** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
- * bug fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM) now
+ * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
+ more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
+ (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
+ * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
+ SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
+ an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
+ * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
+ constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR,
+ CERROR and WARN. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+ * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and
+ installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
+ via CLiki
+ * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
+ which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
+ caller
+ * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM) now
accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
- (reported by Edi Weitz)
+ (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
* bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
is the greater. (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
* bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
printable. (reported by Eric Marsden)
+ * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
+ off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD. (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
+ * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
+ * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
+ (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
+ * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
+ UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
+ target sequence. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+ * bug fix in threaded builds: the system can now be suspended and
+ resumed by shell job control with minimal disruption.
+ * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
+ function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
+ this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
+ optimization quality.
+ * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
+ optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
+ used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
+ * VALUES declaration is partially enabled.
+ * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+ ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
+ UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
+ types form a lattice under type intersection.
+ ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
+ ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
+ ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
+ and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
+ ** The addition of a method with invalid qualifiers to a generic
+ function does not cause an error to be signalled immediately;
+ a warning is signalled, and the error is generated only on
+ calling the generic function.
planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
* (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles