use *SUPPRESS-PRINT-ERRORS* for backtraces and DESCRIBE

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
   * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-UNREADABLY restart for PRINT-NOT-READABLE
     conditions can be conveniently accessed through function with the same
     name, analogously to CONTINUE.
+  * enhancement: SB-EXT:*SUPPRESS-PRINT-ERRORS* can be used to suppress errors
+    from the printer by type, causing an error marker to be printed instead.
+    (Thanks to Attila Lendvai)
+  * enhancement: BACKTRACE and DESCRIBE now bind *PRINT-CIRCLE* to T, and
+    generally behave better when errors occur during printing.
   * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for
     floating point constants used in full calls.
   * bug fix: deadlock detection could report the same deadlock twice, for