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

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8c3eecb..5c384d4 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
        full-blows cross-compilation.)
   * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN signals a storage-condition instead of returning a
     null alien when malloc() fails. (lp#891268)
+  * 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
@@ -28,6 +36,11 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
   * bug fix: bogus style-warnings for DEFMETHOD forms that both declared some
     required arguments ignored and performed assignments to others.
     (lp#898331)
+  * bug fix: *EVALUATOR-MODE* :COMPILE treated (LET () ...) identically
+    to (LOCALLY ...) leading to internally inconsistent toplevel-formness.
+  * bug fix: non-toplevel DEFSTRUCT signaled a style warning for unknown type.
+  * bug fix: redefining a function whose previous definition contained an
+    unknown type no longer causes a style-warning. (lp#806243)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
   * minor incompatible changes: