0.9.1.7: "fix" SB-SPROF on non-gencgc platforms

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+changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
+  * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
+  * fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
+  * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
+    Cyrus Harmon)
+  * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
+    :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
+    Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellman)
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** Invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when 
+       *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
   * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
     target with a 64-bit host compiler.
@@ -12,14 +24,29 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
     or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
   * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
   * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
-  * optimization: There's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
+  * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
     generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
+    to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
+    x86-64.  (Thanks to James Knight)
+  * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
+    64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
+    are now supported.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
     ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
        a file has the stream as its datum.
     ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have 
        :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
+    ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
+       a correct expected type
+    ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
+       for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
+       typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
+    ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on 
+       broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
+       on broadcast streams.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
   * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since