** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
+changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
+ * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
+ (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
+ assembler and linker. (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
+
planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
* (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles
down, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and