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+changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
+ * Enhancements for sbcl running on the Windows operating system:
+ ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
+ locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
+ directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
+ ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
+ ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
+ ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
+ ** sb-grovel supported
+ ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
+ ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
+ * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
+ regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
+ * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
+ inhibit loading the corresponding init files
+ * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
+ error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
+ * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
+ immediately available from the stream
+ * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
+ were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
+ * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
+ when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported
+ by Utz-Uwe Haus)
+ * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
+ appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
+ * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
+ allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
+ (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
+ structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary
+ King)
+ * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
+ ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
+ ** floating-point exception handling support
+ ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
+ * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+ ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
+ the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
+ ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to
+ structure accessors.
+ ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
+ directive.
+
changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
+ * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
+ MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
* new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
(through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
+ * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
+ exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
+ * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
+ SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
+ this change is to make it easier to distribute
+ location-independent binaries.
* bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
slots named by external symbols of public packages. (reported by
Pascal Costanza)
* optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in
(FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
+ * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
+ case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
+ to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
+ particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to
+ Alastair Bridgewater)
+ * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
+ values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
+ (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
* enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
* fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
+ * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
+ calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
+ * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by
+ SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
+ (thanks to James Knight)
+ * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
+ by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
* new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
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