1.0.37.69: Avoid emitting instructions (LODS, MOVSXD) that confuse others

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
        incurred an off-by-one miscount.
   * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
   * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
+  * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
+    x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
+  * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
+    some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
+  * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on 
+    x86-64.
   * 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
@@ -65,6 +71,13 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
   * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
   * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
     denormals.
+  * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
+    The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
+  * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
+    ignored anymore.
+  * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
+  * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures. 
+    (lp#569404)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
   * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows