CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
* New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
- via CLiki
+ via CLiki.
* Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
- caller
- * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM) now
- accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
+ caller.
+ * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM)
+ now accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
(reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
* bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
* bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
+ * bug fixes in times and timezones >2038AD
+ * better handling of "where is GNU make?" problem in build scripts
+ (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
* new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
* VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
+ * fixes in SB-GROVEL (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
* fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
calling the generic function.
+ * changed .fasl file version number, in part to add type codes for
+ new array subtypes UNSIGNED-BYTE 7, 15, 29, and 31 mandated by
+ obscure ANSI requirements
+
+changes in sbcl-0.8.4 relative to sbcl-0.8.3:
+ * fixed compiler performance when processing loops with a step >1;
+ * bug fix: DOCUMENTATION now retrieves generic function
+ documentation. Also, DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION)
+ support has been systematized, and now supports the methods
+ specified by ANSI, along with a default method and a method for
+ slot documentation. (reported by Nathan Froyd)
+ * bug fix: effective methods associated with a generic function are
+ no longer cached over a change of that generic function's method
+ combination. (reported by Andreas Fuchs)
+ * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM now does not fail if some element in $PATH
+ names a non-existent directory. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
+ * optimization: restored some effective method precomputation in
+ CLOS (turned off by an ANSI fix in sbcl-0.8.3); the amount of
+ precomputation is now tunable.
+ * optimization: compiler-internal data structure use has been
+ reviewed, and changes have been made that should improve the
+ performance of the compiler by about 20%.
+ * microoptimization: the compiler is better able to make use of the
+ x86 LEA instruction for multiplication by constants.
+ * bug fix: in some situations compiler did not report usage of
+ generic arithmetic in (SPEED 3) policy.
planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
* (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles
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