* Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
- * bug fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM) now
- accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
- (reported by Edi Weitz)
+ * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
+ constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
+ 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.
+ * 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.
+ (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
is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
* bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
+ * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
+ * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
+ (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
+ * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
+ UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
+ 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
+ optimization quality.
+ * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
+ 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
+ types form a lattice under type intersection.
+ ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
+ ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
+ ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
+ and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
+ ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
+ 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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