0.8.9.5:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -2313,19 +2313,25 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
     ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
        element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
 
-<<<<<<< NEWS
-changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
-  * *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in 
-    favor of the new, more general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
-    mechanism. (This matters to you only if you rebind the printer control
-    variables and then find you want different bindings in the debugger
-    than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
-
-=======
 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
+  * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
+    *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
+    general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
+    should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
+    variables and then find you want different bindings in the 
+    debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
   * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
     (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
     assembler and linker.  (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
+  * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
+    WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
+    more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
+    behaviour.
+  * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
+    that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions.  (thanks to Juho
+    Snellman)
+  * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
+    needless bounds checking.  (thanks to Juho Snellman)
   * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
     (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
@@ -2343,8 +2349,24 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
        their output stream on EOF from read.
     ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
        have been read to end-of-file.
+    ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
+       STRING-STREAMS.
+    ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
+       description of determination of which consecutive characters
+       constitute a word.
+    ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ", 
+       rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
+    ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
+       less than 10 works correctly.
+    ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
+       more than 10 works correctly.
+    ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
+       the readtable currently in effect.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
+  * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF.  (thanks for
+    the test case to Dave Roberts)
 
->>>>>>> 1.484
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles
     down, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and