deadlock errors are reported in an easier-to-decipher manner.
* enhancement: DESCRIBE on type designators reports the expansion in more
cases.
+ * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or
+ :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack
+ of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to Luís Oliveira, lp#901661)
+ * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially
+ faster. (lp#902537)
+ * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can
+ be stack-allocated. (lp#902351)
* optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for
floating point constants used in full calls.
* optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to
errors on debugger entry.
* bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size=<size> argument to make.sh
(regression since 1.0.53)
+ * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with
+ an external entry point caused compiler-errors.
+ * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument
+ no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function.
+ * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to
+ subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312)
+ * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some
+ forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351)
changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
* minor incompatible changes: