0.8.15.18: Linkage table tweaks & alien bugfix

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,4 +1,18 @@
 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:

+  * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
+    supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
+    supported platforms.
+  * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
+    no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
+    original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
+    (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
+  * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
+    generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
+    bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
+  * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
+    associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
+    Bruno Haible)

   * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
     (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32.  (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
   * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
   * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
     (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32.  (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
   * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with

@@ -6,10 +20,24 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
     redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
     incompatible lambda list now signals an error.  (thanks to Zach
     Beane)
     redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
     incompatible lambda list now signals an error.  (thanks to Zach
     Beane)

+  * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
+    same name in an enclosing lexical environment.  (thanks to Zach
+    Beane)
+  * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
+    IR1-optimization.  (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
+  * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation

   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
        returns the right answer.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
        returns the right answer.

-    ** (SIGNED-BYTE) is a valid type specifier for sequence creators.
+    ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
+       creators.
+    ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
+       correct.
+    ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
+    ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
+       correct amounts.
+    ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
+       non-zero minpad parameter correctly.

 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
   * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
   * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and