X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=inline;f=NEWS;h=3b59dcbe7a27de96744255996c122be86b90902f;hb=47bf3e24a52a2687bd8f07c4674cb9e81163085d;hp=a152d4655341ba659d78792b722847381b993db7;hpb=62b6c13eaaefa20b790e10a28d292e1821cd4446;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a152d46..3b59dcb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,30 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9: + * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can + be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one + executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL + platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi) + * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its + contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic + links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly + in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME. + * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is + markedly larger. + * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to + certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King) + * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert + character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev) + * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an + error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by + Glenn Ehrlich) + * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an + applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on + INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg + no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid) + * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots + added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD. (reported by Jean + Bresson) + changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8: * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) @@ -6,8 +32,22 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8: callbacks). (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte) * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul Dietz) + * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M + Kreuter) + * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64 + * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and + grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS. + * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname. + (reported by tomppa on #lisp) + * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as + required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE. + (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns) + * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL - * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) + * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common + immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64. (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64 + * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current. (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7: * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF