support for (AND ..) types, among other things)
changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
-* a port to the Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
+* a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
* Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
-* better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
- Martin Atzmueller and Pierre Mai
+* Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
+ ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
+ Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
+ link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
+ reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
+ link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
+ looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
+ in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
+* Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
+ is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
+ sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
+ work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
+* The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
+ NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
+ that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
+ different return types.
* Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
-* a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug cycle for
- low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE
- target feature to control the generation of the after-xc.core
- file needed by slam.sh.
-* Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
- is now a supported extension again, since the consensus is that
- it can be useful for ordinary development work, not just for
- debugging SBCL itself.
-?? more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte i/o buffers
+* better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
+ Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
+* more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
+* A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
+ character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
+ In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
+ line (not two) to exit SBCL.
+* fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
+ undisplaced arrays.
+* fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
+ comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
+ does the right thing.
+* The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
+ types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
+ originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
+* Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
+ optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
+ thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
+* A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
+ CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
+* DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
+ patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
+* The code in the SB-PROFILE package has been substantially
+ improved, although it's still unstable.
+* There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
+ cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
+ :SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
+ the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
* minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
+* minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
+ returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
+ rather than the number consed since the first time the function
+ was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
+ CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
+* minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
+ i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
+ supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
+ thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
+* Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
+ since historically most system changes which required version
+ number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
+ the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
+ fasl file version.
planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
* The debugger prompt sequence now goes "5]", "5[2]", "5[3]", etc.
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