encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
specification.)
+changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
+ * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
+ Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
+ * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
+ this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
+ (thanks to Dan Barlow)
+ * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
+ (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
+ * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
+ gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
+ * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
+ and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
+ backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
+ Toy)
+ * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
+ fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
+ * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
+ INFO database to support symbol macros.
+ * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
+ (thanks to coreythomas)
+ * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
+ those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
+ represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
+ likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
+ bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
+ Christophe Rhodes)
+ * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
+ representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
+ SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
+ * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
+ which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
+ future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
+ sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
+ <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
+ * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
+ dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+ * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings
+ that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
+ * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
+ can deal with.
+ * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
+ default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
+ Martin Atzmueller)
+
+changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
+ * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
+ invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
+ to Alexey Dejneka)
+ * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
+ to Pierre Mai)
+ * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
+ * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
+ no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
+ * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
+ valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
+ (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
+ * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
+ Dan Barlow)
+ * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
+ to Christophe Rhodes)
+ * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
+ on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
+ in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
+ * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
+ is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
+ an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "A\7fB") returns
+ |A\7fB|, instead of A as it used to.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
+ * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
+ cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
+ bootstrapping under CLISP.
+ * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
+ Alpha architecture.
+ * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
+ increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
+ bug 164.
+ * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
+ despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
+ to David Lichteblau)
+ * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
+ accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
+ * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
+ characters in them.
+ * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
+ the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
+ * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
+ count as they should.
+ * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
+ correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
+ * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
+ in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
+ (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
+ time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
+ --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
+ SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
+ been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
+ Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
+ maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
+ build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
+ * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
+ a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
+ Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
+
planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
* When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe
later, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and
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