0.8.8.20:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -2314,6 +2314,12 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
        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)
@@ -2334,6 +2340,13 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
        their output stream on EOF from read.
     ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
        have been read to end-of-file.
+    ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
+       STRING-STREAMS.
+    ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
+       description of determination of which consecutive characters
+       constitute a word.
+    ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ", 
+       rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles