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+changes relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
+ * notice: The implementation of MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of
+ ROOM, plus a few SB-INTROSPECT functions) has been completely
+ rewritten, it may now exhibit different bugs than before.
+ * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM supports a :DIRECTORY argument to set
+ the working directory of the spawned process.
+ (lp#791800) (patch by Matthias Benkard)
+ * enhancement: boxed vectors (vectors of T or of FIXNUM) can now be
+ stack-allocated on PPC.
+ * enhancement: "fixed objects" can now be stack-allocated on PPC.
+ * enhancement: WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS no longer conses on PPC/GENCGC.
+ * enhancement: (sb-introspect:find-definition-sources-by-name x :vop) now
+ also returns VOPs which do not translate any functions, and finds
+ defoptimizer types ir2convert and stack-allocate-result.
+ * enhancement: better type derivation for APPEND, NCONC, LIST.
+ (lp#538957)
+ * enhancement: MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of ROOM) now walks the
+ heap in a manner similar to the GC rather than its previous ad-hoc
+ scheme, and is therefore no less and possibly more accurate.
+ * bug fix: type derivation for LOG{AND,IOR,XOR} scales linearly instead
+ of quadratically with the size of the input in the worst case.
+ (lp#1096444)
+ * bug fix: handle errors when initializing *default-pathname-defaults*,
+ sb-ext:*runtime-pathname*, sb-ext:*posix-argv* on startup, like character
+ decoding errors, or directories being deleted.
+ * bug fix: Loading a core with a discontiguous dynamic space now correctly
+ computes the amount of dynamic space used.
+ * bug fix: disassembler missing ",8" on SHLD
+ * bug fix: backtracing through INTERNAL-ERROR signal handlers on systems
+ that provide an "invalid" stack frame link for the signal handler
+ itself now use the saved-fp-and-pc mechanism to pick up from the stack
+ frame in the interrupt (signal) context. This is known to affect
+ threaded FreeBSD/x86-64.
+ * bug fix: some LOOP statements couldn't be compiled.
+ (lp#1178989)
+ * bug fix: sb-sequence:dosequence works on literal vectors.
+ * bug fix: errors in generic arithmetic show the assembly routine's
+ caller on x86 and x86-64. (lp#800343)
+ * bug fix: Compile-time type errors should never result in COMPILE-FILE
+ failure. (lp#943953)
+ * bug fix: Known bad local calls do not cause strange failures when
+ emitting or dumping code. (lp#504121)
+ * bug fix: Multiply-inlined structure constructor don't cause IR2-time
+ codegen errors: type checks are inserted as necessary. (lp#1177703)
+ * bug fix: Unsigned modular arithmetic is correctly converted into signed
+ modular arithemtic (mostly to exploit fixnum-width VOPs). (lp#1026634)
+ * optimization: faster ISQRT on fixnums and small bignums
+ * optimization: faster and smaller INTEGER-LENGTH on fixnums on x86-64.
+ * optimization: On x86-64, the number of multi-byte NOP instructions used
+ for code alignment is now always minimal.
+ * optimization: On 64-bit targets, the compiler generates much faster
+ code for type checks for types known at compile time that are smaller
+ than (SIGNED-BYTE 64) or (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) and larger than FIXNUM, and
+ their COMPLEX variants.
+ * optimization: On x86 targets, more uses of ALIEN-FUNCALL during cross
+ compilation now inline the INVOKE-WITH-SAVED-FP-AND-PC dance.
+ * optimization: ROOM no longer conses so egregiously on non-x86oid
+ systems.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.1.7 relative to sbcl-1.1.6:
+ * enhancement: TRACE :PRINT-ALL handles multiple-valued forms.
+ (lp#457053)
+ * bug fix: :allocation slot option works for condition slots
+ (lp#1049404)
+ * bug fix: redefining conditions does not lead to multiple evaluations of
+ hairy slot initfunctions anymore (lp#1164969)
+ * bug fix: CLASS-DIRECT-DEFAULT-INITARGS now works for condition classes
+ (lp#1164970)
+ * bug fix: function constants now work as initforms and default initarg
+ values of conditions (lp#539517)
+ * bug fix: svref/(setf svref) on symbol macros don't crash the compiler
+ anymore. (Minimal test case provided by James M. Lawrence on sbcl-devel)
+ * bug fix: no more bogus ## references when pretty printing backquoted
+ forms with non-trivial structure sharing. (lp#1161218)
+ * bug fix: Don't signal an error on (setf (documentation nil 'function)
+ "doc"). Signal a style-warning instead when trying to set documentation
+ of NIL for all other documentation types. (Reported by Zach
+ Beane; regression since 2e52fa05.)
+ * bug fix: modular arithmetic involving large constants and conditionals
+ should no longer result in spurious dead code elimination. (Reported by
+ Eric Marsden).
+ * bug fix: our mach exception handler can seemingly called very early in
+ the program execution process on OS X 10.8.0. Try and handle that case
+ robustly, without potentially leaking mach ports too much.
+ * optimization: LOGBITP and LOGTEST optimizations from x86 ported to x86_64.
+
changes in sbcl-1.1.6 relative to sbcl-1.1.5:
- * enhancement: the continuable error when defknown-ing over extant
+ * enhancement: the continuable error when defknown-ing over extant
fndb entries can be ignored by passing :overwrite-fndb-silently t
as a keyword argument to sb-c:defknown (after attributes). Useful
to allow defknown to be re-loaded. Use with :allow-other-keys t
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