for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
systems than the old 4M value was)
+ * minor incompatible change: new larger values for *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH*
+ and *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL*
* SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other
SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
* new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
* bug fixes:
+ ?? The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
+ at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
+ optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
+ its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
+ for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
+ recursion!)
** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
- ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+ ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
+ and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
for fixing this)
* several changes related to debugging:
** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
+ ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL