0.8.8.15:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -2250,6 +2250,9 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
     signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
     Darwin).  (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
     the error)
     signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
     Darwin).  (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
     the error)

+  * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
+    Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
+    (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)

   * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
     second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
     (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
   * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
     second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
     (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)

@@ -2265,6 +2268,9 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
     recognized as being TYPEP their class.
   * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
     (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
     recognized as being TYPEP their class.
   * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
     (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)

+  * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
+    large number of multiple values being bound was not being
+    performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms

   * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
     (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
   * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
   * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
     (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
   * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.

@@ -2307,6 +2313,34 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
     ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
        element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
 
     ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
        element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
 

+changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
+  * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
+    *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
+    general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
+    should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
+    variables and then find you want different bindings in the 
+    debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
+  * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
+    (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
+    assembler and linker.  (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
+  * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
+    (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
+       required.
+    ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
+    ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
+    ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
+       element-type NIL.
+    ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
+       argument.
+    ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
+       2, 8 or 16.
+    ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
+       their output stream on EOF from read.
+    ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
+       have been read to end-of-file.
+

 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles
     down, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles
     down, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and