1 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
2 changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
3 * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
4 automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
5 from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
6 hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
7 locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
8 still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
9 guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
10 * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
11 x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
13 * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
14 platforms providing stack allocation support.
15 * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
16 cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
18 * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
19 as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
21 changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
22 * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
23 associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
24 * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
25 on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
26 * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
27 FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
28 * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
29 requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
30 scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
31 * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
32 method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
33 a specializer parameter for the method.
34 * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
35 names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
36 STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
37 as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
38 * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
40 * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
41 inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
43 * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
44 now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
45 (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
46 * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
47 was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
48 the CAS operation was being performed.
49 * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
50 semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
51 * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
52 x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
55 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
56 * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
57 * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
58 indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
60 * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
61 and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
62 instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
63 * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
64 STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
65 (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
66 * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
67 the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
68 it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
69 which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
70 * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
71 by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
72 * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
73 the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith)
74 * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed
76 * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified
77 after the write could end up with the modified state written to
78 the underlying file descriptor.
79 * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
80 could cause buffer-overflows.
81 * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
82 (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
83 Slime debugger higlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
85 * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
87 * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
88 on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
89 * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
90 slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
91 word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
92 * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
95 changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
96 * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
97 atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
98 * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
99 allows assining a global minimum value to optimization qualities
100 (overriding proclamations and declarations).
101 * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
103 * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
105 * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
106 eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
107 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
108 * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
109 combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
110 and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
112 * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
113 generic functions now signals a sensible error.
114 * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
115 (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
116 * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
117 lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
118 objects that can be seen by the GC.
119 * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
120 variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux)
121 * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
123 * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
124 as the property-list of a symbol.
125 * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
126 in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL
127 situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported
130 changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
131 * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
132 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced. The experimental interface
133 function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
134 the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
135 which creates a list of specializers when evaluated. Additional
136 functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
137 debugging and introspective support.
138 * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
139 has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
140 has the owning thread as its value.
141 * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
142 WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
144 * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
146 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)
147 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
148 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
149 for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
150 * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
151 (depending on the bignum size.)
152 * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
154 * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
155 methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
157 * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
158 and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
160 * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
161 * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
162 * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or
163 SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
164 * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
167 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
168 * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
170 * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
171 significantly faster.
172 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
173 produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
174 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
175 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
176 * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
177 provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
178 * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
179 conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
180 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
181 * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
182 MIPS platforms. (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
184 * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
186 * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
187 SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
188 * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the
189 dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
190 that use the generational garbage collector
191 * bug fix: GETHASH, (SETF GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH are now
193 * bug fix: GC race condition occasionally resulting in crashes with
194 the error message "SIG_STOP_FOR_GC blocked at a bad place" has been
196 * bug fix: &ENVIRONMENT variables in macro lambda lists can now be
198 * bug fix: DEFSETF lambda lists without &ENVIRONMENT no longer cause
199 a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
200 * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
201 system running with GC inhibited.
202 * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
203 rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
204 * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
205 result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
206 (reported by Peter Graves)
208 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
209 * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,
210 host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS
212 * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface
213 * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods
214 in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter)
215 * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been
216 documented as unsafe.
217 * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe
218 in multithreaded application code.
219 * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX
220 platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint)
221 * optimization: REPLACE, SUBSEQ, and COPY-SEQ are now optimized in
223 * optimization: STRING-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATER-P} and their NOT-
224 variants no longer cons.
225 * optimization: Direct calls to CHAR-{EQUAL,LESSP,GREATERP} and
226 their NOT- variants no longer cons.
227 * optimization: EQUAL hash tables no longer use SXHASH for objects
228 of all data types, but instead use an EQL hash for types for which
229 EQUAL is the same as EQL.
230 * optimization: the non-inlined generic versions of AREF and (SETF AREF)
231 are significantly faster.
232 * optimization: new STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM implementation is much
233 faster for large outputs and conses 30% less on average.
234 * enhancement: XREF information is now collected for references made
235 to global variables using SYMBOL-VALUE and a constant argument.
236 * enhancement: SIGINT now causes a specific condition
237 SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT to be signalled.
238 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION used to signal an error in some cases where
239 ANSI requires it to return NIL.
240 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY is now interrupt-safe.
241 * bug fix: adding and removing fd-handlers is now interrupt-safe.
242 * bug fix: inlined calls to C now ensure 16byte stack alignment on
244 * bug fix: bad type declaration in the CLOS implementation has
245 been fixed. (reported by James Anderson)
246 * bug fix: incorrect ROOM reporting on x86-64 has been fixed.
247 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
248 * bug fix: DEFSETF now allows &ENVIRONMENT and disallows &AUX as
249 required by the CLHS. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
250 * bug fix: dead unbound variable references now signal an error.
251 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
252 * bug fix: / with an unused value was being deleted in safe code.
253 (thanks to Marco Monteiro and Kevin Reid)
254 * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
255 line in a file is unlimited.
256 * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
257 been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disbled.
258 * bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
259 GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
260 * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
261 specifier no longer causes infinite recursion.
262 * bug fix: SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declarations no longer trigger a
263 bogus warning in DEFMETHOD bodies. (reported by Kevin Reid)
264 * bug fix: an &environment argument with the correct variable information
265 is passed to macros that are expanded during byte compilation.
266 (reported by Samium Gromoff)
267 * bug fix: a logic error was causing the hash function for bignums to
268 have excessive amounts of collisions. (reported by Faré Rideau)
269 * bug fix: modifying the contents of an array could change the return
270 value of SXHASH on that array, which is only allowed for strings
271 and bit vectors. (bug introduced in 0.9.16)
272 * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests (except
273 for the debugger tests) but should still be considered
274 experimental until this is fixed.
275 * improvement: a style-warning is signaled for CASE (etc) clauses with
276 duplicate keys. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
277 * improvement: macos/x86 and macos/x86-64 now use mach exception
278 handlers for dealing with illegal instructions (for trapping and
279 error handling) and memory protection violations (for GC).
281 changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3:
282 * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS).
283 * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo
284 and getnameinfo sockets functions are used instead of gethostbyaddr
285 and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available.
286 As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these
288 * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T)
289 don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed
290 as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid)
291 * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi)
292 * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster.
293 * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases.
294 * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
295 * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop
296 variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported
298 * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type
299 such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error.
300 (reported by Andras Simon)
301 * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN
302 bugs remain on x86-64.)
303 * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with
304 funcallable instances.
305 * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the
306 compiler policy settings of the wrong lexical environment (in 1.0.2
308 * bug fix: SHADOW accepts characters as string designators, as required
309 by the spec (thanks to Eric Marsden)
310 * bug fix: fixed GC safety issues when foreign functions are called with
311 non-base strings as arguments
312 * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like
314 * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in
315 backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2)
317 changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2:
318 * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
319 * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
320 produce more efficient code on the x86 if the compiler can determine
321 that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
322 has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
323 * bug fix: references to undefined variables are handled the same way
324 in toplevel forms as in the normal compiler
325 * bug fix: the build scripts again work with non-bash /bin/sh (thanks
327 * bug fix: use "gtar" as the asdf-install *TAR-PROGRAM* on NetBSD
328 (thanks to Jon Buller)
329 * improvement: faster compilation times for complex functions
330 * improvement: added readlink support to SB-POSIX (thanks to Richard
333 changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1:
334 * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on
335 x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature
337 * improvement: support for GBK external format.
338 (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe))
339 * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed
340 over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher
341 * improvement: support for executable cores on NetBSD (thanks to
343 * new feature: added a RESTART-FRAME debugger command
344 * new feature: new generic function SB-GRAY:STREAM-FILE-POSITION can
345 be used to provide an implementation for FILE-POSITION on Gray streams
346 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
347 * new feature: add syslog, openlog and closelog support to SB-POSIX
348 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
349 * optimization: the function call overhead in code compiled with
350 a high DEBUG optimization setting is significantly
351 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE
352 for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa.
353 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
354 * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only
355 evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid)
356 * bug fix: the :SHOW-PROGRESS keyword parameter to SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING
357 works again (thanks to Kilian Sprotte)
358 * bug fix: an error is signaled for tagbodies with duplicate tags
359 (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
360 * bug fix: NIL can be used as a tagbody tag (thanks to Stephen Wilson)
361 * bug fix: Win32 port can now handle foreign code unwinding Lisp
362 stack frames from alien callbacks.
363 * bug fix: ATANH returned incorrect results on win32 (thanks to Pierre Mai)
364 * bug fix: SBCL works on Linux/ppc systems with a kernel configured to use
365 65k pages (thanks to David Woodhouse)
366 * bug fix: fix SB-POSIX dirent and socket on NetBSD (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
368 changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
369 * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
370 * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
371 abount function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
372 and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
373 compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
374 sb-introspect contrib.
375 * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of
376 these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if
377 a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental
378 and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL
379 users and the general community)
380 * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on
381 x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8
382 * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex".
383 * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly
384 (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
385 * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method
386 defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using
387 CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza)
388 * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through
389 SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza)
390 * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment
391 variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde)
392 * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists
393 signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG.
394 * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support.
395 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks
397 * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST
398 for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury)
399 * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time,
400 proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function
401 (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown)
402 * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions
403 are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been
405 * improvements to the Windows port:
406 ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks
407 to Alastair Bridgewater)
408 ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints)
410 ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien
411 callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
413 changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
414 * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.
415 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
416 * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used
417 to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup.
418 * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
419 core, and restored on startup.
420 * improvement: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now reports the time since
421 startup, not time since first call to GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
422 * improvement: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE explicitly checks that multiple
423 threads are not running after *SAVE-HOOKS* have run.
424 * improvement: writes to CLOS instance slots are type-checked in code
425 compiled with (SAFETY 3)
426 * improvement: floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD (thanks to
428 * improvement: SB-POSIX supports time(2), utime(2) and utimes(2)
429 (thanks to Zach Beane)
430 * improvement: support for files larger than 2GB for CL streams and SB-POSIX
432 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format.
433 (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi)
434 * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to
436 * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES
437 declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
438 * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already
439 dumped structurres. (reported by Kaersten Poeck)
440 * bug fix: ADJUST-ARRAY :FILL-POINTER T on an array without a
441 fill-pointer signals a type-error as required. (thanks to
443 * bug fix: disassemly of funcallable instances works.
444 * bug fix: single stepping on PPC.
445 * bug fix: fix thread-safety problems in the type system (generally
446 manifesting as nonsensical errors like "STRING is a bad type specifier
447 for sequences" or "The value 1 is not of type FIXNUM")
448 * bug fix: version components are handled correctly in TRANSLATE-PATHNAME
449 (reported by Josip Gracin)
450 * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with
451 incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer)
452 * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info
453 (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman)
454 * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster
455 and don't cause extra consing
456 * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors
457 whose elements types have been declared.
458 * Improvements to SB-SPROF:
459 ** Support for allocation profiling
460 ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs
461 * Improvements to the Windows port:
462 ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
463 ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
464 ** more accurate GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME.
465 ** better RUN-PROGRAM behaviour in case of errors in the child
467 ** PROBE-FILE now simplifies pathnames correctly.
468 ** DIRECTORY now works correctly with :WILD-INFERIORS.
469 ** DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME works on times before 00:00:00 January
470 1st 1970 (although time timezone data will be unreliable).
471 ** Hyperbolic functions TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH work.
473 changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
474 * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
475 cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
477 * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
478 * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
479 returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
480 * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
481 with non-variable places
482 * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
483 funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
484 code more stable against memory faults.
485 * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
486 asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
487 * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
488 are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
491 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
492 * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
493 * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
494 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
495 external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
496 conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
497 are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
498 SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
499 SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
500 :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
501 * incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
502 following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
503 *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
505 * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
506 on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
507 * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
508 SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
509 not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
510 class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
511 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
513 * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
514 non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
516 * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
517 of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
518 to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
519 SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
520 * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
521 with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
522 for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
523 to the single-stepper REPL.
524 * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
525 for a type now works.
526 * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
528 * bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
529 (reported by Marco Monteiro)
530 * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
531 non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
532 * bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
533 systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
534 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
535 * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
537 * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
538 type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
539 * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
540 code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
541 and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
542 * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
543 whose bindings are modified
544 * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
545 ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
546 ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
547 CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
549 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
550 * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
551 WRITER-METHOD-CLASS portion of the Class Initialization Protocol
552 as specified by AMOP.
553 * incompatible change: variable SB-EXT:*USE-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPES*
555 * optimization: faster LOGCOUNT implementation on x86 and x86-64
556 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
557 * optimization: hashing of general arrays and vectors has been
558 improved. (reported by Any Fingerhut)
559 * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT is now able to find definitions of
560 profiled functions. (thanks to Troels Henriksen)
561 * enhancement: compiler-macro expansion applies now to FUNCALL forms
562 as well, allowing compiler-macros for SETF-functions to expand.
563 * enhancement: step-instrumentation no longer wraps known
564 single-value functions with multiple-value context, allowing
565 better type inference.
566 * fixed bug #337: use of MAKE-METHOD in method combination now works
567 even in the presence of user-defined method classes. (reported by
568 Bruno Haible and Pascal Costanza)
569 * fixed bug #339(c): if there are applicable methods not part of any
570 long-form method-combination group, call INVALID-METHOD-ERROR.
571 (reported by Bruno Haible)
572 * fixed bug #361: the :FUNCTION initarg in the protocol for
573 initialization of methods can now be used to override
574 internally-produced optimized functions. (reported by Bruno
576 * bug fix: extensions of MAKE-METHOD-LAMBDA which wrap the
577 system-provided lambda expression no longer cause warnings about
578 unbound #:|pv-table| symbols.
579 * bug fix: improved the handling of type declarations and the
580 detection of violations for keyword arguments with non-constant
582 * bug fix: potentially erronous calls to PATHNAME and
583 MERGE-PATHNAMES were being flushed in some cases.
584 (reported by Richard Kreuter)
585 * bug fix: compiled calls to TYPEP were mishandling obsolete
586 instances. (reported by James Bielman and Attila Lendvai)
587 * bug fix: format strings with ~> without matching ~< no longer
588 trigger an AVER, but signal an understandable error instead.
589 (reported by Antonio Martinez)
590 * bug fix: specifying an output-file without a pathname-type for
591 COMPILE-FILE or COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME resulted in using the type
592 of input-file instead of "fasl". (reported by Robert Dodier)
593 * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-list parsing of FUNCALL forms.
594 (reported by James Y Knight).
595 * bug fix: compiler-macros-function did not consider the environment
596 argument for shadowing by local functions.
597 * bug fix: compiler-macros expansion was inhibited by local INLINE
599 * bug fix: inline expansions of known functions were subject to
600 step-instrumentation in high debug policies, leading to problems
602 * bug fix: compiler failed to differentiate between different CONS
604 * bug fix: fixed input, output and error redirection in RUN-PROGRAM
605 for win32. (thanks to Mike Thomas and Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
606 * bug fix: #368: incorrect use of expressed vs. upgraded array
608 * bug fix: #306a: more precise unions of array types.
609 * thread-safety improvements:
610 ** CONDITION-WAIT could return early on Linux, if the thread was
611 interrupted and subsequently continued with SIGCONT.
612 ** STABLE-SORT and ADJUST-ARRAY were not reentrant.
614 changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
615 * added support for the ucs-2 external format. (contributed by Ivan
617 * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
618 (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
619 sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP. (thanks to
621 * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
622 called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
623 first instance of the class is created. Previously,
624 SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
625 class became finalizeable.
626 * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
627 for multibyte external-format streams. (thanks to "vbzoli")
628 * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
629 with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
631 * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
632 initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
633 AMOP. (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
634 * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be
635 executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
636 * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could
637 occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
638 * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
639 values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to
640 some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
641 thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
642 * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
643 and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
644 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
645 * fixed bug: FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is called from
646 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on classes when the class has previously
647 been finalized, as required by AMOP.
648 * minor code generation optimizations:
649 ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
650 ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64
651 ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
652 ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
653 ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
654 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
655 ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
658 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
659 * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
661 * feature: SBCL now tries to signal a STORAGE-CONDITION when running out
663 * feature: SBCL now provides USE-VALUE and STORE-VALUE restarts in the
664 default method for SLOT-UNBOUND.
665 * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the
666 new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's
667 somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and
668 additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently
669 implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for
670 the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter).
671 * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
672 default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
673 the low-level debugger.
674 * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
675 from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
676 down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
677 more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
679 * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
680 on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
681 * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and
683 * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
684 (reported by Pascal Costanza)
685 * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
686 with a type error. (reported by blitz_ on #lisp)
687 * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL
688 failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon)
689 * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
690 starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
691 (reported by James Y Knight)
692 * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
693 * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a
694 constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
695 * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
696 error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
697 * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
698 * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting
699 (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
700 when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
701 workaround for bug 403.)
702 * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
703 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
704 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
705 ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
707 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
708 ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
709 ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
711 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
712 * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion
713 errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller)
714 * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE*
715 * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in
717 * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly
719 * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
720 forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
721 * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
724 changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
725 * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier
726 versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend
727 into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to
728 FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the
729 system return before any subclasses are finalized.
730 * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
731 regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
732 * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
733 inhibit loading the corresponding init files
734 * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS,
735 for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau)
736 * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
737 error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
738 * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical
739 operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to
740 documentation on package locks for details.
741 * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the
743 * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being
744 constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions.
745 (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki)
746 * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
747 immediately available from the stream
748 * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
749 were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
750 * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
751 when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
753 * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
754 appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
755 * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name
757 * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with
758 some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to
759 fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente
761 * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
762 allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
763 (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
764 structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
766 * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
767 ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
768 locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
769 directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
770 ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
771 ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
772 ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
773 ** sb-grovel supported
774 ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
775 ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
776 * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
777 ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
778 ** floating-point exception handling support
779 ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
780 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
781 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
782 the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
783 ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
785 ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
787 ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant
788 defaults for optional parameters.
789 ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a
790 function, which is already optimized.
792 changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
793 * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
794 MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
795 * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
796 (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
797 * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
798 exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
799 * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
800 SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
801 this change is to make it easier to distribute
802 location-independent binaries.
803 * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
804 slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
806 * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
807 (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
808 via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
809 * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
810 case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
811 to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
812 particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
813 Alastair Bridgewater)
814 * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
815 values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
816 (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
817 * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
818 more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
819 functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
820 * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
821 * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
822 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
823 * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
824 SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
825 (thanks to James Knight)
826 * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
827 by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
829 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
830 * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
831 be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one
832 executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
833 platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
834 * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
835 the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin). The
836 old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
837 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
838 * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
839 contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
840 links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
841 in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
842 * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
843 markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
844 * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
845 certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King)
846 * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
847 character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
848 * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an
849 error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by
851 * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
852 applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
853 INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
854 no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid)
855 * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
856 added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean
858 * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
859 sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
860 15th bit of the address, fixed at link time). This used to
861 manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
862 (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
863 many others over the years)
864 * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
865 the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
866 (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
868 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
869 * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
870 system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
871 * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
872 callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
873 * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
875 * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
877 * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
878 * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
879 grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
880 * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
881 (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
882 * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as
883 required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE.
884 (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns)
885 * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
886 * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
887 * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
888 immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
889 * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
890 * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
892 changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
893 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
894 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
895 the change in the 0.9.7 release). (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
896 by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
897 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
898 * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
899 value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
900 * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
901 odd characters as --load arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
902 * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
903 expected. (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
904 * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
905 definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
906 * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
907 * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
908 returning the number of octets which would be written to the
909 file-stream. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
910 * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
911 arguments to the internal stream functions. (thanks to David
913 * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
914 platform. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
915 * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
916 * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
917 index variables in LOOP
918 * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
919 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
920 ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
921 that don't have a docstring
923 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
924 * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
925 GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
926 therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
927 least permitted and maybe required by AMOP). As a consolation,
928 however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
929 REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
930 * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
931 7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
932 COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
933 argument, as do eslotd initialization methods. (from Pascal
934 Costanza's "Closer" project)
935 * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
936 COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
938 * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
939 STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
940 (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
941 * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
942 functions. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
944 * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
945 DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly. (reported by
946 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
947 * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
948 circumstances. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
949 * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
950 merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
951 * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
952 (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
953 * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
954 disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
955 * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
956 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
957 * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
958 (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
959 * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
960 :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
961 * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
962 * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
964 * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64
965 (thanks to Lutz Euler)
966 * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
967 floating point index variable or a negative step.
969 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
970 * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
971 Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
972 (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
973 * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
974 (thanks to David Lichteblau)
975 * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
976 macroexpansion. (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
977 * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
978 (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
979 on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
980 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
981 on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
982 * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
983 a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
984 * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
985 * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
986 * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
987 (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)
988 * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
989 like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
990 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
991 * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be
992 explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
993 * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
994 and dump core on SIGQUIT
996 ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
997 from their parents (see manual)
998 ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
999 next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
1000 ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
1001 ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
1002 ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
1003 ** bug fix: job control (SIGSTOP/SIGCONT) no longer confuses threads
1005 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1006 ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
1007 CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
1008 NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
1010 ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
1011 no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
1012 ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
1014 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
1015 * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
1016 * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
1017 x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861,
1018 cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2,
1019 iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7,
1020 iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13,
1021 iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254,
1022 cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev)
1023 * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to
1024 non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely.
1025 * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no
1026 more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon
1027 * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc
1029 * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in
1030 Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This
1031 workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem
1033 * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a
1034 PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by
1036 * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that
1037 have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
1038 * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less
1039 confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass
1040 funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
1041 * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
1042 consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
1043 * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
1044 environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
1046 * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
1047 iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
1048 * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
1049 may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
1050 * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
1051 under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings. (reported by David Wallin
1053 * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
1055 ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
1056 ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
1057 STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
1058 ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
1059 now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
1060 remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
1061 of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
1062 classes; see the manual for more details;
1063 ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
1064 FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
1065 requested slot ordering.
1067 ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
1069 ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not
1070 the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to
1072 ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to
1074 ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM
1075 and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in
1076 interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore
1077 ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads
1078 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1079 ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for
1080 the :method-class keyword argument.
1082 changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3:
1083 * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now
1084 mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment
1085 remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
1086 * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic
1087 space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1088 * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent
1089 closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1090 * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger.
1091 * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before
1092 *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger
1094 * minor incompatible change: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is
1095 deprecated, and will go away in a future revision of SBCL.
1096 * minor incompatible change: GC-ON and GC-OFF are no longer
1097 implemented with a counter, it does not matter how many times gc
1098 is switched on or off
1099 * bug fix: discriminating functions for generic function classes
1100 with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer
1101 make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported
1103 * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS
1104 platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1105 * bug fix: degree sign (<U00B0>) could not be encoded in KOI8-R.
1106 * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on.
1107 (thanks to Kevin Reid)
1108 * bug fix: complex VOP definitions in "user-space" no longer trigger
1109 package locks. (reported by Zach Beane)
1110 * fixed bug 343: SB-KERNEL:INSTANCE-LAMBDA is no longer necessary
1111 for funcallable-instance functions, and is no different from
1113 * bug fix: PARSE-INTEGER no longer depends on the whitespaceness of
1114 characters in the current readtable. (reported by Nicholas Neuss)
1115 * bug fix: SUBTYPEP on various CONS types returns more a more
1116 accurate acknowledgment of its certainty.
1117 * optimizations: REMOVE-DUPLICATES now runs in linear time on
1118 lists in some cases. This partially fixes bug 384.
1119 * flush all standard streams before prompting in the REPL and the
1121 * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict
1122 directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does
1123 not prevent gc from running
1124 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable
1125 approximation for timezone and DST information between the
1126 universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t.
1127 * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the
1128 year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative.
1129 * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns
1130 the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing
1131 an inline 32-bit rotation.
1133 ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if
1134 there is only one thread in the session
1135 ** bug fix: memory leak for streams created in one thread and
1136 written to in another
1137 ** bug fix: lockup when compiled with gcc4
1138 ** bug fix: race that allows the gc to be triggered when gc is
1140 ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again
1141 ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal
1143 ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly
1144 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1145 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call
1146 has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from
1147 the orignal arguments.
1148 ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type
1150 ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not
1151 name a compiled function.
1152 ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to
1153 a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type
1154 derivation were fixed.
1155 ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a
1156 list-form FUNCTION type.
1157 ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such
1158 as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))).
1159 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators.
1161 changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2:
1162 * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams
1163 opened with :element-type :default now allow character and binary
1164 (unsigned-byte 8) I/O
1165 * Support for the koi8-r external format. (thanks to Ivan Boldyrev)
1166 * Bug fix: OPEN no longer fails when *PRINT-READABLY* is T. (thanks
1168 * bug fix: no more highly sporadic "couldn't check whether ~S is
1169 readable" when reading a stream and an interrupt hits in the middle
1170 of a select system call
1171 * compiler better recognizes complex arrays (reported by Eduardo
1173 * bug fix: out-of-line SB-SYS:FOREIGN-SYMBOL-ADDRESS did not work
1174 for variables on SBCL built with linkage-tables. (reported by Luis
1176 * various error reporting improvements.
1177 * optimizations: LOGNOR on fixnums is improved in the MIPS backend.
1178 (Thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1179 * bug fix: nested reader invokations work correctly
1180 * bug fix: it is possible to have simultaneous references to foreign
1181 code and foreign data with the same name.
1183 ** added x86-64 support
1184 ** incompatible change: the threading api now works with thread
1185 objects instead of thread ids
1186 ** bug fix: threads are protected from signals and interruption when
1187 starting up or going down
1188 ** bug fix: a race where an exiting thread could lose its stack to gc
1189 ** bug fix: don't halt on infinite error in threads if possible
1190 ** fixed numerous gc deadlocks introduced in the pthread merge
1191 ** bug fix: fixed thread safety issues in read and print
1192 ** bug fix: debugger doesn't hang on session lock if interrupted at
1193 an inappropriate moment
1194 ** bug fix: run-program is now thread safe(r)
1195 ** bug fix: inner with-recursive-lock no longer releases the mutex
1196 * fixed a bug in (DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME 0) (reported by Paul Dietz)
1197 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1198 ** TYPE-ERRORs from signalled by COERCE now have DATUM and
1199 EXPECTED-TYPE slots filled.
1200 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ always returns the primary value of the
1202 ** MAKE-CONDITION accepts classes as type-designators.
1203 ** COMPILE may never return NIL.
1204 ** ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now guards against times out of Unix's
1205 range before calling Unix time functions
1207 changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
1208 * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
1209 * Support for EUC-JP external format. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
1210 * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
1211 initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
1212 as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
1213 INITFORM). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1214 * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
1215 :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
1216 for more information.
1217 * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
1218 pathname is a directory pathname.
1219 * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
1220 * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
1222 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
1223 :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
1224 Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellmann)
1225 * RESTART-CASE can now be wrapped around CALL-METHOD forms.
1226 (reported by Bruno Haible; patch from Gerd Moellmann)
1227 * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to
1229 * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
1230 x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
1231 * bug fix: the compiler does not try to constant fold calls of
1232 COERCE and BIT-* functions when they return freshly constructed
1233 objects. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola and Paul Dietz)
1234 * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
1235 generic sense) arithmetic routines. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1236 * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
1237 the PowerPC platform.
1238 * optimization: structure instances with raw slots now use less
1239 memory, and probably show better memory locality. (thanks to
1241 * optimization: DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations for lists and closures
1242 are treated as requests for stack allocation on the x86-64,
1243 Alpha-32, PPC and SPARC platforms.
1244 * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
1245 the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
1246 (thanks to Tony Martinez)
1248 ** gcing a dead thread can no longer lead to lockups
1249 ** threads block signals until they are set up properly
1250 ** errno is no longer shared by threads
1251 ** interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
1252 ** fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
1253 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1254 ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when
1255 *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
1256 ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
1257 as the name of a type, or vice versa
1258 ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for
1259 (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
1260 ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
1261 ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
1262 ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS,
1263 FLET or MACROLET forms
1264 ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the
1266 ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
1268 ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is
1271 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
1272 * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
1273 target with a 64-bit host compiler.
1274 * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
1275 opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
1276 * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
1277 combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
1278 * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
1279 intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
1280 * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
1281 "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
1282 or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
1283 * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
1284 * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
1285 * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
1286 generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1287 * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
1288 to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
1289 * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
1290 x86-64. (Thanks to James Knight)
1291 * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
1292 64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
1294 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1295 ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
1296 ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
1297 a file has the stream as its datum.
1298 ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have
1299 :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
1300 ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
1301 a correct expected type
1302 ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
1303 for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
1304 typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
1305 ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on
1306 broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
1307 on broadcast streams.
1309 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
1310 * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since
1311 version 0.7.5, has been removed. Please use the equivalent
1312 --disable-debugger option instead.
1313 * incompatible change: finalizers and *AFTER-GC-HOOKS* are now run with
1315 * incompatible change: support for *BEFORE-GC-HOOKS* (that have been
1316 inoperational for a while now) has been completely removed.
1317 * null lexical environments are now printed as #<NULL-LEXENV>,
1318 significantly reducing the amount of clutter in typical backtraces.
1319 * documentation on weak pointers, finalization, and after GC hooks
1320 has been added to the manual.
1321 * optimization: REPLACE on declared (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vectors, as well
1322 as other specialized array types, is much faster. SUBSEQ and
1323 COPY-SEQ on such arrays have also been sped up.
1324 * optimization: EQL is now more efficient when at least other argument
1325 is known to be of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
1326 * fixed bug: the runtime is now less vulnerable to changes in the
1327 size of the SBCL object on OS X, and virtual memory is reserved for
1328 all spaces that need to be at a fixed address.
1329 * fixed bug: finalizers are now thread-safe. (thanks to Gabor Mellis)
1330 * fixed bug: finalizers and after GC hooks that cause consing are now
1332 * fixed bug: compiler error messages and summaries are now printed to
1333 *ERROR-OUTPUT*, not *STANDARD-OUTPUT*.
1334 * fixed inference of the upper bound of an iteration variable.
1335 (reported by Rajat Datta).
1336 * fixed bug 211e: calling local functions with duplicated constant
1337 keyword argument no longer causes a bogus style warning about an
1339 * fixed bug 305: INLINE/NOTINLINE declaration no longer causes local
1340 ftype declaration to be disregarded. (reported by Dave Roberts)
1341 * fixed bug 373: caused by erronous compilation of references to alien
1342 variables in the runtime on ppc/darwin.
1343 * fixed bug 376: CONJUGATE type deriver.
1344 * fixed infinite looping of ALIEN-FUNCALL, compiled with high DEBUG.
1345 (reported by Baughn on #lisp)
1346 * a cross-compiler bug on non-x86 platforms has been identified and
1347 fixed. (thanks to Bruno Haible)
1348 * improvements to the MIPS runtime code for increased stability.
1349 (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
1350 * increased the maximimum compact environment size to allow
1351 purify on images with large amounts of functions. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
1352 * partial workaround for bug 135: don't name the function we're
1353 calling for hairy cases of EVAL, so as not to accumulate one environment
1354 entry per call to EVAL. (reported by Kevin Reid)
1355 * improvements to the x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1356 * optimization: type testing for non-vector arrays should be faster.
1357 * fixed TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL, added support for :ENCAPSULATE NIL
1359 * bug fix: setting 31st element of a bit vector to zero did not work
1361 * bug fix: redefining a class definition which failed due to a
1362 previous accessor / function clash now works (but see BUGS entry
1363 #380 for more problems in this area). (thanks to Zach Beane)
1364 * the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION disables method group
1365 checking when given a single method group with pattern *. (thanks
1367 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of simple
1368 calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT.
1369 * support for building and running on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" has been added
1370 ** Binaries built on Tiger will not run on 10.2 "Jaguar" currently
1371 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1372 ** the restarts for recovering from input and output encoding
1373 errors only appear when there is in fact such an error to
1375 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1376 ** MISC.549 and similar: late transformation of unsafe type
1377 assertions into derived types caused unexpected code
1379 ** SCALE-FLOAT type deriver is less wrong.
1380 ** type derivers for EXP, LOG and similar functions compute result
1381 types for complex arguments better.
1382 ** (MISC.563) CONJUGATE type deriver works for very restricted
1384 ** out-of-line type testers for character strings are available.
1385 ** EQUAL compiler transform understands specialness of objects
1387 ** accessing double-floats stored on the stack now works on x86-64.
1388 ** debugger internals could sometimes create invalid lispobjs,
1389 resulting in GC crashes.
1390 ** MISC.548: type check weakening can convert required type into
1392 ** initialization forms for bindings are not in scope of free special
1395 changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
1396 * incompatible change: thread support for non-NPTL systems has
1397 been removed - locking is buggy and unreliable. A threaded
1398 SBCL build will now warn at startup and refuse to create
1399 new threads, unless futex support is detected in the kernel
1400 * incompatible change: the top level REPL now has only an ABORT
1401 restart associated with it, not TOPLEVEL and ABORT as it used to.
1402 TOP and TOPLEVEL are now available as debugger commands for
1403 returning to the top level.
1404 * incompatible change: forms evaluated in the REPL now use the
1405 global optimization policy.
1406 * incompatible change: user- and system-initialization files are
1407 no longer processed with LOAD, but by READ and EVAL; hence the
1408 global optimization policy, startup package, readtable, etc,
1410 * The .fasl file format number has been incremented because of
1411 various incompatible changes.
1412 * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
1413 in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
1414 SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
1415 * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
1416 level local call to FOO".
1417 * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
1418 now have more legible printed representation
1419 * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
1420 are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
1421 * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
1422 explicitly requested.
1423 * fixed bug: receiving the signal which results from attempting to
1424 write to mprotect()ed memory (SIGSEGV on Linux and some *BSDs,
1425 SIGBUS on other *BSDs) on architectures where the C stack is also
1426 the Lisp stack (x86 and x86-64) from foreign code no longer leads
1427 to debugger confusion or wild instability. (reported by Cheuksan
1429 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
1430 notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
1431 (reported by Lutz Euler)
1432 * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
1433 compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
1434 * fixed bug 276b: mutating with MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ a binding of a
1435 specialized parameter to a method to something that is not TYPEP
1436 the specializer is now possible.
1437 * fixed bug: the MAKE-INSTANCE optimization is now correct in the
1438 face of package deletion.
1439 * fixed bug: LOAD should bind *LOAD-PATHNAME* to the merged
1440 pathname. (reported by David Tolpin on c.l.l)
1441 * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
1442 STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
1443 STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
1444 * contrib improvement: SB-INTROSPECT handles more of SLIME's needs
1445 than previously; in addition, its test suite is now run on build.
1446 (thanks to Luke Gorrie)
1447 * a more robust x86-64 disassembler. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
1448 * optimization: added a immediate representation for single-floats
1450 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1451 ** MISC.564: defined out-of-line version of %ATAN2 on x86.
1452 ** attempting to create a package with a colliding nickname causes
1453 correctable errors to be signalled.
1454 ** MISC.572-574: :START1 and :START2 broken for simple-base-strings.
1455 ** several x86-64 backend bugs related to sign-extension of immediate
1458 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
1459 * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
1460 * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86. (thanks to David
1462 * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts.
1463 (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1464 * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
1465 output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI.
1466 (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
1467 * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
1468 more accurate. This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
1469 related to the ~@F format directive.
1470 * fixed bug 371: bignum print/read inconsistency. (thanks to Harald
1472 * fixed bug: SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly shallow-copies a
1473 dispatch table if the from-char is a dispatch macro character.
1474 * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL on bit vectors with lengths divisible
1475 by the wordsize no longer ignore the last word. (reported by Lutz
1477 * fixed bug in type checking of dynamic-extent variables. (reported
1479 * optimization: sequence traversal functions use their freedom to
1480 coerce function designators to functions.
1481 * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
1482 CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
1483 * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
1484 the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
1485 * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
1486 fixnums no longer create extra rationals
1487 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1488 ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
1489 character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
1490 start of the buffer at the next read.
1491 ** COMPILE-FILE now respects any EXTERNAL-FORMAT argument given,
1492 passing it through to OPEN.
1493 ** LOAD on source files likewise passes any EXTERNAL-FORMAT
1494 argument given to internal calls to OPEN.
1495 ** the built-in comment readers (introduced by character sequences
1496 ";" and "#|") are more forgiving to encoding errors; they will
1497 STYLE-WARN and then attempt to resync the stream at a character
1498 boundary. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1499 * fixed some bugs in the x86-64 port:
1500 ** Negative short int return values from c-calls are sign-extended
1502 ** The stack is aligned to 16-bytes for c-calls, as required by
1503 the ABI. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1504 ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
1505 ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
1506 for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1507 ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
1509 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1510 ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
1511 secondary constituent character trait.
1512 ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
1514 ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
1516 ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
1517 works more reliably.
1518 ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
1519 with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
1520 ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
1522 ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
1523 (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
1525 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
1526 * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
1527 platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
1528 and reloading shared object files.
1529 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1530 supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
1532 * enhancement: the statistical profiler now walks deeper into the
1533 call stack for more meaningful call-graphs and accrued time
1534 reports (x86/x86-64 only). It also now reports time spent in
1536 * enhancement: it is now possible to trace most individual methods
1537 of a generic function in addition to tracing the generic function
1539 * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
1541 * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
1542 SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
1543 * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
1544 produces an error. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1545 * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
1546 directories works correctly. (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
1547 * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
1549 * bug fixed: functions with &REST arguments sometimes failed with
1550 "Undefined function" when compiled with (DEBUG 3). (reported by
1552 * bug fix: overflow during compiling of setting element of a bit
1553 vector with constant index and value. (reported by Timmy Douglas)
1554 * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
1555 *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
1556 * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
1558 * GO and RETURN-FROM do not check the extent of their exit points
1559 when compiled with SAFETY 0.
1560 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1561 ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
1562 handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
1563 input or output to the terminal. (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
1564 ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
1565 OCTETS-TO-STRING. (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
1566 ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
1567 interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
1568 lisp characters are not eight bits.
1569 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1570 ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
1571 the correct number of arguments.
1572 ** READ-FROM-STRING returns the mandated second value when applied
1573 to displaced strings.
1574 ** the #\Rubout and #\Backspace characters are treated as invalid
1575 constituent characters by the tokenizer.
1577 changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
1578 * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
1579 LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
1580 * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
1581 can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared
1582 object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
1583 available at runtime.
1584 * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
1585 supported. (thanks to Dan Debertin)
1586 * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
1587 just keywords. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1588 * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
1589 DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
1590 * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
1591 on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
1592 (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
1593 * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
1594 of lambda-list keywords.
1595 * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
1596 class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
1598 * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
1599 of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
1600 (reported by Paul Dietz)
1601 * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
1602 those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to
1603 hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
1604 * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
1606 * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
1607 argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
1608 * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
1609 (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
1610 * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
1612 * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
1613 ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
1614 stream. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1615 ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
1616 locales. (reported by Ken Causey)
1617 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1618 ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
1620 ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
1621 parameters correctly.
1622 ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
1623 consequent uses no arguments correctly.
1624 ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
1626 ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
1629 changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
1630 * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
1631 keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
1632 support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
1634 * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
1635 support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
1636 characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
1637 print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
1638 * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
1639 however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
1640 * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
1641 are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1642 has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
1644 * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
1645 are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
1647 * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
1649 * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
1650 allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
1651 (reported by Bruno Haible)
1652 * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
1654 * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
1655 required. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1656 * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
1657 removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
1658 (reported by David Morse)
1659 * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
1660 new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1661 * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
1662 options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1663 * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
1664 is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1665 * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
1666 now exists, an signals an error.
1667 * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
1668 during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported
1669 by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1670 * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
1671 messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1672 * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
1673 and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
1674 *READ-SUPPRESS* is true. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1675 * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
1676 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1677 * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
1678 do not designate a condition. (reported by Bruno Haible for
1680 * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
1681 SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
1682 name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
1683 permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
1684 (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1685 * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
1686 strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
1687 specialized array element types.
1688 * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
1689 zero. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
1690 * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
1691 (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1692 * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
1693 inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
1694 BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
1695 Wragg for the simple test case)
1696 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1697 ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
1699 ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
1700 more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
1701 ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
1702 ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
1703 remaining arguments to the continue format control without
1705 ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
1707 ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
1708 point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
1709 ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
1710 references to global functions.
1711 ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
1713 ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
1715 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
1716 * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1717 supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
1718 supported platforms.
1719 * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
1720 copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
1721 any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
1722 * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
1723 no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
1724 original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
1725 * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
1726 (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
1727 * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
1728 generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
1729 bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
1730 * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
1731 associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
1733 * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
1734 (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32. (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
1735 * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
1736 no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING. In addition,
1737 redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
1738 incompatible lambda list now signals an error. (thanks to Zach
1740 * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
1741 same name in an enclosing lexical environment. (thanks to Zach
1743 * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
1744 IR1-optimization. (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
1745 * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
1746 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1747 ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
1748 returns the right answer.
1749 ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
1751 ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
1753 ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
1754 ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
1756 ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
1757 non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
1759 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
1760 * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
1761 SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
1762 SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
1763 the supported interface.
1764 * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
1765 higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
1766 * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
1767 supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
1768 Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
1769 * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
1770 parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
1771 (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1772 * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
1773 correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
1774 despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
1775 compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
1776 same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
1777 * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
1778 (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
1779 * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
1780 case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
1781 Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
1782 * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
1783 warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
1784 * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
1785 for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
1786 SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. (reported by Ralf Mattes)
1787 * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
1788 LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
1789 CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
1790 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1791 ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
1792 directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
1794 changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
1795 * incompatible change: the internal functions
1796 SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
1797 logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
1798 to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO. Modular arithmetic should be used
1799 instead of the old functions.
1800 * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
1801 function names now appear in backtraces. (based on Helmut Eller's
1803 * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY,
1804 SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user
1806 * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
1807 * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
1808 even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
1809 ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
1811 * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
1812 routines are more informative. (thanks to Brian Downing)
1813 * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
1814 (reported by Rick Taube)
1815 * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
1816 within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
1817 * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
1818 constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
1820 * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
1821 OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
1822 * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
1823 (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
1824 having its effective method computed). (reported by Bruno Haible)
1825 * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
1826 SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
1827 MAKE-INSTANCE constructors. (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
1828 * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
1829 represented relative to default pathnames.
1830 * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
1831 to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
1832 applying the more sophisticated binary GCD. (thanks to Juho
1834 * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
1835 * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
1836 (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
1838 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
1839 ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
1840 if the corresponding argument is NIL.
1841 ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
1843 ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
1845 ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
1846 format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
1847 conditional newlines.
1848 ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
1849 as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
1850 ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
1852 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
1853 :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
1855 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
1856 * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
1857 the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
1858 removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
1859 if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
1860 compiled in unconditionally.
1861 * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
1862 unsupported operators on all platforms. To load a shared library
1863 into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. To load a non-shared
1864 object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
1865 load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT. (incidentally fixes
1867 * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
1868 reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
1869 reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
1870 disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
1871 work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
1872 * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
1873 home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
1874 The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
1875 compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
1876 an implementation-internal package.
1877 * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
1879 * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
1880 It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
1881 * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method
1882 bodies are now more legible.
1883 * fixed bug #338: instances of EQL-SPECIFIER are now valid type
1884 designators and can hence be used with TYPEP.
1885 * fixed bug #333: CHECK-TYPE now ensures that the type error
1886 signalled, if any, has the right object to be accessed by
1887 TYPE-ERROR-DATUM. (reported by Tony Martinez)
1888 * fixed bug #340: SETF of VALUES obeys the specification in ANSI
1889 5.1.2.3 for multiple-value place subforms. (reported by Kalle
1891 * fixed bug #334: programmatic addition of slots using specialized
1892 methods on SB-MOP:COMPUTE-SLOTS works for :ALLOCATION :INSTANCE
1893 and :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots.
1894 * fixed bug #269: SCALE-FLOAT scales floats by any integer, not just
1895 float exponents. (rereported by Peter Seibel)
1896 * fixed a bug: #\Space (and other whitespace characters) are no
1897 longer considered to be macro characters in standard syntax by
1898 GET-MACRO-CHARACTER.
1899 * fixed bug: initialization of condition class metaobjects no longer
1900 causes an instance of the condition to be created. (reported by
1902 * fixed bug: it is now possible to have slots such that
1903 SB-MOP:SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION of the effective slot
1904 description is neither :INSTANCE nor :CLASS.
1905 * fixed bug: the ctor optimization of MAKE-INSTANCE now respects
1906 user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
1907 SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
1908 non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
1909 * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.
1910 CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
1911 * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in
1912 system even when most of them are idle
1913 * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
1914 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
1915 been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
1917 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
1918 * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides
1919 optimization hints (conditions which are TYPEP
1920 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) for conforming code in default compilation
1921 mode; these hints are still emitted when higher SPEED optimization
1923 * new contrib module: a sampling profiler (profiling by statistical
1924 sampling, rather than by instrumenting functions) is available as
1925 the SB-SPROF contrib. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and Juho Snellman)
1926 * the behaviour of the standard function ED is now customizeable by
1927 third parties through a hook variable: see ED's documentation
1928 string for information on the protocol.
1929 * the compiler no longer emits efficiency notes for (FUNCALL X)
1930 when the type of X is uncertain under default optimization
1932 * fixed bug 276: mutating a binding of a specialized parameter to a
1933 method to something that is not TYPEP the specializer is now
1935 * fixed bugs 45d and 118: DOUBLE-FLOAT[-NEGATIVE]-EPSILON now
1936 exhibit the required behaviour on the x86 platform. (thanks to
1937 Peter van Eynde, Eric Marsden and Bruno Haible)
1938 * fixed bug 335: ATANH now computes the inverse hyperbolic tangent
1939 even for difficult arguments. (reported by Peter Graves)
1940 * fixed bug 141a: the backquote printer now descends quoted
1942 * fixed another bug in backquote printing: no more destructive
1943 modification of the form's list structure. (reported by Brian
1945 * fixed bug in INTERRUPT-THREAD: pin the function, so that it cannot
1946 move between its address being taken and the call to
1947 interrupt_thread, fixing a crashing race condition.
1948 * the SB-POSIX contrib implementation has been adjusted so that it
1949 no longer exhibits ridiculously poor performance when constructing
1950 instances corresponding to C structs.
1952 changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
1953 * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
1954 structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
1955 as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
1956 has implications for memory management of client code
1957 (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
1958 type safety (alien objects now have full types).
1959 * new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
1960 used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
1961 SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
1962 documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
1963 quality should be considered deprecated.
1964 * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
1965 * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
1966 the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
1967 beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
1968 under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
1970 * fixed bug: PARSE-NAMESTRING now accepts any valid pathaname
1971 designator as the defaults argument.
1972 * fixed bug: Displaced arrays whose displaced-to array has become
1973 too small now cause ARRAY-DIMENSION to signal an error, providing
1974 for safer bounds-checking. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1975 * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
1976 :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
1978 * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
1980 * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
1981 (thanks to Zach Beane)
1982 * fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
1983 redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
1984 well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1985 * fixed bug 316: SHIFTF now accepts VALUES forms. (reported by Bruno
1987 * fixed bug 322: DEFSTRUCT :TYPE LIST type predicates now handle
1988 improper lists correctly. (reported by Bruno Haible)
1989 * fixed bug 313: source-transform for <fun-name> was erroneously
1990 applied to a call of a value of a variable with name <fun-name>.
1991 (reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
1992 * fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
1993 subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1994 * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
1995 remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
1996 * added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
1997 easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
1998 to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
1999 * fixed bug reported by PFD in lisppaste #747 (and Bruno Haible from
2000 CLISP test suite): WRITE-TO-STRING is not constant-foldable.
2001 * fixed bugs in COMPLEX type specifier: UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE
2002 is now consistent with (COMPLEX <x>); bugs in treatment of COMPLEX
2003 MEMBER and UNION types have likewise been fixed. (thanks to Bruno
2005 * fixed a (fairly theoretical) bug in string printing: if
2006 *PRINT-READABLY* is true, signal PRINT-NOT-READABLE if the string
2007 does not have array-element-type equal to the most general string
2009 * fixed bug: SET-PPRINT-DISPATCH does not immediately resolve
2010 function name. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2011 * fixed bug: compile-time format string checker failed on
2012 non-closed ~{. (reported by Thomas F Burdick)
2013 * fixed bug: as reported by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on #lisp IRC,
2014 don't warn on legal loop code involving more than one aggregate
2015 boolean. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2016 * fixed bug: as reported by Peter Graves on #lisp IRC, passing a NIL
2017 in keyword position to MAKE-PACKAGE was not being reported as
2019 * fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
2020 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
2022 * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
2023 file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
2025 * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
2026 specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
2027 * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
2028 & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
2030 * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
2031 not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
2032 variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
2033 * fixed bug 327: system subclasses of STRUCTURE-OBJECT or CONDITION
2034 have CLOS classes; this appears also to have fixed reported
2035 instability in stack exhaustion detection.
2036 * fixed bug: the CONTROL-ERROR from ABORT, CONTINUE and
2037 MUFFLE-WARNING when no associated restart is present is now
2039 * optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
2040 so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
2041 :LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
2043 * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
2044 cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
2046 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2047 ** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
2049 ** Fixed an optimization bug related to inheritance of initforms
2050 from local to shared slots.
2051 ** FILE-POSITION works as specified on BROADCAST-STREAMs.
2052 ** CAST optimizer forgot to flush argument derived type.
2053 ** print/read consistency on floats is now orders of magnitude
2054 more likely. (thanks also to Bruno Haible for a similar report
2056 ** removed stack cleaning in the cleanup part of UNWIND-PROTECT.
2057 ** IMAGPART is specified (infelicitously) to return (* 0 <thing>)
2058 for objects of type REAL. Make it so.
2059 ** SXHASH is specified (infelicitously) to respect similarity,
2060 which means that (SXHASH 0.0) must equal (SXHASH -0.0). Make
2061 it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
2062 ** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
2063 returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
2064 ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
2066 ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
2068 ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
2070 ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
2071 print using #P"..." syntax.
2073 changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
2074 * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
2075 running on x86 hardware has been added. (thanks to Perry
2076 E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
2077 * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
2078 current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken
2079 since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
2080 * [placeholder for DX summary]
2081 ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
2082 speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
2083 * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
2084 chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
2085 * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
2086 sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
2087 the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
2088 * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF. (thanks for
2089 the test case to Dave Roberts)
2090 * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
2091 pointers. (reported by Sean Ross)
2092 * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
2093 values. (thanks to Zach Beane)
2094 * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
2095 greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
2096 * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
2097 correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
2098 * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
2099 values. (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
2100 * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
2101 succeeds. (reported by Marco Baringer)
2102 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2103 ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
2104 ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification. (thanks
2107 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
2108 * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
2109 *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
2110 general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
2111 should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
2112 variables and then find you want different bindings in the
2113 debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
2114 * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
2115 (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
2116 assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2117 * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
2118 WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
2119 more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
2121 * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
2122 that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions. (thanks to Juho
2124 * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
2125 needless bounds checking. (thanks to Juho Snellman)
2126 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2127 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
2128 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2129 ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
2131 ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
2132 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
2133 ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
2135 ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
2137 ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
2139 ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
2140 their output stream on EOF from read.
2141 ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
2142 have been read to end-of-file.
2143 ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
2145 ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
2146 description of determination of which consecutive characters
2148 ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ",
2149 rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
2150 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2151 less than 10 works correctly.
2152 ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
2153 more than 10 works correctly.
2154 ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
2155 the readtable currently in effect.
2157 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
2158 * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
2159 (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
2160 namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field. This is
2161 intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
2162 meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
2163 pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">. This namestring
2164 should usually be replaced by
2165 (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
2166 with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
2167 As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
2168 option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
2169 exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
2170 * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
2171 signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
2172 Darwin). (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
2174 * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
2175 Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
2176 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2177 * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
2178 second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
2179 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2180 * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
2181 type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
2182 PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
2183 stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
2184 * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
2185 behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
2186 exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
2188 * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
2189 recognized as being TYPEP their class.
2190 * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
2191 (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
2192 * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
2193 large number of multiple values being bound was not being
2194 performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
2195 * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
2196 (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
2197 * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
2198 (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
2199 teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
2200 * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
2201 not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
2202 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2203 ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
2204 non-local entry points.
2205 ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
2207 ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2208 OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
2210 ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
2211 host is already defined.
2212 ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
2214 ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
2215 or not a character is whitespace.
2216 ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
2217 specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
2218 ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
2220 ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
2221 pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
2223 ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
2225 ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
2226 ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
2227 signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
2228 ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
2229 designator argument does not designate a stream.
2230 ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
2231 examining the synonym.
2232 ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
2234 ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
2235 element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
2237 changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
2238 * When built with the :SB-FUTEX feature, threaded builds now take
2239 advantage of the "fast userspace mutex" facility in Linux kernel 2.6
2240 for faster/more reliable mutex and condition variable support.
2241 * Incompatible change (but one you probably shouldn't have been using
2242 anyway): the interface and code for arbitrating between multiple
2243 threads in the same user session has been redesigned.
2244 * bug fix: GET-SETF-EXPANSION no longer throws an internal type
2245 error when called without an explicit environment argument.
2246 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2247 * bug fix: buffered :DIRECTION :IO streams are less likely to become
2248 confused about their position. (thanks to Adam Warner and Gerd
2250 * bug fix: Pretty printing backquoted forms with unquotations in the
2251 argument list position of various code constructs such as LAMBDA
2252 now works correctly. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2253 * bug fix: Pretty printing unquotations no longer loses all
2254 stream position information.
2255 * optimization: performance of string output streams is now less
2256 poor for multiple small sequence writes.
2257 * optimization: performance of CSUBTYPEP in the presence of complex
2258 expressions involving CONS and NOT many times has been improved.
2259 (reported by Paul Dietz)
2260 * ASDF-INSTALL bug fix: now parses *PROXY* properly. (thanks to
2262 * SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS enhancement: simple-streams can now be used as
2263 streams for the REPL, for the debugger, and so on. (thanks to
2265 * DEFINE-CODITION is more efficient. (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
2266 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2267 ** the value of the :REHASH-THRESHOLD argument to MAKE-HASH-TABLE
2268 is ignored if it is too small, rather than propagating through
2269 to cause DIVIDE-BY-ZERO or FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW errors.
2270 ** extremely complex negations of CONS types were not being
2271 sufficiently canonicalized, leading to inconsistencies in
2273 ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
2275 changes in sbcl-0.8.6 relative to sbcl-0.8.5:
2276 * fixed a bootstrapping bug: the build process no longer assumes
2277 that the various BOOLE-related constants have the same value in
2278 host and target lisps. (noted by Paul Dietz' test suite on an
2279 SBCL binary built from CLISP)
2280 * The system can now be dynamically linked on the MIPS platform,
2281 which enables dynamic loading of foreign code from Lisp. (thanks
2282 to Ralf Baechle for discussions on the MIPS ABI)
2283 * The system now records debugging information for its own source
2284 files in a filesystem-position-independent manner, relative to
2285 the "SYS" logical host.
2286 * fixed a compiler bug: MV-LET convertion did not check references
2287 to the "max args" entry point. (reported by Brian Downing)
2288 * tweaked disassembly notes to be less confident about proclaiming
2289 some instruction as an LRA. (thanks to Brian Downing)
2290 * contrib update: SB-ACLREPL is now threadsafe; multiple listeners
2291 now each have their own history, command character, and other
2292 characteristics. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2293 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2294 ** compiler failure in compiling LOGAND expressions including a
2296 ** Implementation of ASH-MOD32 on X86 and PPC did not work for the
2297 shift greater than 32.
2298 ** FLUSH-DEST did not mark blocks for type check regeneration.
2299 ** HANDLER-CASE failed to accept declarations in handler clauses
2300 in some circumstances.
2302 changes in sbcl-0.8.5 relative to sbcl-0.8.4:
2303 * New code in contrib/sb-introspect (still probably not entirely
2304 stable yet) provides some support for smart Lisp development
2305 environments like SLIME.
2306 * The conditions signalled for errors occurring when loading .fasl
2307 files have been systematized (inheriting from SB-EXT:INVALID-FASL)
2308 in a way which should help ASDF recover gracefully.
2309 * The REQUIRE/PROVIDE behavior of *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
2310 stuff has been cleaned up. If you code contrib/ stuff, this might
2311 affect you, and you can look at contrib/README, contrib/STANDARDS,
2312 and/or the 0.8.4.27 diff to check.
2313 * In full calls the compiler now does not generate checks for declared
2314 argument types for all arguments.
2315 * various threading fixes
2316 ** and some experimental patches which didn't make it into
2317 the main tree for this release, but which are shipped in
2318 contrib/experimental-thread.patch as a possible fix for some
2319 failures (deadlock, spinning...) in GC-intensive multithreaded
2321 * fixed PPC build problem (source code incompatibility of different
2322 library versions): added offsetof() hackery which attempts to divine
2323 where glibc maintainers put uc_mcontext today
2324 * fixed bug 282: compiler does not trust type assertions while passing
2325 arguments to a full call.
2326 * fixed bug 261: compiler allows NIL or "no value" to be accepted for
2327 &OPTIONAL VALUES type parameter.
2328 * fix bug 214: algorithm for noting rejected templates is now more
2329 similar to that of template seletion. (also reported by rydis on
2331 * fixed bug 141b: printing backquoted information readably and prettily
2332 inserts a space where necessary.
2333 * bug fix: obviously wrong type specifiers such as (FIXNUM 1) or
2334 (CHARACTER 10) are now reported as errors, rather than propagated
2335 as unknown types. (reported by piso on #lisp)
2336 * bug fix: the :IF-EXISTS argument to OPEN now behaves correctly
2337 with values NIL and :ERROR. (thanks to Milan Zamazal)
2338 * fixed bug 191c: CLOS now does proper keyword argument checking as
2339 described in CLHS 7.6.5 and 7.6.5.1.
2340 * bug fix: LOOP forms using NIL as a for-as-arithmetic counter no
2341 longer raise an error; further, using a list as a for-as-arithmetic
2342 counter now raises a meaningful error.
2343 * fixed bug 213a: even fairly unreasonable CONS type specifiers are
2344 now understood by sequence creation functions such as MAKE-SEQUENCE
2346 * fixed bug 46k: READ-BYTE now signals an error when asked to read from
2347 a STRING-INPUT-STREAM.
2348 * compiler enhancement: SIGNUM is now better able to derive the type
2350 * type declarations inside WITH-SLOTS are checked. (reported by
2352 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2353 ** incorrect optimization of TRUNCATE for a positive first
2354 argument and negative second.
2355 ** compiler failure in let-convertion during flushing dead code.
2356 ** compiler failure while deriving type of TRUNCATE on an
2357 interval, containing 0.
2358 ** ASH of a negative bignum by a negative bignum count now returns
2360 ** intersection of CONS types now canonicalizes properly, fixing
2361 inconsistencies in SUBTYPEP.
2363 changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
2364 * incompatible change: The --disable-debugger command line
2365 option now clobbers the debugger at a more fundamental
2366 level, by redefining #'INVOKE-DEBUGGER instead of by
2367 rebinding *DEBUGGER-HOOK*. The main difference is that BREAK
2368 is specified by ANSI to ignore *DEBUGGER-HOOK* and
2369 INVOKE-DEBUGGER regardless. Under the old system, BREAK would
2370 enter the debugger REPL and then suffer recursive errors
2371 because *DEBUG-IO* is also messed up in --disable-debugger mode;
2372 while under the new system, BREAK in --disable-debugger mode
2373 terminates the system just as an unhandled error would.
2374 * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
2375 * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
2376 documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
2377 support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
2378 specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
2379 slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
2380 * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
2381 no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
2382 combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
2383 * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
2384 names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2385 * bug fix: ROUND and TRUNCATE could, under certain circumstances on
2386 the PPC platform, lead to stack corruption; this has been fixed.
2387 (reported by Rainer Joswig)
2388 * bug fix: ASH on an (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) with a shift of -32 or lower
2389 no longer ever returns 1 instead of 0. (thanks to Lars Brinkhoff)
2390 * fixed bug 285: TRUNCATE on bignum arguments, and indeed bignum
2391 arithmetic in general, is now much more reliable on the PPC
2393 * bug fix: LOGCOUNT on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) objects on the Alpha
2394 platform now returns the right answer.
2395 * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
2396 CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
2397 precomputation is now tunable.
2398 * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
2399 reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
2400 performance of the compiler by about 20%.
2401 * optimization: performance of FILL (and :INITIAL-ELEMENT) on
2402 simple-base-strings and simple-bit-vectors is improved.
2403 * optimization: the optimization of 32-bit logical and arithmetic
2404 functions introduced in version 0.8.3 on the x86 has been
2405 implemented on the mips, ppc and sparc platforms; an
2406 implementation of the same facility, but for 64-bit arithmetic,
2407 has been added for the alpha.
2408 * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
2409 x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
2410 * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
2411 generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
2412 * bug 145b fix: compiler used wrong type specifier while converting
2413 MEMBER-types to numeric.
2414 * bug fix: COMPILE-FILE must bind *READTABLE*. (reported by Doug
2416 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant
2417 index argument now works properly on the Alpha platform.
2418 * bug fix: floating point exception treatment on the Alpha platform
2420 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION works much better on string input and
2421 output streams. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2422 * bug fix: many threading/garbage collection symptoms sorted.
2423 SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD now safe to call on a thread that
2424 might be pseudo-atomic.
2425 * internal change: Stopping for GC is now done with signals not
2426 ptrace. GC is now done in whichever thread wanted it, instead of
2428 * bug fix: GC hooks (missing since 0.8) reinstated, so finalizers
2430 * bug fix: result form in DO is not contained in the implicit
2432 * incompatible change: ICR structure is changed; the value part of
2433 CONTINUATION is now called LVAR; corresponding functions are
2434 renamed (e.g. SB-C::CONTINUATION-TYPE has become SB-C::LVAR-TYPE).
2435 * added type deriver for ISQRT (thanks to Robert E. Brown).
2436 * bug fix: better support for loading from the command line when an
2437 initialization file sets (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*). (thanks
2439 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2440 ** the RETURN clause in LOOP is now equivalent to DO (RETURN ...).
2441 ** ROUND and FROUND now give the right answer when given very
2442 small float arguments.
2443 ** (FLOAT X) for X of type DOUBLE-FLOAT now returns X in all
2445 ** optimizer for (EXPT X 0) did not work for X not of type FLOAT.
2446 ** (GCD 0 <negative-integer>) returned <negative-integer>.
2447 ** LCM should return a non-negative integer.
2448 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned the index of a terminator instead of the
2449 upper bounding index of a substring in case :JUNK-ALLOWED NIL.
2450 ** PARSE-INTEGER returned an incorrect index being applied to a
2452 ** LCM with two arguments of 0 returns 0 rather than signalling
2454 ** unsigned addition of a 32-bit constant with the high bit set no
2455 longer causes an internal compiler error on the x86.
2456 ** LOGBITP accepts a non-negative bignum as its INDEX argument.
2457 ** compiler incorrectly derived types of DPB and DEPOSIT-FIELD
2458 with negative last argument.
2459 ** byte specifiers with zero size and position no longer cause
2460 an error during type derivation.
2461 ** bignum multiplication on the Alpha platform now returns the
2463 * porting: The system now builds on SuSE AMD64, although it still
2464 generates a 32-bit binary.
2465 * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
2466 been incremented (because of the changes to internal compiler
2467 data structures referred to above).
2469 changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
2470 * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
2471 more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
2472 (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
2473 * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
2474 SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
2475 an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
2476 * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
2477 constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
2478 CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2479 * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
2480 installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
2482 * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
2483 which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
2485 * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
2486 now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
2487 (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
2488 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
2489 ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
2490 is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
2491 * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
2492 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
2493 * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
2494 printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
2495 * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
2496 off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2497 * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
2498 * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
2499 (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
2500 * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
2501 UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
2502 target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2503 * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
2504 resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
2505 * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
2506 * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
2507 (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2508 * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
2509 function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
2510 this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
2511 optimization quality.
2512 * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
2513 optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
2514 used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
2515 * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
2516 * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
2517 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2518 ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
2519 UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
2520 types form a lattice under type intersection.
2521 ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
2522 ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
2523 ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
2524 and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
2525 ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
2526 function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
2527 a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
2528 calling the generic function.
2529 * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
2530 new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
2531 obscure ANSI requirements
2533 changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
2534 * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
2535 garbage, confusing the compiler.
2536 * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
2537 slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
2538 or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
2539 * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
2540 the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
2541 circumstances could go off-by-one.
2542 * improved MACHINE-VERSION, especially on Linux (thanks to Lars
2544 * type declarations for array element types now obey the description
2545 on the CLHS page "Declaration TYPE", as per discussions on
2546 sbcl-help around 2003-05-08. This means that a declaration
2547 (TYPE (ARRAY FOO) BAR) means that, within the scope of the
2548 declaration, all references to BAR will be asserted or assumed
2549 (with THE, so dependent on compiler policy) to involve objects of
2550 type FOO. Note that no such declaration is implied in
2551 (MAKE-ARRAY .. :ELEMENT-TYPE 'FOO).
2552 * declared types of functions from the "Conditions"
2553 chapter. (reported by Paul Dietz)
2554 * bug fix: CERROR accepts a function as its first argument.
2555 * bug fix: NTH an NTHCDR accept a bignum as index
2556 arguments. (reported by Adam Warner)
2557 * optimization: character compare routines now optimize comparing
2558 against a constant character. (reported by Gilbert Baumann)
2559 * bug fix: (SETF AREF) on byte-sized-element arrays with constant index
2560 argument now works properly on the MIPS platform.
2561 * fixed compiler failure on (TYPEP x '(NOT (MEMBER 0d0))).
2562 * repeated evaluation of the same DEFSTRUCT, a slot of which is
2563 declared to have a functional type, does not cause an error
2565 * fixed bug: sometimes MAKE-INSTANCE did not work with classes with
2566 many :DEFAULT-INITARGS. (reported by Istvan Marko)
2567 * fixed bug: if last continuation of a deleted block has a
2568 destination, this destination should be deleted too. (reported by
2570 * fixed a bug in the bootstrap process: the host compiler's values
2571 of ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT and ARRAY-TOTAL-SIZE-LIMIT no longer leak
2572 into the newly-built SBCL. (reported by Eric Marsden on #lisp,
2573 test case from Patrik Nordebo)
2574 * improved the ability of the disassembler on the PPC platform to
2575 provide helpful disassembly notes.
2576 * SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE on built-in-classes returns an instance of
2577 the class in more cases than previously.
2578 * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now understands :START and :END for
2579 STRING-INPUT-STREAMs. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
2580 * bug fix: (SIGNED-BYTE 8) streams no longer return (UNSIGNED-BYTE
2581 8) data. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2582 * bug fix: it is possible to add a method to a generic function
2583 without lambda list.
2584 * bug fix: reader failed to signal END-OF-FILE inside an
2585 object representation. (reported by Nikodemus Siivola)
2586 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2587 ** LAST and [N]BUTLAST should accept a bignum.
2588 ** condition slot accessors are methods.
2589 ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
2591 changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
2592 * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
2593 lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
2595 * minor incompatible change: the system is now aware of the types of
2596 variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
2597 most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
2598 were silently accepted).
2599 * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
2600 afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
2601 functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
2602 to warn on static type mismatches and function
2603 redefinition. (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
2604 * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
2605 * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
2606 SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
2607 restart for use in user handlers. It is expected that the
2608 COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
2609 supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
2610 handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
2611 note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
2612 but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
2614 * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
2615 ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
2616 ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
2617 ** type checking in branches (194bc).
2618 * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
2619 increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
2621 * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
2622 keywords or constants is permissible.
2623 * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
2624 defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
2625 classes. (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2626 * improved ANSIness in DESCRIBE: The DESCRIBE function no longer
2627 outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
2628 argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such
2629 operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
2630 * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
2632 * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
2633 lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
2634 * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
2635 subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
2636 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2637 * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
2638 MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
2640 * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
2642 * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
2643 SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
2644 constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
2645 respectively change and preserve the value.
2646 * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
2647 is now better at handling symbol macros.
2648 * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
2649 CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
2650 * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
2651 implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
2652 * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
2653 enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
2654 their use properly signals an error now.
2655 * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
2656 being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
2657 time, but signals a compile-time warning.
2658 * fixed simple vector readable printing
2659 * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
2660 precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
2661 (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
2662 * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
2663 strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
2664 * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
2665 the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
2666 * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
2667 in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2668 * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
2669 (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly. (reported by Henrik Motakef)
2670 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2671 ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
2672 ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
2673 circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
2674 ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
2675 causes a type error.
2676 ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
2677 association between the name and a class.
2678 ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
2679 five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
2680 after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2681 ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
2682 values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
2683 ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
2685 ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
2686 ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
2687 ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
2688 is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
2690 ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
2691 which its argument is a member.
2692 ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
2693 argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
2694 otherwise, it creates a new class.
2695 ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
2696 of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
2697 ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
2698 ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
2699 treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2700 SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
2702 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
2703 * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
2704 cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
2705 way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
2706 source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
2707 * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
2708 simple-streams interface has been included. (thanks to Rudi
2710 * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
2711 Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
2712 * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
2713 no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
2714 has been deleted. (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
2715 this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
2716 * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
2717 work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
2718 SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
2719 expected behaviour on conditions. Users should note, however,
2720 that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
2721 and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
2722 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2723 ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
2725 ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
2726 ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
2727 ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
2728 updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
2729 superclasses are applied.
2730 ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
2731 no method was removed.
2732 ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
2733 slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
2734 ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
2735 DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
2737 ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
2739 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
2740 STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
2741 ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
2742 keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
2743 ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
2744 arguments to be passed in the call without error.
2745 ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
2746 option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
2747 function lambda list.
2748 * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to
2750 * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
2751 SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
2752 specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
2753 * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
2755 * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
2756 * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
2757 not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
2758 choosing the CONTINUE restart).
2759 * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
2760 they look for GNU "make".
2762 changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
2763 * experimental native threads support (on x86 Linux >=2.4 only).
2764 This is not compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to
2765 the target features. See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual
2767 * fix for longstanding nonANSIism: The old distinction between
2768 CL:CLASS objects and SB-PCL:CLASS objects has been eliminated.
2769 The return value from CL:FIND-CLASS is now a CLOS class, and
2770 likewise that of CL:CLASS-OF; CL:BUILT-IN-CLASS,
2771 CL:STRUCTURE-CLASS and CL:STANDARD-CLASS name CLOS classes.
2772 * An interface to the MetaObject Protocol, as described in Kiczales,
2773 des Rivieres and Bobrow's "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol",
2774 MIT Press, 1991, is available from the SB-MOP package.
2775 * incompatible change: the SB-PCL package should now be considered
2776 a private implementation detail, and no longer a semi-private MOP
2778 * minor incompatible change: due to rearrangement for threads, the
2779 control stack and binding stack are now allocated at arbitrary
2780 addresses instead of being hardcoded per-port. Users affected by
2781 this probably have to be doing advanced things with shared
2782 libraries, and will know who they are.
2783 * minor incompatible change: Previously, all --eval forms used were
2784 processed with READ before any of them were processed with EVAL.
2785 Now each --eval form is processed with both READ and EVAL before
2786 the next --eval form is processed. (Thus package operations like
2787 sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now
2788 work as the user might reasonably expect.)
2789 * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
2790 INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM. (thanks to Antonio
2792 * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented,
2793 not line oriented. Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
2794 (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
2795 * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
2796 repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
2797 * Known functions, which cannot be open coded by the backend, are
2798 considered to be able to check types of their arguments. (fixing
2799 a bug report by Nathan J. Froyd)
2800 * fixed a bug in computing method discriminating functions: It is
2801 now possible to define methods specialized on classes which have
2802 forward-referenced superclasses. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2803 * fixed evaluation order in optional entries (reported by Gilbert
2805 * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now takes its arguments in the
2806 specified-by-AMOP order of (CLASS NAME &REST ARGS &KEY).
2807 * SB-MOP:COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now takes the
2808 required-by-AMOP NAME argument, as well as CLASS and
2809 DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITIONS. (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2810 * fixed bug 20: DEFMETHOD can define methods using names that are
2811 not the proper names of classes to designate class specializers.
2812 * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
2813 Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
2815 * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
2816 call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
2817 collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING. If you were doing
2818 this you were probably losing anyway.
2819 * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
2820 (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
2821 TYPEP the latter but not the former.
2822 * The compiler issues a full WARNING for calls to undefined functions
2823 with names from the CL package.
2824 * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
2825 Brian Downing on c.l.l)
2826 * bug fix: the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now accepts a
2827 documentation string.
2828 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2829 ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
2831 ** Condition slots are now accessed more correctly in the presence
2832 of multiple initargs for a given slot.
2833 ** The USE-VALUE, CONTINUE and STORE-VALUE functions now correctly
2834 exclude restarts of the same name associated with a different
2836 ** DEFCLASS of forward-referenced classes with another
2837 forward-referenced class in the superclasses list no longer
2839 ** Condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
2840 times. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2841 ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY). (thanks to
2843 ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns.
2844 ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
2845 arguments contain duplicated elements.
2846 ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros.
2847 ** RESTART-CASE associates exactly its own restarts with a condition.
2848 ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST.
2849 ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
2850 in question is unbound.
2851 ** Optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
2852 assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs.
2853 ** SLOT-MAKUNBOUND returns the instance acted upon, not NIL.
2854 ** Side-effectful :DEFAULT-INITARGS have their side-effects
2855 propagated even in the ctor optimized implementation of
2857 ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
2859 changes in sbcl-0.7.14 relative to sbcl-0.7.13:
2860 * a better implementation of SXHASH on (simple) bit vectors,
2861 measured both in execution speed and in distribution of results
2862 over the positive fixnums, has been installed. Likewise, a better
2863 implementation of EQUAL for simple bit vectors is now available.
2864 * fixed CEILING optimization for a divisor of form 2^k.
2865 * fixed bug 240 (emitting extra style warnings "using the lexical
2866 binding of the symbol *XXX*" for &OPTIONAL arguments). (reported
2867 by Antonio Martinez)
2868 * fixed SXHASH, giving different results for NIL depending on type
2869 declarations (SYMBOL or LIST). (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
2870 * fixed bug in DEFPARAMETER and DEFVAR: they could assign a lexical
2871 variable. (found by Rolf Wester)
2872 * SBCL does not ignore type declarations for special
2873 variables. (reported by rif on c.l.l 2003-03-05)
2874 * some bug fixes in contrib/sb-aclrepl/
2875 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2876 ** a bug in the CONS type specifier, whereby the CAR and CDR
2877 types got intertwined, has been fixed;
2878 ** the type system is now able to reason about the interaction
2879 between INTEGER and RATIO types more completely;
2880 ** APPEND, [N]REVERSE and NRECONC check that those their
2881 arguments, which must be proper lists, are really so;
2882 ** An array specialized to be unable to hold elements has been
2883 implemented, as required -- yes, really -- by ANSI;
2884 ** GETF and GET-PROPERTIES throw a TYPE-ERROR, not a SIMPLE-ERROR,
2885 on malformed property lists;
2887 changes in sbcl-0.7.13 relative to sbcl-0.7.12:
2888 * incompatible packaging change: in line with Unix convention,
2889 SBCL now looks for its core file in /usr/{local/,}lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
2890 if it's not in $SBCL_HOME. It also sets SBCL_HOME to match.
2891 * REQUIRE and PROVIDE are now optionally capable of doing something
2892 useful. See the documentation string for REQUIRE.
2893 * infrastructure for a managed SBCL contrib system: contributed
2894 modules in this release include:
2895 ** the ASDF system definition facility;
2896 ** an interface to the BSD Sockets API;
2897 ** an ACL-like convenience interface to the repl;
2898 (thanks to Kevin Rosenberg)
2899 ** an implementation of ROTATE-BYTE, with efficient implementation
2901 * fixed a bug in LOG, so that LOG of a rational argument near 1 now
2902 gives a closer approximation to the right answer than previously.
2903 (thanks to Raymond Toy)
2904 * fixed bug 157: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE and
2905 UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now take (ignored, in all situations)
2906 optional environment arguments, as required by ANSI.
2907 * fixed bugs in other functions taking environment objects, allowing
2908 calls with an explicit NIL environment argument to be compiled
2910 * fixed bug 228: primary return values from
2911 FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION are either NIL or suitable for input to
2912 COMPILE or FUNCTION.
2913 * fixed a bug in DEFSTRUCT: predicates for :NAMED structures with
2914 :TYPE will no longer signal errors on innocuous objects.
2915 * fixed bug 231b: SETQ is better at respecting type declarations in
2916 the lexical environment.
2917 * fixed a bug in DEFCLASS: classes named by symbols with no or
2918 unprintable packages can now be defined.
2919 * fixed a bug in RESTART-BIND: The :TEST-FUNCTION option had been
2920 carelessly renamed to :TEST-FUN. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2921 * fixed compiler failure related to checking types of functions.
2922 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
2923 * the compiler is now much more consistent in its error-checking
2924 treatment of bounding index arguments to sequence functions: in
2925 (SAFETY 3) code, errors will be signalled in almost all cases if
2926 invalid sequence bounding indices are passed to functions defined
2927 by ANSI to operate on sequences.
2928 * fixed a bug in the build procedure: documentation of SBCL-specific
2929 packages is now preserved and available in the final Lisp image.
2930 * lifted FDEFINITION lookup out of loops in the implementation of
2931 many list operations. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
2932 * fixed a bug in the reader: the #n# reader macro now works for
2933 objects of type STANDARD-OBJECT. (reported by Tony Martinez)
2934 * the compiler is now aware that SYMBOL-FUNCTION returns a FUNCTION
2935 and that READ-DELIMITED-LIST returns a LIST. (thanks to Robert
2936 E. Brown and Tony Martinez respectively)
2937 * PCL is now smarter about SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
2938 SLOT-BOUNDP: in particular, it is now able to optimize them much
2939 better, and is now not vulnerable to having packages renamed.
2940 Furthermore, a compliance bug has been fixed: SLOT-MISSING is now
2941 always called when a slot is not present in an instance. (thanks
2943 * fixed a bug related to CONCATENATED-STREAMs: PEEK-CHAR will no
2944 longer signal an error on unreading a character following EOF on
2945 the previous constituent stream. (thanks to Tony Martinez)
2946 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2947 ** ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P now allows arbitrary integers as arguments,
2948 not just nonnegative fixnums;
2949 ** the logical bit-array operators such as BIT-AND now accept an
2950 explicit NIL for their "opt-arg" argument (to indicate a
2951 freshly-consed result bit-array);
2952 ** ELT now signals an error on an invalid sequence index in safe
2954 ** the type system is now cleverer about negations of numeric
2955 types, and consequently understands the BIGNUM and RATIO types
2957 ** the type system is now cleverer about the interaction between
2958 INTEGER and RATIO types: while bugs still remain, many more
2959 cases are accurately computed;
2960 ** in TYPECASE, OTHERWISE now only introduces an otherwise-clause
2961 if it is in the last clause;
2962 ** CONSTANTLY now correctly returns a side-effect-free function in
2964 ** DECLARE is no longer treated as a special-operator; in
2965 particular, SPECIAL-OPERATOR-P no longer returns T for DECLARE;
2966 * incremented fasl file version number due to the change in the
2967 DEFSTRUCT-SLOT-DESCRIPTION structure.
2969 changes in sbcl-0.7.12 relative to sbcl-0.7.11:
2970 * minor incompatible change: code processed by the "interpreter" or
2971 EVAL now has a compilation optimization policy of (DEBUG 2)
2972 (changed from (DEBUG 1)) to improve debuggability of interactive
2973 development, and to allow the use of the debug RETURN command in
2975 * an experimental implementation of the RETURN command for the
2976 debugger has been included. (thanks to Frederik Kuivinen)
2977 * fixed bug 62: constraints were not propagated into a loop.
2978 * fixed bug in embedded calls of SORT (reported and investigated by
2980 * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
2981 ** printing and reading of arrays with some dimensions having
2982 length 0 (thanks to Gerd Moellmann);
2983 ** BOA constructor with &AUX argument without a default value does
2984 not cause a type error;
2985 ** CONSTANTP now returns true for all self-evaluating objects.
2987 changes in sbcl-0.7.11 relative to sbcl-0.7.10:
2988 * fixed bug 127: DEFSTRUCT now does not clobber old structure
2989 accessors that are related by inheritance, as specified in the
2990 :CONC-NAME section of the specification of DEFSTRUCT. (thanks to
2991 Valtteri Vuorikoski)
2992 * The compiler is now able to inline functions that were defined in
2993 a complex lexical environment (e.g. inside a MACROLET).
2994 * fixed bug in DESCRIBE, which now works on rank-0 arrays. (thanks
2996 * Support for the upcoming FreeBSD-5.0 release has been included.
2997 (thanks to Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
2998 * fixed bug 219: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO no longer has compile-time
2999 effect when it is not in a toplevel context.
3000 * fixed bug 222: DEFMETHOD and SYMBOL-MACROLET interactions now
3001 stand a better chance of being correct. (thanks to Gerd
3003 * fixed bug in COERCE, which now signals an error on coercing a
3004 rational to a bounded real type which excludes the expected
3006 * The compiler is now able to derive types more accurately from the
3007 COERCE and COMPILE functions.
3008 * fixed bug 223: functional binding is considered to be constant
3009 only for symbols in the CL package.
3010 * fixed bug 231: SETQ did not check the type of a variable being set
3011 (reported by Robert E. Brown)
3012 * A new optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE has been included, fixing
3013 various bugs (including relating to :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots and
3014 :DEFAULT-INITARGS over-eager evalueation). (thanks to Gerd
3016 * fixed some LOOP bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3017 ** As required by ANSI, LOOP now disallows anonymous collection
3018 clauses such as COLLECT I in conjunction with aggregate boolean
3019 clauses such as THEREIS (= I 1);
3020 ** LOOP now signals an error when any variable is reused in the
3021 same loop (including the potentially useful construct analogous
3022 to WITH A = 1 WITH A = (1+ A);
3023 ** IT is only a special loop symbol within the first clause of a
3024 conditional loop clause;
3025 ** LOOP with a typed iteration variable over a hashtable now
3026 signals a type error iff it should.
3027 * fixed some other bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3028 ** FILE-STREAM now names the class previously known as FD-STREAM;
3029 ** in DEFSTRUCT, a bare :CONC-NAME (or a :CONC-NAME with no
3030 argument) no longer signals an error;
3031 ** likewise in DEFSTRUCT, :CONC-NAME NIL now respects the package
3032 of the slot symbol, rather than using the current package
3033 ((:CONC-NAME "") continues to intern the slot's name in the
3035 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the incompatible
3036 change to the DEFSTRUCT-DESCRIPTION structure, and again because
3037 of the new implementation of DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO.
3039 changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
3040 * Support for building SBCL for MIPS platforms running in
3041 little-endian mode has now been checked in, and basic
3042 functionality on said platforms verified.
3043 * minor incompatible change: PCL now records the pathname of a file
3044 in which methods and the like are defined, rather than its
3046 * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
3047 a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
3048 component indicating that directory.
3049 * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
3050 LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP. The
3051 reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
3052 * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
3053 in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3054 ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
3056 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION no longer signals an error for
3057 primary methods with no specializers;
3058 ** the MOP generic function GENERIC-FUNCTION-DECLARATIONS is now
3060 ** the Readers for Class Metaobjects methods CLASS-DIRECT-SLOTS
3061 and CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS have been implemented for
3062 FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASSes; error reporting on
3063 CLASS-DEFAULT-INITARGS, CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST and CLASS-SLOTS
3065 ** SXHASH on CLOS instances now uses a slot internal to the
3066 instance to return different numbers on distinct instances,
3067 while preserving the same return value through invocations of
3069 ** DEFMETHOD signals errors when methods with longer incongruent
3070 lambda lists are added to generic functions;
3071 ** COMPUTE-CLASS-PRECEDENCE-LIST now has a method specialized on
3072 CLASS, as specified in AMOP;
3073 ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
3074 on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
3075 class STANDARD-CLASS;
3076 ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
3077 * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
3078 ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
3079 ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
3081 ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
3082 value producing form;
3083 ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
3084 variables are bound and made to have no value;
3085 ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
3087 ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
3088 is not a valid sequence index;
3089 ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
3090 PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
3091 ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3092 ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
3094 ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
3095 symbol-macro places;
3096 ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
3097 ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
3099 ** loop-for-as-package does not require a package to be explicitely
3101 ** LOOP WITH now treats NIL in the d-var-spec correctly as an
3103 * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
3104 invariant when deleting code.
3105 * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after
3106 &REST arguments now cause an error to be signalled. (thanks to
3108 * fixed Entomotomy PEEK-CHAR-WRONGLY-ECHOS-TO-ECHO-STREAM
3109 bug. (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3110 * fixed bug 225: STRING-STREAM is now a class. (reported by Gilbert
3112 * fixed bug 136: CALL-NEXT-METHOD no longer gets confused when
3113 arguments are lexically rebound. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann and
3115 * fixed bug 194: error messages are now more informative when there
3116 is no primary method applicable in a call to a generic
3117 function. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
3118 * fixed bug in command line argument checking (thanks to Julian
3120 * fixed bug in COUNT-IF, making it handle :FROM-END correctly
3121 (thanks to Matthew Danish)
3122 * incremented fasl file version number, because of the
3123 SXHASH-related changes in the layout of CLOS data structures
3125 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
3126 * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
3127 "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
3128 Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
3129 build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
3130 as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
3131 can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
3132 when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
3133 without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
3134 sbcl and .core files.)
3135 * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
3136 * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
3137 string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
3138 Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
3139 * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
3140 Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
3141 ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
3143 ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
3144 ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
3145 ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
3146 argument precedence order.
3147 * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
3148 derived types contradict their declared type.
3149 * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
3150 so it can be non-toplevel.
3151 * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
3152 implementation of DEFMACRO).
3153 * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
3154 safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
3155 argument is valid. The exceptions to this are described in bug
3157 * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
3158 functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
3159 * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
3160 introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
3161 * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
3162 * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
3163 * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
3164 * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
3165 (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
3166 * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
3167 symbol macro only once
3168 * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
3169 * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
3170 * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
3173 changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
3174 * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
3175 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. It has been tested
3176 on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
3177 rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
3178 * fixed an inconsistency between gencgc.c and purify.c which made
3179 dumping/loading .core files unreliable
3180 * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
3181 the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
3182 misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3183 * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
3184 host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
3186 * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
3187 non-printing character is used in a format directive.
3188 * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
3189 violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
3190 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3191 * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
3193 * fixed bug: printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio
3195 * fixed bug in compilation of functions as first class values
3196 (thanks to Antonio Martinez-Shotton)
3197 * The compiler's handling TYPE-ERRORs which it can prove will
3198 inevitably happen at runtime has been cleaned up and corrected
3199 in several ways. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3200 * improved argument type checking for various basic arithmetic
3201 operations (MAX, +, LOGXOR, etc.) which have had so much TLC
3202 lavished on them in the past that they can be compiled in many
3203 ways in different special cases
3204 * fixed bug 181: compiler checks validity of user supplied type
3206 * cleaned up code flushing in optimization: Function calls which
3207 should signal errors for safety purposes (e.g. which ANSI says
3208 should signal errors when their arguments are of incorrect type)
3209 are no longer optimized away.
3210 * added new extension: SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST
3211 * incremented fasl file version number, because changes in the
3212 implementation of sequence functions like COERCE caused
3213 internal utility functions like COERCE-TO-SIMPLE-VECTOR (used
3214 in old inline expansions) to become undefined. (Actually these
3215 changes were later undone, so we might very well be binary
3216 compatible with 0.7.7 after all, but leaving the version number
3217 incremented seemed like the simplest and most conservative
3220 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
3221 * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
3222 based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made. This, even more so
3223 than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
3224 progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
3225 mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
3226 userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
3228 * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
3229 functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
3230 suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
3231 in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
3232 and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
3233 * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
3234 treatment and other Unix signals. In particular, floating point
3235 exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
3236 * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
3237 or very deeply nested recursion) has changed. Stack exhaustion
3238 detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
3239 and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
3240 SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
3241 STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
3242 be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
3243 * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
3244 correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
3245 (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3246 * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
3247 that are names of constants or global variables.
3248 * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
3249 alien routines with docstrings.
3250 * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
3251 error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
3253 * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
3254 (thanks to Eric Marsden)
3255 * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
3256 object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
3257 * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
3258 LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
3259 * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
3260 to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
3261 * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
3262 lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3263 * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
3264 functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
3265 MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
3266 to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
3267 * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
3268 constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
3269 Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
3270 * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
3271 types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
3272 * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
3273 OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
3274 behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE. This puts its behaviour more
3275 in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
3277 * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
3278 bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
3280 changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
3281 * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
3282 consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
3283 * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
3284 cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
3285 does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
3286 array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
3287 * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
3288 specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
3289 SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
3291 * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
3292 computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
3293 * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to
3294 Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
3295 * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
3296 (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
3297 * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
3298 of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
3299 CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
3300 DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
3301 manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
3302 once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
3303 the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
3304 * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
3305 (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
3306 is no longer a static symbol.)
3308 changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
3309 * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
3310 cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
3311 bootstrapping under CLISP.
3312 * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
3314 * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
3315 increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
3317 * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
3318 despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
3319 to David Lichteblau)
3320 * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
3321 accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
3322 * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
3324 * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
3325 the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3326 * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
3327 count as they should.
3328 * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
3329 correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
3330 * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
3331 in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
3332 (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
3333 time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
3334 --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
3335 SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
3336 been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
3337 Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
3338 maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
3339 build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
3340 * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
3341 a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
3342 Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
3344 changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
3345 * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
3346 invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
3348 * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
3350 * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
3351 * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
3352 no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
3353 * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
3354 valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
3355 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3356 * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
3358 * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
3359 to Christophe Rhodes)
3360 * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
3361 on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
3362 in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
3363 * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
3364 is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
3365 an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A
\7fB") returns
3366 |A
\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
3368 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
3369 * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
3370 Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
3371 * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
3372 this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
3373 (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3374 * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
3375 (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
3376 * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
3377 gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
3378 * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
3379 and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
3380 backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
3382 * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
3383 fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
3384 * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
3385 INFO database to support symbol macros.
3386 * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
3387 (thanks to coreythomas)
3388 * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
3389 those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
3390 represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
3391 likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
3392 bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
3394 * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
3395 representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
3396 SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
3397 * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
3398 which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
3399 future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
3400 sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
3401 <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
3402 * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
3403 dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3404 * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
3405 that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
3406 * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
3408 * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
3409 default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
3412 changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
3413 * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
3414 tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
3415 (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
3416 programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
3417 away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
3418 * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
3419 for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
3420 seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
3421 systems than the old 4M value was)
3422 * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
3423 and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
3424 * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
3425 of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
3426 SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
3427 * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
3428 an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
3430 ** The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
3431 at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
3432 optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
3433 its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
3434 for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
3436 ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
3437 devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
3438 between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
3439 ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
3440 and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
3441 ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
3442 classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
3443 them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
3445 ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
3446 errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3447 ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
3448 correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3449 ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
3450 to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
3451 ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
3452 ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
3454 ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
3455 ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
3456 * several changes related to debugging:
3457 ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
3458 ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
3459 ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
3460 is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
3461 reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
3462 implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
3463 encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
3466 changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
3468 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are set
3469 up properly again. (There was a packaging bug in 0.7.0 which
3470 left their definitions in SB-SYS::LOAD-FOREIGN and
3471 SB-SYS::LOAD-1-FOREIGN. LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are
3472 vital for most things which interface to C-level interfaces,
3473 like extensions working with sockets or databases or
3474 Perl-compatible regexes or whatever, and the need to fix
3475 this bug is the main reason that 0.7.1 was released so
3477 ** DEFGENERIC is now choosier about the methods it redefines, so that
3478 reLOADing a previously-LOADed file containing DEFGENERICs does
3479 the right thing now. Thus, the Lispy edit/reLOAD-a-little/test
3480 cycle now works as it should. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
3481 ** Bug 106 (types (COMPLEX FOO) where FOO is an obscure type) was
3482 fixed by Christophe Rhodes. (He actually submitted this patch
3483 months ago, and I delayed until after 0.7.0.)
3484 ** Bug 111 (internal compiler confusion about runtime checks on
3485 FUNCTION types) was fixed by Alexey Dejneka.
3486 * Some internal cleanups (getting rid of variables which aren't
3487 needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
3488 file format number to change again.
3490 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
3491 * major incompatible change: The default fasl file extension, i.e. the
3492 default extension for files produced by COMPILE-FILE, has changed
3493 to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
3495 ** There are many changes in the implementation of the compiler.
3496 SBCL is now essentially a compiler-only implementation of ANSI
3497 Common Lisp. EVAL still "interprets" a few special cases, but
3498 almost all the interesting cases are handled by creating
3499 a LAMBDA expression, calling COMPILE on it, then calling
3500 FUNCALL on the result.
3501 ** The EVAL-WHEN code has been rewritten to be ANSI-compliant, and
3502 various related bugs (IR1-1, IR1-2, IR1-3, IR1-3a) have gone away.
3503 Since the code is newer, there might still be some new bugs
3504 (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's fixes:-). But
3505 the new code is substantially simpler and clearer, and hopefully
3506 any remaining bugs will be simpler, less fundamental, and more
3507 fixable then the bugs in the old code.
3508 ** The revised compiler is still a little unsteady on its feet.
3510 *** The debugging information it produces (particularly the names
3511 of FUNCTION objects) is sometimes much less useful than what
3512 the old compiler produced.
3513 *** The support for inlining FOO when you (DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))
3514 then do (DEFUN FOO ..) in a non-null lexical environment (e.g.
3515 within a MACROLET) has been temporarily weakened.
3516 ** There are new compiler optimizations for various functions:
3517 *** the sequence functions FIND, POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF,
3518 FIND-IF-NOT, POSITION-IF-NOT, and FILL
3519 *** the math functions TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and CEILING
3520 *** the function-of-all-trades COERCE
3521 Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
3522 potentially-annoying problem (bug 117): when the compiler
3523 inline-expands a function and does type analysis on the result,
3524 it can create control paths which have type mismatches, and
3525 when it can't prove that those control paths aren't taken,
3526 it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. This is
3527 a particular problem in practice for the new sequence functions.
3528 It's not clear how this should be fixed, and for now, a
3529 workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
3530 ** (Because of the interaction between the two previous items --
3531 occasional inlining problems and new inline expansions -- some
3532 of the new sequence function optimizations won't really kick in
3533 completely until debugging information, and then inlining, are
3534 straightened out in some future version.)
3535 * minor incompatible changes:
3536 ** As part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes to DIRECTORY behavior,
3537 DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes NIL slots of its
3538 pathname argument to :WILD. In particular, when you ask for the
3539 contents of a directory (which you used to be able to do without
3540 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/")) you now need to use
3541 explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
3542 ** changes in behavior that ANSI explicitly defines to be
3543 implementation dependent:
3544 *** The new compiler-only implementation still conforms with ANSI,
3545 but acts a little different than before. Besides the obvious
3546 changes in performance tradeoffs (that the cost per form passed
3547 to EVAL has gone up, and the cost per form executed by EVAL
3548 has gone down), the behavior of the system changes a little
3549 because there are no longer any interpreted function objects.
3550 COMPILED-FUNCTION-P is now synonymous with FUNCTIONP, and
3551 e.g. doing COMPILE on the output of interactive DEFUN is
3553 *** The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
3555 *** The default for the USE list in MAKE-PACKAGE and DEFPACKAGE
3556 has changed from (:CL) to NIL.
3557 *** The CHAR-NAME of unprintable ASCII characters which, unlike
3558 e.g. #\Newline and #\Tab, don't have names specified in the
3559 ANSI Common Lisp standard, is now based on their ASCII symbolic
3560 names (#\Nul, #\Soh, #\Stx, etc.) The old CMU-CL-style names
3561 (#\Null, #\^a, #\^b, etc.) are still accepted by NAME-CHAR, but
3562 are no longer used for output.
3563 ** changes in internal implementation constants:
3564 *** The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has doubled, to
3565 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time GCing and
3566 you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
3567 increasing it even more.)
3568 ** The SB-C-CALL package has been merged into the SB-ALIEN package.
3569 However, almost all old code should still continue to work without
3570 immediate update, as SB-C-CALL is now a (deprecated) nickname
3572 ** Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in
3573 favor of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with
3574 the naming convention used in the ANSI standard (DEFSTRUCT, DEFVAR,
3575 DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
3576 internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
3577 SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected. (So e.g.
3578 DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION becomes DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION.)
3579 ** The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]",
3580 etc. as you get deeper into recursive calls to the debugger
3581 command loop, instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]"
3582 sequence. (I was motivated to do this when squabbles between
3583 ILISP and SBCL left me very deeply nested in the debugger. In the
3584 short term, this change will probably provoke more ILISP/SBCL
3585 squabbles, but hopefully it will be an improvement in the long run.)
3586 ** SB-ALIEN:DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by the old deprecated
3587 name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE for the defined
3588 function, since declaiming return types involving aliens is
3589 (1) annoyingly messy to do by hand and (2) vital to efficient
3590 compilation of code which calls such functions.
3591 ** SB-ALIEN:LOAD-FOREIGN and SB-ALIEN:LOAD-1-FOREIGN are no
3592 longer reexported by the SB-EXT package. They're solely useful
3593 for alien code, so it seems more logical that you should get
3594 them from the SB-ALIEN package, not in SB-EXT.
3595 ** :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
3596 :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
3597 features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
3598 built into the system.
3599 * many other bug fixes
3600 ** DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
3601 advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
3602 general, and they are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of
3603 ways. Martin Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
3604 ** Besides the cleanups discussed above, Martin Atzmueller fixed
3606 *** fixes in READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE
3607 *** correct ERROR type for various file operations
3608 *** some fixes for Lisp streams
3609 *** DEFMETHOD syntax checking
3610 *** changing old weird representation of debug information as
3611 strings (which, among their other deficiencies, don't transform
3612 correctly when you rename packages, and don't change their
3613 print representation when you change things like *PACKAGE*
3614 and *PRINT-LENGTH*) to symbols and lists of symbols
3615 He also made several improvements and fixed several bugs in DESCRIBE.
3616 ** Alexey Dejneka fixed many bugs, including classic bugs and bugs he
3618 *** misbehavior of WRITE-STRING/WRITE-LINE
3619 *** LOOP over keys of a hash table, LOOP bugs 49b and 81 and 103,
3620 and several other LOOP problems as well
3621 *** DIRECTORY when similar filenames are present
3622 *** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
3623 *** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
3624 *** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
3625 *** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
3626 *** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
3627 *** various problems in the backquote readmacro
3628 *** a bug in APROPOS
3629 *** probably some others that I'm not describing very well here,
3630 since the CVS log documents them by reference to sbcl-devel
3631 messages, and the SourceForge archives aren't working well.:-(
3632 ** Dan Barlow improved the Alpha port (and is making progress on the
3633 PPC port, for those of you who think different).
3634 ** Besides the DIRECTORY fixes and changes mentioned elsewhere,
3635 Christophe Rhodes cleaned up the system self-test scripts (in tests/*),
3636 contributed the optimization of FIND-IF-NOT and POSITION-IF-NOT, and
3637 continues to work on the SPARC port (for those of you in a position
3638 to look down upon our little PC-compatible boxes from a great height).
3639 ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
3640 and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
3641 it's trying to decide whether to truncate output. Thus e.g.
3642 (let ((*print-lines* 50))
3643 (pprint-logical-block (stream nil)
3645 (let ((*print-lines* 8))
3646 (print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
3647 should now truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
3648 often truncating it at 8 lines, as it did before.
3649 * The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
3650 from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
3651 SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
3652 my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
3653 there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
3654 SBCL source release and extract them from it.
3655 * The fasl file version number changed again, for dozens of reasons,
3656 some of which are apparent above.
3658 changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
3659 * a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
3660 * Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
3661 patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
3662 * The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
3663 I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
3664 (I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
3665 facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
3666 for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
3667 the current CMU-CL-style interface.
3668 * Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
3669 ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
3670 Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
3671 link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
3672 reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
3673 link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
3674 looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
3675 in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
3676 * Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
3677 is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
3678 sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
3679 work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
3680 * The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
3681 NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
3682 that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
3683 different return types.
3684 * Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
3685 of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
3686 * better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
3687 Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
3688 * more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
3689 * A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
3690 character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
3691 In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
3692 line (not two) to exit SBCL.
3693 * fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
3695 * fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
3696 comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
3697 does the right thing.
3698 * The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
3699 types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
3700 originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3701 * Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
3702 optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3703 thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
3704 * (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
3705 aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
3706 likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
3707 * A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
3708 CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3709 * DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
3710 patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
3711 * Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
3712 * There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
3713 cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
3714 :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
3715 the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
3716 * minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
3717 COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
3718 gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
3719 more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
3720 * minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
3721 returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
3722 rather than the number consed since the first time the function
3723 was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
3724 CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
3725 * minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
3726 i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
3727 supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
3728 thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
3729 * Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
3730 since historically most system changes which required version
3731 number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
3732 the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
3735 changes in sbcl-0.6.12 relative to sbcl-0.6.11:
3736 * incompatible change: The old SB-EXT:OPTIMIZE-INTERFACE declaration
3737 is no longer recognized. I apologize for this, because it was
3738 listed in SB-EXT as a supported extension, but I found that
3739 its existing behavior was poorly specified, as well as incorrectly
3740 specified, and it looked like too much of a mess to straighten it
3741 out. I have enough on my hands trying to get ANSI stuff to work..
3742 * many patches ported from CMU CL by Martin Atzmueller, with
3743 half a dozen bug fixes in pretty-printing and the debugger, and
3744 half a dozen others elsewhere
3745 * fixed bug 13: Floating point infinities are now supported again.
3746 They might still be a little bit flaky, but thanks to bug reports
3747 from Nathan Froyd and CMU CL patches from Raymond Toy they're not
3748 as flaky as they were.
3749 * The --noprogrammer command line option is now supported. (Its
3750 behavior is slightly different in detail from what the old man
3751 page claimed it would do, but it's still appropriate under the
3752 same circumstances that the man page talks about.)
3753 * The :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE and :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE features
3754 are now supported, and enabled by default. Thus, the compiler can
3755 handle many floating point and complex operations much less
3756 inefficiently. (Thus e.g. you can implement a complex FFT
3758 * The compiler now detects type mismatches between DECLAIM FTYPE
3759 and DEFUN better, and implements CHECK-TYPE more correctly, and
3760 SBCL builds under CMU CL again despite its non-ANSI EVAL-WHEN,
3761 thanks to patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3762 * various fixes to make the cross-compiler more portable to
3763 ANSI-conforming-but-different cross-compilation hosts (notably
3764 Lispworks for Windows, following bug reports from Arthur Lemmens)
3765 * A bug in READ-SEQUENCE for CONCATENATED-STREAM, and a gross
3766 ANSI noncompliance in DEFMACRO &KEY argument parsing, have been
3767 fixed thanks to Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches.
3768 * fixes to keep the system from overflowing internal counters when
3769 it tries to use i/o buffers larger than 16M bytes
3770 * fixed bug 45a: Various internal functions required to support
3771 complex special functions have been merged from CMU CL sources.
3772 (When I was first setting up SBCL, I misunderstood a compile-time
3773 conditional #-OLD-SPECFUN, and so accidentally deleted them.)
3774 * improved support for type intersection and union, fixing bug 12
3775 (e.g., now (SUBTYPEP 'KEYWORD 'SYMBOL)=>T,T) and some other
3776 more obscure bugs as well
3777 * some steps toward byte-compiling non-performance-critical
3778 parts of the system, courtesy of patches from Martin Atzmueller
3779 * Christophe Rhodes has made some debian packages of sbcl at
3780 <http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/debian/lisp>.
3781 From his sbcl-devel e-mail of 2001-04-08 they're not completely
3782 stable, but are nonetheless usable. When he's ready, I'd be happy
3783 to add them to the SourceForge "File Releases" section. (And if
3784 anyone wants to do RPMs or *BSD packages, they'd be welcome too.)
3785 * new fasl file format version number (because of changes in
3786 internal representation of (OR ..) types to accommodate the new
3787 support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
3789 changes in sbcl-0.6.11 relative to sbcl-0.6.10:
3790 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bugs #9 and #25 are gone in
3792 * bug 34 fixed by Martin Atzmueller: dumping/loading instances works
3794 * fixed bug 40: TYPEP, SUBTYPEP, UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
3795 and UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE now work better with of compound
3796 types built from undefined types, e.g. '(VECTOR SOME-UNDEF-TYPE).
3797 * DESCRIBE now works on structure objects again.
3798 * Most function call argument type mismatches are now handled as
3799 STYLE-WARNINGs instead of full WARNINGs, since the compiler doesn't
3800 know whether the function will be redefined before the call is
3801 executed. (The compiler could flag local calls with full WARNINGs,
3802 as per the ANSI spec "3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints", but right now
3803 it doesn't keep track of enough information to know whether calls
3804 are local in this sense.)
3805 * Compiler output is now more verbose, with messages truncated
3806 later than before. (There should be some supported way for users
3807 to override the default verbosity, but I haven't decided how to
3808 provide it yet, so this behavior is still controlled by the internal
3809 SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables in
3810 src/compiler/ir1util.lisp.)
3811 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3812 support for the Gray streams extension changes the layout of the
3813 system's STREAM objects.
3814 * The Gray subclassable streams extension now works, thanks to a
3815 patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3816 * The full LOAD-FOREIGN extension (not just the primitive
3817 LOAD-FOREIGN-1) now works, thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3818 * The default behavior of RUN-PROGRAM has changed. Now, unlike CMU CL
3819 but like most other programs, it defaults to copying the Unix
3820 environment from the original process instead of starting the
3821 new process in an empty environment.
3822 * Extensions which manipulate the Unix environment now support
3823 an :ENVIRONMENT keyword option which doesn't smash case or
3824 do other bad things. The CMU-CL-style :ENV option is retained
3825 for porting convenience.
3826 * LOAD-FOREIGN (and LOAD-1-FOREIGN) now support logical pathnames,
3827 as per Daniel Barlow's suggestion and Martin Atzmueller's patch
3829 changes in sbcl-0.6.10 relative to sbcl-0.6.9:
3831 * A patch from Martin Atzmueller seems to have solved the SIGINT
3832 problem, and as far as we know, signal-handling now works cleanly.
3833 (If you find any new bugs, please report them!)
3834 * The system no longer defaults Lisp source file names to types
3835 ".l", ".cl", or ".lsp", but only to ".lisp".
3836 * The compiler no longer uses special default file extensions for
3837 byte-compiled code. (The ANSI definition of COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME
3838 seems to expect a single default extension for all compiled code,
3839 and there's no compelling reason to try to stretch the standard
3840 to allow two different extensions.) Instead, byte-compiled files
3841 default to the same extension as native-compiled files.
3842 * Fasl file format version numbers have increased again, because
3843 a rearrangement of internal implementation packages made some
3844 dumped symbols in old fasl files unreadable in new cores.
3845 * DECLARE/DECLAIM/PROCLAIM logic is more nearly ANSI in general, with
3846 many fewer weird special cases.
3847 * Bug #17 (differing COMPILE-FILE behavior between logical and
3848 physical pathnames) has been fixed, and some related misbehavior too,
3849 thanks to a patch from Martin Atzmueller.
3850 * Bug #30 (reader problems) is gone, thanks to a CMU CL patch
3851 by Tim Moore, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller.
3852 * Martin Atzmueller fixed several filesystem-related problems,
3853 including bug #36, in part by porting CMU CL patches, which were
3854 written in part by Paul Werkowski.
3855 * More compiler warnings in src/runtime/ are gone, thanks to
3856 more patches from Martin Atzmueller.
3857 * Martin Atzmueller pointed out that bug 37 was fixed by his patches
3860 changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
3862 * DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
3863 * The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
3864 *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
3866 * The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
3867 to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
3868 this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
3869 debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
3870 into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
3871 customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
3872 should be constructed the same way as before.
3873 * fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
3874 ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
3875 warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
3876 is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
3877 If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
3878 macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
3879 might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
3880 ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
3881 pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
3882 when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
3883 to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
3884 ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
3885 ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
3886 funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
3887 (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
3888 non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
3889 * The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
3890 incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
3891 calling functions which no longer exist, and because I also took the
3892 opportunity to chop an unsupported slot out of the DEBUG-SOURCE structure.
3893 * fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
3894 redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
3896 ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
3897 rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
3898 worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
3899 Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
3900 ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
3901 the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
3902 ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
3903 FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
3905 * The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
3907 * The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
3908 as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
3909 some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
3910 * Martin Atzmueller reviewed the CMU CL mailing lists and came back
3911 with a boatload of patches which he ported to SBCL. Now that those
3913 ** The system tries to make sure that its low-priority messages
3914 are prefixed by semicolons, to help people who like to use
3915 syntax highlighting in their ILISP buffer. (This patch
3916 was originally due to Raymond Toy.)
3917 ** The system now optimizes INTEGER-LENGTH better, thanks to more
3918 patches originally written by Raymond Toy.
3919 ** The compiler understands coercion between single-value and
3920 multiple-VALUES type expressions better, getting rid of some very
3921 weird behavior, thanks to patches originally by Robert MacLachlan
3922 and Douglas Crosher.
3923 ** The system understands ANSI-style non-KEYWORD &KEY arguments in
3924 lambda lists, thanks to a patch originally by Pierre Mai.
3925 ** The system no longer bogusly warns about "abbreviated type
3927 ** The compiler gets less confused by inlining and RETURN-FROM,
3928 thanks to some patches originally by Tim Moore.
3929 ** The system no longer hangs when dumping circular lists to fasl
3930 files, thanks to a patch originally from Douglas Crosher.
3931 * Martin Atzmueller also fixed ROOM, so that it no longer fails with an
3932 undefined function error.
3933 * gave up on fixing bug 3 (forbidden-by-ANSI warning for type mismatch
3934 in structure slot initforms) for now, documented workaround instead:-|
3935 * fixed bug 4 (no WARNING for DECLAIM FTYPE of slot accessor function)
3936 * fixed bug 5: added stubs for various Gray stream functions called
3937 in the not-a-CL:STREAM case, so that even when Gray streams aren't
3938 installed, at least appropriate type errors are generated
3939 * fixed bug 8: better reporting of various PROGRAM-ERRORs
3940 * fixed bug 9: IGNORE and IGNORABLE now work reasonably and more
3941 consistently in DEFMETHOD forms.
3942 * removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
3943 it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
3944 * The C runtime system now builds with better optimization and many
3945 fewer warnings, thanks to lots of cleanups by Martin Atzmueller.
3947 changes in sbcl-0.6.8 relative to sbcl-0.6.7:
3949 * The system is now under CVS at SourceForge (instead of the
3950 CVS repository on my home machine).
3951 * The new signal handling code has been tweaked to treat register
3952 contents as (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32), as the old CMU CL code did,
3953 instead of (SIGNED-BYTE 32), as the C header files have it. (Code
3954 downstream, e.g. in debug-int.lisp, has implicit dependencies
3955 on the unsignedness of integer representation of machine words,
3956 and that caused the system to bomb out with infinite regress
3957 when trying to recover from type errors involving signed values,
3958 e.g. (BUTLAST '(1 2 3) -1).)
3959 * (BUTLAST NIL) and (NBUTLAST NIL) now return NIL as they should.
3960 (This was one of the bugs Peter Van Eynde reported back in July.)
3961 * The system now uses code inspired by Colin Walters' O(N)
3962 implementation of MAP (from the cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing
3963 list, 2 September 2000) when it can't use a DEFTRANSFORM to
3964 inline the MAP operation, and there is more than one
3965 sequence argument to the MAP call (so that it can't just
3966 do ETYPECASE once and for all based on the type of the
3967 single sequence argument). (The old non-inline implementation
3968 of the general M-argument sequence-of-length-N case required
3969 O(M*N*N) time when any of the sequence arguments were LISTs.)
3970 * The QUIT :UNIX-CODE keyword argument has been renamed to
3971 QUIT :UNIX-STATUS. (The old name still works, but is deprecated.)
3972 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port RUN-PROGRAM from CMU CL to SBCL
3974 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
3975 FreeBSD have been added.
3976 * The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
3977 to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
3978 * The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
3979 its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
3980 * The core version number and fasl file version number have both
3981 been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
3983 * FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
3984 used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
3985 * Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
3986 as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
3987 * Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
3988 compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
3989 and transforms for some similar consing operations.
3990 * A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
3992 * added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
3993 away by constant folding
3994 * The system now defines its address space constants in one place
3995 (in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
3996 (through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
3997 address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
3998 Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
3999 * CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
4000 the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
4001 they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
4002 diff-related operations.
4003 * fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
4004 ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
4006 changes in sbcl-0.6.7 relative to sbcl-0.6.6:
4008 * The system has been ported to OpenBSD.
4009 * The system now compiles with a simple "sh make.sh" on the systems
4010 that it's supported on. I.e., now you no longer need to tweak
4011 text in the target-features.lisp-expr and symlinks in src/runtime/
4012 by hand, the make.sh takes care of it for you.
4013 * The system is no longer so grossly inefficient when compiling code
4014 involving vectors implemented as general (not simple) vectors (VECTOR T),
4015 so code which dares to use VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and FILL-POINTER, or
4016 which dares to use the various sequence functions on non-simple
4017 vectors, takes less of a performance hit.
4018 * There is now a primitive type predicate VECTOR-T-P
4019 to test for the (VECTOR T) type, so that e.g.
4020 (DEFUN FOO (V) (DECLARE (TYPE (VECTOR T) V)) (AREF V 3))
4021 can now be compiled with some semblance of efficiency. (The old code
4022 turned the type declaration into a full call to %TYPEP at runtime!)
4023 * AREF on (VECTOR T) is still not fast, since it's still compiled
4024 as a full call to SB-KERNEL:DATA-VECTOR-REF, but at least the
4025 ETYPECASE used in DATA-VECTOR-REF is now compiled reasonably
4026 efficiently. (The old version made full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime!)
4027 * (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER T) is now executed less inefficiently,
4028 without making full calls to SUBTYPEP at runtime.
4029 (Some analogous efficiency issues for non-simple vectors specialized to
4030 element types other than T, or for non-simple multidimensional arrays,
4031 have not been addressed. They could almost certainly be handled the
4032 same way if anyone is motivated to do so.)
4033 * The changes in array handling break binary compatibility, so
4034 *BACKEND-FASL-FILE-VERSION* has been bumped to 4.
4035 * (TYPEP (MAKE-ARRAY 12 :FILL-POINTER 4) 'VECTOR) now returns (VALUES T)
4036 instead of (VALUES T T).
4037 * By following the instructions that Dan Barlow posted to sbcl-devel
4038 on 2 July 2000, I was able to enable primitive dynamic object
4039 file loading code for Linux. The full-blown CMU CL LOAD-FOREIGN
4040 functionality is not implemented (since it calls ld to resolve
4041 library references automatically, requiring RUN-PROGRAM for its
4042 implementation), but a simpler SB-EXT:LOAD-1-FOREIGN (which doesn't
4043 try to resolve library references) is now supported.
4044 * The system now flushes the standard output streams when it terminates,
4045 unless QUIT is used with the RECKLESSLY-P option set. It also flushes
4046 them at several other probably-convenient times, e.g. in each pass of
4047 the toplevel read-eval-print loop, and after evaluating a form given
4048 as an "--eval" command-line option. (These changes were motivated by a
4049 discussion of stream flushing issues on cmucl-imp in August 2000.)
4050 * The source transform for TYPEP of array types no longer assumes
4051 that an array whose element type is a not-yet-defined type
4052 is implemented as an array of T, but instead punts, so that the
4053 type will be interpreted at runtime.
4054 * There is now some support for cross-compiling in make.sh: each of
4055 the phases of make.sh has its own script. (This should be transparent
4056 to people doing ordinary, non-cross-compile builds.)
4057 * Since my laptop doesn't have hundreds of megabytes of memory like
4058 my desktop machine, I became more motivated to do some items on
4059 my to-do list in order to reduce the size of the system a little:
4060 ** Arrange for various needed-only-at-cold-init things to be
4061 uninterned after cold init. To support this, those things have
4062 been renamed from FOO and *FOO* to !FOO and *!FOO* (i.e., all
4063 symbols with such names are now uninterned after cold init).
4064 ** Bind SB!C::*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to a nonzero value when building
4065 fasl files for cold load.
4066 ** Remove the old compiler structure pooling code (which used to
4067 be conditional on the target feature :SB-ALLOC) completely.
4068 ** Redo the representation of some data in cold init to be more compact.
4069 (I also looked into supporting byte compiled code at bootstrap time,
4070 which would probably reduce the size of the system a lot, but that
4071 looked too complicated, so I punted for now.)
4072 * The maximum signal nesting depth in the src/runtime/ support code has
4073 been reduced from 4096 to 256. (I don't know any reason for the very
4074 large old value. If the new smaller value turns out to break something,
4075 I'll probably just bump it back up.)
4076 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK is now pickier about the types of its arguments,
4078 * Many, many bugs reported by Peter Van Eynde have been added to
4079 the BUGS list; some have even been fixed.
4080 * While enabling dynamic object file loading, I tried to make the
4081 code easier to understand, renaming various functions and variables
4082 with less ambiguous names, and changing some function calling
4083 conventions to be Lispier (e.g. returning NIL instead of 0 for failure).
4084 * While trying to figure out how to do the OpenBSD port, I tried to
4085 clean up some of the code in src/runtime/. In particular, I dropped
4086 support for non-POSIX signal handling, added various comments,
4087 tweaked the code to reduce the number of compilation warnings, and
4088 renamed some files to increase consistency.
4089 * To support the new automatic configuration functionality in make.sh,
4090 the source file target-features.lisp-expr has been replaced with the
4091 source file base-target-features.lisp-expr and the machine-generated
4092 file local-target-features.lisp-expr.
4093 * fixed a stupid quoting error in make.sh so that using CMU CL
4094 "lisp -batch" as cross-compilation host works again
4096 changes in sbcl-0.6.6 relative to sbcl-0.6.5:
4098 * DESCRIBE no longer tries to call itself recursively to describe
4099 bound/fbound values, so that it no longer fails on symbols which are
4100 bound to themselves (like keywords, T, and NIL).
4101 * DESCRIBE now works on generic functions.
4102 * The printer now prints less-screwed-up representations of closures
4103 (not naively trying to bogusly use the %FUNCTION-NAME accessor on them).
4104 * A private symbol is used instead of the :EMPTY keyword previously
4105 used to mark empty slots in hash tables. Thus
4106 (DEFVAR *HT* (MAKE-HASH-TABLE))
4107 (SETF (GETHASH :EMPTY *HT*) :EMPTY)
4108 (MAPHASH (LAMBDA (K V) (FORMAT T "~&~S ~S~%" K V)))
4109 now does what ANSI says that it should. (You can still get
4110 similar noncompliant behavior if bang on the hash table
4111 implementation with all the symbols you get back from
4112 DO-ALL-SYMBOLS, but at least that's a little harder to do.)
4113 This breaks binary compatibility, since tests for equality to
4114 :EMPTY are wired into things like the macroexpansion of
4115 WITH-HASH-TABLE-ITERATOR in FASL files produced by earlier
4117 * There's now a minimal placeholder implementation for CL:STEP,
4118 as required by ANSI.
4119 * An obscure bug in the interaction of the normal compiler, the byte
4120 compiler, inlining, and structure predicates has been patched
4121 by setting the flags for the DEFTRANSFORM of %INSTANCE-TYPEP as
4122 :WHEN :BOTH (as per Raymond Toy's suggestion on the cmucl-imp@cons.org
4124 * Missing ordinary arguments in a macro call are now detected even
4125 when the macro lambda list contains &KEY or &REST.
4126 * The debugger no longer complains about encountering the top of the
4127 stack when you type "FRAME 0" to explicitly instruct it to go to
4128 the top of the stack. And it now prints the frame you request even
4129 if it's the current frame (instead of saying "You are here.").
4130 * As specified by ANSI, the system now always prints keywords
4131 as #\: followed by SYMBOL-NAME, even when *PACKAGE* is the
4133 * The default initial SIZE of HASH-TABLEs is now smaller.
4134 * Type information from CLOS class dispatch is now propagated
4135 into DEFMETHOD bodies, so that e.g.
4136 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4138 is now basically equivalent to
4139 (DEFMETHOD FOO ((X SINGLE-FLOAT))
4140 (DECLARE (TYPE SINGLE-FLOAT X))
4142 and the compiler can compile (+ X 123.0) as a SINGLE-FLOAT-only
4143 operation, without having to do run-time type dispatch.
4144 * The macroexpansion of DEFMETHOD has been tweaked so that it has
4145 reasonable behavior when arguments are declared IGNORE or IGNORABLE.
4146 * Since I don't seem to be making big file reorganizations very often
4147 any more (and since my archive of sbcl-x.y.zv.tar.bz2 snapshots
4148 is overflowing my ability to conveniently back them up), I've finally
4149 checked the system into CVS. (The CVS repository is on my home system,
4150 not at SourceForge -- putting it on SourceForge might come later.)
4151 * SB-EXT:*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM* has been added, to control where the
4152 high-level GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions send their output. (There's
4153 still very little control of where low-level verbose GC functions
4154 send their output.) The SB-EXT:*GC-VERBOSE* variable now controls
4155 less than it used to -- the GC-NOTIFY-FOO functions are now under
4156 the control of *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, not *GC-VERBOSE*.
4157 * The system now stores the version string (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
4158 in only one place in the source code, and propagates it automatically
4159 everywhere that it's needed. Thus e.g. when I bump the version from
4160 0.6.6 to 0.6.7, I'll only need to modify the sources in one place.
4161 * The C source files now include boilerplate legalese and documentation
4162 at the head of each file (just as the Lisp source files already did).
4163 * At Dan Barlow's suggestion, the hyperlink from the SBCL website
4164 to his page will be replaced with a link to his new CLiki service.
4166 changes in sbcl-0.6.5 relative to sbcl-0.6.4:
4168 * Raymond Wiker's patches to port the system to FreeBSD have been merged.
4169 * The build process now looks for GNU make under the default name "gmake",
4170 instead of "make" as it used to. If GNU make is not available as "gmake"
4171 on your system, you can change this default behavior by setting the
4172 GNUMAKE environment variable.
4173 * Replace #+SB-DOC with #!+SB-DOC in seq.lisp so that the system
4174 can build without error under CMU CL.
4176 changes in sbcl-0.6.4 relative to sbcl-0.6.3:
4178 * There is now a partial SBCL user manual (with some new text and some
4179 text cribbed from the CMU CL manual).
4180 * The beginnings of a profiler have been added (starting with the
4181 CMU CL profiler and simplifying and cleaning up). Eventually the
4182 main interface should be through the TRACE macro, but for now,
4183 it's still accessed through vaguely CMU-CL-style functions and macros
4184 exported from the package SB-PROFILE.
4185 * Some problems left over from porting CMU CL to the new
4186 cross-compilation bootstrap process have been cleaned up:
4187 ** DISASSEMBLE now works. (There was a problem in using DEFMACRO
4188 instead of SB!XC:DEFMACRO, compounded by an oversight on my
4189 part when getting rid of the compiler *BACKEND* stuff.)
4190 ** The value of *NULL-TYPE* was screwed up, because it was
4191 being initialized before the type system knew the final
4192 definition of the 'NULL type. This screwed up several key
4193 optimizations in the compiler, causing inefficiency in all sorts
4194 of places. (I found it because I wanted to understand why
4195 GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME was consing.)
4196 * fixed a bug in DEFGENERIC which was causing it to overwrite preexisting
4197 PROCLAIM FTYPE information. Unfortunately this broke binary
4198 compatibility again, since now the forms output by DEFGENERIC
4199 to refer to functions which didn't exist in 0.6.3.
4200 * added declarations so that SB-PCL::USE-CACHING-DFUN-P
4201 can use the new (as of 0.6.3) transform for SOME into MAP into
4203 * changed (MOD 1000000) type declarations for Linux timeval.tv_usec slot
4204 values to (INTEGER 0 1000000), so that the time code will no longer
4205 occasionally get blown up by Linux returning 1000000 microseconds
4206 * PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT has been tweaked to make the spacing of
4207 its output conform to the ANSI spec. (Alas, this makes its output
4208 uglier in the :TYPE T :IDENTITY NIL case, but them's the breaks.)
4209 * A full call to MAP NIL with a single sequence argument no longer conses.
4210 * fixes to problems pointed out by Martin Atzmueller:
4211 * The manual page no longer talks about multiprocessing as though
4212 it were currently supported.
4213 * The ILISP support patches have been removed from the distribution,
4214 because as of version 5.10.1, ILISP now supports SBCL without us
4215 having to maintain patches.
4216 * added a modified version of Raymond Toy's recent CMU CL patch for
4217 EQUALP comparison of HASH-TABLE
4219 changes in sbcl-0.6.3 relative to sbcl-0.6.2:
4221 * The system still can't cross-compile itself with
4222 *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* (and all the consistency checks that
4223 entails), but at least it can compile more of itself that way
4224 than it used to be able to, and various buglets which were uncovered
4225 by trying to cross-compile itself that way have now been fixed.
4226 * This release breaks binary compatibility again. This time
4227 at least I've incremented the FASL file format version to 2, so that the
4228 problem can be detected reliably instead of just causing weird errors.
4229 * various new style warnings:
4230 ** using DEFUN, DEFMETHOD, or DEFGENERIC to overwrite an old definition
4231 ** using the deprecated EVAL/LOAD/COMPILE situation names in EVAL-WHEN
4232 ** using the lexical binding of a variable named in the *FOO* style
4233 * DESCRIBE has been substantially rewritten. It now calls DESCRIBE-OBJECT
4234 as specified by ANSI.
4235 * *RANDOM-STATE* is no longer automatically initialized from
4236 (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME), but instead from a constant seed. Thus, the
4237 default behavior of the system is to repeat its behavior every time
4238 it's run. If you'd like to change this behavior, you can always
4239 explicitly set the seed from (GET-UNIVERSAL-TIME); whereas under the
4240 old convention there was no comparably easy way to get the system to
4241 repeat its behavior every time it was run.
4242 * Support for the pre-CLTL2 interpretation of FUNCTION declarations as
4243 FTYPE declarations has been removed, in favor of their ANSI
4244 interpretation as TYPE FUNCTION declarations. (See p. 228 of CLTL2.)
4245 * The quantifiers SOME, EVERY, NOTANY, and NOTEVERY no longer cons when
4246 the types of their sequence arguments can be determined at compile time.
4247 This is done through a new open code expansion for MAP which eliminates
4248 consing for (MAP NIL ..), and reduces consing otherwise, when sequence
4249 argument types can be determined at compile time.
4250 * The optimizer now transforms COERCE into an identity operation when it
4251 can prove that the coerced object is already of the correct type. (This
4252 can be a win for machine generated code, including the output of other
4253 optimization transforms, such as the MAP transform above.)
4254 * Credit information has been moved from source file headers into CREDITS.
4255 * Source file headers have been made more standard.
4256 * The CASE macro now compiles without complaining even when it has
4259 changes in sbcl-0.6.2 relative to sbcl-0.6.1:
4261 * (Note that the way that the PCL macroexpansions were rewritten
4262 to accommodate the change in DEFGENERIC below breaks binary
4263 compatibility. That is, fasl files compiled under sbcl-0.6.1 may
4264 not run under sbcl-0.6.2. Once we get out of alpha releases,
4265 i.e. hit release 1.0.0, we'll probably try to maintain binary
4266 compatibility between maintenance releases, e.g. between sbcl-1.4.3
4267 and sbcl-1.4.4. Until then, however, it might be fairly common
4268 for maintenance releases to break binary compatibility.)
4269 * A bug in the calculation of WARNINGS-P and FAILURE-P in COMPILE-FILE
4271 * The reporting of unhandled signals has been changed to print some
4272 explanatory text as well as the report form. (Previously only
4273 the report form was printed.)
4274 * The macroexpansion for DEFGENERIC now DECLAIMs the function that
4275 it defines, so that the compiler no longer issues undefined function
4276 warnings for compiled-but-not-yet-loaded generic functions.
4277 * The CLTL-style "LISP" and "USER" nicknames for the "COMMON-LISP"
4278 and "COMMON-LISP-USER" packages have been removed. Now only the "CL"
4279 and "CL-USER" standard nicknames from the "11.1.2 Standardized Packages"
4280 section of the ANSI spec are supported.
4281 * The "" nickname for the "KEYWORD" package has been removed.
4282 The reader still handles symbol tokens which begin with a package marker
4283 as keywords, but it doesn't expose its mechanism for doing so in the
4284 (PACKAGE-NICKNAMES (FIND-PACKAGE "KEYWORD")) list.
4285 * The system now issues STYLE-WARNINGs for contradictory TYPE
4286 proclamations. (Warnings for contradictory FTYPE proclamations would
4287 be nice too, but those can't be done usefully unless the type system
4288 is made smarter about FUNCTION types.)
4289 * The names of source files "*host-*.lisp" and "*target-*.lisp" have been
4290 systematized, so that "*target-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the
4291 target and imply that there's a related file which exists on the
4292 host, and *host-*.lisp is supposed to exist only on the host and imply
4293 that there's a related file which exists on the target. This involves a
4294 lot of renaming. Hopefully the acute confusion caused by the renaming
4295 will be justified by the reduction in chronic confusion..
4296 ** runtime-type.lisp -> early-target-type.lisp
4297 ** target-type.lisp -> late-target-type.lisp
4298 ** early-host-format.lisp -> early-format.lisp
4299 ** late-host-format.lisp -> late-format.lisp
4300 ** host-error.lisp -> misc-error.lisp
4301 ** early-error.lisp -> early-target-error.lisp
4302 ** late-error.lisp -> late-target-error.lisp
4303 ** host-defboot.lisp -> early-defboot.lisp
4304 ** code/misc.lisp -> code/target-misc.lisp
4305 ** code/host-misc.lisp -> code/misc.lisp
4306 ** code/numbers.lisp -> code/target-numbers.lisp
4307 ** code/early-numbers.lisp -> numbers.lisp
4308 ** early-host-type.lisp -> early-type.lisp
4309 ** late-host-type.lisp -> late-type.lisp
4310 ** host-typep.lisp -> typep.lisp
4311 ** load.lisp -> target-load.lisp
4312 ** host-load.lisp -> load.lisp
4313 ** host-disassem.lisp -> disassem.lisp
4314 ** host-insts.lisp -> insts.lisp
4315 ** byte-comp.lisp -> target-byte-comp.lisp
4316 ** host-byte-comp.lisp -> byte-comp.lisp
4317 ** host-signal.lisp -> signal.lisp
4318 ** host-defstruct.lisp -> defstruct.lisp
4319 ** late-target-type.lisp -> deftypes-for-target.lisp
4320 Furthermore, several other previously target-only files foo.lisp (e.g.
4321 hash-table.lisp and random.lisp) have been split into a target-and-host
4322 foo.lisp file and a target-only target-foo.lisp file, with their key type
4323 definitions in the target-and-host part, so that the cross-compiler will
4324 know more about target types.
4325 * DEFSTRUCT BACKEND, and the BACKEND-valued *BACKEND* variable, have
4326 gone away. In their place are various *BACKEND-FOO* variables
4327 corresponding to the slots of the old structure.
4328 * A bug which caused the SB-COLD bootstrap-time package to be propagated
4329 into the target SBCL has been fixed.
4330 * The chill.lisp system for loading cold code into a running SBCL
4332 * Support for the CMU CL "scavenger hook" extension has been removed.
4333 (It was undocumented and unused in the CMU CL sources that SBCL was
4334 derived from, and stale in sbcl-0.6.1.)
4335 * Various errors in the cross-compiler type system were detected
4336 by running the cross-compiler with *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED*
4337 (enabling various consistency checks). Many of them were fixed,
4338 but some hard problems remain, so the compiler is back to
4339 running without *TYPE-SYSTEM-INITIALIZED* for now.
4340 * As part of the cross-compiler type system cleanup, I implemented
4341 DEF!TYPE and got rid of early-ugly-duplicates.lisp.
4342 * I have started adding UNCROSS calls throughout the type system
4343 and the INFO database. (Thus perhaps eventually the blanket UNCROSS
4344 on cross-compiler input files will be able to go away, and various
4346 * CONSTANTP now returns true for quoted forms (as explicitly required
4349 changes in sbcl-0.6.1 relative to sbcl-0.6.0:
4351 * changed build optimization from (SAFETY 1) to (SAFETY 3) as a short-term
4352 fix for various type-unsafety bugs, e.g. failures with (LENGTH 123) and
4353 (MAKE-LIST -1). In the longer term, it ought to become true
4354 that declarations are assertions even at SAFETY 1. For now, it's not
4355 quite true even at SAFETY 3, but it's at least more nearly true..
4356 (Note that this change seems to increases the size of the system by
4357 O(5%) and to decrease the speed of the compiler by 20% or more.)
4358 * changed ALIEN printing to be much more abbreviated, as a short-term fix
4359 for the problem of printing dozens of lines of distracting information
4360 about low-level system machinery as part of the top stack frame
4361 on entry to the debugger when an undefined function was called.
4362 * tweaked the debugger's use of WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX so that *PACKAGE*
4363 is not reset to COMMON-LISP-USER.
4364 * Compilation of stuff related to dyncount.lisp has been made conditional
4365 on the :SB-DYNCOUNT target feature, so that the ordinary core system is
4366 smaller. The various dyncount-related symbols have been moved into
4367 a new "SB-DYNCOUNT" package.
4368 * tty-inspect.lisp has been renamed to inspect.lisp.
4369 * unix-glibc2.lisp has been renamed to unix.lisp, and the :GLIBC2
4370 feature has gone away. (When we eventually port to other flavors of
4371 libc and/or Unix, we'll try to make the differences between flavors
4372 invisible at the user level.)
4373 * Various other *FEATURES* tags, and/or their associated conditionals,
4374 have been removed if obsolescent, or given better documentation, or
4375 sometimes given more-mnemonic names.
4377 changes in sbcl-0.6.0 relative to sbcl-0.5.0:
4379 * tidied up "make.sh" script
4380 * tidied up system directory structure
4381 * better "clean.sh" behavior
4382 * added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
4383 * many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
4384 trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
4385 * (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
4386 * new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
4387 * tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
4388 * initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
4389 * command line argument processing
4390 * added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
4391 * more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
4392 terminating SBCL on EOF
4393 * non-verbose GC by default
4394 * There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
4395 runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
4396 * removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
4398 * tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
4399 symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
4400 instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
4401 whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
4402 transformed along with everything else.
4403 * tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
4404 of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
4405 source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
4406 by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
4407 sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
4408 * added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
4409 debugging and testing purposes
4410 * cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
4411 instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
4412 methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
4413 * converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
4414 * deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
4415 * moved some files out of cold init into warm init
4416 * deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
4418 * regularized formatting of source files
4419 * added an install.sh script
4420 * fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
4421 compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
4422 itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
4423 builds nicely on my old laptop.
4424 * added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
4425 * deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
4426 was not implemented)
4427 * re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
4428 are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
4429 and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
4430 that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
4431 can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
4433 * changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
4434 to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec; also changed
4435 compiler note reporting so that it doesn't use the condition system
4436 at all (and hence affects neither FAILURE-P nor WARNINGS-P in the
4437 COMPILE-FILE command)
4438 * made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
4439 function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
4440 no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
4441 with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
4442 * removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
4443 removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
4444 of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
4445 DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
4446 * Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
4447 reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
4448 (Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
4449 *TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
4450 * deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
4451 may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
4452 but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
4454 * deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
4455 there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
4456 known to be able to handle the current sources
4457 * moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
4458 how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
4459 interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
4460 trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
4461 the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
4462 arrive with some future maintenance release.)
4463 * removed host-oops.lisp
4464 * changed signature of QUIT function to allow UNIX-CODE argument
4465 * fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
4466 * tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
4467 output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
4468 * set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
4469 * added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by