0.7.3.6:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1059,6 +1059,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
        specification.)
 
 changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
+  * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
+    Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
   * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
     this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
     (thanks to Dan Barlow)
@@ -1066,14 +1068,16 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
     (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
   * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
     gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
-  * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
-    Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
+  * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
+    and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
+    backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
+    Toy)
+  * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
+    fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
   * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
     INFO database to support symbol macros.
   * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
     (thanks to coreythomas)
-
-changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
   * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
     those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
     represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
@@ -1088,6 +1092,20 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
     future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
     sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
       <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
+  * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
+    dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+  * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings 
+    that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
+  * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
+    can deal with.
+  * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
+    default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
+    Martin Atzmueller)
+
+changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
+  * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
+    invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
+    to Alexey Dejneka)
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe