and PPC ports (from CMUCL), control stack exhaustion checking (new)
and native threads support for x86 Linux (new). He also refactored
the garbage collectors for understandability, wrote code
- (e.g. grovel_headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to find
+ (e.g. grovel-headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to find
machine-dependent and OS-dependent constants automatically, and was
original author of the asdf, asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets,
sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix contrib packages.
tremendous amount of work on the compiler in particular, fixing
bugs and refactoring.
-Paul Dietz
- He is in the process of writing a comprehensive test suite for the
- requirements of the ANSI Common Lisp standard. Already, at the
- halfway stage, it has caught hundreds of bugs in SBCL, and provided
- simple test cases for them.
+Paul Dietz He is in the process of writing a comprehensive test suite
+ for the requirements of the ANSI Common Lisp standard. Already, at
+ the halfway stage, it has caught hundreds of bugs in SBCL, and
+ provided simple test cases for them. His random crash tester has
+ caught an old deep problem in the implementation of the stack
+ analysis phase in the compiler.
Miles Egan
He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other