859 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
1860 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
1862 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
1863 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
1864 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
1865 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
1866 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
1867 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
1868 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
1869 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
1870 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
1871 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
1872 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
1873 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
1874 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
1875 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
1876 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
1877 is no longer a static symbol.)
1879 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
1880 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
1881 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
1882 bootstrapping under CLISP.
1883 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
1885 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
1886 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
1888 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
1889 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
1890 to David Lichteblau)
1891 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
1892 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
1893 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
1895 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
1896 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1897 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
1898 count as they should.
1899 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
1900 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
1901 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
1902 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
1903 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
1904 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
1905 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
1906 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
1907 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
1908 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
1909 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
1910 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
1911 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
1912 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
1913 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
1915 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
1916 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
1917 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
1919 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
1921 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
1922 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
1923 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
1924 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
1925 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
1926 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
1927 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
1929 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
1930 to Christophe Rhodes)
1931 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
1932 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
1933 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
1934 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
1935 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
1936 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
1937 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
1939 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
1940 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
1941 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
1942 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
1943 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
1944 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
1945 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
1946 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
1947 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
1948 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
1949 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
1950 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
1951 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
1953 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
1954 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
1955 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
1956 INFO database to support symbol macros.
1957 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
1958 (thanks to coreythomas)
1959 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
1960 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
1961 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
1962 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
1963 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
1965 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
1966 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
1967 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
1968 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
1969 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
1970 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
1971 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
1972 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
1973 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
1974 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
1975 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
1976 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
1977 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
1979 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
1980 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
1983 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
1984 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
1985 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
1986 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
1987 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
1988 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
1989 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
1990 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
1991 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
1992 systems than the old 4M value was)
1993 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
1994 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
1995 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
1996 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
1997 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
1998 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
1999 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
2001 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
2002 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
2003 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
2004 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
2005 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
2007 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
2008 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
2009 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
2010 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
2011 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
2012 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
2013 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
2014 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
2016 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
2017 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2018 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
2019 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2020 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
2021 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
2022 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
2023 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
2025 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2026 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2027 * several changes related to debugging:
2028 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
2029 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
2030 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
2031 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
2032 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
2033 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
2034 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
2037 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
2039 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
2040 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
2041 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
2042 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
2043 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
2044 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
2045 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
2046 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
2048 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
2049 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
2050 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
2051 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2052 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
2053 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
2054 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
2055 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
2056 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
2057 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
2058 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
2059 file format number to change again.
2061 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
2062 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
2063 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
2064 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
2066 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
2067 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
2068 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
2069 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
2070 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
2071 FUNCALL on the result.
2072 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
2073 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
2074 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
2075 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
2076 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
2077 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
2078 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
2079 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
2081 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
2082 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
2083 the old compiler produced.
2084 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
2085 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
2086 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
2087 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
2088 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
2089 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
2090 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
2091 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
2092 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
2093 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
2094 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
2095 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
2096 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
2097 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
2098 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
2099 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
2100 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
2101 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
2102 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
2103 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
2104 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
2105 straightened out in some future version.)
2106 * minor incompatible changes:
2107 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
2108 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
2109 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
2110 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
2111 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
2112 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
2113 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
2114 implementation dependent:
2115 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
2116 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
2117 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
2118 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
2119 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
2120 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
2121 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
2122 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
2124 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
2126 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
2127 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
2128 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
2129 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
2130 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
2131 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
2132 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
2133 are no longer used for output.
2134 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
2135 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
2136 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
2137 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
2138 increasing it even more.)
2139 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
2140 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
2141 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
2143 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
2144 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
2145 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
2146 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
2147 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
2148 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
2149 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
2150 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
2151 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
2152 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
2153 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
2154 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
2155 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
2156 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
2157 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
2158 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
2159 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
2160 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
2161 compilation of code which calls such functions.
2162 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
2163 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
2164 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
2165 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
2166 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
2167 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
2168 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
2169 built into the system.
2170 * many other bug fixes
2171 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
2172 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
2173 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
2174 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
2175 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
2177 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
2178 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
2179 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
2180 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
2181 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
2182 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
2183 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
2184 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
2185 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
2186 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
2187 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
2189 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
2190 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
2191 and several other LOOP problems as well
2192 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
2193 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
2194 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
2195 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
2196 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
2197 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
2198 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
2199 *** a bug in APROPOS
2200 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
2201 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
2202 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
2203 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
2204 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
2205 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
2206 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
2207 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
2208 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
2209 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
2210 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
2211 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
2212 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
2213 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
2214 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
2216 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
2217 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
2218 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
2219 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
2220 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
2221 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
2222 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
2223 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
2224 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
2225 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
2226 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
2227 some of which are apparent above.
2229 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
2230 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
2231 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
2232 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
2233 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
2234 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
2235 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
2236 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
2237 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
2238 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
2239 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
2240 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
2241 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
2242 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
2243 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
2244 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
2245 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
2246 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
2247 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
2248 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
2249 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
2250 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
2251 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
2252 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
2253 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
2254 different return types.
2255 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
2256 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
2257 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
2258 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
2259 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
2260 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
2261 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
2262 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
2263 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
2264 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
2266 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
2267 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
2268 does the right thing.
2269 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
2270 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
2271 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2272 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
2273 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2274 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2275 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
2276 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
2277 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
2278 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
2279 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2280 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
2281 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2282 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
2283 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
2284 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
2285 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
2286 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
2287 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
2288 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
2289 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
2290 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
2291 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
2292 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
2293 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
2294 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
2295 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
2296 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
2297 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
2298 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
2299 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
2300 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
2301 since historically most system changes which required version
2302 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
2303 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
2306 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
2307 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
2308 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
2309 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
2310 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
2311 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
2312 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
2313 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
2314 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
2315 half a dozen others elsewhere
2316 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
2317 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
2318 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
2319 as flaky as they were.
2320 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
2321 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
2322 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
2323 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
2324 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
2325 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
2326 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
2327 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
2329 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
2330 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
2331 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
2332 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2333 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
2334 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
2335 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
2336 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
2337 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
2338 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
2339 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
2340 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
2341 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
2342 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
2343 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
2344 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
2345 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
2346 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
2347 more obscure bugs as well
2348 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
2349 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
2350 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
2351 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
2352 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
2353 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
2354 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
2355 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
2356 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
2357 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
2358 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
2360 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
2361 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
2363 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
2365 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2366 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
2367 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
2368 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
2369 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
2370 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
2371 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
2372 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
2373 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
2374 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
2375 are local in this sense.)
2376 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
2377 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
2378 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
2379 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
2380 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
2381 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
2382 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2383 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
2384 system's STREAM objects.
2385 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
2386 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2387 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
2388 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2389 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
2390 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
2391 environment from the original process instead of starting the
2392 new process in an empty environment.
2393 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
2394 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
2395 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
2396 for porting convenience.
2397 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
2398 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
2400 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
2402 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
2403 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
2404 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
2405 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
2406 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
2407 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
2408 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
2409 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
2410 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
2411 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
2412 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
2413 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2414 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
2415 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
2416 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
2417 many fewer weird special cases.
2418 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
2419 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
2420 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2421 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
2422 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
2423 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
2424 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
2425 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
2426 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
2427 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2428 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
2431 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
2433 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
2434 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
2435 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
2437 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
2438 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
2439 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
2440 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
2441 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
2442 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
2443 should be constructed the same way as before.
2444 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
2445 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
2446 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
2447 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
2448 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
2449 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
2450 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
2451 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
2452 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
2453 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
2454 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
2455 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
2456 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
2457 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
2458 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
2459 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
2460 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
2461 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
2462 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
2463 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
2464 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
2465 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
2467 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
2468 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
2469 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
2470 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
2471 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
2472 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
2473 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
2474 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
2476 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
2478 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
2479 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
2480 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
2481 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
2482 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
2484 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
2485 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
2486 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
2487 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
2488 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
2489 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
2490 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
2491 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
2492 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
2493 and Douglas Crosher.
2494 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
2495 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
2496 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
2498 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
2499 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
2500 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
2501 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
2502 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
2503 undefined function error.
2504 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
2505 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
2506 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
2507 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
2508 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
2509 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
2510 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
2511 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
2512 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
2513 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
2514 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
2515 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
2516 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
2518 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
2520 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
2521 CVS repository on my home machine).
2522 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
2523 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
2524 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
2525 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
2526 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
2527 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
2528 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
2529 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
2530 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
2531 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
2532 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
2533 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
2534 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
2535 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
2536 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
2537 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
2538 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
2539 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
2540 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
2541 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
2542 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
2543 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
2545 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
2546 FreeBSD have been added.
2547 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
2548 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
2549 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
2550 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
2551 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
2552 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
2554 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
2555 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
2556 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
2557 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
2558 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
2559 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
2560 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
2561 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
2563 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
2564 away by constant folding
2565 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
2566 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
2567 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
2568 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
2569 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
2570 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
2571 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
2572 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
2573 diff-related operations.
2574 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
2575 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
2577 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
2579 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
2580 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
2581 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
2582 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
2583 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
2584 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
2585 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
2586 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
2587 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
2588 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
2589 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
2590 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
2591 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
2592 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
2593 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
2594 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
2595 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
2596 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
2597 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
2598 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
2599 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
2600 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
2601 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
2602 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
2603 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
2604 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
2605 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
2606 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
2607 instead of (VALUES T T).
2608 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
2609 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
2610 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
2611 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
2612 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
2613 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
2614 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
2615 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
2616 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
2617 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
2618 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
2619 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
2620 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
2621 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
2622 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
2623 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
2624 type will be interpreted at runtime.
2625 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
2626 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
2627 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
2628 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
2629 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
2630 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
2631 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
2632 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
2633 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
2634 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
2635 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
2636 fasl files for cold load.
2637 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
2638 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
2639 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
2640 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
2641 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
2642 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
2643 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
2644 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
2645 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
2646 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
2647 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
2649 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
2650 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
2651 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
2652 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
2653 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
2654 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
2655 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
2656 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
2657 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
2658 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
2659 renamed some files to increase consistency.
2660 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
2661 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
2662 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
2663 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
2664 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
2665 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
2667 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
2669 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
2670 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
2671 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
2672 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
2673 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
2674 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
2675 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
2676 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
2677 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
2678 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
2679 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
2680 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
2681 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
2682 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
2683 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
2684 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
2685 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
2686 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
2688 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
2689 as required by ANSI.
2690 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
2691 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
2692 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
2693 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
2695 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
2696 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
2697 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
2698 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
2699 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
2700 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
2701 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
2702 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
2704 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
2705 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
2706 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
2707 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2709 is now basically equivalent to
2710 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
2711 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
2713 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
2714 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
2715 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
2716 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
2717 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
2718 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
2719 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
2720 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
2721 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
2722 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
2723 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
2724 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
2725 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
2726 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
2727 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
2728 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2729 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
2730 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
2731 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
2732 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
2733 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
2734 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
2735 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
2737 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
2739 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
2740 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
2741 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
2742 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
2743 GNUMAKE environment variable.
2744 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
2745 can build without error under CMU CL.
2747 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
2749 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
2750 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
2751 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
2752 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
2753 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
2754 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
2755 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
2756 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
2757 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
2758 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
2759 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
2760 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
2761 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
2762 being initialized before the type system knew the final
2763 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
2764 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
2765 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
2766 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
2767 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
2768 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
2769 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
2770 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
2771 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
2772 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
2774 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
2775 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
2776 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
2777 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
2778 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
2779 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
2780 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
2781 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
2782 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
2783 it were currently supported.
2784 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
2785 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
2786 having to maintain patches.
2787 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
2788 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
2790 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
2792 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
2793 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
2794 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
2795 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
2796 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
2797 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
2798 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
2799 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
2800 * various new style warnings:
2801 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
2802 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
2803 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
2804 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
2805 as specified by ANSI.
2806 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
2807 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
2808 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
2809 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
2810 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
2811 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
2812 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
2813 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
2814 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
2815 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
2816 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
2817 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
2818 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
2819 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
2820 argument types can be determined at compile time.
2821 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
2822 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
2823 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
2824 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
2825 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
2826 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
2827 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
2830 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
2832 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
2833 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
2834 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
2835 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
2836 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
2837 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
2838 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
2839 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
2840 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
2842 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
2843 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
2844 the report form was printed.)
2845 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
2846 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
2847 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
2848 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
2849 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
2850 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
2851 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
2852 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
2853 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
2854 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
2855 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
2856 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
2857 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
2858 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
2859 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
2860 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
2861 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
2862 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
2863 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
2864 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
2865 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
2866 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
2867 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
2868 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
2869 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
2870 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
2871 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
2872 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
2873 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
2874 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
2875 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
2876 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
2877 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
2878 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
2879 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
2880 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
2881 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
2882 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
2883 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
2884 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
2885 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
2886 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
2887 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
2888 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
2889 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
2890 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
2891 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
2892 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
2893 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
2894 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
2895 know more about target types.
2896 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
2897 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
2898 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
2899 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
2900 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
2901 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
2903 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
2904 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
2905 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
2906 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
2907 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
2908 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
2909 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
2910 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
2911 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
2912 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
2913 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
2914 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
2915 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
2917 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
2920 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
2922 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
2923 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
2924 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
2925 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
2926 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
2927 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
2928 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
2929 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
2930 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
2931 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
2932 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
2933 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
2934 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
2935 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
2936 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
2937 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
2938 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
2939 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
2940 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
2941 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
2942 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
2943 invisible at the user level.)
2944 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
2945 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
2946 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
2948 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
2950 * tidied up "make.sh" script
2951 * tidied up system directory structure
2952 * better "clean.sh" behavior
2953 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
2954 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
2955 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
2956 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
2957 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
2958 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
2959 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
2960 * command line argument processing
2961 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
2962 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
2963 terminating SBCL on EOF
2964 * non-verbose GC by default
2965 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
2966 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
2967 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
2969 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
2970 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
2971 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
2972 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
2973 transformed along with everything else.
2974 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
2975 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
2976 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
2977 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
2978 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
2979 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
2980 debugging and testing purposes
2981 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
2982 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
2983 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
2984 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
2985 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
2986 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
2987 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
2989 * regularized formatting of source files
2990 * added an install.sh script
2991 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
2992 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
2993 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
2994 builds nicely on my old laptop.
2995 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
2996 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
2997 was not implemented)
2998 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
2999 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
3000 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
3001 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
3002 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
3004 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
3005 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
3006 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
3007 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
3008 COMPILE-FILE command)
3009 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
3010 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
3011 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
3012 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
3013 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
3014 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
3015 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
3016 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
3017 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
3018 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
3019 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
3020 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
3021 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
3022 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
3023 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
3025 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
3026 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
3027 known to be able to handle the current sources
3028 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
3029 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
3030 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
3031 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
3032 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
3033 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
3034 * removed host-oops.lisp
3035 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
3036 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
3037 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
3038 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
3039 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
3040 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by