+changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
+ * INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
+ like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
+ * DEPRECATION: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
+ contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
+ * DEPRECATION: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
+ SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
+ * new contrib: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to contain
+ additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming; at the
+ moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
+ implementation.
+ * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
+ GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added
+ :TIMEOUT argument to GRAB-MUTEX on non-sb-lutex platforms like Linux and
+ BSD.
+ * new feature: added SB-THREAD:TRY-SEMAPHORE, a non-blocking variant of
+ SB-THREAD:WAIT-ON-SEMAPHORE.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-DECF has been added as a companion to
+ SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF.
+ * new feature: a CANCEL-DEADLINE is associated with DEADLINE-TIMEOUT
+ conditions to defer the deadline for forever.
+ * enhancement: *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, *STANDARD-INPUT*, and *ERROR-OUTPUT* are
+ now bivalent.
+ * enhancement: errors from NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD and
+ NO-PRIMARY-METHOD now have a RETRY restart available to retry the
+ generic function call.
+ * enhancement: SB-BSD-SOCKET improvements
+ ** sockets and socket streams now have a more informative printed
+ representation based on the corresponding SOCKET-NAME and
+ SOCKET-PEERNAME.
+ ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option.
+ (lp#540413)
+ * improvements to the instrumenting profiler
+ ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin)
+ ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode.
+ ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
+ incurred an off-by-one miscount.
+ * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
+ * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
+ * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
+ to timeouts could be left in an inconsistent state.
+ * bug fix: fix typo in "Reporting Bugs" section of the manual (lp#520366)
+ * bug fix: misoptimization of multiplication by one in
+ (SB-C::FLOAT-ACCURACY 0) policies.
+ * bug fix: miscounts in SB-PROFILE.
+ * bug fix: Fix lost wakeup bug between SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT and
+ CONDITION-NOTIFY on Linux. See threads "lost wakeup in condition-wait /
+ condition-notify" (Feb 2010) and "Condition-Wait, Deadline handler, waking
+ up itself" (March 2010) for further details.
+ * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END
+ against length of the list if the element is found before the specified
+ END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385)
+ * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer
+ block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
+ * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows
+ stack frame thrown from.
+ * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT :POLICY allows restricting changes to
+ compiler optimization qualities inside dynamic extent of its body.
+ * enhancement: LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS can be used to load
+ translations from SYS:SITE;<HOST>.TRANSLATIONS.NEWEST (thanks to Michael
+ Weber)
+ * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) take advantage of
+ constraint propgation, allowing better compilation eg. when used to
+ access structures with WITH-SLOTS. (lp#520366)
+ * optimization: the compiler is now more aware of the type of the underlying
+ storage vector for multidimensional simple arrays resulting in better code
+ for accessing such arrays.
+ * optimization: passing NIL as the environment argument to TYPEP no longer
+ inhibits optimizing it. (lp#309788)
+ * optimization: more efficient register usage when handling single-float
+ arguments on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+ * optimization: ADJUST-ARRAY and STABLE-SORT on vectors no longer use
+ pre-allocated temporary vectors. (lp#496249)
+ * bug fix: Fix compiler error involving MAKE-ARRAY and IF forms
+ in :INITIAL-CONTENTS. (lp#523612)
+ * bug fix: FUNCTION-LAMBDA-EXPRESSION lost declarations from interpreted
+ functions. (lp#524707)
+ * bug fix: bogus style warnings from certain (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
+ WITH-SLOTS usages during compilation.
+ * bug fix: SB-C::CLASS-INFO now prints correctly. (lp#514762)
+ * enhancement: Can now build with ud2 instead of int3 as trap instruction on
+ all x86oid platforms with :UD2-BREAKPOINTS target feature.
+ * bug fix: Breakpoints now work when using ud2 instead of int3 as trap
+ instruction (tested on x86oid linux with ud2-breakpoints).
+ * bug fix: slam.sh now works on win32.
+ * bug fix: better differences of numeric types. (lp#309124)
+ * bug fix: arrays declared intersection and union types can have their
+ upgraded element type derived. (lp#316078)
+ * bug fix: SB-SPROF allocation profiling for all threads failed to profile
+ threads started during profiling. (lp#472499)
+ * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT test failure when building without SB-EVAL feature.
+ (lp#535658)
+ * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:DECLARATION-INFORMATION did not take
+ SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY into account. (lp#313337)
+ * bug fix: Comma inside a backquoted array or structure resulted in nonsense
+ values instead of signaling an error. (lp#309093)
+ * bug fix: Spurious unused variable warning in a DEFSTRUCT edge case.
+ (lp#528807)
+ * bug fix: More consistent warnings and notes for ignored DYNAMIC-EXTENT
+ declarations (lp#497321)
+ * bug fix: FIND and POSITION on lists did not check sequence bounds properly
+ and failed to detect circular lists (lp#452008)
+ * bug fix: leakage from ~/.asdf-install into the ASDf-INSTALL contrib build
+ (lp#538974)
+ * bug fix: LOOP OF-TYPE VECTOR compile-time error. (lp#540186)
+ * bug fix: SIGNAL SB-SYS:INTERACTIVE-INTERRUPT before entering the debugger
+ due to it, so that handlers can run.
+ * bug fix: reparsing undefined types if they have become defined since
+ parsing. (lp#309128)
+ * bug fix: missing &REST type in a proclamation for a function with both
+ &REST and &KEY in lambda-list caused miscompilation (lp#458354)
+ * bug fix: WHO-CALLS information for source-transformed and compiler-macro
+ expanded calls (lp#542174)
+ * bug fix: more accurate WHO-MACROEXPANDS information; point into rather
+ than just at toplevel form.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.36 relative to sbcl-1.0.35:
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-1, SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND, and
+ SB-EXT:TYPEXPAND-ALL behave exactly like their MACROEXPAND counterparts
+ but work on type specifiers.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINED-TYPE-NAME-P returns whether a symbol is known
+ to name a type specifier.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:VALID-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P returns whether a given type
+ specifier is valid where "valid" basically means "would be accepted as
+ second argument of TYPEP".
+ * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-TYPE takes a function-designator and
+ returns the function's declared, or derived FTYPE.
+ * new feature: SB-POSIX now supports accessing the d_ino member of
+ dirent structures. (Thanks to Philipp Marek and Pierre THEIRRY)
+ * new feature: The function SB-EXT:SEED-RANDOM-STATE has been added to
+ provide for seeding a RANDOM-STATE object with user-provided data or
+ from the operating system's PRNG. Also, (MAKE-RANDOM-STATE T) will
+ attempt to initialize the returned state from the operating system's
+ PRNG where possible. (Thanks to Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#310116)
+ * bug fix: Fix SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS:READ-VECTOR to correctly set the
+ FILE-POSITION of the stream being read from. (launchpad bug lp#491087)
+ * bug fix: Fix grammar and style issues for the docstrings of
+ printer-related variables and functions. (Thanks to mon_key; launchpad
+ bug lp#518696)
+ * bug fix: Fix compilation on chenygc platforms. Thanks to Larry Valkama and
+ Bruce O'Neel.
+ * bug fix: SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT sometimes signaled a deadline twice
+ in a row even though a handler defered the deadline long into the
+ future. (lp#512914)
+ * bug fix: A deadline handler was run without interrupts enabled for a
+ deadline signaled within SB-THREAD:CONDITION-WAIT. That could result
+ in infinitely spinning, non-killable threads.
+ * bug fix: Backtrace from internal-errors on x86-64 os x was truncated
+ before reaching the erring stack frame.
+ * bug fix: Fix type derivation for EXPT when raising a fixnum to a
+ real power. (launchpad bug lp#525949)
+ * bug fix: Fix SB-EXT:GENERATION-* accessors for generations > 0 on
+ GENCGC platforms. (launchpad bug lp#529014)
+ * bug fix: More robust checks for invalid DEFMETHOD argument specializers.
+ (launchpad bug lp#525916)
+ * bug fix: Fix building on Darwin when sysctl is not in the user's PATH.
+ (Thanks to Robert Goldman)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.35 relative to sbcl-1.0.34:
+ * optimization: ROUND with a single single-float or double-float argument
+ is properly inlined when possible.
+ * optimization: Slightly better code is generated for integer<->float
+ conversions and for single-float<->double-float conversions on x86-64.
+ * optimization: SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE now generates more efficient
+ code for 32-bit and 64-bit rotations on x86-64.
+ * bug fix: The install script changes the ownership of directories as well
+ as files for contrib modules using asdf. (thanks to Eugene Ossintsev;
+ launchpad bug lp#508485)
+ * bug fix: TRUNCATE with a single single-float or double-float argument is
+ properly inlined when possible. (launchpad bug lp#489388)
+ * bug fix: Passing a rotation count of zero to SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE
+ no longer causes a compiler error on x86 and ppc.
+ * bug fix: GET-MACRO-CHARACTER bogusly computed its second return value
+ always relative to *READTABLE* rather than the passed argument.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.34 relative to sbcl-1.0.33:
+ * minor incompatible change: threading support is now enabled by default
+ on x86[-64] Linux.
+ * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST now also works on most
+ builtin types.
+ * enhancement: Errors during compile-time-too processing (i.e. EVAL-WHEN)
+ are now caught and reported just like errors during macroexpansion.
+ * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides access to tcdrain(), tcflow(),
+ tcflush(), tcgetsid(), and tcsendbreak(). (thanks to Jerry James)
+ * enhancement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-QUEUE.
+ * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
+ ** bug fix: error handling and restart usage in the ucs-2 external format
+ has been improved.
+ ** there is now an implementation of the ucs-4 external format.
+ ** the utf-16 and utf-32 external formats are supported.
+ * bug fix: SB-POSIX wrapper for putenv no longer tries to put lisp strings
+ in the environment. setenv() and unsetenv() are also provided. (reported by
+ Fare Rideau; launchpad bug lp#460455)
+ * bug fix: LOAD of both .fasl and .FASL type files now forces fasl-style
+ loading. This ensures sensible errors for .FASL files from other
+ implementations on case-insensitive filesystems. (reported by Willem
+ Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489417)
+ * bug fix: #p"\\\\" can now be read without error on Win32. (reported by
+ Willem Broekema; launchpad bug lp#489698).
+ * bug fix: some minor code rearrangements to reenable warning-free building
+ from CMUCL (reported by xme@gmx.net; launchpad bug lp#491104)
+ * bug fix: PRINT-OBJECT for clos instances respects the right margin when
+ pretty printing
+ * bug fix: FIND-PACKAGE & DEFPACKAGE were not thread safe. (reported by
+ Attila Lendvai)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.33 relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
+ * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
+ * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
+ x86-64/linux. (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug lp#453080)
+ * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
+ definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself.
+ * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
+ definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
+ subclasses of it.
+ * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
+ about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
+ enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
+ size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
+ developers.
+ * new feature: various GENCGC tuning parameters have been experimentally
+ documented and exported from SB-EXT. See documentation for details.
+ * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
+ ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
+ Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
+ characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
+ transformations.
+ ** improvement: restarts for providing replacement input/output on coding
+ errors for fd-stream external formats.
+ ** improvement: where :<encoding> is a keyword corresponding to an
+ external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
+ (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
+ automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
+ streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse. (launchpad bug
+ lp#317072)
+ ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
+ *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format
+ which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
+ preventing various infinite error chains and unrecoverable I/O
+ confusion.
+ ** minor incompatible change: the utf-8 external format now correctly
+ refuses to encode Lisp characters in the surrogate range (char-codes
+ between #xd800 and #xdfff).
+ ** fix a typo preventing conversion of strings into octet vectors
+ in the latin-2 encoding. (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug
+ lp#471689)
+ ** fix a bug in the octet multibyte handling of decoding errors and the
+ USE-VALUE restart. (launchpad bug lp#314939)
+ ** fix the bug underlying the expected failure in the FORCE-END-OF-FILE
+ restart on fd-stream decoding errors.
+ ** fix a bug in the ATTEMPT-RESYNC fd-stream decoding restart when the
+ error is near the end of file.
+ ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
+ use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
+ ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
+ ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
+ streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
+ * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
+ object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
+ * enhancement: SB-POSIX:FORK now signals an error if an attempt to
+ fork with multiple Lisp threads running is made, instead of going
+ ahead with unpredictable consequences. (reported by Leslie Polzer)
+ * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
+ the bodies of SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS methods no longer triggers a type
+ error while finalizing the class. This fix may cause classes with slot
+ accessors to be finalized later than previously. (reported by Lars Rune
+ Nøstdal; launchpad bug lp#473699)
+ * bug fix: restore buildability on the MIPS platform. (regression from
+ 1.0.30.38, reported by Samium Gromoff)
+ * bug fix: inspecting closures is less likely to fail with a type error.
+ * bug fix: no timer starvation when setting the system clock back.
+ (launchpad bug lp#460283)
+ * bug fix: WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX now binds *PRINT-PPRINT-DISPATCH* to the
+ standard pprint dispatch table as specified by CLHS.
+ * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
+ the cross-compiler without warnings. (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
+ bug lp#396597)
+ * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
+ (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug lp#310132)
+ * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
+ complex and arrays that are definitely complex. (launchpad bug lp#309129)
+ * bug fix: SUBTYPEP knows that the SYMBOL type is not SUBTYPEP the KEYWORD
+ type. (reported by Levente Mészáros; launchpad bug lp#485972)
+ * bug fix: setting the value of a symbol-macro within a method in the
+ presence of type declarations works properly again. (reported by Iban
+ Hatchondo; launchpad bug lp#485019)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
+ * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
+ in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
+ * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
+ by David Vázquez)
+ * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
+ in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
+ * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression
+ since 1.0.30.49)
+ * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified
+ incorrectly.
+ * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS
+ removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and
+ Samium Gromoff)
+ * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex
+ lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel)
+ * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
+ correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
+ options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
+ * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
+ an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
+ * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
+ * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a
+ new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl
+ process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
+ * bug fix: SATISFIES could be misoptimized to refer to a local function.
+ (reported by Stanislaw Halik)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
+ * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
+ inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
+ open coded is now considered a bug.
+ * improvements related to Unicode:
+ ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
+ Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
+ characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
+ transformations.
+ ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
+ syllable characters.
+ ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
+ (as well as for stream operations).
+ * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
+ be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
+ file.
+ * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
+ one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
+ actually needed.
+ * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
+ faster.
+ * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
+ multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
+ * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
+ constant two has been optimized.
+ * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
+ sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
+ * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
+ known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
+ * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
+ * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
+ * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
+ clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
+ * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
+ generic function across method addition and removal even in the
+ absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
+ * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
+ but assumed or declared function as well.
+ * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
+ (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
+ * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
+ ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
+ documented.
+ ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
+ ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
+ well as user defined declaration names.
+ ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
+ * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
+ Elsasser)
+ * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
+ (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
+ * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
+ unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
+ * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
+ by James Wright)
+ * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
+ Stelian Ionescu)
+ * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
+ Larry D'Anna)
+ * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
+ (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
+ * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
+ as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
+ * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
+ leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
+ on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
+ * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
+ designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
+ Oliveira)
+ * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
+ information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
+ * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
+ be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
+ * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
+ form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
+ circumstances.
+ * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
+ was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
+ * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
+ allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
+ be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
+ * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
+ certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
+ * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
+ * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
+ SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
+ of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
+ * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
+ * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
+ discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
+ * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
+ values in other threads.
+ * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
+ about object allocation.
+ * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
+ with a specialised code sequence.
+ * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
+ keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
+ * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
+ in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
+ methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
+ are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
+ * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
+ is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
+ * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
+ and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
+ Paul Khuong)
+ * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
+ callees.
+ * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
+ efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
+ * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
+ * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
+ especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
+ * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
+ unboxed format on x86[-64].
+ * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
+ complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
+ * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
+ and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
+ * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
+ x86-64.
+ * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
+ * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
+ contains more pertinent information.
+ * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
+ provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
+ note being issued is now considered a bug.)
+ * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
+ FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
+ types. (reported by "abhi")
+ * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
+ upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
+ (thanks to Paul Khuong)
+ * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
+ on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
+ * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
+ from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
+ (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
+ * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
+ directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
+ Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
+ * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
+ (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
+ * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
+ global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
+ * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
+ FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
+ * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
+ anymore.
+ * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
+ (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
+ * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
+ SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
+ for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
+ * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
+ at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
+ * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
+ https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
+ Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
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+ * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
+ types are weakened less aggressively.
+ * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
+ allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
+ if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
+ was accidentally reused as the exit status.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
+ to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
+ :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
+ variables.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
+ microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
+ allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
+ variables.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
+ the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
+ efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
+ expressing intent.
+ * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
+ * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
+ element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
+ almost 90% faster.
+ * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
+ is known are 50% faster.
+ * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
+ * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
+ non-simple arrays.
+ * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
+ information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
+ open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
+ * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
+ (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
+ form can be.
+ * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
+ * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
+ as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
+ element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
+ length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
+ allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
+ backquoted forms.
+ * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
+ :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
+ known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
+ * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
+ requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
+ * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
+ * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
+ to Tobias Rittweiler)
+ * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
+ * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
+ * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
+ pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
+ * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
+ (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
+ * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
+ (reported by Hubert Kauker)
+ * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
+ same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
+ efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
+ Paul Khuong)
+ * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
+ x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
+ * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
+ result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
+ James Knight)
+ * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
+ than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
+ result register (bug 316325).
+ * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
+ not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
+ * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
+ generate incorrect code.
+ * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
+ wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
+ * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
+ could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
+ Mösenlechner)
+ * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
+ evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
+ * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
+ * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
+ directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
+ thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
+ * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
+ from :INITFORM, if any.
+