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+changes in sbcl-1.0.16 relative to 1.0.15:
+ * minor incompatible change: change PROBE-FILE back to returning
+ NIL whenever we can't get a truename, as was the case before 1.0.14.
+ * optimization: MEMBER and ASSOC are over 50% faster for :TEST #'EQ
+ and cases where no :TEST is given but the compiler can infer that
+ the element to search is of type (OR FIXNUM (NOT NUMBER)).
+ * bug fix: periodic polling was broken. (thanks to Espen S Johnsen)
+ * bug fix: copying output from RUN-PROGRAM to a stream signalled
+ bogus errors if select() was interrupted.
+ * enhancement: add support for fcntl's struct flock to SB-POSIX.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
+ * enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
+ well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
+ obscured by interrupt handling frames.
+ * enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
+ now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
+ traces SETF-functions as well.
+ * enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
+ * SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
+ when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
+ * unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
+ weakness if any.
+ * bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
+ is now more efficient.
+ * bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
+ 'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
+ * bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
+ full address of the object, and none of the tag bits.
+ * bug fix: readably printing hash-tables now respects other printer
+ control variables. (reported by Cedric St-Jean)
+ * bug fix: compiler gave a bogus STYLE-WARNING for the :SYNCHRONIZED
+ keyword with MAKE-HASH-TABLE.
+ * bug fix: export SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP.
+ * bug fix: SORT was not interrupt safe.
+ * bug fix: XREF accounts for the last node of each basic-block as
+ well.
+ * bug fix: MAKE-INSTANCE optimizations interacted badly with
+ non-keyword :DEFAULT-INITARGS in the presence of :BEFORE/:AFTER
+ methods on SHARED-INITIALIZE. (thanks to Matt Marjanovic)
+ * bug fix: the CTOR optimization for MAKE-INSTANCE should no longer
+ create obsolete instances in the case of redefinition or
+ obsoletion of a superclass. (thanks to Andy Hefner)
+ * bug fix: Support for the Alpha architecture has been revived; it had
+ suffered somewhat from lack of maintenance since sbcl-1.0.
+ * improvements to the Windows port:
+ ** The system detects the codepage to use at startup, instead of
+ using the value from the saved core. (thanks to Kei Suzuki)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13:
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:*EXIT-HOOKS* are called when the process exits
+ (see documentation for details.)
+ * revived support for OpenBSD (contributed by Josh Elsasser)
+ * partially fixed bug #108: ROOM no longer suffers from occasional
+ (AVER (SAP= CURRENT END)) failures.
+ * fixed bug #402: proclaimed non-standard declarations in DEFMETHOD
+ bodies no longer cause a WARNING to be signalled. (reported by
+ Vincent Arkesteijn)
+ * bug fix: (TRUNCATE X 0) when X is a bignum now correctly signals
+ DIVISION-BY-ZERO. Similarly for MOD and REM (which suffered due to
+ the bug in TRUNCATE.) (reported by Michael Weber)
+ * bug fix: SB-SPROF:REPORT no longer signals an error if there are
+ no samples. (reported by Andy Hefner)
+ * bug fix: functions compiled using (COMPILE NIL '(LAMBDA ...))
+ no longer appear as (NIL ...) frames in backtraces.
+ * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery)
+ is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by
+ Maciej Katafiasz)
+ * bug fix: sb-aclrepl now correctly understands how to inspect
+ single-floats on 64-bit platforms where single-floats are not boxed.
+ * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-SLOTS now signals an error if the class has not
+ yet been finalized. (reported by Levente Meszaros)
+ * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T behaves more correctly on Windows.
+ * DESCRIBE and (DOCUMENTATION ... 'OPTIMIZE) describe meaning of
+ SBCL-specific optimize qualities.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
+ * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find
+ an executable in the search path, and does so in the child
+ process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has
+ been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who
+ needs that search behavior (see the manual).
+ * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type
+ checks has changed: now type checks are weakened only if SAFETY < 2
+ and SAFETY < SPEED.
+ * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
+ unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
+ SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
+ filename to parse into a directory pathname.
+ * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a
+ specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which
+ users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD.
+ * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
+ to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
+ non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
+ * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
+ strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
+ known at compile-time.
+ * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
+ a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
+ are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
+ as a simple-string.
+ * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
+ * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
+ long lines.
+ * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
+ (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
+ on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
+ * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
+ with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
+ * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
+ lists in safe code.
+ * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
+ SPEED > SAFETY.
+ * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
+ SAFETY.
+ * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
+ have been fixed.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
+ * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
+ :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
+ concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
+ SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
+ SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
+ * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitude faster
+ in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
+ * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
+ * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
+ * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
+ END is smaller then START.
+ * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
+ calls to profiled functions.
+ * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
+ could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
+ * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
+ deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
+ * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
+ hash-table usage have been fixed.
+ * bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
+ be returned from its body when the values were being returned
+ using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped
+ inside an UNWIND-PROTECT.
+ * bug fix: sb-posix should now compile again under Windows, enabling
+ slime to work again.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10:
+ * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer
+ automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table
+ from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the
+ hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own
+ locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is
+ still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not
+ guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases.
+ * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported,
+ and will signal an error at runtime.
+ * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface.
+ * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and
+ x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but
+ CONS did not.)
+ * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on
+ platforms providing stack allocation support.
+ * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support
+ cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack
+ allocated value.
+ * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall
+ if the mutex is uncontested on Linux.
+ * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK*
+ as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
+ * bug fix: NaN comparison now works on x86-64.
+ * bug fix: CLOSE :ABORT T on a stream with pending output now
+ works.
+ * bug fix: instances of non-standard metaclasses using standard
+ instance structure protocol sometimes missed the slot type checks
+ in safe code.
+ * bug fix: known functions can be inlined in high-debug code.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
+ * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer
+ associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
+ * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
+ on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
+ * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements
+ FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
+ * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient,
+ requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify
+ scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong)
+ * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in
+ method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is
+ a specializer parameter for the method.
+ * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
+ names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
+ STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
+ as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
+ * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
+ of O(N^2).
+ * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
+ inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or
+ EQUALP.
+ * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
+ now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
+ (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
+ * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
+ was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
+ the CAS operation was being performed.
+ * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment
+ semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong)
+ * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on
+ x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of
+ PFD's random tests)
+
changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
* minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.
* enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument,
indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE
is called.
+ * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions,
+ and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous
+ instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
+ * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of
+ STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
+ (thanks to Attila Lendvai)
+ * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts
+ the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating
+ it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better
+ which forms were instrumented by the compiler.
* bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected
by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill)
* bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by
the underlying file descriptor.
* bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream
could cause buffer-overflows.
+ * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly
+ (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the
+ Slime debugger highlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source
+ command was used.
+ * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover
+ annotations.
+ * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop
+ on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem)
+ * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw
+ slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine
+ word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov)
+ * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch
+ by Pierre Mai)
changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
* enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
* enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
- allows assining a global minimum value to optimization qualities
+ allows assigning a global minimum value to optimization qualities
(overriding proclamations and declarations).
* enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
and x86-64.
* bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single
line in a file is unlimited.
* bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have
- been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disbled.
+ been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disabled.
* bug fix: some interrupt safety issues with GETHASH, (SETF
GETHASH), CLRHASH and REMHASH have been fixed.
* bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type
changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0:
* new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading.
* new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information
- abount function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
+ about function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands)
and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code
compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the
sb-introspect contrib.