0.pre8.103:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
     sbcl --eval "(defpackage :foo)" --eval "(print 'foo::bar)" now work
     as the user might reasonably expect.)
   * minor incompatible change: *STANDARD-INPUT* is now only an
-    INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM.  (thanks to Antonio 
+    INPUT-STREAM, not a BIDIRECTIONAL-STREAM.  (thanks to Antonio
     Martinez)
   * minor incompatible change: Y-OR-N-P is now character-oriented, not
     line oriented.  Also, YES-OR-NO-P now works without errors.
@@ -1658,12 +1658,23 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
   * bug fix: INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P now works on streams associated with
     Unix file descriptors, instead of blowing up. (thanks to Antonio
     Martinez)
-  * Experimental native threads support, on x86 Linux.  This is not 
+  * Experimental native threads support, on x86 Linux.  This is not
     compiled in by default: you need to add :SB-THREAD to the target
-    features.  See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual for 
+    features.  See the "Beyond ANSI" chapter of the manual for
     details.
+  * Garbage collection refactoring: user-visible change is that a
+    call to the GC function during WITHOUT-GCING will not do garbage
+    collection until the end of the WITHOUT-GCING.  If you were doing
+    this you were probably losing anyway.
   * sb-aclrepl module improvements: an integrated inspector, added
     repl features, and a bug fix to :trace command.
+  * fixed bug in MEMBER type: (MEMBER 0.0) is not the same as
+    (SINGLE-FLOAT 0.0 0.0), because of the existence of -0.0 which is
+    TYPEP the latter but not the former.
+  * compiler issues a full WARNING on calling of an undefined function
+    with a name from the CL package.
+  * MAP-INTO for a vector destination is open coded. (reported by
+    Brian Downing on c.l.l)
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** COPY-ALIST now signals an error if its argument is a dotted
        list;
@@ -1677,6 +1688,18 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
        causes an error;
     ** condition slots are now initialized once each, not multiple
        times;  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+    ** CONVERT-MORE-CALL failed on a lambda list (&KEY);  (thanks to
+       Gerd Moellmann)
+    ** &WHOLE and &REST arguments in macro lambda lists are patterns;
+    ** NSET-EXCLUSIVE-OR does not return extra elements when its
+       arguments contain duplicated elements;
+    ** RESTART-CASE understands local macros;
+    ** ... and associates exactly its own restarts with a condition;
+    ** ENDP in safe mode checks its argument to be of type LIST;
+    ** COPY-SYMBOL in a threaded build no longer fails when the symbol
+       in question is unbound;
+    ** optimized MAKE-INSTANCE functions no longer cause internal
+       assertion failures in the presence of duplicate initargs;
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles