UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE: more thoroughly signal errors on unknown types.

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@@ -9,15 +9,17 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.14:
     execution.  The previous behaviour can be obtained by instead setting that
     variable to :greedy.  Thanks again to Google for their support, and, more
     crucially, to Alexandra Barchunova for her hard work.
-  * optimization: make-array with known element-type and unkown dimensions is
+  * optimization: make-array with known element-type and unknown dimensions is
     much faster.
+  * optimization: make-array with unknown element-type is faster as well.
+    (lp#1004501)
   * enhancement: sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die on Windows now accepts
     :application-type argument, which can be :console or :gui. :gui allows
     having GUI applications without an automatically appearing console window.
   * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms:
-    conservative roots that point to unboxed pages must be tagged
-    pointers to the start of a valid-looking object, not merely point
-    to within the allocated part of the page, in order to pin the page.
+    conservative roots must be valid-looking tagged pointers or point
+    within a code object, not merely point to within the allocated part
+    of a page, in order to pin a page.
   * bug fix: Windows applications without the console window no longer misbehave.
     (patch by Wilfredo Velazquez, lp#1256034).
   * bug fix: modular arithmetic optimizations do not stumble on dead branches