0.7.13.17:

[sbcl.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 1d77f65..ab13f0c 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
-for early 0.7.x:
+for late 0.7.x:

 
 

-* urgent EVAL/EVAL-WHEN/%COMPILE/DEFUN/DEFSTRUCT cleanup:
-       ** made inlining DEFUN inside MACROLET work again
-       ** (also, while working on INLINE anyway, it might be easy
-               to flush the old MAYBE-INLINE cruft entirely, 
-               including e.g. on the man page)

 * test file reworking
        ** non-x86 ports now pass irrat.pure.lisp
 * test file reworking
        ** non-x86 ports now pass irrat.pure.lisp

-       ** sparc and ppc now pass bit-vector.impure-cload.lisp
+       ** ports with less than 256Mb of heap (sparc, ppc and mips)
+               now don't fail bit-vector.impure-cload.lisp

 * faster bootstrapping (both make.sh and slam.sh)
        ** added mechanisms for automatically finding dead code, and
                used them to remove dead code
 * faster bootstrapping (both make.sh and slam.sh)
        ** added mechanisms for automatically finding dead code, and
                used them to remove dead code

@@ -29,27 +25,23 @@ for early 0.7.x:
                are now implemented as closures (because
                they're structure slot accessors) won't be so
                nasty in the debugger
                are now implemented as closures (because
                they're structure slot accessors) won't be so
                nasty in the debugger

-* rewrote long-standing confusing error restarts for redefining
-       DEFSTRUCTs

 * outstanding embarrassments
 * outstanding embarrassments

-       ** cut-and-pasted DEF-BOOLEAN-ATTRIBUTE (maybe easier to fix
-               now that EVAL-WHEN works correctly..)

        ** :IGNORE-ERRORS-P cruft in stems-and-flags.lisp-expr. (It's
                reasonable to support this as a crutch when initially
                bootstrapping from balky xc hosts with their own
                idiosyncratic ideas of what merits FAILURE-P, but it's
                embarrassing to have to use it when bootstrapping 
                under SBCL!),
        ** :IGNORE-ERRORS-P cruft in stems-and-flags.lisp-expr. (It's
                reasonable to support this as a crutch when initially
                bootstrapping from balky xc hosts with their own
                idiosyncratic ideas of what merits FAILURE-P, but it's
                embarrassing to have to use it when bootstrapping 
                under SBCL!),

-       ** weird double-loading (first in GENESIS, then in warm init)
-               of src/assembly/target/*.lisp stuff, and the associated
-               weirdness of the half-baked state (compiler almost but
-               not quite ready for prime time..) of the system after
-               cold init

 * fixups now feasible because of pre7 changes
 * fixups now feasible because of pre7 changes

-       ** ANSIfied DECLAIM INLINE stuff (deprecating MAYBE-INLINE)
+       ** ANSIfied DECLAIM INLINE stuff (deprecating MAYBE-INLINE,
+               including e.g. on the man page)

 * miscellaneous simple refactoring
        * belated renaming:
                ** renamed %PRIMITIVE to %VOP
 * miscellaneous simple refactoring
        * belated renaming:
                ** renamed %PRIMITIVE to %VOP

+               ** A few hundred things named FN and FCN should be
+                       named FUN (but maybe not while dan_b is 
+                       working on a threads branch and drichards is
+                       working on a Windows port).

        * These days ANSI C has inline functions, so..
                ** redid many cpp macros as inline functions: 
                        HeaderValue, Pointerp, CEILING, ALIGNED_SIZE,
        * These days ANSI C has inline functions, so..
                ** redid many cpp macros as inline functions: 
                        HeaderValue, Pointerp, CEILING, ALIGNED_SIZE,

@@ -58,10 +50,6 @@ for early 0.7.x:
                        os_trunc_foo(), os_round_up_foo()
                ** removed various avoid-evaluating-C-macro-arg-twice
                        cruft
                        os_trunc_foo(), os_round_up_foo()
                ** removed various avoid-evaluating-C-macro-arg-twice
                        cruft

-* added mechanisms for automatically finding dead symbols in
-       package-data.lisp-expr (i.e. those symbols not bound,
-       fbound, defined as types, or whatever), and used them
-       to remove dead symbols

 * Either get rid of or at least rework the fdefinition/encapsulation
        system so that (SYMBOL-FUNCTION 'FOO) is identically equal to
        (FDEFINITION 'FOO).
 * Either get rid of or at least rework the fdefinition/encapsulation
        system so that (SYMBOL-FUNCTION 'FOO) is identically equal to
        (FDEFINITION 'FOO).