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+changes relative to sbcl-1.0.31
+ * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type
+ in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki)
+ * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported
+ by David Vázquez)
+ * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names
+ in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer)
+ * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work
+ correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime
+ options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane)
+ * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been
+ an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer)
+ * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.31 relative to sbcl-1.0.30:
+ * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested
+ inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually
+ open coded is now considered a bug.
+ * improvements related to Unicode:
+ ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
+ Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
+ characters, and providing a few extra characters with case
+ transformations.
+ ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul
+ syllable characters.
+ ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations
+ (as well as for stream operations).
+ * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can
+ be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL
+ file.
+ * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable
+ one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is
+ actually needed.
+ * optimization: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25%
+ faster.
+ * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses
+ multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists.
+ * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by
+ constant two has been optimized.
+ * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when
+ sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
+ * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on
+ known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors.
+ * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away.
+ * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT.
+ * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function
+ clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation.
+ * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of
+ generic function across method addition and removal even in the
+ absence of an explicit DEFGENERIC.
+ * improvement: DESCRIBE now reports on symbols naming undefined
+ but assumed or declared function as well.
+ * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works
+ (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
+ * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna):
+ ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been
+ documented.
+ ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented.
+ ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as
+ well as user defined declaration names.
+ ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables.
+ * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh
+ Elsasser)
+ * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved
+ (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler)
+ * bug fix: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was
+ unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin)
+ * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported
+ by James Wright)
+ * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by
+ Stelian Ionescu)
+ * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to
+ Larry D'Anna)
+ * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed
+ (thanks to Larry D'Anna)
+ * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD
+ as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser)
+ * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T,
+ leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring
+ on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin)
+ * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname
+ designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis
+ Oliveira)
+ * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing
+ information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira)
+ * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could
+ be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent.
+ * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the
+ form (+ <variable> <integer>) were miscompiled under certain
+ circumstances.
+ * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate
+ was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated.
+ * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack
+ allocation could cause objects users might reasonably expect to
+ be heap allocated to be stack allocated.
+ * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under
+ certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
+ * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29:
+ * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and
+ SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD have been deprecated in favor
+ of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD.
+ * new contrib module: SB-QUEUE provides thread-safe lockless FIFO queues.
+ * new feature: docstrings for local and anonymous functions are no longer
+ discarded. (thanks to Leslie Polzer)
+ * new feature: SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD provides access to symbol
+ values in other threads.
+ * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION provides information
+ about object allocation.
+ * optimization: division of a real float by a complex float is implemented
+ with a specialised code sequence.
+ * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with non-constant class-argument but constant
+ keywords is an order of magnitude faster.
+ * optimization: MAKE-INSTANCE with constant keyword arguments is x2-4 faster
+ in the presence of :AROUND or non-standard primary INITIALIZE-INSTANCE
+ methods, and similarly for non-standard metaclass classes as long as there
+ are no methods additional on MAKE-INSTANCE.
+ * optimization: more efficient type-checks for FIXNUMs when the value
+ is known to be a signed word on x86 and x86-64.
+ * optimization: compiler now optimizes (EXPT -1 INTEGER), (EXPT -1.0 INTEGER),
+ and (EXPT -1.0d0 INTEGER) into an ODDP test. (thanks to Stas Boukarev and
+ Paul Khuong)
+ * optimization: compiler is smarter about delegating argument type checks to
+ callees.
+ * optimization: several character functions are now compiled somewhat more
+ efficiently. (reported by Lynn Quam)
+ * optimization: the compiler now derives simple types for LOAD-VALUE-FORMs.
+ * improvement: less unsafe constant folding in floating point arithmetic,
+ especially for mixed complex/real -float operations.
+ * optimization: constant double and single floats are stored in native
+ unboxed format on x86[-64].
+ * optimization: smarter code for arithmetic operations with constant floats,
+ complex floats, or integers on x86[-64].
+ * optimization: smarter code for conjugate/multiplication of float complexes
+ and abs/negate of floats on x86-64.
+ * optimization: more efficient complex float and real float operations on
+ x86-64.
+ * improvement: complex float division is slightly more stable.
+ * improvement: DESCRIBE output has been reworked to be easier to read and
+ contains more pertinent information.
+ * improvement: failure to provide requested stack allocation compiler notes
+ provided in all cases (requested stack allocation not happening without a
+ note being issued is now considered a bug.)
+ * bug fix: SB-POSIX exports the documented types and functions
+ FILE-DESCRIPTOR and FILENAME, and also the corresponding -DESCRIPTOR
+ types. (reported by "abhi")
+ * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
+ upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
+ (thanks to Paul Khuong)
+ * bug fix: looping around HANDLER-CASE could silently consume stack space
+ on each iteration. (reported by "foobar")
+ * bug fix: better error signalling when calls to functions seeking elements
+ from lists (eg. ADJOIN) are compiled with both :TEST and :TEST-NOT.
+ (reported by Tobias Rittweiler)
+ * bug fix: regressions in DIRECTORY from 1.0.28.61: pattern matching of
+ directory components now works as it used to. (various prolems reported by
+ Michael Becker, Gabriel Dos Reis, Cyrus Harmon, and Harald Hanche-Olsen)
+ * bug fix: :PTY option in RUN-PROGRAM was broken with stream arguments.
+ (reported by Elliot Slaughter, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
+ * bug fix: bogus undefined variable warnings from fopcompiled references to
+ global variables. (thanks to Lars Rune Nøstdal)
+ * bug fix: foreign function names should now appear in backtraces on
+ FC6 as well. (reported by Tomasz Skutnik and Tobias Rautenkranz)
+ * bug fix: SETF compiler macro documentation strings are not discarded
+ anymore.
+ * bug fix: GENTEMP is now unaffected by pretty printer dispatch table.
+ (thanks to Alex Plotnick)
+ * bug fix: SLEEP accepts large integer arguments, truncating them to
+ SIGNED-WORD on the assumption that sleeping for 68 years is sufficient
+ for anyone. (reported by Leslie Polzer, thanks to Stas Boukarev)
+ * bug fix: compiler notes for expensive slot type checks could be emitted
+ at runtime MAKE-INSTANCE calls. (reported by Samium Gromoff)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
+ * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
+ https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
+ Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
+ sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
+ (no subscription required.)
+ * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
+ types are weakened less aggressively.
+ * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
+ allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
+ if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
+ was accidentally reused as the exit status.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
+ to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
+ :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
+ variables.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
+ microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
+ allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
+ variables.
+ * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
+ the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
+ efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
+ expressing intent.
+ * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
+ * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
+ element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
+ almost 90% faster.
+ * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
+ is known are 50% faster.
* optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
* optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
non-simple arrays.
* optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
+ * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
+ (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
+ form can be.
+ * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
+ * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
+ as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
+ element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
+ length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
+ allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
+ backquoted forms.
+ * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
+ :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
+ known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
+ * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
+ requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
+ * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
+ * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
+ to Tobias Rittweiler)
* documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
+ * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
+ * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
+ pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
+ * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
+ (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
+ * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
+ (reported by Hubert Kauker)
+ * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
+ same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
+ efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
+ Paul Khuong)
* bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
* bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
Mösenlechner)
* bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
+ * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
+ * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
+ directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
+ thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
+ * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
+ from :INITFORM, if any.
changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
* a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
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