1.0.32.32: add support for x86-64/NetBSD

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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*-
 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
+  * new port: support added for x86-64 NetBSD.  (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)
   * improvement: support O_LARGEFILE access to files larger than 2GB on
     x86-64/linux.  (thanks to Daniel Janus; launchpad bug #453080)
   * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY to get a list of
@@ -7,6 +8,11 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
   * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY to get a list of
     definitions for methods specializing on the passed class itself, or on
     subclasses of it.
+  * new build flag: :sb-xref-for-internals; SBCL will collect xref information
+    about itself during the build (e.g. for M-? in Slime), if this flag is
+    enabled in customize-target-features.lisp. This will increase the core
+    size by about 5-6mb, though, so it's mostly interesting to SBCL
+    developers.
   * fixes and improvements related to Unicode and external formats:
     ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the
        Unicode 5.2 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new
@@ -18,7 +24,8 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
        external format the system supports, it is now possible to specify
        (:<encoding> :replacement <character>) as an external format which will
        automatically substitute <character> on encoding or decoding errors for
-       streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse.
+       streams and for STRING-TO-OCTETS and its inverse.  (launchpad bug
+       #317072)
     ** improvement: the file streams underlying the standard streams (such as
        *STANDARD-INPUT*, *TERMINAL-IO*) are opened with an external format 
        which uses the replacement mechanism to handle encoding errors,
@@ -39,6 +46,8 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
     ** fix a double-error case in unibyte octet conversions, when the first
        use of USE-VALUE is ignored.
     ** fix bugs in handling of undefined code points in unibyte encodings.
+    ** fix LISTEN (and consequent hangs in READ-CHAR-NO-HANG) on bivalent
+       streams after an UNREAD-CHAR.
   * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION also reports if the
     object is allocated in a boxed region of dynamic space.
   * bug fix: uses of slot accessors on specialized method parameters within
@@ -56,6 +65,10 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.32:
   * bug fix: give CLISP a hint about a type declaration to enable it to build
     the cross-compiler without warnings.  (thanks to Josh Elasser; launchpad
     bug #396597)
+  * bug fix: correctly dump literal objects in defaulting forms of arglists.
+    (reported by Attila Lendvai; launchpad bug #310132)
+  * bug fix: distinguish in type specifiers between arrays that might be
+    complex and arrays that are definitely complex.  (launchpad bug #309129)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.32 relative to sbcl-1.0.31:
   * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type