have been added.
* Raymond Wiker's patches to port dynamic loading from Linux to
FreeBSD have been added.
-?? The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
+* The BUGS file is now more nearly up to date, thanks in large part
+ to Martin Atzmueller's review of it.
+* The debugger now flushes standard output streams before it begins
its output ("debugger invoked" and so forth).
-?? FINISH-OUTPUT now works better than it did before. (It used to
- have trouble with characters which weren't followed by a linefeed.)
- ?? Remember to remove this from BUGS.
-?? The patch for the SUBSEQ bug reported on the cmucl-imp mailing
- list 12 September 2000 has been applied to SBCL.
-?? Martin Atzmueller's versions of two CMU CL patches, as posted on
- sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, have been installed. (The patches fix
- a bug in SUBSEQ and <a bug in ??>.)
-?? A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
+* The core version number and fasl file version number have both
+ been incremented, because of incompatible changes in the layout
+ of static symbols.
+* FINISH-OUTPUT is now called more consistently on QUIT. (It
+ used to not be called for a saved Lisp image.)
+* Martin Atzmueller's version of a patch to fix a compiler crash,
+ as posted on sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, has been installed.
+* Instead of installing Martin Atzmueller's patch for the
+ compiler transform for SUBSEQ, I deleted the compiler transform,
+ and transforms for some similar consing operations.
+* A bug in signal handling which kept TRACE from working on OpenBSD
has been fixed.
- ?? Remember to remove this from the port-specific section of BUGS.
-?? The signal handling bug reported by Martin Atzmueller on
- sbcl-devel 13 September 2000, which caused the debugger to
- get confused after a Ctrl-C interrupt under ILISP, has been fixed.
-?? added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
+* added enough DEFTRANSFORMs to allow (SXHASH 'FOO) to be optimized
away by constant folding
-?? The system now defines its address space constants in one place
+* The system now defines its address space constants in one place
(in the Lisp sources), and propagates them automatically elsewhere
(through GENESIS and the sbcl.h file). Therefore, patching the
address map is less unnecessarily tedious and error-prone. The
Lisp names of address space constants have also been systematized.
-?? dollar-Header-dollar and other CVS magic tags have been removed
- from the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
- they've been a nuisance working with patches and other
+* CVS tags like dollar-Header-dollar have been removed from
+ the sources, because they have never saved me trouble and
+ they've been source of trouble working with patches and other
diff-related operations.
+* fixed the PROG1-vs.-PROGN bug in HANDLER-BIND (reported by
+ ole.rohne@cern.ch on cmucl-help@cons.org 2000-10-25)
+
+changes in sbcl-0.6.9 relative to sbcl-0.6.8:
+
+* DESCRIBE now works on CONDITION objects.
+* The debugger now handles errors which arise when trying to print
+ *DEBUG-CONDITION*, so that it's less likely to fall into infinite
+ regress.
+* The build system now uses an additional file, customize-target-features.lisp,
+ to allow local modifications to the target *FEATURES* list. (The point of
+ this is that now I can set up a custom configuration, e.g. with :SB-SHOW
+ debugging features enabled, without having to worry about propagating it
+ into everyone's system when I do a "cvs update".) When no
+ customize-target-features.lisp file exists, the target *FEATURES* list
+ should be constructed the same way as before.
+* fixed bug 1 (error handling before read-eval-print loop starts), and
+ redid debugger restarts and related debugger commands somewhat while
+ doing so:
+ ** The QUIT debugger command is gone, since it did something
+ rather different than the SB-EXT:QUIT command, and since it never
+ worked properly outside the main toplevel read/eval/print loop.
+ Invoking the new TOPLEVEL restart provides the same functionality.
+ ** The GO debugger command is also gone, since you can just invoke
+ the CONTINUE restart directly instead.
+ ** The TOP debugger command is also gone, since it's redundant with the
+ FRAME 0 command, and since it interfered with abbreviations for the
+ TOPLEVEL restart.
+* fixed bugs in DEFCONSTANT ANSI-compatibility:
+ ** DEFCONSTANT now tests reassignments using EQL, not EQUAL, in order to
+ warn about behavior which is undefined under the ANSI spec. Note: This
+ is specified by ANSI, but it's not very popular with programmers.
+ If it causes you problems, take a look at the new SB-INT:DEFCONSTANT-EQX
+ macro in the SBCL sources for an example of a workaround which you
+ might use to make portable ANSI-standard code which does what you want.
+ ** DEFCONSTANT's implementation is now based on EVAL-WHEN instead of on
+ pre-ANSI IR1 translation magic, so it does the ANSI-specified thing
+ when it's used as a non-toplevel form. (This is required in order
+ to implement the DEFCONSTANT-EQX macro.)
+ ** (DEFCONSTANT X 1) (DEFVAR X) (SETF X 2) no longer "works".
+ ** Unfortunately, non-toplevel DEFCONSTANT forms can still do some
+ funny things, due to bugs in the implementation of EVAL-WHEN
+ (bug #IR1-3). This probably won't be fixed until 0.7.x. (Fortunately,
+ non-toplevel DEFCONSTANTs are uncommon.)
+* The core file version number and fasl file version number have been
+ incremented, because the old noncompliant DEFCONSTANT behavior involved
+ calling functions which no longer exist.
+* removed bug 21 from BUGS, since Martin Atzmueller points out that
+ it doesn't seem to affect SBCL after all
+* The system now recovers better from non-PACKAGE values of the *PACKAGE*
+ variable.
+* The system now understands compound CONS types (e.g. (CONS FIXNUM T))
+ as required by ANSI. (thanks to Douglas Crosher's CMU CL patches, with
+ some porting work by Martin Atzmueller)
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