changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
* new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
+ * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
+ callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
+ * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
+ Dietz)
+ * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
+ Kreuter)
+ * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
+ * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and
+ grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS.
+ * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname.
+ (reported by tomppa on #lisp)
+ * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
* optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
- * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
+ * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common
+ immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+ * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
+ * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
* minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF