1 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
2 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
3 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
4 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
5 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
6 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
7 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
8 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
9 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
10 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
11 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
12 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
13 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
14 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
15 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
16 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
17 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
18 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
19 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
20 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
21 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
22 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
23 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
24 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
25 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
26 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
27 and dump core on SIGQUIT
29 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
30 from their parents (see manual)
31 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
32 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
33 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
34 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
35 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
36 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
38 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
39 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
40 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
41 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
43 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
44 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
45 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
47 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
48 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
49 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
50 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
51 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
52 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
53 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
54 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
55 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
56 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
57 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
58 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
59 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
60 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
62 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
63 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
64 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
66 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
67 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
69 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
70 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
71 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
72 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
73 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
74 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
75 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
76 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
77 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
79 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
80 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
81 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
82 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
83 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
84 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
86 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
88 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
89 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
90 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
91 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
92 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
93 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
94 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
95 classes; see the manual for more details;
96 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
97 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
98 requested slot ordering.
100 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
102 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
103 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
105 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
107 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
108 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
109 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
110 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
111 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
112 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
113 the :method-class keyword argument.
115 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
116 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
117 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
118 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
119 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
120 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
121 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
122 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
123 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
124 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
125 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
127 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
128 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
129 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
130 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
131 is switched on or off
132 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
133 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
134 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
136 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
137 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
138 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
139 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
140 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
141 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
142 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
143 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
144 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
146 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
147 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
148 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
149 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
150 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
151 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
152 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
154 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
155 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
156 not prevent gc from running
157 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
158 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
159 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
160 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
161 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
162 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
163 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
164 an inline 32-bit rotation.
166 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
167 there is only one thread in the session
168 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
169 written to in another
170 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
171 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
173 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
174 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
176 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
177 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
178 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
179 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
180 the orignal arguments.
181 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
183 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
184 name a compiled function.
185 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
186 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
187 derivation were fixed.
188 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
189 list-form FUNCTION type.
190 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
191 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
192 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
194 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
195 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
196 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
197 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
198 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
199 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
201 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
202 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
203 of a select system call
204 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
206 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
207 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
209 * various error reporting improvements.
210 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
211 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
212 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
213 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
214 code and foreign data with the same name.
216 ** added x86-64 support
217 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
218 objects instead of thread ids
219 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
220 starting up or going down
221 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
222 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
223 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
224 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
225 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
226 an inappropriate moment
227 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
228 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
229 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
230 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
231 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
232 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
233 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
235 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
236 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
237 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
238 range before calling Unix time functions
240 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
241 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
242 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
243 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
244 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
245 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
246 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
247 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
248 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
249 for more information.
250 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
251 pathname is a directory pathname.
252 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
253 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
255 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
256 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
257 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
258 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
259 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
260 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
262 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
263 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
264 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
265 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
266 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
267 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
268 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
269 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
270 the PowerPC platform.
271 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
272 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
274 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
275 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
276 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
277 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
278 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
279 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
281 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
282 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
283 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
284 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
285 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
286 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
287 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
289 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
290 as the name of a type, or vice versa
291 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
292 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
293 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
294 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
295 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
296 FLET or MACROLET forms
297 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
299 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
301 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
304 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
305 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
306 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
307 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
308 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
309 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
310 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
311 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
312 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
313 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
314 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
315 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
316 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
317 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
318 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
319 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
320 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
321 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
322 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
323 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
324 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
325 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
327 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
328 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
329 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
330 a file has the stream as its datum.
331 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
332 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
333 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
334 a correct expected type
335 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
336 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
337 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
338 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
339 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
340 on broadcast streams.
342 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
343 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
344 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
345 --disable-debugger option instead.
346 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
348 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
349 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
350 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
351 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
352 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
353 has been added to the manual.
354 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
355 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
356 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
357 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
358 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
359 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
360 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
361 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
362 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
363 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
365 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
366 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
367 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
368 (reported by Rajat Datta).
369 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
370 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
372 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
373 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
374 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
375 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
376 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
377 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
378 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
379 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
380 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
381 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
382 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
383 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
384 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
385 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
386 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
387 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
388 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
389 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
390 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
392 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
394 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
395 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
396 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
397 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
398 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
400 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
401 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
402 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
403 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
404 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
405 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
406 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
408 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
409 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
410 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
412 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
413 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
414 types for complex arguments better.
415 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
417 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
418 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
420 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
421 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
422 resulting in GC crashes.
423 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
425 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
428 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
429 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
430 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
431 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
432 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
433 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
434 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
435 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
436 returning to the top level.
437 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
438 global optimization policy.
439 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
440 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
441 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
443 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
444 various incompatible changes.
445 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
446 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
447 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
448 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
449 level local call to FOO".
450 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
451 now have more legible printed representation
452 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
453 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
454 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
455 explicitly requested.
456 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
457 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
458 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
459 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
460 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
462 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
463 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
464 (reported by Lutz Euler)
465 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
466 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
467 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
468 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
469 the specializer is now possible.
470 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
471 face of package deletion.
472 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
473 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
474 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
475 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
476 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
477 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
478 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
479 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
480 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
481 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
483 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
484 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
485 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
486 correctable errors to be signalled.
487 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
488 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
491 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
492 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
493 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
495 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
496 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
497 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
498 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
499 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
500 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
501 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
502 related to the ~@F format directive.
503 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
505 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
506 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
507 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
508 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
510 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
512 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
513 coerce function designators to functions.
514 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
515 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
516 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
517 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
518 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
519 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
520 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
521 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
522 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
523 start of the buffer at the next read.
524 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
525 passing it through to OPEN.
526 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
527 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
528 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
529 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
530 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
531 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
532 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
533 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
535 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
536 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
537 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
538 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
539 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
540 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
542 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
543 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
544 secondary constituent character trait.
545 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
547 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
549 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
551 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
552 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
553 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
555 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
556 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
558 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
559 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
560 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
561 and reloading shared object files.
562 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
563 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
565 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
566 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
567 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
569 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
570 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
572 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
574 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
575 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
576 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
577 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
578 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
579 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
580 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
582 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
583 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
585 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
586 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
587 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
588 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
589 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
591 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
592 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
593 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
594 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
595 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
596 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
597 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
598 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
599 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
600 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
601 lisp characters are not eight bits.
602 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
603 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
604 the correct number of arguments.
605 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
606 to displaced strings.
607 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
608 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
610 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
611 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
612 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
613 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
614 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
615 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
616 available at runtime.
617 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
618 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
619 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
620 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
621 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
622 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
623 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
624 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
625 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
626 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
627 of lambda-list keywords.
628 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
629 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
631 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
632 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
633 (reported by Paul Dietz)
634 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
635 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
636 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
637 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
639 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
640 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
641 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
642 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
643 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
645 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
646 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
647 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
648 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
649 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
650 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
651 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
653 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
654 parameters correctly.
655 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
656 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
657 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
659 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
662 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
663 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
664 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
665 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
667 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
668 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
669 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
670 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
671 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
672 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
673 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
674 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
675 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
677 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
678 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
680 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
682 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
683 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
684 (reported by Bruno Haible)
685 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
687 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
688 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
689 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
690 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
691 (reported by David Morse)
692 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
693 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
694 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
695 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
696 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
697 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
698 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
699 now exists, an signals an error.
700 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
701 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
702 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
703 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
704 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
705 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
706 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
707 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
708 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
709 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
710 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
711 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
713 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
714 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
715 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
716 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
717 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
718 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
719 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
720 specialized array element types.
721 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
722 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
723 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
724 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
725 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
726 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
727 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
728 Wragg for the simple test case)
729 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
730 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
732 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
733 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
734 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
735 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
736 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
738 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
740 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
741 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
742 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
743 references to global functions.
744 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
746 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
748 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
749 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
750 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
752 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
753 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
754 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
755 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
756 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
757 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
758 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
759 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
760 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
761 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
762 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
763 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
764 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
766 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
767 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
768 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
769 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
770 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
771 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
773 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
774 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
776 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
777 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
778 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
779 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
780 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
781 returns the right answer.
782 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
784 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
786 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
787 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
789 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
790 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
792 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
793 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
794 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
795 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
796 the supported interface.
797 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
798 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
799 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
800 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
801 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
802 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
803 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
804 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
805 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
806 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
807 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
808 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
809 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
810 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
811 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
812 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
813 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
814 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
815 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
816 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
817 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
818 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
819 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
820 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
821 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
822 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
823 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
824 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
825 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
827 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
828 * incompatible change: the internal functions
829 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
830 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
831 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
832 instead of the old functions.
833 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
834 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
836 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
837 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
839 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
840 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
841 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
842 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
844 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
845 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
846 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
847 (reported by Rick Taube)
848 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
849 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
850 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
851 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
853 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
854 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
855 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
856 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
857 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
858 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
859 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
860 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
861 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
862 represented relative to default pathnames.
863 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
864 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
865 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
867 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
868 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
869 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
871 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
872 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
873 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
874 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
876 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
878 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
879 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
880 conditional newlines.
881 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
882 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
883 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
885 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
886 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
888 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
889 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
890 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
891 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
892 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
893 compiled in unconditionally.
894 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
895 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
896 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
897 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
898 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
900 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
901 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
902 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
903 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
904 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
905 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
906 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
907 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
908 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
909 an implementation-internal package.
910 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
912 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
913 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
914 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
915 bodies are now more legible.
916 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
917 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
918 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
919 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
920 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
921 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
922 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
924 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
925 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
926 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
927 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
928 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
929 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
930 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
932 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
933 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
935 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
936 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
937 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
938 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
939 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
940 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
941 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
942 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
943 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
944 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
945 system even when most of them are idle
946 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
947 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
948 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
950 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
951 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
952 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
953 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
954 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
956 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
957 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
958 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
959 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
960 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
961 string for information on the protocol.
962 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
963 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
965 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
966 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
968 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
969 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
970 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
971 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
972 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
973 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
975 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
976 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
978 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
979 move between its address being taken and the call to
980 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
981 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
982 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
983 instances corresponding to C structs.
985 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
986 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
987 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
988 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
989 has implications for memory management of client code
990 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
991 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
992 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
993 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
994 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
995 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
996 quality should be considered deprecated.
997 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
998 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
999 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
1000 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
1001 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
1003 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
1004 designator as the defaults argument.
1005 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
1006 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
1007 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1008 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
1009 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
1011 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
1013 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
1014 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1015 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
1016 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
1017 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1018 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
1020 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
1021 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1022 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
1023 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
1024 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
1025 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
1026 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1027 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
1028 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
1029 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
1030 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
1031 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1032 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
1033 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
1034 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
1035 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
1036 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
1038 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
1039 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
1040 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
1042 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
1043 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1044 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
1045 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
1046 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
1047 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
1048 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1049 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
1050 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
1052 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
1053 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
1055 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
1056 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
1058 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
1059 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1060 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
1061 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
1063 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
1064 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
1065 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1066 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
1067 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
1068 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
1069 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
1070 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
1072 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
1073 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
1074 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
1076 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
1077 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
1079 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1080 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
1082 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
1083 from local to shared slots.
1084 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
1085 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
1086 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
1087 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
1089 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
1090 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
1091 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
1092 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
1093 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
1094 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
1095 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
1096 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
1097 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
1099 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
1101 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
1103 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
1104 print using #P"..." syntax.
1106 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
1107 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
1108 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
1109 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
1110 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
1111 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
1112 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
1113 * [placeholder for DX summary]
1114 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
1115 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
1116 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
1117 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
1118 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
1119 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
1120 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
1121 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
1122 the test case to Dave Roberts)
1123 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
1124 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
1125 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
1126 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
1127 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
1128 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
1129 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
1130 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1131 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
1132 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
1133 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
1134 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
1135 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1136 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
1137 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
1140 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
1141 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
1142 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
1143 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
1144 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
1145 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
1146 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
1147 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
1148 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
1149 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1150 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
1151 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
1152 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
1154 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
1155 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
1157 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
1158 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
1159 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1160 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
1161 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1162 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
1164 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
1165 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
1166 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
1168 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
1170 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
1172 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
1173 their output stream on EOF from read.
1174 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
1175 have been read to end-of-file.
1176 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
1178 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
1179 description of determination of which consecutive characters
1181 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
1182 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
1183 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1184 less than 10 works correctly.
1185 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
1186 more than 10 works correctly.
1187 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
1188 the readtable currently in effect.
1190 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
1191 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
1192 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
1193 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
1194 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
1195 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
1196 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
1197 should usually be replaced by
1198 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
1199 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
1200 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
1201 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
1202 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
1203 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
1204 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
1205 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
1207 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
1208 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
1209 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
1210 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
1211 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
1212 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1213 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
1214 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
1215 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
1216 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
1217 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
1218 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
1219 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
1221 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
1222 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
1223 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
1224 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1225 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
1226 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
1227 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
1228 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
1229 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
1230 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
1231 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
1232 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
1233 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
1234 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
1235 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1236 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
1237 non-local entry points.
1238 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
1240 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1241 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
1243 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
1244 host is already defined.
1245 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
1247 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
1248 or not a character is whitespace.
1249 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
1250 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
1251 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
1253 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
1254 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
1256 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
1258 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
1259 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
1260 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
1261 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
1262 designator argument does not designate a stream.
1263 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
1264 examining the synonym.
1265 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
1267 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
1268 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
1270 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
1271 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
1272 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
1273 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
1274 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
1275 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
1276 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
1277 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
1278 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
1279 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1280 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
1281 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
1283 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
1284 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
1285 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1286 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
1287 stream position information.
1288 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
1289 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
1290 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
1291 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
1292 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1293 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
1295 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
1296 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
1298 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
1299 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1300 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
1301 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
1302 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
1303 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
1304 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
1306 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
1308 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
1309 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
1310 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
1311 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
1312 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
1313 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
1314 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
1315 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
1316 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
1317 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
1318 the "SYS" logical host.
1319 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
1320 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
1321 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
1322 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1323 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
1324 now each have their own history, command character, and other
1325 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1326 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1327 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
1329 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
1330 shift greater than 32.
1331 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
1332 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
1333 in some circumstances.
1335 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
1336 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
1337 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
1338 environments like SLIME.
1339 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
1340 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
1341 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
1342 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
1343 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
1344 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
1345 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
1346 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
1347 argument types for all arguments.
1348 * various threading fixes
1349 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
1350 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
1351 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
1352 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
1354 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
1355 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
1356 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
1357 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
1358 arguments to a full call.
1359 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
1360 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
1361 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
1362 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
1364 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
1365 inserts a space where necessary.
1366 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
1367 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
1368 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
1369 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
1370 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
1371 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
1372 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
1373 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
1374 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
1375 counter now raises a meaningful error.
1376 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
1377 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
1379 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
1380 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
1381 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
1383 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
1385 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1386 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
1387 argument and negative second.
1388 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
1389 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
1390 interval, containing 0.
1391 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
1393 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
1394 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
1396 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
1397 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
1398 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
1399 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
1400 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
1401 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
1402 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
1403 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
1404 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
1405 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
1406 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
1407 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
1408 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
1409 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
1410 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
1411 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
1412 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
1413 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
1414 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
1415 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
1416 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
1417 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1418 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
1419 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
1420 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
1421 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
1422 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
1423 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
1424 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
1426 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
1427 platform now returns the right answer.
1428 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
1429 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
1430 precomputation is now tunable.
1431 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
1432 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
1433 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
1434 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
1435 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
1436 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
1437 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
1438 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
1439 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
1440 has been added for the alpha.
1441 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
1442 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
1443 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
1444 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
1445 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
1446 MEMBER-types to numeric.
1447 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
1449 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
1450 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
1451 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
1453 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
1454 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1455 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
1456 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
1457 might be pseudo-atomic.
1458 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
1459 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
1461 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
1463 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
1465 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
1466 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
1467 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
1468 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
1469 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
1470 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
1472 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1473 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
1474 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
1475 small float arguments.
1476 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
1478 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
1479 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
1480 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
1481 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
1482 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
1483 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
1485 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
1487 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
1488 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
1489 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
1490 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
1491 with negative last argument.
1492 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
1493 an error during type derivation.
1494 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
1496 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
1497 generates a 32-bit binary.
1498 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1499 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
1500 data structures referred to above).
1502 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
1503 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
1504 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
1505 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
1506 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
1507 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
1508 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
1509 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
1510 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
1511 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1512 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
1513 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
1515 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
1516 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
1518 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
1519 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
1520 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
1521 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
1522 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
1523 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
1524 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
1525 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
1526 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
1527 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
1528 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
1529 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1530 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
1531 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
1532 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
1533 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
1534 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
1535 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1536 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
1537 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
1538 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
1539 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
1540 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1541 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
1542 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
1543 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
1544 optimization quality.
1545 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
1546 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
1547 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
1548 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
1549 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
1550 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1551 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
1552 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
1553 types form a lattice under type intersection.
1554 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
1555 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
1556 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
1557 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
1558 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
1559 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
1560 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
1561 calling the generic function.
1562 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
1563 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
1564 obscure ANSI requirements
1566 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
1567 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
1568 garbage, confusing the compiler.
1569 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
1570 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
1571 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
1572 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
1573 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
1574 circumstances could go off-by-one.
1575 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
1577 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
1578 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
1579 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
1580 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
1581 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
1582 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
1583 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
1584 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
1585 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
1586 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1587 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
1588 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
1589 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
1590 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
1591 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1592 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
1593 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
1594 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
1595 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
1596 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
1598 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
1599 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
1600 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
1601 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
1603 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
1604 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
1605 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
1606 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
1607 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
1608 provide helpful disassembly notes.
1609 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
1610 the class in more cases than previously.
1611 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
1612 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1613 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
1614 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1615 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
1616 without lambda list.
1617 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
1618 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
1619 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1620 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
1621 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
1622 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
1624 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
1625 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
1626 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
1628 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
1629 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
1630 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
1631 were silently accepted).
1632 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
1633 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
1634 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
1635 to warn on static type mismatches and function
1636 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
1637 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
1638 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
1639 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
1640 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
1641 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
1642 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
1643 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
1644 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
1645 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
1647 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
1648 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
1649 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
1650 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
1651 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
1652 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
1654 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
1655 keywords or constants is permissible.
1656 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
1657 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
1658 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1659 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
1660 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
1661 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
1662 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
1663 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
1665 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
1666 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
1667 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
1668 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
1669 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1670 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
1671 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
1673 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
1675 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
1676 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
1677 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
1678 respectively change and preserve the value.
1679 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
1680 is now better at handling symbol macros.
1681 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
1682 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
1683 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
1684 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
1685 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
1686 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
1687 their use properly signals an error now.
1688 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
1689 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
1690 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
1691 * fixed simple vector readable printing
1692 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
1693 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
1694 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
1695 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
1696 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
1697 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
1698 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
1699 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
1700 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1701 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
1702 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
1703 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1704 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
1705 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
1706 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
1707 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
1708 causes a type error.
1709 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
1710 association between the name and a class.
1711 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
1712 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
1713 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1714 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
1715 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
1716 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
1718 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
1719 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
1720 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
1721 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
1723 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
1724 which its argument is a member.
1725 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
1726 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
1727 otherwise, it creates a new class.
1728 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
1729 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
1730 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
1731 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
1732 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1733 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
1735 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
1736 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
1737 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
1738 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
1739 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
1740 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
1741 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
1743 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
1744 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
1745 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
1746 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
1747 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
1748 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
1749 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
1750 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
1751 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
1752 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
1753 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
1754 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
1755 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1756 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
1758 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
1759 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
1760 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
1761 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
1762 superclasses are applied.
1763 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
1764 no method was removed.
1765 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
1766 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
1767 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
1768 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
1770 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
1772 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
1773 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
1774 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
1775 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
1776 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
1777 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
1778 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
1779 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
1780 function lambda list.
1781 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
1783 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
1784 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
1785 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
1786 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
1788 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
1789 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
1790 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
1791 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
1792 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
1793 they look for GNU "make".
1795 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
1796 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
1797 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
1798 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
1800 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
1801 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
1802 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
1803 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
1804 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
1805 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
1806 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
1807 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
1808 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
1809 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
1811 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
1812 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
1813 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
1814 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
1815 libraries, and will know who they are.
1816 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
1817 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
1818 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
1819 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
1820 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
1821 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
1822 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
1823 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
1825 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
1826 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
1827 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
1828 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
1829 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
1830 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
1831 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
1832 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
1833 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
1834 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
1835 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1836 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
1838 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
1839 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
1840 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
1841 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
1842 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1843 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
1844 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
1845 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
1846 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
1848 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
1849 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
1850 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
1851 this you were probably losing anyway.
1852 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
1853 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
1854 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
1855 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
1856 with names from the CL package.
1857 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
1858 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
1859 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
1860 documentation string.
1861 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1862 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
1864 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
1865 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
1866 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
1867 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
1869 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
1870 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
1872 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
1873 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1874 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
1876 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
1877 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
1878 arguments contain duplicated elements.
1879 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
1880 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
1881 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
1882 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
1883 in question is unbound.
1884 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
1885 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
1886 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
1887 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
1888 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
1890 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
1892 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
1893 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
1894 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
1895 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
1896 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
1897 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
1898 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
1899 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
1900 by Antonio Martinez)
1901 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
1902 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
1903 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
1904 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
1905 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
1906 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
1907 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
1908 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1909 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
1910 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
1911 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
1912 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
1913 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
1914 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
1915 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
1916 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
1917 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
1918 on malformed property lists;
1920 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
1921 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
1922 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
1923 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
1924 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
1925 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
1926 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
1927 modules in this release include:
1928 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
1929 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
1930 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
1931 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
1932 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
1934 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
1935 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
1936 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
1937 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
1938 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
1939 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
1940 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
1941 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
1943 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
1944 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
1945 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
1946 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
1947 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
1948 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
1949 the lexical environment.
1950 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
1951 unprintable packages can now be defined.
1952 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
1953 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1954 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
1955 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
1956 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
1957 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
1958 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
1959 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
1960 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
1961 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
1962 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
1963 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
1964 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
1965 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
1966 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1967 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
1968 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
1969 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
1970 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
1971 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
1972 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
1973 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
1974 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
1976 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
1977 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
1978 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1979 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1980 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
1981 not just nonnegative fixnums;
1982 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
1983 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
1984 freshly-consed result bit-array);
1985 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
1987 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
1988 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
1990 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
1991 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
1992 cases are accurately computed;
1993 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
1994 if it is in the last clause;
1995 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
1997 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
1998 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
1999 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
2000 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
2002 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
2003 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
2004 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
2005 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
2006 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
2008 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
2009 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
2010 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
2011 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
2013 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2014 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
2015 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
2016 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
2017 not cause a type error;
2018 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
2020 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
2021 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
2022 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
2023 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
2024 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
2025 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
2026 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
2027 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
2029 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
2030 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
2031 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
2032 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
2033 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
2034 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
2036 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
2037 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
2039 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
2040 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
2041 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
2042 only for symbols in the CL package.
2043 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
2044 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2045 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
2046 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
2047 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
2049 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2050 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
2051 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
2052 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
2053 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
2054 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
2055 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
2056 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
2057 conditional loop clause;
2058 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
2059 signals a type error iff it should.
2060 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2061 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
2062 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
2063 argument) no longer signals an error;
2064 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
2065 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
2066 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
2068 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
2069 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
2070 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
2072 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
2073 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
2074 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
2075 functionality on said platforms verified.
2076 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
2077 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
2079 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
2080 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
2081 component indicating that directory.
2082 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
2083 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
2084 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
2085 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
2086 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2087 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
2089 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
2090 primary methods with no specializers;
2091 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
2093 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
2094 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
2095 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
2096 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
2098 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
2099 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
2100 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
2102 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
2103 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
2104 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
2105 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
2106 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
2107 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
2108 class STANDARD-CLASS;
2109 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
2110 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2111 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
2112 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
2114 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
2115 value producing form;
2116 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
2117 variables are bound and made to have no value;
2118 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
2120 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
2121 is not a valid sequence index;
2122 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
2123 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
2124 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2125 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
2127 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
2128 symbol-macro places;
2129 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
2130 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
2132 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
2134 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
2136 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
2137 invariant when deleting code.
2138 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
2139 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
2141 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
2142 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2143 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
2145 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
2146 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
2148 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
2149 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
2150 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2151 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
2153 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
2154 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
2155 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
2156 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
2158 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
2159 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
2160 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
2161 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
2162 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
2163 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
2164 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
2165 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
2166 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
2167 sbcl and .core files.)
2168 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
2169 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
2170 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
2171 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
2172 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
2173 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
2174 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
2176 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
2177 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
2178 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
2179 argument precedence order.
2180 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
2181 derived types contradict their declared type.
2182 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
2183 so it can be non-toplevel.
2184 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
2185 implementation of DEFMACRO).
2186 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
2187 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
2188 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
2190 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
2191 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
2192 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
2193 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
2194 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
2195 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
2196 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
2197 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
2198 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
2199 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
2200 symbol macro only once
2201 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
2202 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
2203 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
2206 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
2207 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
2208 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
2209 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
2210 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
2211 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
2212 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
2213 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
2214 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
2215 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2216 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
2217 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
2219 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
2220 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
2221 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
2222 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
2223 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2224 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
2226 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
2228 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
2229 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
2230 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
2231 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
2232 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2233 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
2234 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
2235 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
2236 ways in different special cases
2237 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
2239 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
2240 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
2241 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
2242 are no longer optimized away.
2243 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
2244 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
2245 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
2246 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
2247 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
2248 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
2249 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
2250 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
2253 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
2254 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
2255 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
2256 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
2257 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
2258 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
2259 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
2261 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
2262 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
2263 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
2264 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
2265 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
2266 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
2267 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
2268 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
2269 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
2270 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
2271 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
2272 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
2273 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
2274 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
2275 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
2276 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
2277 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
2278 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2279 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
2280 that are names of constants or global variables.
2281 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
2282 alien routines with docstrings.
2283 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
2284 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
2286 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
2287 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
2288 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
2289 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2290 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
2291 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2292 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
2293 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
2294 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
2295 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2296 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
2297 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
2298 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
2299 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
2300 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
2301 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
2302 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
2303 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
2304 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
2305 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
2306 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
2307 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
2308 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
2310 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
2311 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
2313 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
2314 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
2315 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
2316 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
2317 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
2318 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
2319 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
2320 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
2321 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
2322 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
2324 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
2325 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
2326 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
2327 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
2328 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
2329 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
2330 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
2331 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
2332 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
2333 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
2334 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
2335 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
2336 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
2337 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
2338 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
2339 is no longer a static symbol.)
2341 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
2342 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
2343 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
2344 bootstrapping under CLISP.
2345 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
2347 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
2348 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
2350 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
2351 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
2352 to David Lichteblau)
2353 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
2354 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
2355 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
2357 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
2358 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2359 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
2360 count as they should.
2361 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
2362 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
2363 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
2364 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
2365 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
2366 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
2367 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
2368 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
2369 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
2370 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
2371 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
2372 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
2373 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
2374 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
2375 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
2377 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
2378 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
2379 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
2381 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
2383 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
2384 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
2385 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
2386 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
2387 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
2388 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
2389 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
2391 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
2392 to Christophe Rhodes)
2393 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
2394 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
2395 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
2396 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
2397 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
2398 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
2399 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
2401 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
2402 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
2403 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
2404 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
2405 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
2406 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2407 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
2408 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
2409 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
2410 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
2411 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
2412 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
2413 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
2415 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
2416 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
2417 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
2418 INFO database to support symbol macros.
2419 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
2420 (thanks to coreythomas)
2421 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
2422 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
2423 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
2424 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
2425 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
2427 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
2428 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
2429 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
2430 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
2431 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
2432 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
2433 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
2434 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
2435 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
2436 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2437 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
2438 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
2439 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
2441 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
2442 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
2445 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
2446 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
2447 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
2448 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
2449 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
2450 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
2451 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
2452 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
2453 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
2454 systems than the old 4M value was)
2455 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
2456 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
2457 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
2458 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
2459 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
2460 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
2461 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
2463 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
2464 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
2465 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
2466 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
2467 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
2469 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
2470 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
2471 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
2472 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
2473 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
2474 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
2475 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
2476 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
2478 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
2479 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2480 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
2481 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2482 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
2483 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
2484 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
2485 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
2487 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
2488 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
2489 * several changes related to debugging:
2490 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
2491 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
2492 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
2493 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
2494 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
2495 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
2496 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
2499 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
2501 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
2502 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
2503 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
2504 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
2505 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
2506 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
2507 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
2508 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
2510 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
2511 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
2512 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
2513 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
2514 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
2515 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
2516 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
2517 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
2518 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
2519 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
2520 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
2521 file format number to change again.
2523 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
2524 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
2525 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
2526 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
2528 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
2529 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
2530 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
2531 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
2532 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
2533 FUNCALL on the result.
2534 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
2535 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
2536 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
2537 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
2538 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
2539 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
2540 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
2541 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
2543 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
2544 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
2545 the old compiler produced.
2546 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
2547 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
2548 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
2549 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
2550 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
2551 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
2552 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
2553 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
2554 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
2555 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
2556 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
2557 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
2558 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
2559 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
2560 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
2561 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
2562 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
2563 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
2564 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
2565 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
2566 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
2567 straightened out in some future version.)
2568 * minor incompatible changes:
2569 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
2570 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
2571 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
2572 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
2573 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
2574 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
2575 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
2576 implementation dependent:
2577 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
2578 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
2579 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
2580 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
2581 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
2582 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
2583 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
2584 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
2586 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
2588 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
2589 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
2590 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
2591 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
2592 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
2593 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
2594 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
2595 are no longer used for output.
2596 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
2597 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
2598 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
2599 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
2600 increasing it even more.)
2601 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
2602 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
2603 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
2605 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
2606 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
2607 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
2608 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
2609 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
2610 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
2611 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
2612 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
2613 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
2614 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
2615 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
2616 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
2617 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
2618 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
2619 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
2620 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
2621 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
2622 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
2623 compilation of code which calls such functions.
2624 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
2625 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
2626 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
2627 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
2628 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
2629 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
2630 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
2631 built into the system.
2632 * many other bug fixes
2633 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
2634 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
2635 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
2636 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
2637 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
2639 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
2640 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
2641 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
2642 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
2643 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
2644 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
2645 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
2646 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
2647 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
2648 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
2649 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
2651 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
2652 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
2653 and several other LOOP problems as well
2654 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
2655 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
2656 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
2657 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
2658 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
2659 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
2660 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
2661 *** a bug in APROPOS
2662 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
2663 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
2664 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
2665 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
2666 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
2667 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
2668 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
2669 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
2670 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
2671 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
2672 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
2673 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
2674 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
2675 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
2676 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
2678 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
2679 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
2680 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
2681 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
2682 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
2683 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
2684 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
2685 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
2686 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
2687 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
2688 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
2689 some of which are apparent above.
2691 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
2692 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
2693 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
2694 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
2695 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
2696 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
2697 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
2698 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
2699 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
2700 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
2701 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
2702 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
2703 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
2704 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
2705 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
2706 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
2707 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
2708 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
2709 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
2710 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
2711 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
2712 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
2713 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
2714 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
2715 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
2716 different return types.
2717 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
2718 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
2719 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
2720 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
2721 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
2722 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
2723 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
2724 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
2725 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
2726 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
2728 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
2729 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
2730 does the right thing.
2731 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
2732 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
2733 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2734 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
2735 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2736 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
2737 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
2738 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
2739 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
2740 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
2741 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2742 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
2743 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
2744 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
2745 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
2746 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
2747 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
2748 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
2749 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
2750 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
2751 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
2752 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
2753 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
2754 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
2755 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
2756 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
2757 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
2758 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
2759 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
2760 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
2761 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
2762 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
2763 since historically most system changes which required version
2764 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
2765 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
2768 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
2769 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
2770 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
2771 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
2772 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
2773 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
2774 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
2775 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
2776 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
2777 half a dozen others elsewhere
2778 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
2779 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
2780 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
2781 as flaky as they were.
2782 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
2783 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
2784 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
2785 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
2786 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
2787 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
2788 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
2789 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
2791 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
2792 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
2793 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
2794 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2795 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
2796 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
2797 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
2798 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
2799 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
2800 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
2801 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
2802 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
2803 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
2804 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
2805 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
2806 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
2807 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
2808 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
2809 more obscure bugs as well
2810 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
2811 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
2812 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
2813 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
2814 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
2815 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
2816 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
2817 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
2818 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
2819 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
2820 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
2822 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
2823 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
2825 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
2827 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
2828 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
2829 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
2830 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
2831 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
2832 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
2833 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
2834 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
2835 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
2836 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
2837 are local in this sense.)
2838 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
2839 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
2840 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
2841 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
2842 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
2843 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
2844 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2845 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
2846 system's STREAM objects.
2847 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
2848 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2849 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
2850 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2851 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
2852 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
2853 environment from the original process instead of starting the
2854 new process in an empty environment.
2855 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
2856 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
2857 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
2858 for porting convenience.
2859 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
2860 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
2862 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
2864 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
2865 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
2866 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
2867 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
2868 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
2869 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
2870 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
2871 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
2872 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
2873 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
2874 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
2875 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
2876 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
2877 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
2878 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
2879 many fewer weird special cases.
2880 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
2881 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
2882 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
2883 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
2884 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
2885 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
2886 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
2887 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
2888 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
2889 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
2890 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
2893 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
2895 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
2896 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
2897 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
2899 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
2900 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
2901 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
2902 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
2903 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
2904 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
2905 should be constructed the same way as before.
2906 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
2907 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
2908 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
2909 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
2910 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
2911 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
2912 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
2913 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
2914 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
2915 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
2916 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
2917 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
2918 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
2919 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
2920 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
2921 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
2922 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
2923 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
2924 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
2925 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
2926 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
2927 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
2929 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
2930 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
2931 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
2932 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
2933 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
2934 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
2935 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
2936 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
2938 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
2940 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
2941 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
2942 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
2943 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
2944 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
2946 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
2947 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
2948 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
2949 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
2950 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
2951 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
2952 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
2953 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
2954 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
2955 and Douglas Crosher.
2956 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
2957 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
2958 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
2960 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
2961 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
2962 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
2963 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
2964 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
2965 undefined function error.
2966 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
2967 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
2968 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
2969 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
2970 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
2971 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
2972 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
2973 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
2974 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
2975 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
2976 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
2977 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
2978 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
2980 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
2982 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
2983 CVS repository on my home machine).
2984 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
2985 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
2986 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
2987 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
2988 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
2989 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
2990 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
2991 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
2992 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
2993 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
2994 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
2995 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
2996 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
2997 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
2998 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
2999 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
3000 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
3001 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
3002 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
3003 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
3004 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
3005 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
3007 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
3008 FreeBSD have been added.
3009 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
3010 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
3011 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
3012 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
3013 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
3014 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
3016 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
3017 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
3018 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
3019 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
3020 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
3021 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
3022 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
3023 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
3025 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
3026 away by constant folding
3027 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
3028 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
3029 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
3030 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
3031 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
3032 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
3033 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
3034 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
3035 diff-related operations.
3036 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
3037 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
3039 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
3041 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
3042 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
3043 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
3044 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
3045 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
3046 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
3047 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
3048 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
3049 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
3050 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
3051 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
3052 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
3053 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
3054 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
3055 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
3056 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
3057 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
3058 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
3059 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
3060 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
3061 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
3062 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
3063 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
3064 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
3065 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
3066 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
3067 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
3068 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
3069 instead of (VALUES T T).
3070 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
3071 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
3072 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
3073 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
3074 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
3075 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
3076 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
3077 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
3078 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
3079 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
3080 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
3081 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
3082 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
3083 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
3084 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
3085 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
3086 type will be interpreted at runtime.
3087 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
3088 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
3089 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
3090 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
3091 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
3092 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
3093 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
3094 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
3095 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
3096 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
3097 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
3098 fasl files for cold load.
3099 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
3100 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
3101 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
3102 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
3103 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
3104 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
3105 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
3106 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
3107 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
3108 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
3109 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
3111 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
3112 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
3113 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
3114 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
3115 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
3116 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
3117 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
3118 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
3119 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
3120 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
3121 renamed some files to increase consistency.
3122 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
3123 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
3124 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
3125 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
3126 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
3127 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
3129 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
3131 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
3132 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
3133 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
3134 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
3135 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
3136 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
3137 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
3138 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
3139 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
3140 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
3141 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
3142 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
3143 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
3144 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
3145 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
3146 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
3147 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
3148 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
3150 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
3151 as required by ANSI.
3152 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
3153 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
3154 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
3155 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
3157 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
3158 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
3159 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
3160 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
3161 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
3162 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
3163 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
3164 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
3166 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
3167 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
3168 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
3169 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3171 is now basically equivalent to
3172 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
3173 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
3175 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
3176 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
3177 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
3178 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
3179 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
3180 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
3181 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
3182 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
3183 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
3184 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
3185 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
3186 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
3187 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
3188 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
3189 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
3190 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3191 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
3192 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
3193 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
3194 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
3195 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
3196 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
3197 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
3199 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
3201 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
3202 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
3203 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
3204 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
3205 GNUMAKE environment variable.
3206 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
3207 can build without error under CMU CL.
3209 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
3211 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
3212 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
3213 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
3214 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
3215 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
3216 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
3217 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
3218 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
3219 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
3220 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
3221 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
3222 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
3223 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
3224 being initialized before the type system knew the final
3225 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
3226 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
3227 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
3228 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
3229 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
3230 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
3231 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
3232 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
3233 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
3234 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
3236 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
3237 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
3238 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
3239 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
3240 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
3241 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
3242 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
3243 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
3244 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
3245 it were currently supported.
3246 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
3247 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
3248 having to maintain patches.
3249 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
3250 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
3252 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
3254 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
3255 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
3256 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
3257 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
3258 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
3259 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
3260 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
3261 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
3262 * various new style warnings:
3263 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
3264 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
3265 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
3266 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
3267 as specified by ANSI.
3268 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
3269 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
3270 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
3271 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
3272 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
3273 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
3274 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
3275 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
3276 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
3277 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
3278 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
3279 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
3280 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
3281 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
3282 argument types can be determined at compile time.
3283 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
3284 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
3285 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
3286 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
3287 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
3288 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
3289 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
3292 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
3294 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
3295 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
3296 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
3297 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
3298 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
3299 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
3300 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
3301 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
3302 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
3304 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
3305 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
3306 the report form was printed.)
3307 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
3308 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
3309 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
3310 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
3311 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
3312 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
3313 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
3314 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
3315 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
3316 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
3317 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
3318 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
3319 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
3320 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
3321 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
3322 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
3323 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
3324 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
3325 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
3326 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
3327 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
3328 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
3329 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
3330 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
3331 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
3332 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
3333 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
3334 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
3335 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
3336 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
3337 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
3338 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
3339 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
3340 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
3341 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
3342 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
3343 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
3344 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
3345 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
3346 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
3347 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
3348 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
3349 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
3350 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
3351 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
3352 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
3353 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
3354 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
3355 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
3356 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
3357 know more about target types.
3358 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
3359 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
3360 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
3361 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
3362 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
3363 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
3365 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
3366 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
3367 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
3368 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
3369 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
3370 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
3371 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
3372 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
3373 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
3374 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
3375 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
3376 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
3377 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
3379 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
3382 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
3384 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
3385 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
3386 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
3387 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
3388 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
3389 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
3390 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
3391 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
3392 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
3393 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
3394 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
3395 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
3396 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
3397 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
3398 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
3399 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
3400 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
3401 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
3402 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
3403 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
3404 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
3405 invisible at the user level.)
3406 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
3407 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
3408 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
3410 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
3412 * tidied up "make.sh" script
3413 * tidied up system directory structure
3414 * better "clean.sh" behavior
3415 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
3416 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
3417 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
3418 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
3419 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
3420 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
3421 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
3422 * command line argument processing
3423 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
3424 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
3425 terminating SBCL on EOF
3426 * non-verbose GC by default
3427 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
3428 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
3429 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
3431 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
3432 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
3433 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
3434 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
3435 transformed along with everything else.
3436 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
3437 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
3438 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
3439 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
3440 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
3441 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
3442 debugging and testing purposes
3443 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
3444 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
3445 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
3446 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
3447 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
3448 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
3449 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
3451 * regularized formatting of source files
3452 * added an install.sh script
3453 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
3454 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
3455 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
3456 builds nicely on my old laptop.
3457 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
3458 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
3459 was not implemented)
3460 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
3461 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
3462 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
3463 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
3464 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
3466 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
3467 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
3468 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
3469 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
3470 COMPILE-FILE command)
3471 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
3472 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
3473 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
3474 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
3475 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
3476 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
3477 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
3478 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
3479 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
3480 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
3481 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
3482 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
3483 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
3484 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
3485 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
3487 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
3488 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
3489 known to be able to handle the current sources
3490 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
3491 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
3492 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
3493 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
3494 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
3495 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
3496 * removed host-oops.lisp
3497 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
3498 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
3499 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
3500 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
3501 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
3502 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by