0.7.6:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1132,8 +1132,6 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
     bootstrapping under CLISP.
   * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
     Alpha architecture.
-  * bug 140 fixed: Redefinition of classes with different supertypes
-    is now reflected in the type hierarchy. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
   * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
     increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
     bug 164.
@@ -1164,6 +1162,34 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
     a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
     Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
 
+changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
+  * bug fix: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
+    consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
+  * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
+    cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
+    does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
+    array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
+  * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
+    specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
+    SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
+    reporting the bug.)
+  * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
+    computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
+  * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to 
+    Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
+  * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
+    (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
+  * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
+    of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
+    CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
+    DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
+    manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
+    once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
+    the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
+  * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
+    (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
+    is no longer a static symbol.)
+
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe
   later, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and