it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. It's not clear
how to make the compiler smart enough to fix this in general, but
a workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
-* The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation,
- is no longer part of the base system. The files which used to
- be in the doc/cmucl/ directory are now available as
- <ftp://sbcl.sourceforge.net/pub/sbcl/cmucl-docs.tar.bz2>.
+* The EVAL and EVAL-WHEN code has been largely rewritten, and the
+ old CMU CL "IR1 interpreter" has gone away. The new interpreter
+ is probably slower and harder to debug than the old one, but
+ it's much simpler (several thousand lines of source code simpler)
+ and considerably more ANSI-compliant. Bugs
+ ?? IR1-3 and
+ ?? IR1-3a
+ have been fixed. Since the code is newer, there might still be
+ some new bugs (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's
+ fixes:-). But hopefully any remaining bugs will be simpler, less
+ fundamental, and more fixable then the bugs in the old IR1
+ interpreter code.
+* DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
+ advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in
+ general, and are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of ways. Martin
+ Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
+* A bug in LOOP operations on hash tables has been fixed, thanks
+ to a bug report and patch from Alexey Dejneka.
* The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has been
doubled, to 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time
GCing and you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
increasing it even more.)
-?? The system's handling of top-level forms and EVAL-WHEN is now
- more ANSI-compliant, fixing bugs
- ?? IR1-3 and
- ?? IR1-3a.
- It's also done by much newer code, so there might be some new bugs,
- but hopefully if so they'll be less fundamental and more fixable.
* PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
it's trying to decide whether to truncate output . Thus e.g.
:SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
built into the system.
+* The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation,
+ is no longer part of the base system. The files which used to
+ be in the doc/cmucl/ directory are now available as
+ <ftp://sbcl.sourceforge.net/pub/sbcl/cmucl-docs.tar.bz2>.
* lots of tidying up internally: renaming things so that names are
more systematic and consistent, converting C macros to inline
- functions, systematizing indentation
+ functions, systematizing indentation, making symbol packaging
+ more logical, and so forth
* The fasl file version number changed again, for any number of
good reasons.
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