* 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,
+ ** 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
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)
+ ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
+ errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
+ ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and
+ correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
+ ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
+ to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
+ ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
+ ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
+ Christophe Rhodes)
+ ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
+ ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
* several changes related to debugging:
** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
** stack overflow detection, as noted above
implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
specification.)
- ?? TRACE :ENCAPSULATE T now attaches a more informative debug
- name to its wrapper function objects than it used to
+
+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)
+ * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
+ (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)
+ * 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)
+ * 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
+ likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
+ bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
+ Christophe Rhodes)
+ * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
+ representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
+ SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
+ * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
+ which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
+ 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
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