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+changes in sbcl-0.9.19 (1.0.0?) relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
+ * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
+ core, and restored on startup.
+ * improvements to the Windows port:
+ ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
+ ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
+ * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
+ cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
+ Max-Gerd Retzlaff)
+ * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
+ * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
+ returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
+ * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
+ with non-variable places
+ * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
+ funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
+ code more stable against memory faults.
+ * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
+ asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
+ * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
+ are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
+ of 2 or higher.
+
changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
+ * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
+ * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls. The
+ SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
+ external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
+ conversion. Additionally return values of type SB-ALIEN:C-STRING
+ are by default of type (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER), not
+ SIMPLE-BASE-STRING. For an alien type that behaves like the old
+ SB-ALIEN:C-STRING type, use (SB-ALIEN:C-STRING :EXTERNAL-FORMAT
+ :ASCII :ELEMENT-TYPE BASE-CHAR). (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
* incompatible change: SB-EXT package no longer contains the
following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
*GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
*ERROR-PRINT-LINES*
+ * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available
+ on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
* minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION). This makes the
class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
1.4.4.5.
+ * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
+ non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
+ ISO-8859-1
+ * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
+ of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
+ to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable
+ SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
+ * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
+ with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
+ for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
+ to the single-stepper REPL.
* bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
for a type now works.
* bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
Slobodov)
* bug fix: better detection of circularities in the file-compiler.
(reported by Marco Monteiro)
+ * bug fix: the CL pathname functions now work with files that have
+ non-ASCII characters in their names (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
* bug fix: The :PTY argument for RUN-PROGRAM will now work on
systems with Unix98 pty semantics.
+ * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL will now work with bsd tar.
+ * bug fix: ASDF-INSTALL uses GNU tar on Solaris (thanks to Josip
+ Gracin).
+ * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
+ type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse").
+ * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation,
+ code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
+ and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
+ * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
+ whose bindings are modified
+ * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
+ ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
+ ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and
+ CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
* feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and
faster
* optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel
forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading
+ * bug fix: the statistical profiler now properly distinguishes anonymous
+ functions
changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
* minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier