0.8.7.52:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -2257,11 +2257,15 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
     behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
     exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
     recursive manner.
+  * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
+    recognized as being TYPEP their class.
   * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
     (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
   * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
     (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
     teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
+  * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
+    not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
        non-local entry points.
@@ -2290,6 +2294,12 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
        signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
     ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
        designator argument does not designate a stream.
+    ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
+       examining the synonym.
+    ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
+       work as specified.
+    ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
+       element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles