0.8.20.6:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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+changes in sbcl-0.8.21 (0.9alpha.1?) relative to sbcl-0.8.20:
+  * internal entry point details and argument counts no longer appear
+     in backtraces unless explicitly requested by setting
+     SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS*.
+  * built-in and standard functions no longer have names like "top
+     level local call to FOO".
+  * fixed bug 32: functions defined in non-null lexical environments
+     now have more legible printed representation
+  * fixed bug 33: functions defined in non-null lexical environemnts
+     are now more amenable to inspection by INSPECT.
+  * workaround for bug 354: XEPs no longer appear in backtraces unless
+     explicitly requested.
+  * fixed bug: COUNT and EQUAL no longer issue compiler efficiency
+    notes when operating on objects known to be SIMPLE-BIT-VECTORs.
+    (reported by Lutz Euler)
+  * fixed bug: (TYPEP X '(MEMBER ...)) no longer returns a list in
+    compiled code. (reported by Paul Dietz)
+  * contrib improvement: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib now defines
+    STRING-SIMPLE-STREAM and FILE-SIMPLE-STREAM as subclasses of
+    STRING-STREAM and FILE-STREAM, respectively.
+
 changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
+  * fixed inspection of specialized arrays. (thanks to Simon Alexander)
   * fixed disassembly of SHLD and SHRD on x86.  (thanks to David
     Lichteblau)
+  * fixed loading of multiply forward-referenced layouts. 
+    (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
+  * fixed bug 7: less verbose COMPILE-FILE output. Additionally, the
+    output is now directed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT* as specified by ANSI. 
+    (see COMPILE-FILE documentation for details of :PRINT option)
   * fixed bugs 19 and 317: fixed-format floating point printing is
     more accurate.  This also fixes a bug reported by Adam Warner
     related to the ~@F format directive.
@@ -41,6 +68,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
     ** The disassembler understands more x86-64. (thanks to Cheuksan Wang)
     ** The regression tests use SB-ALIEN:INT instead of SB-ALIEN:INTEGER
        for enums. (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
+    ** Multiple small optimizations and bugfixes for floating point
+       operations.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** Space, Tab, Linefeed, Return and Page have the invalid
        secondary constituent character trait.
@@ -50,6 +79,12 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
        normal termination.
     ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
        works more reliably.
+    ** Bit-array operations (BIT-AND and similar) worked incorrectly
+       with one-dimensional arrays with fill pointers.
+    ** TYPE-OF failed on a complex with an integer realpart and a
+       RATIO imagpart.
+    ** compiler failure during type inference for the code of form
+       (IF (EQL X (THE ...)) ...) (MISC.535).
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
   * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux