to Bruno Haible)
changes in sbcl-0.8.11 relative to sbcl-0.8.10:
+ * minor incompatible change: the sb-grovel contrib now treats C
+ structures as alien (in the sense of SB-ALIEN) objects rather than
+ as undistinguished (simple-array (unsigned-byte 8) (*))s. This
+ has implications for memory management of client code
+ (sb-grovel-returned objects must now be manually managed) and for
+ type safety (alien objects now have full types).
* new feature: the SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration should be
used to control emission of compiler diagnostics, rather than the
SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS OPTIMIZE quality. See the manual for
documentation on this feature. The SB-EXT:INHIBIT-WARNINGS
quality should be considered deprecated.
+ * install.sh now installs the user manual as well
+ * (not quite a new documentable feature, but worth considering in
+ the light of the new SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS declaration): the
+ beginnings of a semantically meaningful condition hierarchy is
+ under development, for use in SB-EXT:MUFFLE-CONDITIONS and by
+ IDEs.
+ * fixed bug: DEFCLASS slot definitions with identical :READER and
+ :WRITER names now signal a reasonable error. (reported by Thomas
+ Burdick)
+ * fixed bug: CLOSE :ABORT T on appending stream no longer causes
+ file deletion.
+ * fixed bug: Invalid slot specification errors now print correctly.
+ (thanks to Zach Beane)
* fixed bug 320: Shared to local slot value transfers in class
redefinitions now happen corrently from superclasses as
well. (reported by Bruno Haible)
(reported by Antonio Menezes Leitao)
* fixed bug 307: The obsolete instance protocol ensures that
subclasses are properly obsoleted. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
- * on X86 and Alpha fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test
- suite: SBCL can remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle
- of the stack.
+ * fixed bug 298, revealed by Paul F. Dietz' test suite: SBCL can
+ remove dead unknown-values globs from the middle of the stack.
* added a new restart to *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* handling to make it
easier to resume long computations after using *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*
to diagnose and fix failures. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
* fixed bug: as reported by Juan Ripoll on cmucl-imp,
MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND should be able to lexically bind lambda list
keywords.
+ * fixed bugs 280 and 312: the checking for multiple definitions in a
+ file is less likely to become confused by uses of inline
+ functions.
+ * fixed bug: the #S reader macro performs the keyword coercion
+ specified for slot names. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
+ * fixed bug: lambda lists may contain symbols whose names start with
+ & but are not lambda-list-keywords; their occurrence triggers a
+ STYLE-WARNING.
+ * fixed bug 321: define-method-combination argument lambda lists do
+ not cause invalid code to be generated when &optional or &aux
+ variables have default values. (reported by Bruno Haible)
* optimization: rearranged the expansion of various defining macros
so that each expands into only one top-level form in a
:LOAD-TOPLEVEL context; this appears to decrease fasl sizes by
approximately 10%.
+ * optimization: used a previously little-used slot in symbols to
+ cache SXHASH values, yielding a 5-10% compiler speedup. (thanks
+ to Juho Snellman)
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE returns the class name when called with
a symbol.
it so. (thanks to Markus Ziegler)
** on the Alpha, the compiler succeeds in compiling functions
returning a known number of arguments greater than 63.
+ ** fixed handling of invalid NIL arguments in keyword position
+ in local calls.
+ ** fixed non-pretty printing of arrays with *PRINT-RADIX* being
+ true.
+ ** provided a readably-printable representation for RANDOM-STATE
+ objects.
+ ** ensured that pathnames, where they have a namestring, always
+ print using #P"..." syntax.
planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
* (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles